Work

The Man Who

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In September 2018, the V&A Museum exhibited the musician and innovator Beatie Wolfe’s experiential work as a part of the... View Article

Cat Poems

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I’ve been doing some book design (cover and inside) for the publisher New Directions lately. This is very old school... View Article

Valentines 2018

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My 2018 Valentines were made by stamping a foil design (in various foil colours) over vintage Harlequin Romance novel covers... View Article

Science

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I was asked by John Maeda to take part in a project with WordPress that would help kids learn to... View Article

AGI 2017: Borders

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Each year, Alliance Graphique International (AGI) proposes a “special project” for its members to contribute to. This year it is... View Article

Tolerance Poster

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Designer Mirco Ilic asked me to contribute to his Tolerance Poster exhibit. It seemed to me tolerance is the least... View Article

Women Unite!

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I made this around the time of the 1,000,000 Women’s March in Washington after the 2016 US election. This symbol... View Article

Bernice

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The good folks at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum asked me to design an ornament font for their... View Article

Varoom: Wellbeing

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For this edition of Varoom Magazine, the theme was “Wellbeing”. It seemed to me that tightly woven ribbons would suit... View Article

Dylan Thomas

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I designed the cover and interior for this New Directions pocket edition of A Child’s Christmas in Wales. I love... View Article

French Love Poems

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I designed this cover and interior for a small book of poems published by New Dimensions. 2016 Save

Walrus Magazine

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Brian Morgan, Art Director of the Canadian magazine The Walrus, asked me to create illustrations for a story about a... View Article

Valentines 2016

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This year I combined old photographs from the 50s–70s with snippets of romance novels from the same era, et. viola!... View Article

AGI: Coexistence

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Each year, Alliance Graphique International (AGI) proposes a “special project” for its members to contribute to. This year it is... View Article

Mountain Spectrum

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The story of this project is unusual but, in brief, I was hired by an agency called DARE (now called... View Article

Print: Print

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Print Magazine is 75, and they asked several designers to create the word “print” for the anniversary issue. This is... View Article

Varoom: Fashion

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I had this idea that fashion creates a distorted self image; that we see ourselves through the lens of fashion,... View Article

AGIdeas 25

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Ken Cato at AGIdeas requested a “25” from myself and 24 other designers to commemorate 25 years of the AGIdeas... View Article

Valentines 2015

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I’ve always been quite interested in the pet names that people call each other, so I decided to collect as... View Article

Dr. Strangelove

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These are 2 designs for BFI Film Classics’ reissue of Dr. Strangelove. I preferred the crazier one on the right,... View Article

Pretty Pictures

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Marian Bantjes Pretty Pictures with a Foreword by Rick Poynor 272 pages Hard cover 26 cm × 35cm (approx. 10.25 ×... View Article

I Wonder

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I Wonder by Marian Bantjes 208 pages Hard cover 15.5 cm × 24cm (approx. 6 × 9½ inches) Printed in... View Article

test

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Heading One I wonder about the people who wrote these letters. If they’re still alive, do they still care about... View Article

Coach Heart

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I’m not really into making these kinds of things any more, but sometimes money talks. As swirly shit goes, this... View Article

Valentines 2014

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I came into possession of a box of fan mail to Robert Wagner sent in 1957. It contained envelopes from... View Article

MOO Cards

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I was invited by the lovely Pamela Williams to create a set of MOO cards on their triple-thick stock, as... View Article

PopTech Sparks

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Andrew Zolli at PopTech asked me to create an identity for the 2013 edition of the PopTech conference, themed “Sparks... View Article

AGI Teacup

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Each year at the Congress of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), members are asked to make something for a special project.... View Article

Sorrow

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This was made in a marathon 7 hours, on-site at the Chicago Design Museum (ChiDM) in June 2013, as an installation... View Article

Varoom: Experiment

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For the theme “experiment” I had this idea to create a pseudo-scientific, faux-electronic, erzast-frankenstein kind of setup, with a bunch... View Article

Eames Tiki Chair

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This is an interesting project. And an odd one. I, along with 5 other designers/studios was approached by Adobe to... View Article

I, Carpet

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I was asked to take part in a project creating carpets to be made by a fair-trade company in Nepal.... View Article

Bella Chair

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Todd Falkowsky asked me to create a surface design for a Blu Dot chair as part of a charity auction, OneXOne... View Article

Varoom: Taste

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This double-page illustration was for the “taste” issue of Varoom. For it, I imagined a menu of unusual things. 2012

Varoom: Localism

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For Varoom’s issue on “Localism” I imagined I kind of post-apocalyptic poem, etched in aged stone. 2012

Video: Credits

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When the good folks at Lynda.com asked to do a documentary on me, that was fun enough, but when they... View Article

Kohler: Thai Sink

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I was asked by Kohler to design graphics for an oval sink to commemorate an anniversary of some kind of... View Article

Varoom: Next

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The theme for this issue of Varoom magazine was “Next”, which is one of my least favourite subjects these days,... View Article

The Music Room

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Sarah Habibi from Criterion hired me to do this cover for Satyajit Ray’s “The Music Room” (1958). She sent me... View Article

Varoom: Map of Knowledge

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In this piece for the UK Illustration magazine, Varoom, the theme was “Knowledge”. So I decided to create a map with placenames... View Article

Varoom: Relationships

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The excellent UK illustration magazine Varoom asked me to do a regular gig for them. Starting in November 2010, in each... View Article

20 x 200: NOW

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Jen Beckman and Sara Distin asked me to take part in their 20×200 project: wherein they create art prints for... View Article

Sons & Lovers

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Penguin and the RED charity joined forces on a special series of Penguin Classics, and Jim Stoddart at Penguin Books... View Article

Laser Sailboat

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Above: photo by Benedict Redgrove. Wallpaper* Magazine asked me once again to be a part of their exhibit at the Salon... View Article

So

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This illustration was made to accompany an article in The New York Times about the word “So”. Picking up from... View Article

Droog Chairs

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For the second item I chose from droog’s remaindered items at the Salon del Mobile, I chose 80 folding chairs.... View Article

Droog Table

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For the 2010 Salon del Mobile in Milan, the highly inventive, active and innovative company droog decided to buy various... View Article

Poetry Month Poster

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Chip Kidd recommended me for this project to do a poster for the Academy of American Poets to promote April as... View Article

We’re Sorry

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My good friend Brian Morgan called in a favour to get me to do this cover for The Walrus. I... View Article

Maharam Wallpapers

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Around the time I was working with Maharam on the “Centric” fabric, I was also working on wallpapers for  Maharam... View Article

The 00s

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For New York Magazine’s end of decade issue, Chris Dixon asked me to create a full page illustration of the... View Article

GQ Italia

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I was invited, along with 10 other designers (including Milton Glaser, Louise Fili, Neville Brody, Chip Kidd, among others) to... View Article

Design Indaba

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After attending Design Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa, earlier this year, I was asked to do the cover for... View Article

Empathy Penny

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Todd Falkowsky of Motherbrand in Toronto approached me to design a … a … well, see, there’s this machine that... View Article

Valentines 2009

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My 2009 valentines were a bit of a departure in a number of ways. They were more “conceptual” than previous... View Article

Saks Snowflakes

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Saks Fifth Avenue commissioned me to draw 25 snowflakes for their 2008 Christmas season. (I delivered a few extras.) Working... View Article

VR 20

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When the Vancouver Review published their 20th issue, they asked me to do a cover. Here’s a stretchy, gummy “20”,... View Article

Grapes Poster

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R-Wines, from Australia, wanted a poster with the names of all of their suppliers, to give to them as a... View Article

Slanted

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This is a groovy isometric patterned cover I did for the “Signs, Symbols, Ornaments” issue of the German mag Slanted. Oddly,... View Article

Practivism

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Another poster for the GDC/BC. This one is for a speaker series talk on Sustainability, only they wanted it to... View Article

Design Ignites Change

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This poster is for the design unit within the Academy for Educational Development, a DC-based international non-profit. It says “Design Ignites... View Article

Theory

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Working with the lovely Scott Dadich at Wired, I created this title for an article on “The End of Theory.”... View Article

Party in the Garden

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This was the enthusiastically embraced, and then not-so-enthusiastically rejected design for an invitation to an important party hosted by a... View Article

Love Banner

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It was the New York Times Square love fest ’08, with 10 banners by 10 New York designers + me,... View Article

Saks Heart

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I created this heart for Saks Fifth Avenue, for Valentine’s Day. It contains a number of hidden words related to... View Article

Jerry Garcia (Fader)

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The Fader magazine asked me to do a diagram of Jerry Garcia’s influences, contemporaries and influenced. Now I’m no Deadhead,... View Article

G2: Puzzle Special

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Richard Turley is maybe my favourite Art Director. Another great—if I do say so myself—cover for The Guardian’s G2. It... View Article

Anni Kuan Fabric

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asked me to do a fabric design for her Spring 2008 collection: I came up with an octopus and squid pattern. It... View Article

Publikum Calendar

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OK, there’s this Serbian calendar, called the Publikum Calendar, produced by George Mill & Nada Ray, which has become completely... View Article

Sustainability

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William Drenttel & Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse hired me to create one of a series of posters for the paper... View Article

Saks Want It!

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Michael Bierut at Pentagram hired me to work with him on this campaign for Saks Fifth Avenue, and then I... View Article

TypeCon 2007

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For the TypeCon conference in Seattle 2007, I created a crazy identity on the theme of “letterspace”. There was a small (11×17) version... View Article

Salazar Awards

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I was called up by the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, in a panic-stricken request to do a poster... View Article

WIRED 15.05

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I don’t know what they call this page in WIRED. A content’s page? An issue number? 2007

Wallpaper Cover

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This is a Limited Edition cover I did for Wallpaper*. It’s printed in silver and gold (and other colours), and... View Article

G2: Surrealism

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This was originally done for a 2-page spread in The Guardian’s features section (G2), but was moved to the cover.... View Article

Holiday Books

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Steve Heller hired me in the summer of 2006 to do the Holiday Books cover for the New York Times... View Article

Design Matters Live

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Debbie Millman asked me to design the poster for a four-part Live-in-Person version of her famous internet radio show “Design... View Article

Influences Map

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This is a map or diagram of all of my significant artistic influences to date (or all that I could... View Article

Seduction

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Michael Bierut at Pentagram hired me to do this custom lettering for one of his famous Yale Architecture Lecture posters (I’m... View Article

I Want It All

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… well, because I do. … and because my peonies were wilting and sighing, and I decided to immortalize them,... View Article

Valentine 2006

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This was my second Valentine’s mailout, printed in red on glassine. The original is drawn by hand in pen & ink... View Article

Halloween ’05

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In the year that I started the Valentines, I also started sending out Halloween greetings as well. While the Valentines... View Article

Community

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Given the opportunity to write / draw over 3 spreads on the subject of Community for Fontshop’s Font 004 magazine,... View Article

Contract

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I came across this while I was going through work, preparing to rebuild my website. It’s never been on the... View Article

Valentines 2005

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This was the very first of my now-famous Valentines. It was printed in pink on glassine, and send in translucent envelopes... View Article

Restraint

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Years in the making, almost as long in the promising, this ornament font which happens to contain letterforms was conceived... View Article

Vancouver Review

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Once upon a time, from 2004–2006, I was the designer for Vancouver’s critical arts and culture magazine, Vancouver Review. Mark... View Article

Speak Up T-Shirt

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The famous Speak Up T-shirt design for Armin Vit – Speak Up . Silkscreened in silver on black (bitchin’). And... View Article

Pixilluminations

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This is a small selection of the 26 “Letters to begin thoughts rather than sentences” which were my contribution to... View Article

Poster One

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This was my first (and only) promotional poster for my then-new work. Never name anything “the first in a series”... View Article