I was very happy to have my gaza poster included as part of the Power to the Poster Exhibition in Omaha, Nebraska. The printing looks beautiful and I’m honoured to be included amongst such an important collection. Thanks Justin!
In a related note, please visit the Imaging Apartheid website and submit your work! The deadline is fast approaching!
The last major project I completed at Cossette was a complete overhaul of the Germain Group’s boutique hotel websites. Starting with the new hotel at Maple Leaf Square in Toronto, the design was quickly being rolled out to the rest of their hotels (Germain Calgary | Germain Dominion).
The sites feature luxurious full-screen photography, seamless integration of google maps and a concierge page that advises users on events and nearby attractions. As always props to my former team, and to our client who bought into the concept right from the get go. As I leave my day job for an uncertain (albeit exciting) future, this is a very nice project to leave with.
We’re very excited (freaked actually!) to present Uncle Bad Touch‘s first Montreal show, with guests Desert Owls and Griefer, this Friday night at La Sala Rossa. The show is a fundraiser to help us put out our next issue which is very nearing completion (also very exciting after a year and a half of hard work!).
So please come on out and show four minutes some love, these bands really rock, and it’s going to be a kick-ass night to remember (or not)!
For those that know me personally, Sept. 3rd will also mark my very last day at Cossette. I’ve decided to leave the day job behind to focus on teaching and my own projects. More on that soon, but for now it’ll be another good reason to celebrate!
The Otesha Book: From Junk to Funk! was one of the first books I ever designed from start to finish (on 100% post-consumer stock and printed with vegetable inks no less), circa 2004, and I’m still very proud of it.
Six years on, the Otesha Project (official site | facebook page) just posted a pretty little photoset of the books hanging out in the wild and I was reminded of all the hard work and fun I had while designing and producing it in collaboration with Colin, John and the Otesha girls. This was a great, efficient, effective and worthwhile project that is still paying dividends (of the social variety) today. Thanks Otesha!
A quickly designed poster for this Sunday’s Words and Music event, hosted by the one and only Vince Tinguely. My main goal in doing this was to design a poster on the theme of climate change without using a) the globe, b) icebergs/polar bears, c) smokestacks, or d) any shade of green.
Success!
Splatter provided by Sophie Jodoin.
The following is a rough transcript of the presentation (in franglais) I gave last week at Pecha Kucha Night MTL. For those that are unfamiliar with the event’s format, presenters are asked to present 20 slides, commenting on each for 20 seconds, resulting in a fast-paced 6m40s presentation. More details about the event here.
01. This is my desk. The organisers asked me to focus on presenting process work tonight, and I think it’s equally important to always look at context, so here’s my desk, my after-hours working environment, and over the next few slides, I’ll explain a bit about who I am to further contextualise what I’m going to be presenting.
02. Je suis un designer graphique avec des tendances anarchiste. Ça veut dire quoi avoir des tendances anarchistes? Pour moi ça veut dire que je crois fortement dans la collectivité non-hierarchique, je m’alinge avec des luttes minoritaires, et que je suis un romantique sans espoir. Par contre je ne suis pas un member du AIGA, mais je trouvai l’illustration assez drole.
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All ten published issues of Four Minutes to Midnight are now available to browse on the Issuu website. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Hello, hello!
We’re very pleased to announce that Four Minutes to Midnight will be part of next weekend’s Nuit Blanche festivities in Montréal. As part of a jam packed night/morning curated by Yan Basque at le Cagibi, I’ll be co-performing issue ten’s fugue with Hillary Rexe (more on this sassy/classy lady and her recent contributions to 2356 later) backed by John Stuart and Vincent Tinguely (aka Fingerdog) on guitarzzz, with inky projections by Hoda Adra.
We’ll be performing at 1:45 AM with an encore performance at 3:35 AM. But the whole night/morning promises to be entertaining and enlightening, with a slew of local and international talent, so please come by, grab a drink or two, and share with us a while.
Link to the facebook event page >>
I quickly whipped up these poemcards to promote the upcoming issue at expozine.Just a little taste of things to come.
