What is a Forest Friend?
A forest friend is a genderless, adolescent trickster spirit, mentioned since antiquity in stories and songs of rural coastal peoples on the Atlantic seaboard of North America.
Cute dogs wearing my work
FETCH, a canine social club and boutique pet shop in Toronto, had some adorable dog fashion printed with the logo I designed. Check out these little doggy friends in little doggy sweaters! If you’re in Toronto and looking for...
Sci-Fi & Interface Design Workshop
I’ve taken over Michael LeBlanc’s Intro to Interactive Design class at NSCAD University for 3 weeks while he’s in China. We’ll be doing a fun little workshop on science fiction film and interface design, inspired by the fantastic book Make It...
Working with Squarespace
There are lots of website builder platforms that end up hoodwinking the uninitiated. But Squarespace is different.
When your client has no taste
The best clients in the world are the ones who acknowledge their need for a design professional and trust your expertise to turn out appropriate, attractive design that suits their needs.
But every once in a while, you’ll run into a client (or potential client, preferably) who can’t tell a butthole from a rosebush and has no idea they suffer from bad taste.
Translating print documents to web documents
Some degree of adjustment is usually necessary when adapting a document designed for print into a document for online use. This is because we use different technology to decipher each: hands and eyes for physical printed matter and a screen or device for digital...
Beijing: First Impressions
1. Holy shit, it’s fucking huge. The streets downtown are 6-8 lanes wide. The buildings look like they were constructed by some brobdingnagian race and span blocks by themselves. The communist-built structures are built to impress — just like the ancient structures —...
Shanghai: First Impressions
1. Traffic. The last decade has seen a massive surge in the number of automobiles owned in China, which in Shanghai has prompted the construction of lovely new roads and highways (nary a pothole in sight). This means that traffic is bananas, as are driving habits — as...
China, Fall 2014: Shanghai // Beijing // Guangzhou
This Tuesday I’ll be off to Asia for the very first time, visiting three of China’s largest cities over two weeks with my father, Michael LeBlanc. My dad has been to China a dozen times over the past decade in his capacity as faculty member at NSCAD...
Glitches Bitches
Get some free glitch art, created with http://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/. Folder contains 23 medium to high resolution glitched images. [su_nt_button url=”https://forestfriend.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/glitches-bitches.zip”]Download...