Carol's FLOR

Here's my friend Carol's FLOR carpet that she recently ordered from NEAT on Queen St. I love the gutsy combo of greys + oranges which she choose. I think FLOR is one of the best companies going. Making the carpet tiles from scraps left over from larger carpet jobs = very green. ps. That is Dudley at the top of the photo.

New Project

My food quote piece inspired by many good meals
I liked the combo of high + low quotes: Brillat Savarin mixed with Woody Allen


Blank screen picked up at G+S Dye on Dundas.

After coating the screen with emulsion + shooting the image Dave Murray washes out the screen.


Tada! Screen ready to go.

Coming home.
Screens are notoriously difficult travelling partners
= large taxi bills for printmakers :-(

Two years ago when I was in Berlin I was inspired by many good meals + beautiful murals to paint a series of food quotes in my sketch book. I am now finally getting around to making something with it! Today I got a screen made of the image and in the next two weeks I will be making both tea towels + silk screen prints with this image. Stay tuned for the final results.

So funny, so smart: Christoph Niemann

What a cutie.

Christoh discusses how he divides up his 9 hour work day.
(Love the second guessing and 'Inspiration' sections!)

Christoph explains the balance he requires in order to limit stress:
1 wildly creative job with no limitations for every 3 dull ones!
His feelings during the creative process

Today I watched the Creative Morning video from April with Berlin based Illustrator + Designer Christoph Niemann.
Insightful + hilarious and filled with great metaphorical drawings to illustrate his points.
My favourite point: His belief that assignments with 100% creative freedom can be very stressful. As a big fan of limitations I agree!

*Highly recommended for anyone working in a creative field.*
Do yourself a favour and watch this.

Dinner at Delux

Delux 92 Ossington Ave.

Love this personalized honeycomb tile that Delux had made for their exterior step.
A beautiful custom touch that made me want to come for dinner here -
because YES - I choose restaurants based on the interior design - not the menu.
Are we surprised?

Inside warm + woody interiors with great lighting.

Delicious dinner topped off with the house specialty: Homemade donuts with chantilly cream. Kinda to die for.
Photos via Jonathon Yule.

New work: Ad for Trend fabrics

Here is an ad I did recently for Trend fabrics.
I love assignments where my illustration is combined with photography.
The room with panelling and books reminds me a little of the library drawing in the Clue Game which was a huge inspiration as a kid.

For a peek behind the process here is one of the first sketches. As you can see we went in a much cleaner direction. Art director Denise Espinosa.