look

new card

2010-11-11T22:53:00.000-08:00

branch of hope

2010-11-10T19:40:00.000-08:00

I'm an ideas man Michael...I think I proved that with Bleep Mountain!

2010-11-01T22:22:00.001-07:00

Poster

2010-10-20T23:59:00.000-07:00

are the pictures too big?

Blue Monster Entertainment

2010-10-17T23:31:00.000-07:00

So a friend of mine asked me to do a logo for his recording studio...I'm in the brainstorming stage right now but I am super stoked to work on this project. Thoughts?

BME stands for "Blue Monster Entertainment"

clothes rack

2010-10-06T20:27:00.000-07:00

Due to the fact that my wife has a ~~shitload~~ normal amount of clothes for a girl I figured if I wanted to get any closet space I was going to have to get her a clothes rack...buying one is totally out of the question since...why buy what you can make right? Inspired by this design sponge DIY-er...I set out to make a clothes rack.

In the end I guess you could say that I got a little carried away...this project actually cost a lot more than I've ever spent on a project...but it was definitely worth it.

business card giveaway winner!

2010-10-04T06:20:00.000-07:00

Okay so I couldn't bring myself to choose a favorite...because I'm afraid of picking one friend over another and then have travis get all mad cause he didn't win...so I had a "random line picker" choose for me...(screenshot below)

so...congrats henk...I guess you'll have to get them shipped to Alberts? Everyone else: sorry...better luck next time?

P.S. and henk didn't win just because it was his birthday...happy birthday henk, I wish we were in Winnipeg getting hammered in a haunted hotel together.

my new desk

2010-09-28T20:50:00.000-07:00

I found this wood in an alley, I think they used to be rafters. For now I'm using legs that I took from a $5 garage sale table...but I hate them because I'm constantly hitting my knees on them...going to have to find a solution...soon.

p.s. please comment on the post below...I don't want to choose between travis and henk...does nobody else need business cards? come on!

Die cut business card giveaway

2010-09-07T21:51:00.000-07:00

If you're in the market for some new business cards like I am...you should check out uprinting's business card page it is pretty legit, and uprinting is fairly affordable. I actually have a newfound appreciation for uprinting because since I graduated I have gotten a few projects printed by local printers...just because I thought it would be easier than getting it done online and if there was a mistake in the job then I could get it fixed easily. I was so wrong. I got some thank-you cards printed locally...first of all they printed on the wrong stock. AND there was banding and the color was very spotty. Needless to say I asked them to reprint it on the correct stock...to make a long story short I ended up making 4 different trips over the span of a week and in the end I wasn't even close to satisfied with the end result. On the flip side, Uprinting has never done me wrong and in the long run it would have been way easier and cheaper for me to have them print and ship it to me than for me to try to give my business to the "little man"...that's my rant for the day. Oh yeah, this is actually a giveaway, and for those of you who actually stayed long enough to read my rant you get rewarded...all you have to do is leave a comment with your business card design on them and I will choose the best one. Or if they're all super good - which I doubt they will be - then I'll use a random picker..anyway here are the deets:

250 Die Cut Business Cards for One (1) Winner
2 x 3.5”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.75 x 3.5” (slim card)
Die cutting options available: Rounded Corners, Leaf, Rounded One-Corner, Half-Circle Side, Circle
Paper Type: 14pt Cardstock Gloss, Matte, or High Gloss; 13pt Cardstock Uncoated
Color: 4Color Front, Blank Back; 4Color Front, Black Back; 4Color Both Sides
Limited to US residents only 18 years old and above - sorry henk. Maybe you should move here...
Giveaway ends on September 30th.

For hosting this giveaway I will also be receiving 250 die-cut business cards from Uprinting.com...I'm pretty stoked on that as I have been thinking about designing a new one for myself.

sunday night

2010-08-23T07:20:00.000-07:00

I had too many pictures to post on blogspot, so I started a flickr.

panoramia

2010-08-23T00:17:00.000-07:00

my first animated gif

2010-08-18T11:24:00.001-07:00

Murv poster

2010-06-07T16:28:00.000-07:00

so I was at the Murv this weekend and drank a bunch of beer...anyway I went to the bathroom and found this lovely example of design:

I think my favorite part about this flier, besides the fact that they used papyrus, there are also 3 other typefaces and at least twice as many colors. So I drew this:

and then last night I made this:

soft sculpture installation

2010-04-27T22:07:00.000-07:00

April Giveaway!

2010-04-23T10:33:00.000-07:00

UPDATE:

Congratulations to the winner, Christina! The winner was chosen totally at random (or at least as random as the "random name picker" from classtools.net could be), I entered all three names in and only chose once so...here is proof:

Be sure to enter your name in my next giveaway...from the way things have been going you will probably have at least a 25% chance to win...maybe. I better check that math.

DigitalRoom.com is letting me give away 250 stickers/labels and I get to decide who gets them! (Well actually a random name picker will decide)

Anyway these stickers (or labels) are pretty legit, you can get them in 3 different sizes (2x3.5, 2x4, 3x3) and they are on 70lb matte coated paper. They are full color front, and obviously blank on the back...

So if you were needing labels (or stickers) for work, a party, organizing, or you just want to have 250 stickers with your name on them...then just leave a comment saying what you would use the stickers for. If you don't know what to do with 250 stickers, then steal someone else's idea...

This giveaway ends on April 28th so...get those comments in...

Other details:
Specification: 6 Business Days Turnaround

Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping

Eligibility: Limited to US Residents only (Sorry Canada). Must be 18 years old and up (Sorry minors).

portrait of a headless monster

2010-04-20T23:02:00.000-07:00

I just put some new posters up on my design blog.

latest letterpress creation

2010-03-25T14:48:00.000-07:00

a friend of mine needed a business card to display with some paintings he has hung up on the walls of the Fruited Plain...

Vancouver 2010

2010-03-04T15:23:00.001-08:00

portraits

2010-02-20T01:11:00.001-08:00

I took this portrait of a philosophy professor here at school for an AIGA event going on in a few weeks...digital - I decided to go black and white because behind him was a red painting that while I was taking the picture seemed like a good idea, but once I took it into lightroom...I realized that it was too overpowering and somehow reflected a lot of red onto his face...

these last two pictures were from a roll of film I took over Christmas break that I finally developed after the darkroom at school got set up...I love film.

new business card

2010-02-13T14:10:00.001-08:00

My first letterpress chases

2010-02-12T14:52:00.001-08:00

letterpress

2010-02-06T01:09:00.000-08:00

This is a Kelsey, Model U Letterpress proofing press that I restored...I didn't take "before" pictures, a noob mistake I won't make again...

my first sculpture

2010-01-21T15:45:00.000-08:00

FML

2010-01-16T02:07:00.000-08:00

It's -5C right now...but tomorrow it will (lord willing) get up to a high of 3C. awesome.

free business cards!!!

2010-01-12T12:18:00.000-08:00

So as many of you know by now...or maybe you don't (yeah, you probably don't), my blog is "sponsored" by an awesome, online printing company called UPrinting.com and from time to time they decide to giveaway some freebies, this time they have given me and one of my lucky blog readers 250 free business cards!!

All you have to do for a chance to win is comment on this post (commenting on other posts can't hurt your chances either...) and tell me how you plan to use all 250 of these cards.

So yeah, check out the fine print below...there isn't really a catch...and comment away!

Giveaway Prize: 250 Business Cards for one (1) lucky winner

Size: 2 x 3.5”, 2 x 3”, 2 x 2” (square card) or 1.5 x 3.5” (skinny card)

Paper: 14 pt gloss cardstock, 14 pt matte cardstock or 13 pt recycled uncoated cardstock

Shipping: Sponsored bloggers and Winners have to pay for shipping

Eligibility: Limited to US Residents due to shipping costs.

december 27

2009-12-27T22:32:00.000-08:00

christmas morning

2009-12-25T10:11:00.001-08:00

home again

2009-12-18T11:28:00.000-08:00

apparently we got a cat...and everyone forgot to tell me

construct/deconstruct

2009-12-14T23:47:00.000-08:00

wrapped

2009-12-02T22:46:00.001-08:00

specimens

2009-10-29T00:24:00.000-07:00

nocturnal emissions

2009-10-27T22:48:00.001-07:00

Rush

2009-10-22T10:40:00.001-07:00

back at school

2009-08-31T13:26:00.001-07:00

cross country meet

2009-08-29T15:31:00.001-07:00

Beimerama!

2009-08-23T19:28:00.001-07:00

steveston

2009-08-06T23:22:00.000-07:00

waiting

2009-07-30T12:58:00.000-07:00

festival of lights

2009-07-30T12:13:00.000-07:00

the bag

2009-07-17T23:44:00.001-07:00

the end result of this project

beach background

2009-07-16T21:43:00.001-07:00

see it in action here. a customized template done by me.

some..stuff

2009-07-09T13:49:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I went to the Getty...a friend let me borrow a sweet fish-eye attachment ...this is how it went...I meant to edit the images...but got busy and forgot about them but was inspired by this post.

panorama construction

2009-07-08T19:31:00.000-07:00

I was at LAX the other day and snapped about 50 pictures in about 40 seconds....and this is what happened. I didn't really do anything too them - aside from stitching them together as panoramas...obviously...

and now, a message from our sponsors.

2009-06-29T16:53:00.000-07:00

So a few months ago I got UPrinting.com to sponsor my blog.

Our relationship, like any relationship, has had its ups and downs, but for the most part we have stayed true to each other. Uprinting gave me 1,000 free business cards (I had to pay for shipping, but still, a $70 value...fa free!) full color on both sides to boot! I ordered them on the recycled stock and they turned out quite lovely.

I have also recently received a 16 x 20 print totally free (even shipping!). Albeit, it was no giclee print, but it was free!

Why UPrinting.com isn't your average printing company:

Blog Sponsorships:
If you are looking to find a sponsor for your blog, UPrinting.com is definitely interested. We offer giveaways, advertising and more for qualified bloggers.

Non-Profit Sponsorships:
The U-Community Program sponsors hundreds of non-profits and education to improve our local communities.

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The UPrinting Kiva account promotes small business growth in developing countries.

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this is a chair

2009-06-29T00:03:00.001-07:00

this is not a chair

2009-06-27T21:09:00.000-07:00

fathers/longest day

2009-06-22T12:34:00.000-07:00

coincidentally father's day and the longest day of the year were...the same day...so on the way home from my great-aunts house we stopped at the beach to catch the sunset.

it was nice. i was up on a wall taking pictures for a while, there was a couple arguing about something, the 'man' - didn't catch his name - swearing like a shim, and the woman - tracy - finally quit talking to him and got on her phone, to which the unnamed deuche starts shouting to no one in particular 'oh great tracy, call the f-kin' cops, that'll help'

...happy father's day

Beach

2009-06-20T21:12:00.000-07:00

table: after

2009-06-11T21:31:00.000-07:00

table: before

2009-06-11T21:10:00.000-07:00

so ...someone gave us this old table. and bench.

driving...

2009-06-05T15:05:00.001-07:00

haven't posted any photos in a while...so here are a few for the few that check this out...

home

2009-05-20T21:17:00.000-07:00

Flight

2009-05-19T16:42:00.001-07:00

Seattle

2009-05-18T20:23:00.001-07:00

whatever the "man" wants..

2009-05-13T10:51:00.000-07:00

In case you all were not aware, my blog is sponsored by UPrinting.com - it's not a big deal, unless you think that corporate sponsorship is... Anyways they hosting a giveaway on my blog and one of you lucky readers will win a 16 by 20" poster print! There are two ways to win:

1. Leave a comment explaining how you would creatively use your 16 by 20" poster print.

2. Write a post on your blog, linking to the giveaway post, and linking back to UPrinting.com.

"But what about shipping!?" - I know, being Dutch, you had already anticipated the "catch" - a huge shipping cost - false! Shipping for the poster is free for those of you in the U.S. and Canada, but anyone living anywhere else must pay for shipping their prize.

"siouxscape"

2009-05-07T01:04:00.001-07:00

an installation

2009-05-02T22:05:00.000-07:00

Animation

2009-04-30T16:07:00.000-07:00

This is one of the final projects for my graphics IV class...

the silk spectre

2009-04-25T18:29:00.000-07:00

finally

2009-04-25T01:37:00.000-07:00

A day at the races

2009-04-22T07:34:00.000-07:00

this is an old picture that I developed in lr...better or worse?

portraits

2009-04-19T18:59:00.000-07:00

Chicago: take 2

2009-03-30T09:58:00.000-07:00

New York: Daytime

2009-03-24T17:34:00.000-07:00

New York: First Night

2009-03-24T16:56:00.000-07:00

Niagara Falls

2009-03-24T13:03:00.000-07:00

toronto

2009-03-18T19:56:00.000-07:00

i ran out of batteries. sweet...still havent gotten a UV filter yet.

Wine Tasting

2009-03-18T19:33:00.000-07:00

chicago sucks

2009-03-18T19:25:00.000-07:00

Spring Break: Day 1

2009-03-18T16:16:00.000-07:00

the first day of spring break - thanks to craig & tucker for hosting us in his lovely house - a wonderful night full of ghost stories, fantastic homemade "hot-butter" and tucker.

cayla b&a

2009-03-05T17:01:00.001-08:00

Becca b&a

2009-03-05T16:35:00.000-08:00

Before & After

2009-02-04T00:21:00.000-08:00