My latest profile from Applied Arts Magazine. Scroll to the end for the PDF. Here’s the PDF: AACE Student – Petra Cuschieri.
Hot off the press
Originally published in April 2013 in Blog
Good work
Originally published in March 2013 in Blog
I love Betsy Bauer’s Google Doodle today celebrating International Women’s Day. Bauer has only been with Google six weeks. But, as Rebecca Jarvis of CBS This Morning noted, this opportunity is typical of Google where good work trumps hierarchy. Here is Betsy’s first Doodle posted on February 5th in honour of Mary Leakey’s 100th birthday. And [...]
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Originally published in August 2012 in Blog
The lines in this drawing are actually clumps of pulled wool caught in fishing line. Drawing stares Despite itself, the computer age has given rise to a more intense engagement with objects. Miles Davis on vinyl, homemade scrapbooks assembled with a medieval attention to detail, and libraries of real books stacked in such unexpected places as abandoned phone booths [...]
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Originally published in April 2012 in Blog
My latest article … The healthy house Photography by Shai Gil Four years ago, when Toronto’s Superkül transformed a derelict blacksmith’s shop on a narrow city laneway into a sustainable single-family home, the firm’s preservationist aesthetic went viral with design critics and tree huggers alike. With their latest residential project, in rural Ontario, principals Andre D’Elia and Meg Graham faced [...]
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Originally published in February 2012 in Blog
Thinking outside the box
Originally published in December 2011 in Blog
Window shopping this weekend I noticed a trend in wall hangings: large, white cardboard cutouts of the Canadian provinces, especially the trio of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It got me thinking: if you only bought Saskatchewan, no one would know what the rectangle on your wall signified. Cartography is a human invention, an [...]
“Kids today don’t know shit” — George Lois
Originally published in October 2011 in Blog
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Originally published in August 2011 in Blog
Rise and shine
Originally published in July 2011 in AppliedArtsMag.com
Change for change’s sake is hard to resist, especially when mastering a split focus has become such a badge of honour in today’s digitally driven world. Still, some endeavours bear a sweeter tasting fruit with a long-term approach. Wine making is one. Branding is another, or so say the principals at Up Inc., an award-winning [...]