Tea packaging we designed for Transcend Coffee. You can read about what they are doing with their tea on the Transcend Blog!

Don’t forget to attend Doctors & Derrieres this year!

The 7th annual Doctors and Derrieres exhibition and silent auction will take place on April 27th from 7 – 11pm at Enterprise Square, 10230 – Jasper Ave, Edmonton, Alberta. This year the exhibit will feature over 35 local artists! The full exhibit runs from April 19 – 27th.

A bit about Doctors & Derrieres:
Doctors and Derrieres is a fundraising event co-founded in 2006 by Edmonton based artist and show curator Roger Garcia. The idea behind this fundraiser is to have 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 sold at the main event each year to raise funds for an emergency health Project in El Salvador. All proceeds support Change for Children’s Emergency Social Health Fund. A community-led grassroots initiative in rural El Salvador that provides health care in underserved areas. Over the past 6 years, the event has raised over $50,000. Doctors and Derrieres is hosted by Roger Garcia and University of Alberta medical students in partnership with Change for Children Association and Christian Based Communities of El Salvador (CEB’S) with donated support from the Harcourt House.

We have been working on a few pieces for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra this year… both illustrative work and design. It started with family and educational programming pieces and recently we completed their season brochure. You can see all of the different performances they have booked for the year by learning about the season on their website.

This will sound geeky for all you non print designers out there, but our business cards came in and Kristin used a gold metallic and raised spot UV varnish on a brown uncoated stock.

Thank you to Dale & Burke Group for seeing through the details on production of these beauties

Percolate is a series of Arts & Cultural Management talks put on through Macewan, Edmonton Arts Council, Edmonton Heritage Council and Alberta Museums Association. Woodward Design is the design sponsor again this year.

Percolate. Brewing ideas with… Kelly Hill
Join us on March 14, 2012, for Percolate. Brewing ideas with Kelly Hill
6:30 PM | Doors  7:00 PM | Presentation
Matrix Hotel | 10640-100 Avenue
Reserve your seat by calling TIX on the Square

Towards A Better Understanding of Arts in the Alberta Economy & SocietyThe goal of this session is to provide a research-based view of the role of arts and culture in Alberta’s economy and society. The session will outline some key statistics on the arts in Alberta as well as the role of culture in a healthy society. The presentation’s statistics and research findings regarding artists, the quality of life, social cohesion and economic vitality will provide information that participants can discuss and use in their own day-to-day activities.

Beautiful Korean book covers from the 40′s-50′s. Via Drawn.

I (Amanda) was away in Hawaii for a bit of January and February and saw lots of beautiful art, including the work of Jean Charlot.

It was so inspiring. I told the story on the Illustration Friday blog, so check it out!

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!