The Taxi Fabric Project – creating fabrics that speak – is a platform and opportunity for young, india-based artists to gain exposure and showcase their work to the outside world through public taxi cabs. The project has brought together creatives from across the country to canvas the interiors (and by interiors, we mean every surface inside the taxi) with their graphic or illustrative compositions. In India, taxi cabs are the most common and practical forms of transportation. Their popular use have consequently made them an important aspect of India’s daily life and social culture. However, little attention is given to the cars’ aesthetics. The taxi fabric team explains: “Design — as a job or studied at school — is unfortunately not widely recognized in India. Older generations don’t understand it.” The purpose of the project is to enforce that design does indeed serve to perform a function. But mainly, design is communication, and can serve to create social impact through storytelling. The project gives designers the opportunity to show off their visual communication skills, all the while bringing more joy and colour to everyone’s travelling in India.

We are proud to announce that our agency was awarded this beautiful trophy from the Davey Awards for our work on Niskamoon Corporation’s Annual Report!  [Click here to see pictures of the winning report.] The Davey Awards, aptly named after David from the David/Goliath story, is an awards competition that honours small design agencies. We’re thrilled to be among the talented winners circle of such a prestigious award. Thank you to Niskamoon Corporation for allowing us to be inspired by your organization and the great work you do. And thank you to the Davey Awards for believing in small, but mighty agencies!

Some of us have been prepared for weeks… Happy Halloween!

The Pixel Painter from The Pixel Painter on Vimeo. 98-year-old Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, spent his career as a commercial graphic designer in a time when everything was done by hand. As Hal’s eyesight began to go, he thought his painting days were over. When Lasko’s grandchildren bought him a computer and introduced him to Microsoft Paint fifteen years ago, a new world of creative expression opened up to him. Ever since, Hal has been creating beautifully detailed pixel art. Now, Grandpa spends ten hours a day in his studio creating intricate digital paintings. To learn more about Hal or purchase his paintings, visit his website.

Husband and wife duo Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano give us a reason to laugh at the annoying potholes that plague Montreal’s streets with their series Pothole. With the help of friends and family posing for these staged photographs, the project has become a quick success. They have since taken the series to other cities in North America including Montreal, Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles.