ILLUSTRATION

Like cartography, illustrations are a great wayto communicate complex ideas with a few simple, bold lines. I’ve done illustrations for the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Toronto, the Toronto Board of Trade, ERA Architects, the Globe and Mail and Spacing Magazine, and more.

Enjoy this selection of my work and contact me to discuss illustrations for your next project!

LUMINATO

Toronto Tomorrow: Colouring the Future of Housing

For Luminato’s 2024 edition, I designed, co-wrote, and illustrated an interactive colouring book that was distributed throughout the festival. The book included mazes, connect the dots, spot the differences, and colouring pages exploring the roots of the so called “housing crisis” and a few creative solutions to addressing it.

COACH HOUSE BOOKS

House Divided: How the Missing Middle Will Solve Toronto's Affordability Crisis

For Coach House Book’s anthology exploring how Toronto’s anti-apartment bias has contributed to the housing crisis, I wrote and illustrated a chapter and the book’s cover.

VARIOUS

Housing Illustrations

While my illustration’s simple, clean linework is inspired by architectural blueprints, I forgoe the ruler to achieve a handdrawn quality that gives the illustrations character while emphasizing distinctive architetural features. My building drawings have been used by academics, architects, and not-for-profits in reports, journal articles, and blogposts.

A Toronto house that has been subdivided into 4 apartments, for ERA Architects

A Parkdale high-rise for the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust

The West Lodge towers for the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust

One of the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust's rooming house acquisitions

One of the Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust's apartment acquisitions

A Minneapolis detached house for McGill Geography professor Anna Kramer

A Seattle detached house for McGill Geography professor Anna Kramer

A Seattle midrise for McGill Geography professor Anna Kramer

A Los Angeles midrise for McGill Geography professor Anna Kramer

All the Libraries Toronto

I visited and illustrated all 100 libraries (and 2 bookmobiles) in Toronto! Initially released as collection online, it is now available as a colouring book from Dundurn Press. Please enjoy a preview of the illustrations below!

TORONTO REGION BOARD OF TRADE

Toronto through Time: Office Mural

Custom illustration for the Toronto Board of Trade’s offices. The 42’ wide mural is a timeline of the city through the lense of trade, showcasing Toronto’s evolution from trade schooners to the age of rail, steam ships, airplanes, lake freighters and beyond to the future of bullet trains and drone deliveries.

GLOBE AND MAIL

Toronto’s Modernist Heritage

Collaboration with Alex Bozikovic, architecture critic for the Globe and Mail. Series of illustrations highlighting Toronto’s modernist heritage, including buildings at risk of being demolished. See the full series here.

ERA ARCHITECTS

Tower Renewal RAC Zone

For ERA Architects’ Tower Renewal Initiative, I my illustrations demonstrated the potential of the new RAC (residential-apartment-commerical) zone. The new zoneallows Toronto’s suburban high rise neighbourhoods to activate the under-used spaces between structures for markets, gardens, health and food services, and other entrepreneurial activities. See the RAC zone website for more details and illustrations.

HERITAGE TORONTO

Building Toronto Exhibition

Illustrations for the Building Toronto: Stories of the St Lawrence Market Neighbourhood, a traveling exhibit by Heritage Toronto that launched March 2017

CITY OF TORONTO

All the Historic Sites Toronto

Commissioned by the City of Toronto, I visited and illustrated every city owned historic site. The collection was released as a colouring book published by Dundurn Press, along with an exhibit at the Todmorden Mills Paper Gallery in October 2017.