Artcity!

The Friday that just passed was the opening of this years ARTCITY Festival! And what a great time it was! I did this years gigantic POSTER, POSTCARD, FFWD ad, and LOGO REDESIGN! What a busy project! the theme of this years festival is Boom or Bust! and I think you should go check it out, there are instillations, videos, and much much more. I also created a window piece that shows the process that I went thorough to design this years materials. My piece is located in the Encorp Display windows across from the Glenbow Museum!

For more festival information please visit ARTCITY!

Here is a glimpse of the poster in its natural habitat.

new M.I.A.!

New M.I.A. cd out now. I bought the single Born Free earlier this summer and love it. Now to familiarize myself with the new album in its entirety.

These gifs from her myspace page caught my eye awhile ago. They are so low budget and 3D I love them. Hmmm if they aren't moving I don't know why. The new album /\/\ /\ Y /\ comes with these images plus extra content... basically a lot of moving graphics.

Poster! Pineapple!

Hello all I have been slack-a-lackin on the blog posts. But here is a little report as to how things are going. I am doing freelance work right now for the Calgary Art, Design and Architecture Festival ArtCity. Its going really well we have already chosen a logo and I am busy working of the promotional material now.

Oh and I forgot to post this earlier friend Greg Doble does an awesome webcomic based on friends status updates. And he did one of mine!

Thanks Greg, this make gluttony look so exciting!

See more of Greg's comics!

PRIDE POSTER

This is the final poster that I designed for Calgary Pride 2010.

A special thanks to Ellen Lagore for her photo help!

I think its pretty!

Here is some process

a lot of hair

For one night only some acad VC grads took the stage for a little

karaoke magic. It looked and sounded an awful lot like this but

with less pink eye shadow.

I couldn't help but feel the girl who was preforming a spice girls

track alone was out of line, its all about team work.

in other news my brother found out the number one song on

my date of birth is:

Find out yours HERE!!

Schools out! Summer Projects begin!

Hello All!

So with all the school projects all said and done I will have some extra time for some new projects!

Currently on the Chopping Block:

a volunteer poster for the Calgary Pride 2010! A friend asked if I would be interested in making a poster for pride and I jumped at the opportunity! Meeting this weekend to throw around some ideas. So far I am thinking cut paper. Suggestion by friend includes unicorn.

Fine art friend Anna Archy needs wordmark.

Self Branding: website update coming quick fast! Like lightning, actually.

Cracking open the Amy Sedaris cookbook and making some good old fashioned cupcakes!

I leave you now with a page from the sketchbook as well as the front and back of Stephanie's business card that I designed. Stephanie is an amazing documentary photographer that I have already blogged about like three times! But here is the finished business card. we also made postcards, coming soon images of those.

Stephanie loves the stamp and has been finding more exciting and less conventional methods of use, like stamping her husband Matt, right on Stephanie!

a side note I wish there was a way to cap the number of exclamation points per post... Whenever I read back through these before I post them I consider the zealousness of these exclamation points and think "Really, is this too much?!!"

Website progress report and books in their natural habitat.

Redo of website begins now!

Here are a series of photos from the library... just for fun.

BUSY AS A BEE!

Sorry no blog posts lately, things have been busy!!

portfolio show.

Portfolio show, portfolio show, here comes the portfolio show!

So we had a meeting about portfolio show on tuesday! Exciting stuff, its crazy to say that the four years at acad have gone so quick. And I will be a graduate in twenty some days!

Basically the portfolio show is like a coming out debutante ball but instead of gowns and stair cases there is professional dress and a coy pond (or a turtle pond). Its the ACAD 2010 class introduction to the design community.

On tuesday we were busy stuffing envelopes with the poster invites. I got a paper cut.

Super rad poster by Alex and Robin, those are real moths by the way and a whole lotta photo shop magic.

Last time i was a graduate I looked like this....

Check out this video

Check this out! ACAD (from two years ago) grad Matt Luckhurst does some illustrating video magic. Really cool.

Smalltown Romeo (ft. Shad K) – Boom Ha (video)

fonts and portraits.

Progress report. Choosing a font for my own business card... SO HARD! I feel like my name looks like a third graders, I think its the double t and the double l. Its kind of lyrical looking. And even friendly looking. At first I was going so use a sans serif, but I am completely a serif person. But what serif? The search continues!!!

Photo class going well jamie was my lovely model and we were learning about portrait lighting. One is butterfly the other rembrandt. These shots reiterate the common belief that you have to be good looking to go to art school!

Self Promotion Magic.

Hello all,

So I am working on my Self promotion right now. And i have decided to do a girl guide theme. I choose this theme because I have been viewing my time at acad as a set of different hats that solve different problems. So some days i wear my illustration hat other days my lion taming hat and so on. So i decided that it would be appropriate to show those skills in some sort of a merit idea. Hence the girl guide badges theme.

As research i looked up vintage girl guide photos and found some awesome ones.

Mitten hands

Doing homework and learning about parasites

A shoot of a shoot!

Some photos I took of todays cover shoot. Thanks again to Chelsee Ivan and Cassie Paul! I especially like how Chelsee's sweater matches the art work!

Delve is coming together, tonight working on feature articles and self promotion magic/wonder! Stay tuned for more!

A photo shoot day!

Today is the cover shoot of our magazine project. Natalia and I are super stoked to be working with Chelsee Ivan to get the image.

Chelsee has a lot of work to check out online.

To do so hop over HERE and HERE.

And I just noticed that Chelsee recently shot Chad Vangaalen, the completly amazing former acad-ian calgary musician, right on Chelsee!

its sunshine outside and inside.

I didn't make these but they are funny.

Pattern Featuring feathers.

Dear Deer