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Back in September I had spoken to Megan and Jay of the amazing band Fine Mist about helping them make some t-shirts. They needed help ...

On Saturday December 5, Michelle, Mauve and Setareh who work together at Whitecap books dropped by to do some screen printing and so I could ...

Back in June I travelled to London to visit friends and the Netherlands to finally make a pilgrimage to the country that sprang forth Piet ...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The Porch at Sharon United"][/caption] Back in September I was contacted through a friend about designing a website for an architect based ...

[caption id="attachment_204" align="aligncenter" width="415" caption="The Beer Cap"][/caption] For Rich's birthday I decided to create a beer brand and label for the home brew that he's been ...

My writing about papyrus had taken a break for a while simply because I couldn't keep up with the volume. It's everywhere. And I wish ...

On Monday, September 25th, another rally was held outside the Liberals' public finance committee meeting in Vancouver. The turnout was awesome and it was great ...

[caption id="attachment_163" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="this year's barcamp T"][/caption] I had the most amazing Saturday at Barcamp Vancouver with my friend Richard and a whole panopoly of ...

Last Thursday I went to Blim to make buttons for Claudia's Sports Day birthday extravaganza. Before Claudia had told me to put a beagle on ...

I'm known to be a verbose person, but the cuts to BC arts funding have left me rather speechless because I don't know what to ...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The BBQ goes into the evening"][/caption] Back in early August, I had a chance to catch up with Amber Mortensen of the ...

As a tech nerd, Apple fanboy and media historian, I've been following the Apple tablet rumors for the past couple of years and fawning over ...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Zombies looooove the Red Cross"][/caption] I spent a good chunk of last weekend on the set of a short zombie movie called ...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Nachos & beer at Bloor and Christie"][/caption] July 19 was a hot and humid day in Toronto, the heatwave was supposed to ...

Thanks to First Weekend Club, I was able to go with Rich & Claudia to go see Rip! A Remix Manifesto at the gorgeous District ...

I found this example by my office when getting lunch. I showed the picture to Michelle who said she liked the use of papyrus in ...

[caption id="attachment_63" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="The menu with the font"][/caption] This example can be found at Viva fine foods & bakery. I stop in occasionally when en ...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="227" caption="'Bama-mamma-mamma-mamma...."][/caption] I love how this image keeps the superhero thing going into the DC world and also harkens back to the 60's ...

[caption id="attachment_52" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Seriously, who thought this was a good idea?"][/caption] I'd actually been saving this for a while now because I couldn't believe how ...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Thanks Ike, I like Obama"][/caption] Someone has already started collecting all the different Obama buttons from the past election and is up ...

I hate this font

I was amazed to see the Obama camp produce such a notable design blunder when the Eagle's crest logo came out. However, I was struck ...

I like how Fairey's poster design has become emblematic of the whole campaign. This reworking keeps the meme going and I like how the relationship ...