As of July 1st, Catherine and I have moved into our new apartment. It was a bit of a hellish move and we’ll be living in boxes for a while, but if you want to stop by or send us gifts of encouragement, our new address is:
2139 boul. St. Joseph est
Montréal, Québec
CANADA
H2H 1E6
In counterpoint to Sunday’s post, I’m loving the work of French design duo Helmo. Rigorous, boldly graphic and smart without being pretentious. Their cartographic posters done for lux* blows my mind.
Beautiful, grungy, and poetic design work from Colin Smith of Distorted Perspective. I love the fact that he’s got a lot of his work available as pdf’s for download and I love that he’s working in a style that many have abandoned exploring for the gloss of web 2.oh… stayin’ true to his (and my own) design roots and fighting the good fight. The photography work is also top-notch. All round inspiring stuff (and lots of it) to be found on his recently relaunched website.
Emanuelle Enchanted was a collaborative typography project conducted by my fellow students and I during our MA course at the London College of Printing in 2004. The two-day project was based on a brief by tutor Paul McNeil that instructed us to design selected extracts from experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment’s play of the same name. The results, when seen as a whole are pretty impressive, and I’m reminded of how lucky I was at the time to be surrounded by so many talented individuals.
Part two after the jump.
Here’s a beautiful set of sexy “illuminated” letters designed by Airside for Wallpaper’s Sex & Art issue. Graphic, in both senses of the word. You can find the backstory, sketches, and more visuals on Airside’s Blog.
Montreal artist (and Four Minutes to Midnight contributor) Kevin Ledo is probably better known for his beautiful and seductive portrait paintings, but it turns out he’s a bad ass street artist as well!
More proof after the jump, smiles guaranteed…
The first protest I ever attended was at the age of 11, outside the Chinese embassy in Toronto.
Grab bag of web content below. If you have anything to add, please leave a comment…
The Lost Voices of Tiananmen (BBC podcast)
Frontline documentary: The Tank Man
Internet censorship in China (wired)
Internet censorship in China (NY Times)
Internet censorship in China (CBC)
History Matters: Remembering Tiananmen (and Abu Ghraib)
A while back I mentioned a very cool publishing/distribution inititative by Alain Bieber in Hamburg. And now today, I’ve just gotten word that our zines have finally arrived in his library!
I’m really excited to be a part of Gute Seiten, and will hopefully soon be contributing content to the site about the zine scene in Canada for them. So, if you have some interesting projects you want European indie publishers to know about, hit me up.
photo by Oubliette
Ravenswing was a great success today and Cat and I really enjoyed our time in Ottawa. Many thanks to the beautiful, hard working people who put it all together and to Colin for being a great host and table mate. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity and enthusiasm of the crowd. My perception of Ottawa as a sleepy government town has certainly shifted a bit.
I was happy to see fellow Montreal zinester Lisa Hoffman there with a ton of new work on display and reconnect with fellow Concordia grad Catherine Pearce who’s been making some beautiful jewelry pieces.
Sincere thanks to everyone who put down some hard earned cash to pick up a zine or a poster today. I’d love to know what you think of them, so please feel free to contact me. We’ll definitely be back again next year, hopefully with a new issue in tow.
Check out some more pictures here of a damn fine day.
PS. So Good was very good, thanks for the reco John! The Pepper squid was exquisite!
