This year for Christmas I want EVERYTHING to be made from LEGO®.*
Well it has been a pretty well-assembled year here at Green Briefs and Unicycle Creative. To celebrate, I made this fun little card with my family, showing how all the pieces of 2014 clicked together (more or less) to create a pretty awesome set. Many best wishes and gratitude to ...
OPEC Low Low Prices Just Another Global Squeeze Play Coming to Town
Muzzling scientists has been tried before, but it never works for long.
It was the early 1600’s. The Catholic Church, ie, government of the day, was opposed to the radical new idea that the earth was NOT the center of the Universe. The Copernican view, that the Earth revolves around the sun, was considered heresy. The infamous radical astronomer Galileo (himself a ...
BC’s Mining Industry Running With Its Tailings Between Its Legs
The Mount Polley Mine Environmental Disaster, as it’s soon and forevermore likely to be known, has thrown into sharp focus the incredible liability the mining industry faces whenever they decide to store a toxic swamp full of lead, cadmium, arsenic and whatever other delightful chemical combinations these elements can create. ...
Telling a sustainability story with a warmer image.
We recently completed some blog updates for the London Drugs What’s the Green Deal? program, to help recognize some recent achievements and help customers feel the sustainable love. In the past, we have concentrated on longer-form articles for the GreenDeal.ca blog. These perform well, both from an SEO perspective, and ...
One cartoonist’s journey up the Sea to Sky Highway…
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...