IMAGINARY MAP

I had the great pleasure of working with art director Laura Callaghan again in creating this map for the latest issue of Oh Comely magazine, a gorgeous British publication. The current issue has a feature about illustrated fictional maps.

I have to say that I struggled a bit coming up with a concept. I'm so used to doing hours of research about a city and plotting out all of the landmarks that when I was faced with the prospect of creating virtually anything, I found the freedom a bit paralyzing. Visions of pirate ships and mermaids and other cliché things like that kept running through my mind and I knew I wanted to push past these and create something quirky and weird.  This concept came to me at the eleventh hour and I had a ton of fun sketching it out once the idea popped into my brain.

I was thrilled to find my copy of the magazine waiting in my mailbox when I arrived home from work yesterday evening! Aside from Oh Comely being such an all-around beautiful publication, the feature included some fantastic maps by some amazing illustrators (including recent illustrator crush Charlotte Trounce). I'm honoured to be included amongst such great company.

Oh Comely

This beautiful thing arrived in my mailbox a couple of nights ago all the way from London! I'm ecstatic because this is the first sample of my published work that I have received! It was wonderful working with the lovely Laura Callaghan for this project. The entire magazine is gorgeous. Clean, simple, and beautiful design. My illustration ran with an article about a beetle enthusiast in search of the oil beetle.

TIFF Map for the Hollywood Reporter

Wow, long time no blog! I've been working on a few freelance projects over the summer that I plan on sharing over the next few weeks. Currently, I've dragged my butt to Starbucks as I will be getting internet in my new apartment on Tuesday (I know, first world problems).

It was a pleasure working with The Hollywood Reporter on this map of Toronto. The map is running with an article about the Toronto International Film Festival on newstands this week.