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Super mega thanks to The Dandy Brewing Company for inviting me to contribute some work to help celebrate their new brewery opening. The new space is beautiful and has a bit more elbow room than their previous spot.

The poster was screenprinted by Burnt Toast Studio with white and metallic gold on black paper (the same aesthetic as the brewing zine I produced last summer for Dandy) and was inspired by the Dandy’s monocle wearing octopus.

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I still can’t believe I got to do this one: a special edition Calgary Public Library card for the kindergarten class of 2018. — Here's some info about the program and a list of 10 of my favourite books: Link — Thanks to the Library for the gig and for being so much fun to work with!

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My Valentine's card design for Burnt Toast Studio's "Love Show." Screenprinted alongside 14 other local(ish) artists.

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Synth Buddy

2 colour fluorescent screenprint.

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Giveaway alert! I teamed up with Ello for a giveaway of Brewing A Dandy.

Enter to win by commenting on this post → https://ello.co/chrispecora/post/2p3ea2krczgnov95tuzgdg

Let’s go, 2018

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Synth dude.

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Finally! I’ve been working on this since May so I’m excited to be able to share: A 20-page zine exploring the overarching philosophy and process of Calgary's Dandy Brewing Company. Several conversations are pieced together to create the text. Topics such as ingredients, brewing, recipe development, and more are discussed and accompanied by illustration, telling the story of a handful of guys and their pursuit of creating amazing beer. Grab one at Dandy next time you’re getting your growler filled or I’ve got a few copies available on my website. Thanks to Dandy for the opportunity! Risograph printed by Colour Code, 2 colours throughout (black + metallic gold), saddle stitched, limited edition of 100.

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Waaaay back in May, along with a whole whack of other superb local artists, I participated in a collaboration with Market Collective and Village Brewery for the Village winter variety pack. Well, the cat is officially out of the bag and you can pick these up wherever you buy Village beer (pretty much everywhere?).

My illustration was inspired by this weird family cat we used to have called Stray. She just showed up one day and started living with us (hence her name) and had a habit of becoming pregnant with alarming frequency. She would also do this thing where she’d climb up and perch on my dad’s shoulders and head. She’d just stay up there while he checked in on his orchard or puttered around the house. Rest in peace, Stray.

Avenue did a nice little feature on the project and included photos of each of the bottles. Check that out here.

Thanks Market Collective + Village for putting this together and for including me.

Photos by Mike Tan (Diane + Mike Photography).

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One of several illustrations for a brewing zine I've been working on for The Dandy Brewing Company out of Calgary. The zine is a conversational look at Dandy's process and will be riso printed using gold and black ink by our friends at Colour Code out of Toronto. Can't wait to see these things for realsies.

This is my final poster for Burnt Toast Studio’s “Canada Edition” poster show. The show featured some really great work from Canadian artists, all silkscreened and showcased in Burnt Toast’s recently renovated space. It was an honour to be included.

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“It’s not a newspaper. It isn’t a magazine. It’s not even a website. It’s Calgary pop-up journalism, and it’s launching Monday, September 18.”

I’m really happy with this logo and identity system I’ve been working on for Jeremy Klaszus’ new project. Really excited to see where this project goes.

Follow along on Facebook and Twitter.

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Crop of the cover illustration for a colouring book called "O Canada Reads" — a project by Sam Hester featuring 10 Canadian illustrators.

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BURNT TOAST: CANADA EDITION

The good folks at Burnt Toast Studio invited me to be part of their new show. I’m very excited to be sharing some wall space with some insanely talented folks.

Limited edition posters and postcards will be available, all hand printed by Burnt Toast. Hope to see you there!