Beautiful, intriguing, crafty and smart work by Alex Egger at Satellites Mistaken for Stars. Really loving the hand drawn type on the site, looks like a lot of work…

I’ve been really enjoying this sublime mashup by San Francisco DJ wait what for the last few months, and recently found out while checking his site that the inevitable law suit has come down and the album is no longer available for download.

“…a small part of me hoped that the music industry would have seen the value in spreading a piece of art that melded two disparate performers’ work together, thereby introducing each artist to a new audience, but they must’ve been too busy suing 9-year-olds downloading mp3s to have figured that one out….”

Nonetheless you can still enjoy the full album on his Sound Cloud page, it’s definitely worth the listen.

I Built Myself A Metal Bird – Thee Silver Mt. Zion from Constellation Records on Vimeo.

Going to see them this Friday and Saturday at the Ukranian Federation. If anyone wants to meet up for pre/post drinks, please hit me up. I’m gonna be as happy as those little kids, can’t wait!

First up, check out the wonderful work of Montreal-based artist and illustrator Kirsten McCrea. Her illustrations have recently graced the covers of the Winterhouse designed Poetry magazine (I’m so jealous and impressed!), and having had the pleasure of hanging out with her a bit lately, I can tell you that there are great things on the horizon for this talented and prolific lady.

I recently finished teaching my third course at Concordia University, a portfolio class for graduating students. It was a challenging class, but I’m quite happy with the results and think that my students were as well. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find the time to properly document their very well crafted print portfolios, but here’s a selection of their portfolio websites: Gaia Orain, Catherine Wakim, Zacharie Delavertu, Emmy Huot, Rebecca Rosen and Stefan Spec. Great work guys!

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Friday afternoon Mogwai bliss…

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.

spotted by Joshua Mensch in Bechyne, south Bohemia, Czech Republic