The gorgeous and inspiring work of  Roger Garcia. He has a new website!

Besides being a talented illustrator, cartoonist and artist, Roger is best known in the Edmonton community for running Doctors & Derrieres, which will be in it’s 7th year this spring.

Excerpt from his bio: Roger Garcia is a self taught freelance cartoonist / illustrator based out of Edmonton who works in acrylics, watercolors and digital medium. His illustrations and cartoons have been published in various humour books, newspapers, and educational material.

Michelle Matson does amazing things with paper.

She was a Work of Art contestant, but did not win. They don’t give last names of the artists on Bravo but I tracked down her stuff on the web. Yes, this reality show is a little cheesy. But, it’s also really inspiring to be able to watch these artists experiment with materials, concepts and collaboration under extreme timeframes. Simon de Pury’s commentary is hilarious. BE BOLD! BE BRAVE! BE AMAZING!

Great photo project: The Local Creators.

Jacqueline Jaszka meets the locals in her San Francisco neighbourhood by featuring what her neighbouring businesses are creating.

The studio above is three fish studios – love their space!

Happy New Year to our clients, collaborators and friends!

We realized we never really shared pictures last fall of our new studio that we moved into a couple months ago.

Here’s a peek, along with a sneak peak of our new branding on the signage that was recently installed You can see more pictures on flickr.

Our studio is bright butter yellow, the perfect colour for optimism. We wish you sunshine and happiness for 2012!

Just a couple photos from some signage and environmental graphics we’ve been working on for our client, Liquor Depot!

This particular store we finished recently was in Kentucky. They love their Kentucky bourbon. We visited them this week and joked with the staff about adding y’all on the signage Is that like puttting ‘eh’ on signage in Canada? Cliche…

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.

I’ve been teaching Corporate ID & Self  Promotion to Macewan students this Fall/Winter. We’ve been doing many different fun things, one of them being quick workbook exercises at the beginning of each class to push creative thinking. I thought I would start sharing some of them! Many of them are inspired from the book Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming by Ellen Lupton.

Here’s one on an exercise called ‘sprinting’… let me know if you give it a try and if you had fun

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WORKBOOK EXERCISE #9 - SPRINTING

This is a great campaign by DDB. I think all of us creative types can relate to these

Creative Credits:
Agency: DDB New York
CCO: Matt Eastwood
CD: Menno Kluin
Copywriter: Aron Fried
Art Director: Carlos Wigle
Designer: Juan Carlos Pagan
Illustrator: Rami Niemi
Print Production: Leslie Silver
Art Buyers: Carol Brandwein, Jane Piampiano

Via Designworklife

Making this beautiful with a UV varnish, one business card at a time…

Clients Featured: Alexis Kienlen (writer) and Infused Studios (photographers)

A few logos we’ve designed in the past 6 months that shine best in black and white.

I’m teaching logo design to Macewan design students this term and we’ve been having lots of discussions about how logos should be conceptualized and executed. One of the many considerations that has come up is how the logo will work in black or grayscale. We often present our concepts that way initially so the client can see our ideas in the purest form, without any sort of colour preferences getting in the way.

So, I’m making them work through this process as well