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This is a poster I did for an upcoming thing in September. I removed the text as the event's details may still be unfolding. I often throw some things I like into an image without too much thought about how they'll contribute to the meaning of the piece as a whole. It's always fun to see how they synch up and become something larger, or present a narrative of some kind. I suppose one's subconscious is doing it's thing, giving you little puzzle pieces to fit together.

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SHAKESPEARE TAROT

Calgary's The Shakespeare Company premiered a play called Queens this week, about some of the Bard's female characters. I provided some illustrations that will be used as projections. I was asked to insert drawings of the actor's faces into specific tarot cards. Using Pamela Colman Smith's illustrations from the Rider-Waite tarot deck, I decided to take it a little further and redid the linework for clarity and tweaked the colors somewhat (a lot).  Below are the original cards alongside my reworkings. Click for bigitude.

I was asked to provide just a scan of the Tower card as well, but I did this one too, so they would hang together as a series more.

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WOW

I just had a look over the last 6 months or so of posts and realized there isn't much illustration going on here! A lot of posts but not much of my own stuff. I'll  have to do something about that.
For now, here are a couple logos I did this year.

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OLYMPIC BRANDING

Awesome branding for the 2014 winter games in Sochi, Russia.

Click here for an article about it's development and how it will be used at the games.

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MUFF SEAL

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WOWCS MASHUPS

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ART SPIEGELMAN

Art Spiegelman on accidental protagonists:

Click to enlarge this excerpt from the September 1995 issue of the Comics Journal (#180). If you are able, I recommend tracking down this issue as well as #181 for an amazing two part interview. This guy is smart. Looking forward to hearing the Pulitzer Prize winning comics creator speak in two days.

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KIDS BOOK

Pages 7 and 15.

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RALPH STEADMAN

Best known for his illustration work with Hunter S Thompson. He also typographs like a mother. Here is a video of the menu text for the Criterion DVD of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on Thompson's book. Awesome.

Check out his art at RalphSteadman.com

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ICONOGRAPHY

I made an animated gif of this, blinking back and forth, but for some reason when it hits the cyberweb it gets all glitchy, so here are the component images.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC

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WAR HOLE

Did the printer come through? If so, will the print make it to the framers? Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion!

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JOGGER POSTER

Here's a poster for a not-actual show featuring L.A.'s actual Jogger (click image to enlargenate). Feast your earballs on the following:

UPDATE!! Brand new video HERE FTW

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SUMER IS ICUMIN IN

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

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MARTELLO TOWER

I'm a huge fan of Irish author James Joyce. In 1904 he spent a week living with his friend, medical student Oliver St John Gogarty in Sandycove, a couple hours Northwest of Dublin. Rather than a house, Gogarty was leasing a Martello tower from the British War Office. Martello towers were built in several countries of the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars onwards, basically to repel foreign attackers with cannon fire. Joyce left after Gogarty fired a gun in Joyce's general direction. It is now a museum to Joyce.

    the tower at Sandycove

A dozen years later Joyce wrote Ulysses, in which characters Stephen Dedalus (based on Joyce) and Buck Mulligan (based on Gogarty) share rent in a Martello tower, appearing mostly in the first chapter.

So I was pretty excited to read that Duncan Jackson, founder and co-director of Billings Jackson Design, bought a Martello Tower in Suffolk County, England to build a house for his family. Piercy Conner Architects hooked him up, winning a Royal Institute of British Architects award in the process.  How gangsta is your crib?

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Check out articles and more photos here, here and here.

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ORPHAN

This is an idea I had (the execution as much as the concept), without a use. I just comp'ed in some text. The font is too hand-crafty - if anyone has a font recommendation (or a title, maybe an existing book, movie or song title) let me know.

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DEMONIC PROCESS

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SPEED DEMON

Something for Saskatoon's finest purveyors of Rockabilly.

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ROTJ COMPOSITION

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