Postering the City

I kept postering the city today. I was like a postering machine! What was great was how well the posters have been received. Every coffee shop and business I went to today was really happy to have them.

I took this shot at the beginning of my poster journey. These photos are in a small alley in the oldest Chinatown in Canada. Movies have been filmed here, although you have to step aside to pass people in some spots because it's so narrow yet it's still a vibrant part of the city.






I can't believe how many posters I put out today, almost 50. I put them up at my university and even put one in the art building I used to attend. I saw several of my old professors and they said they's come by the show. As I was putting the poster up there, there were some spry yet tired looking university students.

When I told them I graduated there in 2006 they said, "Yes! You mean there's life out there after this?!!"

Apparently they're glad to know that some people keep creating after leaving art school. It's kind of funny because they acted like I had "made it" just because I had a printed poster. If they only knew.

Stay in school kids, that's the best part.

Postering the Town

My youngest son and his girlfriend were my partners in crime today. After I hung the show, we went around in the dark putting posters up.







Can you find my posters in the photos? They're hiding there.

The Mighty Bake Sale

I made some posters last month for a good cause. My son's old school was raising funds and awareness for building an arts centre. This is the same school that Nelly Furtado went to which I always thought was pretty cool.

I've been trying to build my skills to work in graphics online and for print. I'm trained in the fine arts and had planned to take my MBA when cancer foiled my plans.

Since my brain is built for business and visual arts I'm trying to bridge the gap so I can start designing websites. (If you click on the photos you'll see the posters full size).







So these posters were a bit of fun for me to do. Teenagers are the toughest audience because they are the most marketed to demographic. Getting them to notice a small poster as they shuffled through the busy hallways was something I had to think about. I needed them to pop! I researched fonts, designed colour schemes and playing with layout.

When I heard they were taking the posters off the walls and keeping them in their lockers after the bake sale, it let me know I was dead on the money!

One guy involved in the sale went home and baked some cupcakes that resembled the ones in the poster to sell. They were a huge hit!

My youngest son was happy to model for me which was a small inside joke. We wanted to see if his old friends noticed it was him. Sure enough a friend called him and said it was SO weird that there was a poster with a guy that looked like he could be his twin.

The best part was, I got to eat my props after I had photographed them and they hardly even complained.