Alligator

This illustration could be taken in one of two ways: whimsically encouraging children to engage with reading material OR teaching children that, yes, it's completely safe to just crawl right into an alligator's muddy habitat, snuggle up to its scaly side and listen intently for a bed time story.  

Pop-Up Solutions

There's a first time for everything.  A few months back, I had the unique opportunity to create a series of pop-up greeting cards for Pop-Up Solutions in the United Kingdom.  Available at Save-on Foods and other big box type outfits–

Avatar

Just spent the last couple of days in-house, story boarding a television commercial for the Women's Network, over at Corus Entertainment here in Toronto.  In order to keep my creative sanity, I spent some evenings putting this Avatar illustration together.

Although, both the thematic use of a popular caricature and the stylistic use of hard black outlines are a rarity within my commercial work, I think I may have picked up some great new tools that I hope will expand what I can offer my clients in time to come.

* Also on the ispot news blog

January 2010, North American Promo

Featuring projects with (from right to left): Chickadee Magazine, Scholastic, Oxford University Press, Highlights Magazine (via Hey Kids! Design), Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health & Reckitt Benckiser (Dettol Detergent). All copyrights apply.