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“This picture of the dancer/choreographer of the ProArteDanza contemporary dance troupe, in Toronto, is one in a personal series I’m doing, showing the same person twice in an image." |
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“More than 20,000 Balinese were walking from Batukau temple in Northern Bali to Penebel temple some 30 kilometres south. I was lucky to be on a rice paddy overlooking the Jaliluwih rice terraces . . ." |
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"The Portuguese footballer Deco de Souza was photographed underwater to launch Umbro’s new Ultra SX waterproof boots." |
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"Most divorces occur within the first two years of marriage, including nearly immediately after the wedding. Many who break the bond, end up celebrating it." |
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Pictures illustrating Madame Butterfly and The Barber of Seville for the 2007-'08 season of the Opéra de Montréal. |
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"There’s something very special about being part of the peak moment of someone’s life. I love being there on the wedding day, part of all that emotion. And with babies, most of the clients hire me within a week or two of the baby being born." |
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A 30-second promotion for Firefox Flicks that shows a robot getting lost in the Internet without the proper navigation/browser, created by Andrew Robb of Pink Vice, in Ottawa. |
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“My love of surrealist art inspired this image, ‘Power of Wind'. . . ." |
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The launch of PepsiCo’s new Mountain Dew Energy began with some mental meandering around underground cartoonist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. “I started thinking of his extreme characters and their flaming mad machines, which led to the flame-inspired logo treatment,” says Capital C creative director Bennett Klein. |
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“Very early on I gravitated to people photography. I am fascinated by people and their backgrounds. I always try to bring out their personality in my work." |
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A brochure created by orangetango in Montreal for Cassis Monna & Filles, a producer of blackcurrant-derived products, including liqueurs, alcohols, jams and so on. |
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A winning advertising entry, in the Consumer Magazine and Out-of-Home categories, from the 2007 APPLIED ARTS DESIGN & ADVERTISING ANNUAL, now on the newsstand. |
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A winning design entry from the 2007 APPLIED ARTS DESIGN & ADVERTSING ANNUAL, on the newsstand in early November. |
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"A time-lapse treatment shows what happens to the face of a model from before lighting and makeup, through to photography and image manipulation. We reveal the finished face as it appears on an outdoor billboard. A super concludes: 'No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted.'" |
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What would a beer lover do to keep their cold bottle of Stella Artois, the Belgian brew, safe from other thirsts? Quite a lot, according to an ad developed by Toronto's Lowe Roche ad agency. |
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"The idea for this image that I did for Vancouver Magazine ["Maid in Vancouver"], to have the maid portrayed in silhouette, was a last-minute decision." |
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"I shot my next-door neighbour Irv Hoffman in my garage as part of a personal project, Dead Reckoning: A Photographic Survey of the Palliser Triangle. . . ." |
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“This part of a series that represents a personal reflection of people who are part of my own constructed neighbourhood. They are observed through our society, culture and the media. . . ." |
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"This 'Marionettes' image came out of my fear of simply going through the motions in life. Our lives are influenced by external variables, many of which we often feel unable to control . . ." |
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Image from an ad campaign for Sony Walkman, with the headline “Walk This Way, shot by Los Angeles photographer David Allan Brandt. |
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“In December 2006, the National Post wrote: ‘We admit it: This has absolutely, categorically no literary value whatsoever. . . ." |
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“The hippos live in the Mara River, on the border of Tanzania and Kenya. We came upon this large herd of hippos who seemed to turn and stare at us as we approached them. . . ." |
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“This was photographed as a self-promotional creative. I shot the location separately and dropped the athlete (Gavin Dunne from BnM modelling agency) into the background.” |
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“We must always be monitoring if the brand’s design is relevant. Is it still saying something unique to the consumer?" |
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“‘Lophacris Cristata’ is personal work, part of a dead bug series. I am captivated by the colours and the texture and detail in the bug, as well as the texture in the overall image . . ." |
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“This is one of my favourite photographs. I shot this seal hunter in an ‘iceberg garden’ in the High Arctic. A storm was coming and there were polar bear tracks all around. . . ." |
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This 2005 teachers conference promotional image (artwork by Ted Glaszewski) is just one example of the Stratford Festival of Canada’s graphic design department’s prolific and striking output. |
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“I shot this portrait of John Irving for People magazine two years ago, for the release of his book Until I Find You. I’ve worked with photo editor Ramiro Fernandes before and he trusts me, so gave me a lot of freedom." |
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When Mercedes asked Toronto photographer Don Dixon to shoot an introduction ad for the New Turbo 320, he said, "Why not?" |
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“This is one of the interactive billboards created for Molson Dry. The keywords for the assignment were: ‘youth,’ ‘dynamics’ and ‘freshness.’" |
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“This image is another personal experiment of mine. In this case, I found some plastic strip lighting and thought that I could use it somehow. . . .” |
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Saatchi & Saatchi Canada created two innovative animated commercials for a United Nations Association in Canada program Sport in a Box. |
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For five years, Montreal Opera's posters have been both a great joy and challenge for Quebec illustrator Lino and design studio Orange Tango. |
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An Egyptian diving holiday at the age of 18 was enough to hook Zena Holloway. |
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““This is a personal piece, entitled ‘Bow Boys,’ created in brush and ink mixed with digital. Besides the commercial work that I get commissioned to do, I think that it’s very important to continue to create my own series of personal images, reflecting who I am." |
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“Anxiety and calm are the polar states of our lives. Between these two parts of pure human essence we find ourselves constantly ricocheting.” |
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“A flower, once picked, clings to life. Gaining in richness in maturity that youth cannot possess. Revealing its true character in aging. . . ." |
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“In the 1970s, I discovered the ‘photorealists’ and dreamed of becoming one of them someday. . . .” |
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“These are outtakes from a shoot commissioned by Madeira Tourism. The girl was a symbol for air and the feathery costume transformed her into an angel once underwater. . . .” |
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“Sometimes all we are looking for is a little direction. My enduring infatuation with vibrant colours, along with the use of old and modern elements, brought this piece together. . . ." |
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“During an American Airlines shoot several years ago, in the middle of winter, I saw the ballerina models standing in our parking lot, smoking in their tutus. |
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Five Rivers is a winery in the Central Coast region of California. Originally branded Fetzer Five Rivers Ranch... |
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The objective of this poster is to let the world know about the horrors of killing ... |
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“I love photographing people. Everyone is so different, with their own qualities. . . .” |
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How do you stop the decline of milk consumption among young people, who turn to other beverages as they become financially independent? DDB Canada’s “Survival of the Fittest” television spots (2005), created for the BC Dairy Foundation, have worked well . . .  |
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With the Iraq War constantly in the news these days, designers and illustrators Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic picked a good time to release their book examining dissent in democracy. |
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Twenty years ago, APPLIED ARTS founder and art director Georges Haroutiun chose the work of a young editorial photographer to grace APPLIED ARTS’ first cover. |
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Collected by corporations and art patrons alike, Toronto photographer Barbara Cole has seduced North American audiences with her painterly images since the early 1980s. . . . |
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Paris-based assignment photographer Dimitri Daniloff travels the globe to shoot, leveraging the contacts of a stock agency. But he has never shot stock. |
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In a massive interview with APPLIED ARTS, in the March 2006 issue ("How Now, Bruce Mau?"), Bruce Mau, Canada’s most prominent designer, tackles his critics, the tyranny of the visual and the influence of growing up in Sudbury, Ontario. |
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