Planning

Planning for the future.

Client: The Register

AD: Laura Keung

Little Women

Personal Piece

Anti-Oppression

For teacher Sean, music has always been at the heart of how he has experienced and taught anti-oppression, starting with his first records as a kid.

Client: The Register

AD: Laura Keung

Downsizing

One way you can get your kids interested in taking your stuff is by telling them stories about those things that have been handed down.

Client: The Wall Street Journal

AD: Kelly Peck

UTSC Annual Report 2023

Illustrations around the theme of transformation for the Office of the Vice Principal Research & Innovation 2022-2023 Annual Report for the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Client: Hambly & Woolley

Art Director: Josiah Gordon

The Womb

Personal piece

Stickers

Personal piece

Alumni Events

Lettering and a series of illustrations for an alumni event listing at Barnard College.

Client: Barnard Magazine

Art Director: David Hopson

N. K. Jemisin

Personal piece

Car Week

McLaren hosts a meetup for owners at an In-N-Out Burger spot every year during the Monterey Car Week festivities. This was commissioned for the 2023 meetup and used on a commemorative t-shirt gifted to attendees.

Client: Plan B

Art Director: Paul Higgins

Vibrators

For a question and answer column - can vibrators desensitize you? The answer is a resounding no!

Client: Best Health

AD: Nicola Hamilton

Doris Anderson

Doris Anderson was a Canadian journalist, author, women’s rights activist and the first female editor of Chatelaine, known for bringing the magazine into the feminist movement.

Client: Chatelaine

AD: Aimee Nishitoba

Judy Blume

Self-directed work exploring the famous Judy Blume title Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret, a novel which tackles the themes of puberty, identity and religion in its female protagonist.

Client: Personal Work

Student Vote

Civix develops public school curriculum to teach elementary and high school students about democracy and the voting process. This poster was printed for the 2023 Student Vote in Toronto public schools and used to engage students participating in a mock election.

Client: Civix

Diversity

For the Amgen Newsroom blog celebrating the company’s diversity initiatives.

Client: Group SJR

AD: Adela Kang

Storied Lives

A podcast series using composite real life stories and commentary from experts in poverty reduction to create four characters that highlight lived expertise with poverty while shining a spotlight on structural factors that shape poverty in Ontario and beyond. Themes include the intersections of race, mental health, gender, domestic violence, police violence, immigration status, unsafe work and unsafe housing.

Client: Live Work Well Research Centre (Guelph University) and the Guelph & Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination

CTRL-F

A series of website illustrations to anchor the revamping of the CTRL-F website, a digital media literacy program that helps students evaluate online sources and claims to determine what to trust.

Client: CIVIX

Margot Mertz

Part sleuth, part entrepreneur, high schooler Margot Mertz runs an internet clean up business tackling revenge porn, political blackmail plots, and election campaigns all while trying to figure out who she really is in this YA contemporary series.

Client: Penguin Random House

AD: Maria Fazio

Bikes

A cycling for beginners guide on how to buy a bike, cycling safety and bike maintenance.

Client: CAA Magazine

AD: Cindy Lubinic and Peter Zaver

Sex Toys

The mainstreaming of sexual wellness: has it liberated women’s sexuality or become one more area of life requiring perfection?

Client: The Globe & Mail

AD: Matt French

Heart Sister

After his twin sister's death, a teenage filmmaker tries to track down the recipients of her organs in hopes that it will help his parents move on from the loss of their daughter.

Client: Orca

AD: Rachel Page

Maximalism

Move over minimalism, maximalism is back as an interior design trend.

Client: The Walrus

AD: Meredith Holigroski

Lemonada

Podcast artwork for various Lemonada podcasts:

Call For Help - a podcast investigating the new 988 help line in the United States, specifically designed to handle mental health crises

Uncared For - a podcast investigating the high maternal death rate in the United States and looking at maternal health care around the globe

Client: Lemonada

AD: Sahar Baharloo

How To

A series of Illustrations for various How To features, How to Winterize Your Ride, How to Shovel Snow and How to Prep for Winter Hiking.

Client: CAA Magazine

AD: Peter Zaver and Mya McNulty

Nepo Babies

A more nuanced take on the nepotism debate surrounding Hollywood, laying out the obvious privileges and opportunities afforded to mostly white actors since the golden age.

Client: The Washington Post

AD: Beth Broadwater

Kindergarten Teacher

A first person memoir where the writer recalls their 45-year friendship with their former kindergarten teacher, one that shaped their life and their own teaching career.

Client: Reader’s Digest Canada

AD: John Montgomery

Vegan Cheese

Vegan cheese is experiencing a renaissance and has finally evolved in complexity and variety to compete with traditional dairy cheeses.

Client: Eater

AD: Rebecca Marx

Virtual Travel

Will virtual travel continue to be popular after in-person travel becomes possible again?

Client: Globe & Mail

AD: Benjamin MacDonald

The Future of Covid

The Covid-19 pandemic is shifting time, lives and the future as we know it, while the ingenuity of medical professionals continues to push through the crisis.

Client: UofTMed Magazine

AD: Mark Bennett

Procrastination

A guide to stop procrastinating on the DIY projects in your home.

Client: The Wall Street Journal

AD: Forest Evashevski

Neurodiversity

A feature for kids aged 9-12 about neurodiversity.

Client: OWL Magazine

AD: Alex Dorward

Investors

Portraits of investors who have learned to invest during the pandemic.

Client: RBC Inspired Investor

AD: StephRefreshed Design

Death Talk

The author learns through the death of her brother and the immense losses of the pandemic how important it is to normalize talking about death.

Client: FT Magazine

AD: Brian Saffer

Shoreline Plants

Beneficial plants to add to your cottage shoreline.

Client: Cottage Life

AD: Bradley Reinhardt

IKEA

The author finds a connection to her Swedish heritage by visiting Ikea.

Client: Chatelaine

AD: Aimee Nishitoba

TikTok Cops

Cops are using TikTok to try to change perceptions around law enforcement.

Client: Medium

AD: Tessa Modi

Norovirus Season

‘Tis the season for Norovirus - protect yourself and your loved ones with bleach.

Client: NYT Parenting

AD: Deanna Donegan

Cancel Culture

The ineffectiveness of cancel culture.

Client: Medium

AD: Tessa Modi

Pre-suasion

In the field of social psychology, pre-suasion is a new technique that allows people to prime their audience to be more receptive to their message, even before they’ve heard it.

Client: Contagious Magazine

AD: Charlotte Sallis

Stimming

Stimming, the repetitive and rhythmic actions that are often the most visible signs of autism, should be regarded as a mostly positive behaviour that communicates emotion and helps to soothe the stress of over-stimulation.

Client: Spectrum

AD: Rebecca Horne

Alzheimer's

Alzheimer’s is a disease that remains difficult to diagnose, is currently impossible to cure and grows in complexity as research continues.

Client: Montecristo Magazine

AD: Mark Reynolds

30 Under 30

2019’s top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders.

Client: Corporate Knights

AD: Jack Dylan

Horseshoe Crabs

Researchers are working to understand the mysterious horseshoe crab in order to save it from extinction and unethical harvesting - a crucial task considering their use in every vaccine, injectable and implanted device developed by the medical industry.

Client: UCONN Magazine

AD: Christa Yung

Best Books

Books of the Year 2018

Client: Quill & Quire

AD: Erin McPhee

Menopause

How to prepare for menopause.

Client: Reader’s Digest Canada

AD: John Montgomery

Sleep Styles

The most mis-matched sleep couples.

Client: The Wall Street Journal

AD: Forest Evashevski

See Men Run

Female lawyers find it difficult to date when men are intimidated by their success.

Client: Precedent Magazine

AD: Alina Skyson

Racism

How to talk to family about their racism.

Client: Local Love

AD: Lauren Emery and Stephanie White

Maze

Using mice in autism research is complicated, especially when it means manually studying mice for subtle behavioural shifts.

Client: Spectrum

AD: Rebecca Horne

Mice

A special report on mice in autism research:

the difficulty and possibility in using mice to research a human condition; different strains of mice with genetic variability are required; popular mouse strains are now thought to be less useful than they once were; a neuroscience perspective; judging mouse models.

Client: Spectrum

AD: Rebecca Horne

Summer

Summer Fun Guide 2018

Client: Monmouth

AD: Patrick Kirchner

Big Agro

How safe is it for universities to conduct studies on pesticides and other agricultural chemicals if those studies are being funded by the industry itself?

Client: The Walrus

AD: Paul Kim