Montreal Meets 2 is coming up very quickly (April 7-8, 2012). Please help support our Kickstarter project! There is not much time left before the deadline (March 16, 2012) so please help support this event so that we can reach our goal! Any amount of contribution would be greatly appreciated. Montreal Meets is a non-profit event and we're working really hard to make Montreal Meets 2 better than last years event.
Please take a look at our Kickstarter page and help out anyway you can.
This is another series I'll have on the blog. I'm a big fan of fun graphic tees. Whenever I find a new graphic tee online that I simply appreciate the design, I'll post it here. For this first post, I noticed this new t-shirt on the Facebook page of Threadless, it's called "My Mama Gave Me Life!" It's cute, simple and creative!
Here are the lyrics to the song in case you're interested:
When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep
Dreamed of para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Every time she closed her eyes
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh
When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
And the bullets catch in her teeth
Life goes on
It gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night
She closed her eyes
In the night, the stormy night
Away she'd fly.
And dreamed of para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh
She dreamed of para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.
La la la La
La la la
So lying underneath those stormy skies.
She said oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
I know the sun must set to rise.
This could be para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
This could be para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.
This could be para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Could be para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.
This could be para- para- paradise
Para- para- paradise
Could be para- para- paradise
Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh.
Growing up technology was always incorporated in my life. Graphic design and retail are my two career paths at the moment (both involving technology). The knowledge I have in the area of technology helps in both paths. I've been into art and graphics from a very young age. As I got older, my interest became primarily digital arts. That's the reason why I chose to attend the Micro publishing and Hypermedia program at Vanier College, in order to learn the ins and outs of the popular the design software, i.e. QuarkXpress, Adobe Suite: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and Indesign, etc. While studying in college I also had a part time job in retail, selling electronics, i.e. televisions, video games, wacom tablets, etc.This was around the time where I developed my skills as both a graphic designer and sales person.
In 2006, while I was surfing the web I stumbled on the website Threadless. Which is basically a company that does graphic design and retail all in one. Since then I've purchased quite a few t-shirts:
After becoming so popular online, they've even opened up a retail store in Chicago. Even the store has such a creative feel to it. If I ever get the chance to go to Chicago, I'm definitely doing to the Threadless store.
Montreal Meets is a design event. This will be the second year
of the event and it has expanded greatly from last years first edition. Please support the Montreal design community and support this event.
From a huge demands, we've finally launched our Kickstarter project.
Excited but yet short in time... This project can be more approachable
to everyone, so we are calling out all people to get your support or to
give us a little boost.
The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they'd play the right note no matter where they were struck. Many thanks to Chevy for believing in and supporting such an insane and ambitious project, and to Gretsch for providing the guitars and amps.
For more information visit http://www.okgo.net.
In 2007, in my Internal Publications course during my last semester of college we
were given an assignment to create a newsletter about a city. Since there was no particular software being taught in this course, I decided to use Adobe Illustrator to create this newsletter.
