Hey WD friends,

Folks have been asking to see the material that won us the ACE Visual Identity award.
Here it is… the photos were taken on our kitchen floor.

Big thanks to the client, Amanda Van Unen, for working with us to achieve this honour.

Especially ’cause we worked with a local letterpress printer on this project and the production took longer than usual. We’ve all learned that the hand crafted goodness of letterpress takes time and patience!

Yay to  ACE, Yay to Bluebird Cakes!

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an indoor swing?

Then we could comfortably swing indoors during the winter months…

via the Style Files

I taught illustration workshops to grade 4,5 & 6 kids last week.

We interpreted the folk tale: fox & the moon. I talked about thumbnailing, character development, illustrating layouts and developing a cover design for their story.

Some of the kiddies left their drawings scattered in the class and I collected them all. Sometimes I wonder if children are better artists than adults…

Loving the typography on these book covers by  Jim Tierney! How inspiring.

Via Design Work Life

Elvis and helvetica = dreamy

Get the t-shirt!

Our client, Northern Light Theatre, is showing i google myself at the Varscona Theatre!

We invite you to check it out… the set is a giant Macintosh laptop

Hey wide web world,

We participated in a lovely little fun project, a redesign of valentines day. It has been posted on the Brand New website.

Check out all of the different components! V-day has a new logo, colour palette, and a few options for a new cupid (which was my part). My favourite parts are the new colour palette and the facebook application.

My illustration, explained:

Chief Valentine Officer by Amanda Woodward
A more benevolent form of C-level executive, the CVO’s sole end-of-year bonus is the joy of procuring romantic love between two people, no matter how hard they are to bring together.

I am teaching a colour theory class this term and its been wonderful to immerse myself in various types of colour inspiration! I’ve decided to add a new category on our blog so I can share some of my findings.

The pieces above are called ‘Clouds’ for Kvadrat by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec.

“‘Clouds’ is a colorful concept that evolves as you add elements to it, producing a three-dimensional effect, coating architecture in a fluid yet chaotic way.”

I love that they are these abstract shapes you can assemble and experiment with different colours. Simply beautiful. Found on the colourlovers website.

I am so impressed by Burst of Beaden’s work for BBC sports.
See the video here and read about his work co-designing the piece on his blog.

The tone of it so stellar and suiting to Jon’s style!

Drawn featured a great little project from a group of London artists.

Each illustration is based on a song from the Magnetic Fields’ 3-disc 69 Love Songs: How Fucking Romantic.