The May/June issue of Applied Arts Magazine features the 2012 winners of our Photography & Illustration Awards. You'll discover more than 100 pages of some of the most inspiring images created last year, from artists hailing from across Canada, the United States and abroad. You can also see the winning photography and illustration entries online. Beautifully printed on Cougar Smooth 80 lb. text and 100 lb. cover stock, the Awards Annual will be a prized reference for years to come. Also, see the Photography and Illustration winners online.

This issue also includes Split Run—a new 2012 portfolio feature looking at an original image maker. Half the subject's work is featured in the magazine (stills) and half on appliedartsmag.com (motion). Our portfolio this issue is Montreal street art duo Frank Lem and Zema.  Other issue highlights include Chris Daniels' feature "The Future is Now," looking at exciting creative work produced with new technologies; Will Novosedlik's essay, "Clash of the Titans," examining where the batte lines are drawn in the conflict of art vs. technology; and a retrospective of the elegant poster designs of Theo Dimson.

Single copies of the issue are available for purchase. Please contact Anna Brown at assistant@appliedartsmag.com for more details.

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Departments

The Future Has Always Been Upon Us by Matthew Clark

Make Yourself Useful by Karen Howe

Tired Education by Rod McDonald

Mortal Kontact by Doug Dolan

Working Backwards from Digital by Eric Karjaluoto

Design Unlimited

What's New is Old Again by Pamela Young

Three renovated heritage buildings signal a new golden age of adaptive reuse.

Essay

Clash of the Titans by Will Novosedlik

A heated debate among the members of the Applied Arts Advisory Board reveals where the battle lines are drawn in our industry: artistry vs. technology, analog vs. digital, specialization vs. democracy and old vs. new.

 
Main Feature

The Future is Now by Chris Daniels

With increasing sophistication and widespread consumer adoption, digital technologies offer almost limitless new creative possibilities. The only things that hold us back are lack of imagination and not letting go of how we used to do things.

Split Run

Tag Team by Wendy Helfenbaum 

With their street art sensibility and skateboarding roots, Frank Lam and Zema of Montreal "love to mix as many media as possible" in their projects.

Gallery

Distinctively Different

Designer Theo Dimson brought a unique, elegant style to both his life and work.

Career Shift

The Paper Chase

A Montreal graphic arts couple came up with a couple of good ideas and launched two lines of notebooks.

2012 Photography & Illustration Awards

More than 100 pages of stunning photography and illustration.

Design Unlimited: What's Old is New Again

“I'm now in my late 50s, and my generation of architects is the one that really had to confront renovation as a major enterprise. More than 50 per cent of our construction is now related to the renovation or the adaptive reuse of existing buildings of all sorts.”

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Split Run: The Tag Team of Frank Lam & Zema

"We love to mix as many kinds of media as possible. For example, I'll take one of my graffiti projects, photograph it and integrate it into an animated video where I can digitally layer in other illustrations."

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Main Feature: The Future is Now

"We believe that what's happening in mobile is just the tip of the iceberg. Pretty soon we'll have an app to even help us catch the streetcar that is well designed; it's all about the access to information, and that will continue to proliferate."

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2012 Photography & Illustration Awards

Here are some random samples of winners from our Photography & Illustration Awards. See all winners online in the Applied Arts Awards Archive.

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