Happy Holidays!

FFWD Green Winter Guide

"Let's take a photo of a goat in a boat...

... and then we can float in a moat and be freaky" - Bret

FFWD Favourite Calgary albums

FFWD CIFF guide

Swerve Fall Arts Guide

A bunch of portraits for the Swerve Fall Arts Guide, they're all people coming to Calgary this season!

Margaret Atwood, Dalai Lama, Judy Chicago, Bill Cosby, Lizzie Borden (Blood Relations at Vertigo Theatre), Billy Twinkle (Alberta Theatre Projects), Ron Mueck's Giant Baby, Little Women (Calgary Opera), Elton John, kids from the 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee (Theatre Calgary), Bugs Bunny (Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra), and the Tooth Fairy (Old Trouts Theatre). PHEW!


Trevor Smith - programming director of the Calgary International Film Festival


Robert Minczuk - conductor of CPO's Tchaikovsky festival


Bev Tosh - artist; her show, War Brides, is at the Glenbow Museum


Ronnie Burkett - puppeteer; his show, Billy Twinkle, is on at ATP


Margaret Atwood - author; coming to Calgary to promote her new book The Flood as a literary talk


John Rutherford - longtime fixture on the roots/blues scene, he is releasing his first solo record this fall


Marie Chouinard - choreographer; her troupe is at Theatre Junction


Swerve's own Shelley Arnusch, she writes the Cheap Date column

Bokunge blog

Headers and portraits for a Swedish blog about children's books, Bokunge.

This header didn't get used, but I like how it turned out:

This is header they went with, sans type, because I liked the little scene in the background. Dreamy! You can see it with type on their blog...

Portraits! They further confirmed my suspicion that everyone in Sweden is ridiculously attractive...

Health illustrations

Illustrations for various health magazines!

Care for babies (and their families) who have a certain heart condition:

Frostbite:

Lice:

Lightning Dust type

Quick little type and scribble for Beatroute magazine! (I'm not sure who took the photo, sorry!)

Donna Balzer Blog Headers pt. II

(The big leaf is her signature leaf.)
Donna's blog, check it out!

Fooood

Weekly spot illustrations for FFWD!

About drink + food pairing:

About the best burgers:

Donna Balzer Blog Headers

Here's Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter to come! Check out her blog, she's a gardening wizard!

UPPERCASE magazine

A big thank you to Janine over at UPPERCASE gallery for giving us a shout out on her blog!

Issue 1

Issue 2

Bringing Back Blackfoot

For FFWD, full story here!

Inside. Learn a little Blackfoot lingo!

Mount Eerie poster

Sled Island poster collaboration with Marc Rimmer!

Screenprinted on wood, limited edition of 35.

craftydeer collaboration

This project was made possible by Zero Gravity, and especially Kristen! Thanks guys!

See the whole set on the CUPS website!

posters!

Pale Air Singers

Portrait of the Pale Air Singers/super rad guys! They're doing a few shows around western Canada in April, check 'em out! (Drawing done in ballpoint pen!)

UGuelph Student Dayplanner

This is an ooooold one, from last summer, for the University of Guelph via the lovely and amazing Kathe Gray at Electric Pear! I was waiting to get a nice photo of before posting, but it's been months so i just went ahead and took some shoddy ones.

The book!

Handlettering!

Cover & inside illo for FFWD about the new dynamics of politics and the blogosphere/twitter/etc.