Berj Sarkes

Portfolio 2026

Eyes of the Suburbs

This project looks at how suburbia puts privacy first but often ends up limiting social connection. Aspects like fenced yards and separate home layouts are meant to make people feel comfortable and secure, yet they also tend to keep neighbors apart.

One Fourth Corner

I documented the process of cleaning my old bedroom, a space where I lived in for twenty years throughout my childhood and teen years. I photographed the transformation in ten stages, beginning with the room as it originally was: cluttered and full of the objects and memories that shaped my upbringing.

Brand Identity Guidelines

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Blind Box

This project reinterprets snack culture through a playful, packaging-based system that mimics the visual language of commercial food marketing. Using elements like blind boxes, it stages the act of consumption as an experience shaped by anticipation, desire, and visual appeal. The project also questions how contemporary food culture.

Fillerism

Fillerism is a modern critique of how companies replace real materials in products, fashion, food, and design with fake or cheaper substitutes

Eyes of the Suburbs

15.24 × 10.16 × 1.27 cm
November, 2025
Printed on glossy photo paper, white heavy cardstock, and vellum paper.

The work uses the language of voyeurism to comment on how suburban design encourages distance instead of connection. Through images inspired by suburbia and surveillance, the project reflects on how our need for privacy can turn into obsession and emotional isolation.

This project is a series of staged images that follow a fictional storyline set in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The images are shown from the point of view of a stalker who peeks through blinds, steals mail, and watches his neighbors. In this world, isolation has replaced community , and no one speaks or connects anymore.

One Fourth Corner

30 × 30 × 30 cm
December, 2025
Various mixed media materials were used, including cardboard, thin cardstock, semi-gloss matte paper, double-sided tape, printed textures, and miniature crafted elements

The series then moves into the active process of cleaning, where I sorted through my belongings, confronted nostalgia, and made decisions about what stayed and what needed to be let go. To further explore this transitional stage, I created a maquette representing this midpoint, a physical reconstruction of the room in the middle of being cleaned. It captures the in-between moment where the space is neither what it once was nor what it is becoming.

Centre d'animaux Nature Branding

Digital PDF
June, 2025

I completed a graphic design internship with Centre d’animaux Nature, a locally owned and family-run pet store. My role focused on supporting the company's visual communication needs across both digital and print platforms. I worked in a hybrid format, contributing an average of 20 hours per week by working from home during the week and attending their head office every Friday. In total, I accumulated over 140 hours.

This document presents the key projects I developed in collaboration with the company, including promotional materials, brand assets, and in-store graphics. It also includes personal reflections on my internship experience, insights into my creative process, and an overview of the skills I applied and strengthened throughout this period.

Plushnack

10 × 15 × 10 cm
December, 2025
Printed cardstock, glossy paper, tissue paper, drawstring bags, adhesives, and custom inserts were used to construct the packaging system.

The process involved translating this concept into a fully realized physical system, moving from initial digital designs to printed and assembled objects. Packaging structures were developed, graphics were refined to resemble commercial products, and materials like tissue paper, inserts, and cutouts were selected to enhance the unboxing experience. Through printing, assembling, and testing each component, the project emphasizes materiality and sequencing, using the act of making to explore how design can both replicate and critique consumer behavior.

Fillerism

27.94 x 43. 18 cm
December, 2025
Digital Poster

Fillerism reflects today’s global crisis of trust in industries that prioritize profit over honesty. The movement highlights the disconnection between what consumers are promised and what they actually receive, raising awareness of the social, environmental, and cultural consequences of substitution.

Berj Sarkes

Nice to meet you!

I’m a graphic designer based in Montréal, holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design from Concordia University. My work spans branding, digital content, and interactive design, with a focus on creating clear, engaging visual systems across both physical and digital spaces. Through agency experience and freelance projects, I’ve developed a strong understanding of how design operates in real-world contexts, from campaign development to in-store and online communication. My portfolio brings together client work and self-initiated projects that explore visual storytelling, accessibility, and the role of design in shaping everyday interactions. I approach design as both a strategic and creative practice, balancing clarity, aesthetics, and purpose.

Profile

Graphic designer working across branding, print, posters, social content, and visual systems.

Experience

Freelance Graphic Designer
Brand, print, and digital collateral production
Visual communication and layout development

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite
Brand identity and typography
Poster, editorial, and web design