Homegrown
Nicholas DiGenova
March 2nd, 2010
Nicholas DiGenova is a Toronto-based illustrator who attended OCAD for Sculpture and now shows internationally. He’s definitely one of my absolute favorite illustrators. His work is phenomenal.
Posted by Aria Novosedlik | Category: Homegrown | Tags: Illustration | 0 Comments
Stephen Appleby-Barr
February 1st, 2010
I was fortunate enough to catch his show a couple months ago at the Narwhal gallery on Queen West. All the pieces were fairly small and really dark (literally). Big fan!
Posted by jeffery | Category: Homegrown | Tags: Illustration, painting, Stephen Appleby, team macho, toronto | 0 Comments
Broken City Lab
January 19th, 2010
“Broken City Lab is an interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the city, its communities, and its infrastructures…
Posted by jeffery | Category: Homegrown | Tags: artists, Broken City Lab, Windsor | 0 Comments
WINDSOR! yea
January 18th, 2010
It’s a micro-documentary coming out soon about Windsor (by Eric Boucher) and how everyone’s doing these days after the automotive market exploded…
Posted by jeffery | Category: Homegrown | Tags: Automotive, Documentary, economy, Eric Boucher, Film, recession, Windsor | 0 Comments
Antony Hare
January 5th, 2010
Classic style from our very own London, Ontario. He explains his work as, “at the meeting point between portraiture and caricature” (pretty accurate in my opinion). Super smooth line-work, definitely worth a look.
Posted by jeffery | Category: Homegrown | Tags: Antony Hare, black and white, Canadian, Illustration | 1 Comment
Arcade
December 11th, 2009
They recently launched their new website.
Posted by arthur | Category: Homegrown | Tags: Arcade, Design, fashion, olympics, studio | 0 Comments
Omar Argel
September 24th, 2009
An incredibly smart reinvention of wall outlets by this Vancouver industrial designer and architect. He’s streamlined these outlets in such a way that makes you wonder why on earth we ever used the old ones. Have a look at his website here. Also, an interesting interview with Ego Design here.
Posted by arthur | Category: Homegrown | Tags: industrial design, Omer Arbel, product design | 0 Comments
Smile On Your Brother
September 22nd, 2009
All the illustrators aren’t Canadian, but the money raised will be going to our underprivileged kids (in the form of free skateboards). The tour started in Van and finishes in Quebec. It’s in Toronto at Livestock on the 25-27th. More images after the jump…
Posted by jeffery | Category: Homegrown | Tags: auction, contributor, livestock, Skateboards | 0 Comments
paintdrop sculptures
August 31st, 2009
some amazing artwork by canadian born artist chris dorosz.
“Out of material discovery I began to regard the primacy of the paint drop, a form that takes shape not from a brush or any human-made implement or gesture, but purely from its own viscosity and the air it falls through, as analogous to the building blocks that make up the human body (DNA) or even its mimetic representation (the pixel).”
check out the rest of his paintdrop sculptures here, and his portfolio here.
Posted by oscar-rivero | Category: Homegrown | Tags: Art, paint drops, sculpture | 0 Comments
stock illustrations by Leonardo Côrtes
July 23rd, 2009
My favourite illustrations on the stock “photo” site www.istockphoto.com are by Leonardo Côrtes of Montreal. He creates lovely childlike seamless (repeatable) vector illustrations - that are available for purchase for approx. $20.00 each. If you are looking for a fun idea for a kid’s room, buy some of Leonardo’s illustrations and bring them into a print shop - ask them to make poster size prints for you. You can join his Facebook group to share photos of what you have done with his illustrations.
Posted by Colleen Davidson | Category: Homegrown | Tags: childlike, craft, D.I.Y., Illustration, repetition, seamless, vector | 1 Comment
