Last year, myself and then Medium Editor-in-Chief Ali Kasim resurrected the Professional Writing and Communication literary journal, Mindwaves after a two year hiatus. We transformed the publication from a magazine-sized, saddle stitched “book”, with paper that was way too thick and glossy, had no concept or sense of design and looked like it was designed [...]
Our annual year-end Art and Art History Party, Fridge Magnet, also marked the launch of Buff, our program’s annual catalog of select student work. The fourth year design class, led by Robert Fones, traditionally gets the privilege of producing the 192(I think) page book—this year it was our turn. Lilyan Aitkin designed this year’s book. [...]
This year’s grad show for the Art and Art History programme at U of T is called Thrown Forth. John Spagnolo designed the visual identity, and I think it looks great. Read The Medium’s review here.
The first show took place a few weeks back, and the second show is currently happening right now. My work [...]
So the first-ever Medium Magazine came out this week, and let me tell you, am I ever happy that its out. It’s been a long two month production period, and it’s really great to finally see it off of the confines of my little macbook screen and out onto campus newsstands.
We went through the possibility [...]
This poster was created for a fictional exhibition of Canadian Toques for a school assignment. The title of the exhibition, Toque, is hand lettering – loosely based on Street Expanded - drawn of hundreds of individual, interwoven lines, meant to evoke the look and feel of knitting, the material of choice for the ubiquitous Canadian [...]
Steel Bananas – September 2009 went live earlier today. Check it here.
It was a tough issue for me – we published The Medium sunday night and that was a 15 hour work day. The next day I had class until 6pm, and then published Steel Bananas from 7pm until about 2am, then plagued with network [...]
Introducing the Monthly Eggplant, a Steel Bananas/Zoots Cafe sponsored monthly reading series hosted by Curran Folkers. I designed the posters/wordmark. If you’re downtown on one of the days listed above, check it out! Steel Banana’s Editor-in-Chief Karen Correia Da Silva will be reading in Episode One, so I guarantee it will be fantastic.
Steel Bananas Issue 10, August 2009 is live.
This month’s issue features the Toronto Greek street festival, A Taste of the Danforth, where our resident food critic Ted Killin samples some of Greek Town’s finest and learns something about olive oil. Also, an interview with Indie Rock Icon Joel Plaskett, an essay on elitism, Twilight, and [...]
Steel Bananas July Issue 9 is now live. Check it out.
This month’s issue 9 features NXNE reviews and feature interviews with Diamond Rings, Hopeful Monster, Blood Ceremony, and Fox Jaws, and also the Toronto Fringe Festival.
Here are some of my photos in this months issue of Steel Bananas. I also did the typography, [...]