What Calgary Needs

Cover and inside illustration + hand type headers for FFWD's article What Calgary Needs from the Alberta provincial election.

(detail, click for larger)

Birds!

Preview for an upcoming assignment yet to be published. I could draw these guys all day, every day!

Queen St. East Map

I really enjoy illustrating maps and had a great time doing this one of Queen Street East in Toronto for the National Post this past weekend! It was a pretty quick turnaround, about a day and a half start to finish, but I also enjoy a 'lil high pressure rush job every now and then too. Thanks Becky!


detail

detail

in layout!

Orange You Glad Fest!

Just wrapped up a fun project doing the identity for a music festival in Orlando coming up this weekend, Orange You Glad Fest! I did a bunch of hand type for the website too, thanks to Chris Anderson for incorporating it so well! It's been a pleasure working with Tierney again, her original idea/direction was "vintage postcard" feel, so I started there for the logo and website banner:


Keeping the look consistent, I developed that further that for the festival poster, putting the imagery into "postcards" on a table setting:


Then Tierney had a cool idea to turn them into actual postcards to use as fliers for the festival! (picture by Tierney)


Also got to do a Grimes poster for the festival pre-party!


Hope the festival is awesome, wish I could be there! Thanks T!
(Also, 100th post! Whoa!)

Organic Gardening: Employee Garden

Illustration for Organic Gardening about a really neat garden the workers at MC Ironworks created in between two of their warehouses. One person built a fishpond, another made a bridge, a fountain, others brought in an assortment of plants, trees, flowers, and statues. It's all organic, all employee-owned and maintained, and in total cost only $300, which the company paid for!

John K. Samson

Illustration of John K. Samson, frontman of the Weakerthans and Propaghandi, for a review of his first full length solo album, Provincial, in the February issue of Exclaim! magazine! Check out a stream of the album here, almost makes me a little nostalgic for the prairies... :)

Hey Rosetta! tour posters

Series of posters the Hey Rosetta! fall tour! Really awesome dudes to work with, thanks Tim and Jason! Hope tour was awesome!!






(All posters were silkscreened in Montreal by Chris Robertson, great guy! A few limited edition screenprinted posters will be available in my Etsy store later this month!)

Dining à la Dickens

Cover for Swerve magazine, for a feature on a food/Christmas/Victorian novel loving couple who prepared a Christmas feast based on A Christmas Carol! On the menu: to start, a Smoking Bishop and Roasted Chestnuts, then a main course of Roasted Goose with Sage-Onion Stuffing and Port Gravy, and Mrs. Bridge’s Flaming Plum Pudding for dessert! Thanks to AD Vishu Mahajan!

Maria Rodale pt. II

Another portrait for Maria's Page in Organic Gardening magazine, where she reflects on this years gardening season and contemplates the next. Stake the tomatoes early on and label all the varieties of vegetables as they will inevitably be forgotten come harvest time!

Costumes for couples!

Funny little spots for a funny little blog post by a friend, Mark Teo, rating couples Halloween costumes! Hot dog and mustard, the obvious winner here.

Lady Gaga, teacher

Illustration for an article about using pop culture to teach in the classroom, featuring ... Lady Gaga! For Scholastic Instructor Magazine, thanks Aruna!

Wedding illustrations!

I had the honour of doing the invitations and some fun little woodsy illustrations for my good friend and designer Leah Santucci's wedding this summer! A little different than I usually work, these were all painted in gouache. Forgot how nice it is to make an entire piece without the computer sometimes! Picture party ahead, click for larger!

inside

the actual paintings, on little 2.5" x 3" cards

every menu was set on an actual typewriter (by leah)!

table cards ...

on a door!

And a few more pictures from the wedding, because it was SO beautiful out in the Kootenays, and Leah (and her pa!) did an amaaazing job on the decorating, everything was handmade and matching and perfect! (Also, the view!)

petit bouquet!

arch made by mr. santucci!

hanging wooden birds by the groom's father!

sweet, glorious tarts made by the family and neighbours!

Et fin, congrats Leah & Darrett!!