I prefer to use the term commercial artist. In many ways, this encapsulates both design and illustration, and I don’t think I could ever simply be one or the other. In my thinking, I am a designer. In my feeling, my intuition, I am an illustrator.
Blok has always been a space for collaboration, for questioning, for exploration. I don’t believe in defining narrowly what we do since it limits the possibilities of where we can go …
With an emphasis on art direction, TWR specializes in branding fashion, arts and culture. Our clients vary, but we have developed a following among artisans who have come to us by various routes…
We feel extremely lucky to have gained the trust of such amazing clients, this is a big part of what makes me love what I do.
I have always, for good or for ill, been an artist. At school, I made wood cuts, lithos, etching, engravings, photographs and sculpture, and informed myself in those areas. I was entranced by architecture, and always music…
We are both very passionate about making the world a better place and we believe design can contribute to that.
Thinking you can only be creative at a certain time of day is quite silly. You can train yourself to get into a creative mode.
“I’ve had a fairly circuitous route to design and to BMD in particular. I did a Fine Art BFA and was mostly interested in conceptual work…”
Today I’m responsible for a group of 25 designers working on Core Product, Retail, Checkout and some upcoming special projects…
I arrived in Toronto from Northern Ireland in 1995, when I was 18. The following year I started working for a local music magazine and helped them lay out and code their web site…
We are a Toronto-based branding and design boutique. Started by myself and my partner Henry Tyminski in 2007…
We do a bit of everything: art direction, branding, identity design, book and editorial design, packaging, websites. But we’re also interested in other things, like illustration, animation, photography, and believe it or not, coding…
I knew that what appealed to me the most, creatively, also made me happiest: lettering, logo and font design…
