Upcoming event – FREE Grant Bailey colour lecture (December 1)

ABN is excited to invite Grant Bailey to share his colour expertise. This event is FREE to our ABN Members . Please RSVP as seating is limited.

GDC Alberta North presents

Grant Bailey, prepress colour specialist
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 7:00pm
SNAP Gallery (10123 – 121 Street, Edm, AB)
Light refreshments and cash bar available

FREE to GDC members. Seating is limited so please RSVP to admin.abnorth@gdc.net by November 28, 2011

We gratefully acknowledge Rhino Print Solutions for sponsoring this professional event.

Grant Bailey is currently the Vice President of Prepress at Rhino Print Solutions. He brings 30 years of industry experience, 25 of those managing prepress and scanning teams. His specialities are image manipulation and colour correction, colour management and press fingerprinting, and PDF workflows. For the past 5 years, he has been an instructor at BCIT, teaching into the GTEC, and MDIA programs. He has written a new 6 week program called MDIA 1144 Practical Colour Management that has become a prerequisite for several of BCIT Media programs and has also created the 6 week MDIA 2012 Digital Darkroom program, and GTEC 2180 Image Manipulation and Colour Correction that is an 18 week course geared towards students entering into the print industry. He will share his real world experiences about the practical sides of colour management, the realities of getting results, what it takes to be successful, and why there is a tolerance required for variance inherent in all manufacturing processes.

Things we loved about The PICA Conference:

- Meeting creative folks from our Edmonton community that we’ve always admired

- Being inspired by talented illustrators and agencies

- Travelling with the girls from the Met Agency

- Valet service!

It was disappointing that Armin Vit got stuck at the border with his Mexican passport, booooo. Really wanted to meet him. We  had the pleasure of working with Armin/Brand New on a Valentine redesign, last year. We also contributed to the Word It Book.

Thanks and warm hellos to all of our new friends from the PICA conference!

It’s nice to take a short break from the deadlines and teach kids about typography, oil pastels and ink

We’d like to give Katie Larson a warm thank you for interning with us over the past three weeks! Check out the Macewan and U of A grad show’s this week. And the ACE awards and PICA this weekend. A design filled spring, oh my…

The Hee Haw Collective has begun, and is kicking it off with a summer poster collection all themed around being positive and making people laugh or smile.

If you would like to participate, please visit the website at www.heehawcollective.com for all the details about the project, registration, submissions, and about The Hee Haw Collective itself.

The Hee Haw Collective is also on facebook.

A recent illustration/design we completed for a speaker series on arts, heritage and cultural management, called Percolate. I think tonight is sold out but it’s a series of three lectures and the tickets are free!

Woodward Design is a sponsor for this event and the first speaker is Ben Cameron. More info can be found on the website or you can follow them on twitter!

I would like to invite you to a lovely event, the Creative Cause, taking place at the Art Gallery of Alberta. Myself and many other illustrators/artists/creative folk will have artwork, crafts and design services up for auction and sale. If you would like to bid on a Woodward Design logo package or paintings like the dreamer below, come on out!

See creativecause.ca to check out the auction items and more details! Advance tickets on on sale for 6 more days…

Our client, NLT, needs your help! See below for info.

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Moving? Summer cleaning? You may be able to help Northern Light Theatre in a unique and exciting way. Next season, Northern Light Theatre is producing a project which requires a MASSIVE amount of paper pornography (magazines, books, poster, post cards etc.).

A HUGE amount of pornography is needed- more than we can afford to buy.

Got a friend with a used book store, a garage sale, an adult superstore or a Playboy addiction? Hook us up! Cleaning out the attic? Donate your dusty boxes of magazines to us.

We’re looking for as much porn and adult content as possible- straight, gay, bi, fantasy, fetish, furry- the more skin the better. Absolutely NO JUDGEMENTS will be made. No questions asked. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

For any questions or to arrange a pick up, please contact:

ELLEN CHORLEY
Artistic Associate, NLT
(780) 471-1586
Nlt.publicity@telusplanet.net

5th Annual Doctors and Derrieres Fundraiser

Doctors and Derrieres is a unique fundraising event in its 5th year where medical students pose nude for talented local artists and sculptors. Art pieces in diverse mediums celebrating the human body are then donated by each artist to be auctioned off at the main event. This years silent art auction event will take place on April 30th, 2010 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Enterprise Square (10230 Jasper Ave).

Money raised from this event goes towards an Emergency Social Health Fund, a community-led grassroots initiative in rural El Salvador that provides health care in underserved areas. Doctors and Derrieres is hosted by Change For Children, Christian Based Communities of El Salvador ( CEB’S ), and UofA medical students. Along with donated support from the Harcourt House.

www.doctorsandderrieres.blogspot.com

Artists participating this year are:

Dwight Allot
Bonnie Bigley
Ross Bradley
Margaret Braun
Chris Chalifoux
Fran Cuyler
Gerry Dotto
Crystal Driedger
Kevin Fagan
Sharon Moore-Foster
Dinorah Garcia
Roger Garcia
Eric Gravel
Edmund Haakonson
Peter Harasymiw
Theo Harasymiw
Sarah Jackson
Robert Millang
Corissa Spring O’Donnell
Bob Prodor
Caitlin Sian Richards
Pedro Rodriguez
Raymond Thériault
David Thomas
Davey Thompson
Keith Turnbull
Jodi Tychkowsky
Darren Woluschuk
Gabe Wong
Amanda Woodward
Jessica Yawnghwe
Hank Zyp

We made this for a contest on veer.com. It lights up and required a truck to transport and photograph! I would imagine there was many, many submissions. Even if we don’t get a prize we had lots of fun working together on it. Also, we finally have a picture of the three of us! I think this is the first time. It only took two years….

Here is our submission text:
Q. What do you get when you take over 500 squares of Veer imagery?
A. A box of ideas sure to provide illumination for your next project.

For our entry we recreated a large scale, three dimensional version of the Veer logo…the catch? Each of the 568 orange colored squares used to ‘color’ the logo were cut from the pages of old Veer catalogues, Veer logos, and Veer Marketplace images. And what good would a 3D Veer logo be if it didn’t shed a little light on your creative project…or your desk. We like to think of it as our own offline Veer ‘lightbox’.

(Photo of Wee Wonderfuls lovely softies)

Both Andrea and Hillary have chatted on their blogs about saving handmade toys in the US. Scary to think that small business owners making good quality softies/toys could possibly be shut down because of the legislation set to go through. This means no more toys on etsy. Even Uncle Jo can’t sell his wooden carved toys without very expensive testing.

Anyone know if this sort of issue exists in Canada?

You can find more info about this issue in the following places:

cool mom picks

handmade toy alliance

change.org