Edward Kwong

Monsanto: A focus on GMO Contamination and it's treatment of farmers in North America.

2013-05-15T17:48:00.003-04:00

Another one that hit's closer to home and that looks into the business practices and ethics (or lack thereof of Monsanto).

The World According to Monsanto GMO Documentary

2013-05-15T00:11:00.000-04:00

Worth a watch.

March Against Monsanto

2013-05-09T16:00:00.002-04:00

I'm staunchly opposed to giant agro-corporations like Monsanto, who are taking over the agricultural industry and fighting against any measures to label foods with GMOs (Genetically modified organisms).

For those interested in participating, there will be a world-wide "March Against Monsanto" on May 25th, 2013. I'm encouraging anyone who cares about our food supply and the right to know what we purchase and what we are consuming. Here's to ethical agriculture and business, health and well-being, and transparency.

Celebrities aside, this is an important issue that I can get behind.

Or for those that don't care for celeb's..

Other great online resources to inform yourselves:
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
Millions Against Monsanto

Academy Of The Impossible

2013-05-08T19:36:00.002-04:00

These are colour variations of the posters that I designed for the "Academy Of The Impossible", an alternative education institution based out of Toronto. I think what they do is really wonderful as a concept and great for the community of there of individuals looking to find a place where they learn and thrive outside of the traditional school model.

I had a good deal of fun mocking these up and there were a number of ideas I was juggling around with, as seen below. Some that dealt with a mixture of the fantastic to the mythological. The one's that made the cut had a lot of emphasis on reflecting the diversity of programs and subjects that the academy promotes. Most of all, the final results had to be simple fun to look at.

More to come down the line.

Sled Island 2013 Poster

2013-04-10T18:20:00.000-04:00

These are the posters for Calgary's 2013 'Sled Island Music Festival' that uses some of my illustration (applied and rearranged for various promotional applications for the festival). The poster's type design, final application and overall art direction was overseen by 'Working Format' out of Vancouver. The concept for the illustrations needed to speak to music, film, art, comedy, green initiatives, special events, all the while encompassing a prairie vibe.

Robot Collage 2

2013-03-29T01:13:00.001-04:00

More digital collage.

DJ K-LORD

2013-03-21T00:25:00.002-04:00

Gift for a friend.

Digital Collage - Steampunk Robot

2013-03-07T23:17:00.000-05:00

Chez Boris Posters "Miam! Miam!"

2013-02-14T15:08:00.001-05:00

These are posters for Chez Boris, a Russian donut and cafe in Montreal. The "Chez Boris" logotype was created by the Bosk & Beck design studio.

Gift

2012-12-27T18:36:00.002-05:00

"The Fall of Greece": Thug Politics & Coffee Cups

2012-12-03T16:48:00.003-05:00

This was published for this month's issue of GQ for an article about how things aren't going so well in Greece.

Their AD had a very specific idea about what she wanted based off of this particular incident on live Greek television with an out of control right wing MP and his fellow politicians.

Combine that with your local bodega's Greek paper coffee cup (I'd never seen them before, but they're everywhere in NYC apparently) and you get the point.

The article was originally supposed to have a double page spread for the front and back of the cup, but alas, the front, depicting the iconic Greek acropolis collapsed instead of three coffee cups, was unfortunately cut from the final publication.

Lastly, some roughs from the whole process.

My thanks to Chelsea Cardinal.

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Japan Cinema Interview

2012-08-24T11:59:00.001-04:00

Japan Cinema gave me an interview for their "creative spotlight" section. I'd say there's a really good chance that you'd be able to read it right here.

2012-08-19T13:49:00.001-04:00

The Radler + '2 Years Ahead' Zine Market

2012-08-15T14:00:00.001-04:00

My friends have put together a zine, called "The Radler", about two very wonderful things on this earth, bikes and beer. I had the pleasure of creating the cover for it.

You can pick up a copy if you're in Hong Kong at the "2 Years Ahead" zine market on Aug. 17-18 (Fri + Sat), from 5pm to 10pm.

Osage Gallery, 5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong.

Alternate

2012-08-08T15:03:00.002-04:00

A friend had some good critiques to say.

"Flying Is Safer"

2012-08-07T16:22:00.000-04:00

No birds in the end.

Combo Attack! iam8bit Show in LA

2012-08-03T19:50:00.003-04:00

Hi folks, so turns out I am going to be in the iam8bit, Street Fighter tribute show. Show starts today, August 3rd until the 19th.

I've got 10 limited edition prints of my "Third Impact" poster for sale on location.

If you're in the LA area, check it out (wish I could)!

"Float" rough

2012-07-30T16:53:00.001-04:00

New site online

2012-07-29T02:11:00.001-04:00

New website up! For those that aren't interested in diving through old blog archives for older sketch images, I've added a sketchbook section to the site with some select pages from the past four years.

Technical difficulties

2012-07-27T13:51:00.000-04:00

Please note my main website has not disappeared into nothingness, merely temporarily unavailable as I update it's design over the weekend.
Things will be back to normal shortly!

Third Impact!

2012-07-24T14:48:00.001-04:00

Here's the final version of my Street Fighter 3 tribute poster. Turns out it won't be in a tribute show as previously mentioned, but regardless, I'm pretty happy with the result. If there's interest, I may make this available as a print. Emails welcome.