Cabbagetown Holiday cards in NOW Gift Guide

My cozy house Holiday cards are featured in this weeks Now magazine Gift guide.

You can purchase here. 

#illustration #Torontoartist #Torontoillustrator #cards #press  #artist #Toronto #cabbagetown

Big Pear featured in HGTV holiday list

Eye Likey

My work is featured on Eye Likey today. This blog has featured almost all of my all time favourite artists including Miroslav Sasek, Martin Haake,  Lotta Jansdotter, Ellsworth Kelly, and Egon Schiele. Very happy to be in their company.

My prints in Covet garden magazine

The latest issue of Covet Garden is online and it's beauty!

It features the home of my talented friend Colleen Nicholson 

+ gorgeous photography by Jodi Pudge.

 Photo by Jodi Pudge

My Empty Belly print over Colleen's fireplace. 

How great is that brass turkey? love!!!

 Photo by Jodi Pudge

My espresso pot print over Colleen's sink. 

Really like the mix of textures in this shot. 

#silkscreen #print #art #affordableart #InteriorDesign #Toronto #decor

Press: Design Lines

Thrilled to be featured on Design Lines blog today. 
You can read the piece here. Thanks to Design Lines Editor Eric Mutrie.

My Home in Covet Garden

The new first ever Covet Garden print Magazine is out and my home is featured in it. 

You can buy it here. 

(Great Xmas gift for the decor lover in your life) 

Hint hint!

 Gorgeous photography throughout by Jodi Pudge. 

My ink and screens have never looked better.

 My livingroom featuring my silkscreen prints and my needlepointed shoe pillow.

 Wide shot.

 I sure love my IKEA expediet bookcase which serves as a great room divider.

My sweet canary Lord Percy can be seen in the back left corner.

 Me + my Dress Judy screen (which is now split!)

On the left: several of my illustration gigs: Tea towel for the Bay, 2 book covers, some Tattlys and my bird canape plates for Lord and Taylor.

On the right my office and a little peek at my bedroom. 

1. 

Work/Life: My pages in the Directory of Illustration

These are my 2 pages in uppercase magazine's Directory of Illustration. 

Above: 

Photos of my inspiration board, me in NYC, sketches and stuff currently hanging out on my fridge.

This is the pattern I created for the directory.

I would love to see this made into fabric or wallpaper.

Hello Mr. Sanderson or Schumacher....!

These are some drawings from my sketchbook.

As you can see not all of the phones made it into the final pattern. 

Sometimes you gotta Kill Your Darlings!

My Tattly featured in Huffington Post

Above my Watermelon Tattly.

Would this not make a sprightly addition to your summer wardrobe - or a great gift for the foodie in your life? I think you should order one right now.

Featured on Print and Pattern

Today I was featured on Print and Pattern - a very popular surface design blog created by UK based designer Marie Perkins. Marie has published 2 books on surface design: Print and Pattern 1 + 2 - both of which I highly recommend - and is soon to release a third: Print + Pattern The Kid edition!

You can read the full post here. 

Press: Enroute magazine

Enroute magazine gives Telegramme prints, Doublenaut and me a little love in it's latest issue.

NOW magazine

See on line here. 

Tommy Smythe includes Tea towels in Top Canadian design Faves

Tommy Smythe promoting Canadian design on the Marilyn Dennis show July 2 2012.
(Aren't his tortoise shell glasses + windowpane jacket sharp?)

Close up of the Tea Towels

Arren Williams just let me know that Tommy Smythe did a special feature promoting Canadian Design on the Marilyn Dennis show this past Tuesday.. and in it he included the Hudson's Bay designer series tea towels. (!!)

As many of my friends - (and fellow Pinteresters!) know I've been an admirer of Tommy's style - both in interior design + fashion - for a long time so must admit this was a thrill. (Yes I'm corny)
Thanks so much Arren + Tommy. 

Full version of my tea towel.

ps. Thrilled to report there will be more Hudson Bay products coming down the pipe!! 
Stay tuned.

Home of Jo Saul - Co-owner of TYPE books

  

The Home of Jo Saul - Co-owner of TYPE books is featured in the current issue of Toronto Life's City Home. 

Jo's newly renovated space above includes two of my prints: 

A Room of One's Own and n is for novel.

A close up of n is for novel. (SOLD OUT)

Here's a pic I recently snapped of Jo hard at work in her shop.

TYPE is one of my favourite spots in the city for inspiration + general 'visual goodness'.:-)

NYC Day 3

Me in Hell's Kitchen

Lourdes Sanchez's agent Len at his Insytes Design Group booth

 

 Jenna Russelle + Halla Koudsi (Such beauties - no?!) of PRNT studio at the Exhibitor's Happy Hour party.

A close up of Halla's groovy pants.

Anita + Jon of Rollout Custom Wallpaper.

Important note: After this photo was taken Jon very kindly gave me the addresses to all the ICFF parties taking place that evening. (see below!)
Thanks Jon - I owe you. :-)

 A good time was had by all.

Coming home in the cab.
I love that NYC taxi's have GPS maps in back seat. Very grounding - especially after several glasses of champagne. he he.

NYC Day 2:

SURTEX Day 1

I attended all 3 days of Surtex with my rep Shelley Brown of i2iart.  As I wrote on the uppercase blog - being at the show can be an exercise in extreme image overload. By the end of the first day I had a strong desire to be put into a sensory deprivation tank with a very large glass of Pinot Grigio. :-) Here were some highlights of Day 1.

1. Magnet Reps




Founder/Director of Magnet Reps Chrystal Falcioni. 

Los Angeles-based Magnet Reps has been in the illustration biz for over 12 years and reps a very strong stable of illustrators including 3 of my all time faves: Emiliano Ponzi (wonderous!!) , Graham Roumieu (such a smarty pants) + Nate Williams (The founder of Illustration Mundo and a very sweet + helpful guy)

The founder Chrystal Falcioni was early to recognize that surface design was poised to become a very important market for illustrators and has been pursuing licensing work for over 8 years. Her booth contained some of the strongest + most unique work in the show.

 

Crystal shows me a beautiful pattern by Eleanor Grosch (inspired by the traditional patterns of the Otomi people) which went on to become a gorgeous bedding set for Land of Nod. (see below!)

wow.

Shelley conducted a quick fire interview with Chrystal of Magnet Reps. You can read it here.

 2. Frank Sturges

 Like Magnet, Frank Sturges is another well established illustration agency which reps a stable of very strong artists.  His booth contained gorgeous banners displaying the work of The Heads of State, Jessica Hische + Gina Triplett.

 A close up of The Heads of State banner.

3. Sorry You're Happy

Kyle Reed + Jen Hsieh of Sorry You're Happy

Sorry You're Happy is a Toronto based studio made up of husband + wife illustrators Kyle Reed + Jen Hsieh. Their corner booth was very fresh looking and beautifully put together.  It was exciting to see that in addition to their own unique work - Kyle + Jen were exhibiting work from two other Toronto based illustrators Katy Dockrill + Aaron Leighton.

More on Sorry You're Happy on the uppercase blog here.

New York Day 1

Ok! Finally getting around to posting some photos from my very fun business trip to NYC last week.

Saturday evening I met up with Illustrator/ Surface Designer Helen Dardik in SOHO.


Within an hour of meeting up Helen + I had our first celebrity citing: Photographer Terry Richardson. Ooooh ahh.


One of Helen's Patterns.
I really like the density of her work + her unusual colour combos.
 

Helen stops to take some shots while strolling through the West Village.

Side Note!: Check out Helen's fabulous Orla Kiely bag which I think could be renamed 
"the official purse of successful artsy woman everywhere."


Over dinner - as expected - Helen had lots of interesting things to say. Wildest discovery = the fact that she's an extreme night owl with regular work hours between 10 pm + 4am. Whoa!
After reading Helen's blog + hearing about her for many years through friends it was great to finally meet her.
You can read my full interview with Helen over on the uppercase blog.

New York

I'm in New York - staying with a friend on the Upper West Side.
For the next 3 days I'll be attending SURTEX: The National Surface Design show on behalf of uppercase magazine. While at The Javits Centre I hope to also pop into The National Stationary show and The ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) which are running simultaneously with SURTEX.  Am off right now to meet Helen Dardik for an interview. Stay tuned!

Toronto Star Mother's Day Gift guide

My Hudson's Bay Tea towel appeared in last Saturday's issue of the Toronto Star in the Mother's Day gift guide. Sandra Rojas-Chinni from La Merceria is featured in the piece with her list of suggested gifts for the hard to please mom.  In case you haven't been...La Merceria is a very sweet shop/cafe tucked away at 506 Adelaide St. West. It's full of carefully selected home accessories. Definitely worth a visit.