O Canada!

Took a road trip through British Columbia recently. If you've never been, I would highly recommend it.

Best souvenirs of this trip...






















• "True North Strong and Free" t-shirt: official Olympic swag from Hudson's Bay Company


















• Canada wind-up mini rider: kitsch at its best























• VisiColor prairie dog target with colour-coded hits (purchased in BC, though this product is by Champion Target in the US): bold graphics with a practical purpose























• Buffalo pork pepperoni (The Original Longview Roni Stix): flavour and texture combine with such strength that the graphics don't need any muscle

The Big Book of Bags, Tags and Labels

Published by CollinsDesign, this hefty, 384-page tome is chockful of branding solutions. Here's a preview of 3 of the 8 spreads of our work from each section...

"Safe" hands by the WHO

A nice 12-step instruction chart has been issued by the World Health Organization on how to make your hands 'safe' from the swine flu.

It looks straightforward enough.
Until you read it...

I especially like step 3.
















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Snapshot Berlin

Berlin: Shepard Fairey @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Caught the opening reception for graphic designer / DJ / street artist / Obey Giant guy Shepard Fairey's Print Retrospective 1997-2009 at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery on our last night in Berlin.

Celebrated as a Person of the Year in 2008 by GQ Magazine, Fairey's HOPE poster in support of Obama's run for President became a part of the US National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection in January.

Worth visiting. Till July 11.

Germany: it's all about the sausage

Spiekeroog.
East Frisian island off the North coast of Germany.
Population 825.
Ferry access twice daily.
One hair salon.
Two ATMs.
One grocery store.
FORTY-FOUR kinds of sausage on shelf.























There was also an in-house butcher.














Who would expect the demand to be so fierce?
The wall of sausage was so strikingly iconic and yet so unexpected, I had to document it...