Retro Muppet Posters by Michael De Pippo!

Festival season in Edmonton has begun! We work with lots of arts and festival organizations around town and I’m going to feature a few events here and there. First up is Edmonton PRIDE. The poster just printed yesterday and they let us go crazy with the creative

Visit www.edmontonpride.ca for all the amazing event listings!

A sneak peak at a new festival project we’re sponsoring, purring over textured eames paper (which we ordered direct from Neenah) for Woodbridge Communications AND an itty bitty business card for Aplomb!

OMG, Jillian! This embroidery work is stellar  More on her process for this cool project on Jillian’s blog.

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Other newsworthy items:

- A blog post from two and the city about my illustration work at the downtown Transcend. Thanks ladies!
- They featured some of the top 40 under 40 Macewan grads (I am one) in MacEwan’s M Magazine

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!

Transcend downtown is open! Read all about what they are serving and offering on the Transcend blog. They are located where the Axis Café used to be.

On their walls, I have some artwork on display/for sale. Framed prints of my illustration and ink work, printed on felt paper. Most of them come from my commercial illustration portfolio, which you can peek at on amandawoodward.com

If you see something you’d like, feel free to email me at hello (at) amandawoodward.com!

In AWE of the work of Fmio Watanabe! via the always inspiring, designworklife

Happy New Year, world!

Andrew Kolb’s interpretation of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, created for Thirty Three and a Third, an art show in which artists reimagine existing album covers.

Via Drawn

Very excited about the Black Swan coming out… even more excited about these poster designs!

Read about them on Designworklife.

Design Sponge has a wonderful Q & A with Maria Kalman! I invite you to read it.

Maria is one of my all time favourite illustrators. She is a collector of things and uses her illustrations to document the world around her.

I had the opportunity to see Maria Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) at the contemporary Jewish Museum in SF this past summer. It’s on until Oct 26. Then it will be showing at at the NYC Jewish museum in the spring/summer.

She draws great dogs, too