“Getting bored is not allowed.” Who is the Kay Thompson in your life? #Eloise
Kay Thompson
Originally published in April 2022 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
new york, NEW YORK!
Originally published in December 2021 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Milton Glaser
Originally published in June 2018 in Blog, Doodling, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators, Visual Storytelling
Bill Cunningham left us a memoir — oh joy!
Originally published in April 2018 in Blog, Illustration, Toronto Illustrators
Edie Sedgwick
Originally published in December 2017 in Blog
She came bursting out of the gate, with no limits and no inhibitions. Then the moment passed. She changed, we changed. She forced her exit in the most banal and predictable way. In 2018, she would have been an Instagram star, A sought-after brand influencer. But she would have burnt out faster on the […]
New York State of Mind
Originally published in September 2017 in Blog
Coney Island
Originally published in July 2017 in Blog
In the summer of 1927, New Yorkers flooded to The Cyclone, Coney Island’s newest ride engineered by inventor Harry C. Baker. “Let’s go for a wild ride,” they told their friends and family members. A giant chain slowly pulled the three-car train up the wooden tracks to the zenith — it was a rattly, herky […]
Kara Walker
Originally published in May 2017 in Blog
Kara Walker is one of seven artists profiled in the April 17-30 edition of New York Magazine (still on many newsstands). Doreen St. Felix describes a black female artist who is acutely aware that her work and persona are a lightning rod for the pathologies that are everywhere in the U.S. “She knows that putting […]
In Conversation with Anita Kunz
Originally published in May 2016 in Blog
hen Anita Kunz was a five-year old growing up in Kitchener, Ontario in the early 1960s, she practiced drawing the usual kid stuff: horses, flowers, fluffy clouds. But making Crayola masterpieces for the fridge wasn’t enough. Anita drew with a stronger sense of purpose learned from her uncle, the artist and environmentalist Robert Kunz. His editorial illustrations […]
Tonight’s reading
Originally published in May 2014 in Blog
My good pal, Jonathan Menon, sent me this: The New York Times Innovation Report, 2014. It outlines how the paper might reorganize itself into a truly “digital-first” organization. The report is 100 pages and will probably take me two baths to get through. The Times admits its biggest weakness, still, has been its reluctance to shift the […]
