As the voting for the Prior Ski Topsheet Art Contest winds down in Whistler, I humbly present my entry in its entirety. In pen, ink and pixels, my journey from Vancouver to my art studio at Lillooet Lake and beyond – a trip I have been making for over 15 ...
How cool would it be to design the graphics for a local ski company? I hope to find out!
The Prior Ski and Snowboard company has been making awesome skis and boards out of their Whistler factory in Function Junction for years now. (Check this 2011 Green Briefs blog article) They are also building a great tradition of using artists from the area for their ski designs, spicing it ...
Defining sustainability one line at a time.
Left Coast Naturals is a food company built on the principles of sustainability. So how can they tell that complex story in a way that is engaging, concise and as organic as their product? Unicycle Creative proposed an animated web video, built around a storytelling voice from the Left Coast ...
Safety & Security – A Totally Unretouched iphone Photo of the Week
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Instant Community Garden
Working with London Drugs I get to profile a lot of interesting products as one of the voices of their What’s the Green Deal? program. Recently I got to see what happens when an empty lot is turned into a rich opportunity.
Digital meets ink. Drawing the complex texture of Gastown.
In 2011 I worked on the branding and launch of an innovative condo home development in Vancouver’s Gastown area, on the edge of the Downtown Eastside. Part of that assignment involved sketching some of the sights and scenes of the neighbourhood, in as genuine a way as possible. Rediscovering ...
Waste not! Draw paperless!
When my friend and colleague Jacqueline Ottman asked me to create some brand imagery for her blog, WeHatetoWaste.com, it seemed like the perfect job for my favourite iPad drawing application. Paper by FiftyThree, is an elegant, easy-to-use app that turns the iPad into a digital Moleskine notebook. I created a ...
All Quiet on the Western Front – iPhone Pic of the Week
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Zen Cartooning. The art of emptying my own thought bubble.
Most Wednesdays I go see my fried Trevor Simpson to have a coffee, meditate and ponder my own existence. Trevor is a Life Coach, with whom I have been working for almost five years now, looking at where I’m going, what is holding me back, what I need to let ...
The Power and The Glory – iPhone Pic of the Week
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