Kitschykoo has a new and improved format…who knew newsprint could look so stylish! More importantly, it is FREE!
The June edition is hot off the press and warming at a window sill in various cool venues around town.
If you are in Calgary and want to celebrate some indie, fashion, lowbrow, designy goodness definitely hit up the [...]

Here’s a set of promo posters for the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games, to be held in London.

Can design help build better communities? We would certainly like to think so! Our progressive visuel house, Carbon Media Design has offered donated design services to numerous non-profit community organizations over the years. Now we have the opportunity to do it again… This time as part of a larger cooperative. Design-A-Thon [...]

Here lies some pretty impressive feats of cartography and métropolitain architecture by Harry Beck to kickstart your Friday. Woo, long weekend! Thanks Queen Victoria. A few more maps after the jump.

I think its safe to say that we all need a little happiness right now (is it ever not that time?).  Through my early morning interweb meanderings, I came across something that just might do the trick.  Enter Mr. Charles Spearin; founding member of Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think.  Spearin and his [...]

Happy Odd Day.
I’m apparently in fates good graces and have come across some beautiful retro books in the past few weeks (remember those things? books?). The first one was delivered to our apartment via my amigo Paul. The Book of Popular Science I (circa 1961) is a gorgeous collection of what many deemed “amazing” almost [...]

artyulia.com
And thus continues my fascination and quest to find beautiful hand crafted typography.
*Note: Comparing Yulia’s mastery of scissors to a +6 sword JUST because I used “quest” in my opening line … was NOT an option James.  But oddly worth mentioning,  I digress…
Yulia, native to Russia moved to the UK in 2004 from there she [...]

Back in ‘07 I decided that Vancouver was the place to spend the mid-summer month of July. To escape the heat for one night, I queried my pal Kate about any shows we could go check out. She had mentioned that Band of Horses were riding through town, and at the time I hadn’t heard [...]

Has this ever happened to you? You’re working towards your physics degree and meanwhile in your spare time become a master of Photoshop and Illustrator? Okay maybe that’s not an everyone thing, but it certainly was for UK based illustrator Nik Ainley. Ainley’s unique combination of fantastical photographic imagery, illustration and typography [...]

Thank you Google Images!  You know when you hear a song and it drives you crazy because for the life of you can’t remember the name, or lyrics, or even have a chance to research it because of it’s obscurity or infrequent air play (or, maybe your brain isn’t as spongy as it once was)? [...]