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LOKi design/Four Minutes to Midnight/me have been featured in issue #3 of Snap Magazine, which was launched last night. Snap is a free Montreal lifestyle/culture mag that showcases creative, eclectic, local content. My friend Erica Ruth Kelly conducted the interview, in which we talk briefly about design and the genesis of FMTM. The interview features a nice selection of my work, and a “portrait” photo shot by Xavier Tolentino at the Cossette offices is tucked away on page 53. All around good stuff…

You can pick up a copy at cafés and stores around town or check out the issue online here. Many thanks to Erica and the girls at Snap for the feature!

Cover design for Racine: A Perfect Hand

Racine (aka Yan Basque Thériault) asked me to help him out with the sleeve design for his first full-length album, A Perfect Hand. I was more than happy to oblige and work with the beautiful surreal illustration provided by Nicole Aline Legault.

Not visible in the comp above was the marrying of TSTAR mono and Mrs. Eaves for the track listings on the back… trust me, it actually works!

The album itself is inspired, technically masterful and emotionally powerful, with lyrics influenced strongly (I believe) by Situationsit thinking. How can you go wrong?

“We’ve been choosing more and more and creating less and less for some time now, but I am just catching on that in becoming a society of choosers rather than of creators, we a rebecoming a society of people who take the passive role: the traditionally female role. Increasingly, we’re leaving the driving to others. We are leaving the fine, feathered display, the “choose me to be your mate” role, the traditionally male role, to the corporations that purvey products. It’s like the old sex dance of penguins or cockatoos, and we are the quiet one, the silent one, the female one, and the producer is the showy one, the one who offers, the male one. What will happen as we—both men and women—shift from expressing ourselves individually by making things into expressing ourselves only by choosing? What will happen to us as a culture when we have been completely conditioned only to choose between options, rather than come up with solutions?”

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