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When the sun is up, and the after-midnight community is still in the land of nod, I’m wide awake, leaning on my need to design and smacking my stamp down on the critical world with the kind of vigor usually reserved for crushing Ford Pintos into cubes. They say it’s a design/work/life, but that’s just my life. I think we’re going to get along swimmingly.

Find me at hello[at]alexisyoungdesign.com or on the internet bird @alexisfooyoung.

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Posts tagged illustration

The band Dear Rouge approached me recently to do a series of designs for their merch for their awesome cross-Canada tour they’re about to embark on. They wanted something clean, minimal and geometric. 

I sent them a few options to choose from and they chose the two shown here. I did a bajillion different colour variations, but these are some of my favourite. 

http://dearrouge.com/

Digital close up of my type poster to go into the Canadian History Type Show this Thursday! The final result is silk-screen and all hand-done. Woop!
Check out our website ——> www.typeeh.ca 

Digital close up of my type poster to go into the Canadian History Type Show this Thursday! The final result is silk-screen and all hand-done. Woop!

Check out our website ——> www.typeeh.ca 

Working on some hand-done typography for a logo.

Logo concept for the fictional battery company, Volta. The objective of this project was to produce creative & sustainable packaging for everyday batteries that will be durable and
serve as additional storage and safe-keeping of the battery charge.

This year I was awarded the $1000 Applied Arts scholarship hosted by the Graphic Designers of Canada (the GDC) for my City Farmer urban gardening campaign. It was a complete shock, and an absolutely wonderful surprise!

My fellow recipients and I are published in this month’s Applied Arts magazine, and my garden illustrations are featured on the main page of the GDC’s writeup on the scholarship winners!

http://www.gdc.net/education/scholarships_and_awards/articles/1488.php

Illustration for the story Lamb to the Slaughter.

I tried to over-exaggerate the dramatic tension of the story and spin it a little differently. Plus, I dig the 60s. A lot.

Sometimes I just let my love/fear/obsession with the 80s get the better of me, and when asked to do a class assignment for a full spread converse ad, NATURALLY I opted to go for a Miami Vice heated night scene.

Makes sense, right? I’m pretty sure that’s what “the kids” are into anyways. Maybe…

The first time I’ve really sat down to draw in a while! Phewf! Cranked out a spot illustration of Frank Sinatra’s relationship with the bottle in just a couple hours. It was a school project, I promise. It has no reflection of my life I promise.

The drawing is for this famous quote: “I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning and that’s the best they are going to feel all day.”

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