Logo designed for Open Orchestra, a McGill based research project developing an innovative orchestra simulator for musicians. I worked closely with interaction designer Adriana Olmos, attempting to distill the essence of such a complex project into a simplified form.
Back in November, I was contacted by the brilliant Dutch photographer Aram Tanis with a series of striking photos he wanted to submit for the zine. We were in the process of finishing up Happy Hour at the time and weren’t taking submissions, but I really wanted to work with his images. So, I suggested a little experimental print project, inspired by Claire Fontaine‘s Capitalism Kills Love installation at Art Basel Miami (which was surprisingly taken down before the event).
Four Minutes to Midnight is proud to co-present the inaugural Howl! concert featuring solo and collaborative performances by cellist Rebecca Foon, Sam Shalabi on oud and our good friend Stefan Christoff on piano. It’ll be a night of beautiful, intimate music celebrating Montreal’s fiercely independent arts community. The perfect way to kick-off the holidays with your friends and family.
The concert takes place next Thursday, December 16th at L’Envers, the beautiful loft space on Van Horne that hosted CKUT’s Art’s Birthday festivities last year (which was a whole lot of fun!).
>> RSVP and more info on Facebook here
With the new year rapidly approaching and imminent full-time freelance work on the horizon, I recently designed myself some spiffy new business cards. The cards were beautifully letterpress printed by the Mandate Press in Salt Lake City onto a richly textured 110# Cranes Lettra stock, with fluorescent pink edging. The above photo hasn’t been retouched, these cards really glow!
Quick and dirty (literally) illustration for Ezra Winton’s article on Walrus magazine’s greenwashing of the tar sands on Artthreat.
What’s My Motherfuckin’ Name?
2009 marks four decades of me being a published poet
in this once greatest country so try and find any of my
books in your local bookstore and you’d be shit out of
luck yet if I had similarly wasted my life doing
almost anything else I could be retired by now with a
modest check and better teeth but all I’ve got to show
are consequential words across an empty white space– Happy Hour’s epigraph
The eleventh issue of Four Minutes to Midnight is a radical break from the format of the last four issues, consisting of Happy Hour, a book of 60 poems by F.A. Nettelbeck, lavishly illustrated by Sophie Jodoin, and Fugue XI, printed and bound as a slim edition of 28 pages. Production details include a double bump of silver ink on black cardstock covers, bright pink endpapers and a hand stamped bellyband holding the books together. Interior pages are printed on Rolland Enviro100 paper (FSC 100% post-consumer fibre, chlorine free process using biogas energy). The double-issue is printed in an edition of 350 copies.
In collaboration with the fine folks at Bluesponge (in particular developer extraordinaire Patrick Paul-Hus), I recently completed the visual identity and web design of ShopDilara.com, an elegant online web store for fashion afficianadas.
Featuring a sophisticated typographic palette and a clean, uncluttered design, the site balances equal parts sass with class!
As part of the inaugural Quebec BDS Conference, Artists Against Apartheid is presenting an amazing and unique concert featuring detroit MC Invincible and Cuban Hip Hop ensemble Obsesión. The concert is taking place at le Consulat this Saturday, full details here.
Being a big fan of Invincible’s music, I was honoured to be asked to design the poster for the event and enlisted my good friend Kirsten McCrea to help with the ornamentation, resulting in my first ever 100% hand-drawn poster! (or at least since I finished design school aeons ago…)
I’ll also be a panelist during the BDS conference itself, participating in the artist’s roundtable workshop between 4 and 6 PM on Saturday. I’ll be speaking about Imaging Apartheid and my work for the Palestinian cause from a personal perspective, the role of cultural workers in social justice struggles generally, and Palestine specifically. So please register for the conference or come by for the individual workshops—it promises to be an educational and inspiring weekend.
As part of Pop Montreal John is putting on a For the Sake of the Songs tribute show to the prolific composer and performer Van Dyke Parks this Sunday at le Cagibi.
As always, all proceeds go to the Mile End mission.
