1. curiosity • ideation • contemplation • illustration • design
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I am an interdisciplinary visual communicator whose experience as illustrator, designer and
educator is driven by endless curiosity, deep interest in the sciences, creative facilitation, and
love of conceptualization. With over 40 awards, my evocative, conceptually driven imagery
appears in some of today’s most influential publications. I am currently completing a Master’s
(MFA) in Digital Futures at OCAD University which focuses on aesthetics, visualization,
and the sublime regarding issues of representation, radical pedagogy, and creativity.
YEARS > 15 DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION > 10 ART DIRECTION > 3 TEACHING > 4 GRAPHIC ARTS TRAINING > 2 GRADUATE STUDIES.
Teaching has been, and con-
tinues to be, one of the most
profound experiences of my life.
My teaching philosophy and
practices aim to entangle stu-
dent and teacher minimizing the
apparent separateness of each.
I encourage the utilization of
all aspects of life as inspiration,
where seemingly separate areas
and experiences are, in fact,
intersections of discovery. Creat-
ing safe spaces for open sharing,
critical inquiry and class-wide
permission to make mistakes
are fundamental. My practice
and continued development of
ideational strategies, like mind-
mapping and repeated analysis
of existing works produce strong
foundations to build concepts,
abstract thinking, and lasting
critical inquiry.
CO-INSTRUCTOR, DUKE UNIVERSITY TALENT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM (TIP)
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, North Carolina. Summer 2014
Two-week intensive course with Dr. Stuart Candy (lead) at Duke’s renowned
Talent Identification Program (TIP). Instruction as Graduate student on
creative facilitation, LARPing, futures studies, and student liaison.
ILLUSTRATIVE ACTIVISM, OCADU, Toronto 2011-2013
The use of imagery to affect social change. Designed to engage students as
politically activated citizens revealing an eclectic mix of activist illustration,
design & advertising — creating spaces for dialogue, analysis & creation.
ILLUSTRATION CONCEPTS 1 & 2, OCADU, Toronto 2011-2013
A core first year course introducing illustration as a practice; emphasizing ideation
& visual problem-solving methods. Heavy brainstorming, mind-mapping & a
playful, interactive/discussion based curriculum with workplace ready projects.
EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION, 4th Year, Sheridan College. Winter 2012
A final-year studio designed to prepare students for entry into the
workplace through real-world editorial-based assignments.
TEACHING ASSISTANT, DIGITAL FUTURES ATELIER IN STORYTELLING, OCADU, Toronto
2015. Undergraduate course help and lessons in visual storytelling, story-boarding, and ideation.
GUEST LECTURE / PANELS: School Of Visual Arts NYC, Sheridan College,
Applied Arts Magazine Awards Conference, OCADU, CGEP Montreal. 2002-2011.
Illustration, design and art-direction best practices, expectations, promotion, portfolios.
teaching
»» Extremely intellectually curious: very strong theoretical knowledge and expansive researcher.
»» Unconventional and original: critical, radical thinker with superior abstraction skills.
»» Holistic: quickly able to synthesize disparate elements into recognizable, understandable detail.
»» Excellent communication skills and problem solving ability.
»» Decisive: performance oriented in deadline-driven environments and adapts quickly to change.
»» Self-directed learner: a near ceaseless desire for research and intellectual expansion.
»» Works very efficiently independently and well within a team.
»» Award winning: 40+ awards for illustration and design.
at a glance
the big picture

2. curiosity • ideation • contemplation • illustration • design
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Canadian Cyclist
Toronto, 2012.
Features
design, &
production.
Trail Runner
Colorado, 2008.
Big Stone
Publishing,
monthly.
Esteem,
Toronto,
Jan – March 06
Business and
self-improvement,
bimonthly.
Cocoa,
Toronto,
July – Nov 04
Monthly style/
beauty for the
“urban woman”.
Maisonneuve,
Montreal,
Dec – Feb 04
Assistant art direc-
tor: Literary, art &
lifestyle, monthly.
Art-direction & design from initial
concepts to production and launch.
»» Collateral design of logos,
word-marks, DVD packag-
ing, books, brochures, print
adverts, websites, posters,
typesetting, business cards,
media kits, general consulta-
tion and children’s shoes.
»» Illustration/photo sourcing.
»» Copyright and artwork guide-
lines, quotes, budgeting.
Illustration,Since 2001
»» Published across the globe: North America, Europe, Japan & Australia.
»» Editorially focused, appearing in some of the world’s largest publications; as well as advertising,
corporate, fashion and institutional projects.
»» Entrepreneur: business creation, promotion, quoting, establishing
and maintaining client relationships, demanding deadlines.
»» 40+ awards for illustration and design.
work
CLIENTS
Alberta Venture
Alberta Oil Mag.
American Airways
Amer. Medical News
The Atlantic Monthly
Avenue
Backpacker
BC Credit Union
Bicycling Magazine
Bloomberg Small Biz
The Boy Scouts
Business Week
Canadian Lawyer
Cottage Life
Dallas CEO
Dallas Morning News
Exclaim!
Explore
The Globe & Mail
Hartford Courant
Humanist In Canada
HOW Magazine
Institutional Investor
LA Times
LA Weekly
Maisonneuve
Mclean’s
Men’s Journal
Money Sense
More
Nashville Scene
The New York Sun
NY Times
NYT Review of Books
Nuvo Magazine
Outside Magazine
Owl Magazine
Popular Mechanics
Portland Monthly
The Progressive
Runner’s World
Seattle Magazine
Seattle Business
Univ. of Alberta
Vancouver Mag.
The Village Voice
The Wall St. Journal
The Walrus
Alberta Magazine Awards 2014: Silver
Alberta Magazine Awards 2013: Gold
Cannes 2013: Bronze Lion, Advertising Illust.
Alberta Magazine Awards 2015, 2012: Nominee
Alberta Mag.Awards 2011: Best Illustration
American Illustration 28, 27, 25, 22
Communication Arts Awards Annual 2010
3 x 3 Illustration Awards 2007, 2009
Society of Illustrators LA 42
Canadian National Mag. Awards Nominee
Society of Newspaper Designers 2009
Print’s Regional Design Annual 2003
Applied Arts Illustration Annual
2012–2009, 2007–06, 2001-2000
Society of Illustrators NYC 45 (art direction)
Applied Arts (art direction) 2004, 2005
Art Direction & Design
Since 2001
SPAFAX CANADA & LONDON
Toronto/Montreal, June – Oct 09
One of Canada’s largest custom publishers
of EnRoute, Air Canada’s in-flight magazine;
Singapore Airlines In-flight magazine, Review/
Investors Group, HomeSpa/Bain Ultra, and
Next/Bell Canada.
TOWER MEDIA
Cayman Islands, May – Oct 06
A mid/high-end publishing and
advertising agency of The Cayman
Observer (Newspaper), The Cayman
Financial Review and magazines for the
Ritz & the Caribbean Utilities Company.
CLIENTS
CryptoLogic/WagerLogic
ECW Press
Evokative Films
Kensai/Honda Racing
Mexx Clothing
Rocket Day Arts
Steve Nash Foundation
Urban AIDS
Vancouver Film Festival
York Wilson Estate
CORPORATE & ADVERTISING
Arnold Worldwide for BassPro
Graniph Design: Japan, Australia
Murphy Design
Quirk Books
Stokely Design /Ontario Innovation Trust
Perdue University/ Sycamore Review

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art
The Sublime Apparatus, Installation: digital/experiential. Aug. 2015. OCAD University, Toronto.
MFA Thesis final showpiece: An immersive and interactive installation where participants
encounter inaccessible sublime data-topographies through an exercise bike. Riders become
part of a semi-scientific measuring apparatus, moving over data-landscapes, to become
entangled in techno-scientific practices of repeatable sensing and measurement with per-
sonal, non-repeatable experience, feelings and imagination.
Deep City 2030, game art direction. April/May 2015. OCAD University, Toronto.
SSHRC Insight Grant project:
Atermonos, Olympic Village, Athens, Greece. Large scale installation, digital. Summer 2014.
Digital intervention to re-invigorate Athens Olympic Village. In light of the Greek and global economic
meltdown, we were tasked with creating and pitching a meaningful interactive digital installation
on and around the Olympic structures designed by star-architect Santiago Calatrava. Meaning
“one without end or boundaries,” Atermonos a hinged on the importance of demos/public and well-
wishes as Greek tradition. Participants record a wish (audio or text) through a custom app which
then was ‘launched’ into the out of the virtual in to the real-world through a series of lights installed
on the ribbing of the Agora, appearing to plunge into the adjacent pools. Wishes were to be kept
online and accessible by all. *With broadcast media designer and theorist Umar Amanullah.
Blackout Toronto (BOTO) 2045. Guerrilla Futures public intervention. June 2014.
Public performance and intervention forecasting intentional blackouts in order to see the
cosmos normally made invsibile by light pollution. *With broadcast media designer and theorist
Umar Amanullah, futurist and educator Amy Satterthwaite, and fashion designer-futurist Laura Dempsy.
Urban Dialogue, The City of Toronto. Digital signage and print redesign, pitch. Summer 2014.
Responding to poorly designed development signage by the city of Toronto and surround-
ing regions (GTHA), new signage was created which re-engaged the public in city planning
through greater detail, use of icons, digital imaging, hyper-links and QR codes, accompany-
ing website and data. Multiple questionnaires and in-person user tests produced a much
preferred system than the current standards. This project is still in-process with multiple cities.
*With urban planner and designer Richard Borbridge.
Know,video:4m09s.April/May2013.OCADUniversity,Toronto.Shortfilmexploringthesingularity
where(a)computerbecomingconscious.*WithbroadcastmediadesignerandtheoristUmarAmanullah.
Drones (Don’t Believe Everything You Screen), Installation: digital immersion. Nov. 2013.
OCAD University, Toronto. An immersive 3 projection screened room where the
participant’s location was tracked – or targeted – by lasers while their image was
shown from all angles on-screen(s), as if surveilled by a drone. An accompany-
ing tablet provided facts, figures and policies of drone warfare. *With broadcast media
designer and theorist Umar Amanullah and digital artist and animator Brandy Yang.
Zoo: Group Show, Loose Canon Gallery.
Hamilton ON. 2011. Six artist
collaborative show; drawings and
paintings of animals, bones, etc.
The Shatner Show: Uppercase Gallery.
Calgary, Alberta. 2007.
Large show and publication of artists,
illustrators and designers portraits
of iconic actor William Shatner.
Ghosts Of The Gladstone,
The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto. 2004
Group showing of drawings and
paintings of fictitious ghosts to be found
throughout Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel.
Pages Bookstore, Toronto 2003.
Solo exhibit of drawings and paintings.
The Art Of Burlesque,
The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto. 2003
Inaugural art-exhibit at Toronto’s
Gladstone Hotel featuring paintings,
designs, and illustrations exploring the
history and concepts of Burlesque.
Heaven & Hell: Mark Murphy
San Diego, Philadelphia & New York 2003.
Three city traveling exhibit and publication
of dual-paintings of Heaven and Hell.
Monsters, Montreal 2002
The Basement, Toronto 2001
Various, Private Collections
SHOWINGS, PROJECTS, PITCHES, EXPERIMENTS
Interdisciplinarity and collaboration are the keys to my artistic practice outside the realms of
illustration and design – both lens of which remain crucial as well-practiced modes of expression.
Moving from the visual to the realms of embodied sensing through touch, motion and sound,
recent works have produced powerful, affective and immersive experiences through digital art and
storytelling. Shared ontological and epistemological underpinnings are explored and made tangible
through themes of sublime terror, awe and wonder, surveillance, alterity, urbanity, nature, the
imagination and techno-scientific cultural practices.

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KIM LARSON
Art Director
Alberta Venture & Alberta Oil
10259-105 Street
Edmonton, AB. T5J 1E3
780 990 0839 x226
klarson@albertaventure.com
PATRICIO DAVILA
Assistant Professor, Faculty of
Design OCAD University
100 McCaul St.
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1
416 977 6000 x4360
patricio.davila.ca@gmail.com
DARREN BOOTH
Illustrator, Typographer
68 Adel Drive
St. Catharines ON.
L2M 7E6
416 450 4277
darren@darrenbooth.com
EMRYS MILLER
Principal Owner & Art Director,
ROCKET DAY ARTS
140 Moss Street,
Victoria BC. V8V 4M3
250 386 7329
emrys@rocketday.com
References
MASTERS (MFA) IN DIGITAL FUTURES, OCADU. 2013- 2015.
»» Exploring the intersection of science, art, design, business & education.
Focusing on aesthetics, critical theory, data & info-visualizations, politics,
surveillance, the sublime, futurism, creativity and the imagination.
University President’s Award: Largest scholarship granted to the top graduate applicant.
THESIS: My thesis challenges long-standing notions found in the Kantian sublime
and provides an alternative description which reintegrates the role of imagination
as critical component of aesthetic limit-experiences, learning and world-building.
Through an unconventional combination of feminist theorist and quantum physicist
Karen Barad’s agential realism and Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophies, the false
dichotomies which separate reason and imagination enshrined during the European
Enlightenment is instead shown to be a complex and entangled aesthetic experience
in line with contemporary post-humanist thinking.
FINAL PROJECT: The Sublime Apparatus is an installation featuring a
stationary bicycle which allows users to explore inaccessible and impossible
landscapes – like the surface of Mars, the ocean depths, a dying heart
rate or riding the stock market – through data delivered as tension as an
embodied and imaginative aesthetic experience of the sublime.
ILLUSTRATION & GRAPHIC ARTS,
SHERIDAN COLLEGE (1998 - 2001).
Most professional award.
Honours throughout enrollment,
excelling in drawing, life-
drawing & conceptual works.
»» Intern with Poul Lange, New York.
»» Minor in graphic design.
ANATOMY FOR ARTISTS (1997)
»» Advanced anatomical
study focusing on accuracy &
observation of the human form
SHERIDAN COLLEGE, ART
FUNDAMENTALS, Honours (1997)
»» General drawing, design & painting.
DUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL
OF ART (1997-98)
»» ­Various advanced drawing courses.
education
National Magazine
Awards Illustration
Jury, 2014. Toronto.
Selecting the best-
in-class for the
illustration category.
Junos Category
Jury: Best Album
Design Category
2013. Toronto. First
stage jury for total
album package
design.
Astound Confer-
ence OCADU,
Toronto. Oct. 2013.
Organization, event
photos, observation,
reports. Workbook
design/collaboration.
Ride to Conquer
Cancer: 320km,
Toronto to Niagara
Falls. 2011 &
2012. Fund raised
$3000 per-event,
artwork donation.
Intern,
Poul Lange Design,
New York. Feb. 01
Studio, illustration,
design and photo
assistance.
Sheridan College
Illustration Student
Council President,
$ 20,000 of fund-
raising, 70 student
liaison, communica-
tion with vendors.
volunteer DIRECTOR & CO-CREATOR, ILLUSTRATION COLLECTIVE: REPLESS ABANDON (2001-2012)
Co-creator & director of 15-20 member collective. Specialized in group promotion, exhibitions &
themed work; Art direction, design, coordination of events and marketing, client communications,
new talent acquisition, contractual reviews; Project management and direction.