Here are a couple of drawings, one is from this weekend, sitting in a coffee shop looking across the street. I keep finding old buildings around here that I had not noticed. There are a ton of character homes, one day I’ll spend a day and ride my scooter around and draw a bunch of [...]
One of my favourite parts of design is working with companies to create (or re-create) a logo, brand, or brand system. The cool part is it is an infinitely scalable process that can take 5 hours (don’t tell anyone I said that) or it can hundreds of hours. The real difference between the lower end [...]
Well, it wasn’t planned, but it is kinda fun for a change. When life gives you lemons, make rum & coke (with a slice of lemon). Our office has been out of commission since Monday morning due to an ‘upgrade’ that Telus had planned for our office internet package. Instead of going from 6.0 mbps [...]
I would like to wish all my loyal and faithful readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I had planned to get a couple new posts up before the holidays, but because of a couple of really big projects launching right before the break, I wasn’t able to carve out the time to do [...]
A while back I posted about the design I was working for the Wiens Mandolins shirt. Here is a pic of the finished product. They come in a variety of small-batch colours, and custom requests are welcome. For more information about how you can get yourself one of these spanky shirts go to the Wiens [...]
A friend recently told me: “The only thing you can count on in a partnership is that someday it will end”. The more I think about it the more I realize this is true. I am privileged to say that my relationship with my business partner Shane has been as close to perfect as I [...]
On occasion I get to dabble in furniture and architectural accessory design in my work with my colleagues at Reimer & Co. Here are some furniture ideas I’ve been working on for a modern timber residence up in Golden, BC. Furniture is one of my favourite design mediums, though the opportunity to design pieces that [...]
I came across this brilliant illustration by Scott C. today and just had to pass it on to you all. Not only are the illustrations delicate and full of character, but they illuminate some very real scenarios in the life of a professional creative person. All of us dread when the axe falls on an [...]
This is a quick sketch of a brick building on Van Horne St. I had a few minutes to myself on Sunday and decided to draw a cool building. I’m running out of cool buildings in Cranbrook to draw, going to have to do some road-tripping to draw stuff soon. For now enjoy this little [...]
When I first moved to Cranbrook in 2001, I was sort of kicking around town looking for some kind of work that would be appealing and interesting for a creative type of person. I had just left a very satisfying, but very intense job leading 8 young people around the country playing music, and I [...]