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Here is an illustration I’m working on for a poster design mockup. It’s for the Boston

College, Teaching with New Media Awards (TWiN) nominations poster.

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The films created for the Nation Film Board of Canana’s, Hothouse now posted for our enjoyment. Hothouse is a 12-week intensive animation apprenticeship at the NFB studio in Montreal for emerging creators across Canada. My favorite of the films is “Biology Made Un-Easy” by James Braithwaite (image above). They also have an Inside the Hothouse video which chronicles the program the students went through. Anyone who has ever studied animation knows about the NFB. I can’t remember watching a film in my college animation classes that wasn’t produced there. It’s a shame the US doesn’t support the arts in this way, I will love to be a part of a program like this!

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Here’s one of a series of great new Starbucks ads. I never thought I’d every put great and Starbucks together in the same sentence. I’m not much of a fan of the place although that’s mostly because I don’t drink coffee. These ads were created by the

Portland based company, Laika House. These were inspired by the work of Japanese illustrator Tatsuro Kiuchi. I really love the look he’s created here. You can check out all three ads and other interesting projects on the Laika recent work page.

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That’s right an airline safety video and you may want to pay attention this time. Virgin has broken away from the typical and decided to take a much more creative, stylish and updated approach. This definitely falls into the “it’s about time” category. Now I’d expect to see all the other airlines jumping on the bandwagon  and putting their own 21st century stamp on the genre. This trend could be the reality show craze of the airline industry.  And for those airlines out there in need of a fresh look video, give me a call.

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Here’s my entry for this weeks Illustration Friday topic, Excess. My 2 year old daughter was inspiration for this one. She’s an overflowing source of inspiration these days so why not take advantage. Now these aren’t things you’d think one could OD on, but leave it to Allie, she sure tries to. It’s a common thing these days to hear her ask things like “Draw Daddy, draw. please. Daddy, draw” or ” More milk please, daddee melk pleess”. With that said; as you might imagine I am proud of her for wanting to overdue it on these things. I still can’t believe how much she loves broccoli. Although we do have to be extra careful hiding the crayons cuz she likes to draw wherever and whenever she can. Thank you Crayola for coming up with the washable crayon!

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Here’s the graphic for the front of a holiday card I’m sending out to family and friends this year.  The three people with goofy grins on their faces happen to be me, my wife and our two year old daughter.  

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