News


05/09/10

Sorry for the lack of updates fellow illustration fans.
I have been very busy with many things.

 

However with that said I have added illustration work for The Globe And Mail and Golf Business Magazine to the "Illustration" section.

 

CURRENT STATUS: Working on MFA thesis @ OCAD University in Sculpture, Illustration and Installation.

 

I am still available for illustration assignments.

 

More to come.


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Illustration

Alexei Vella
All Hail The Mighty Object!
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Golf Health-care
Client: Golf Business
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Crying Shame
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Copyright Re-write
Client: Canadian Lawyer
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Capitalist Man
Client: This Magazine
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Capitalist Man Spots 1
Client: This Magazine
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Capitalist Man Spots 2
Client: This Magazine
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Capitalist Man Spots 3
Client: This Magazine
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Capitalist Man Spots 4
Client: This Magazine
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Fight For Contacts 2
Client: Golf Business
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Fight For Contacts 1
Client: Golf Business
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Rollercoaster
Client: Golf Business
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Forums
Client: Isthmus
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Golf & Happiness Feature Illustrations
Client: Golf Business
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First Letter He Wrote
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Scrappy
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M
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Canada-US Border
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Michael Bay Knows?
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Future Sight
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Intrusion Upon Seclusion: What’s Justifiable?
Client: Canadian Lawyer
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Google + Land Grab
Client: Golf Business
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An Activity In Memory
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Cleaning Bookshelves
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Brain Light
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Joe Morse
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How To Really Use Linked In
Client: HOW Magazine
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HOW TO: Talk To A Philosopher
Client: Wired UK
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Easier Ways to Read Files On the Go
Client: Macworld
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Jersey Shore's Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, The Guido Gorilla
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Golf Course Owners Trading Customers
Client: Golf Business
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The Trilogy: Jay Z, Lil' Wayne & Drake
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Backstabbed
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Molly Bear
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Doggy
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Pop Goes Access Copyright
Client: Canadian Lawyer
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Golf Green Puzzle
Client: Golf Business
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Recall
Client: Isthmus
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To Article Or Not To Article
Client: Canadian Lawyer
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Scarred Face
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Internet Golf
Client: Golf Business
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I.T. Oil Spot
Client: Alberta Oil
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I.T. Oil Spots
Client: Alberta Oil
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I.T. Oil Spread
Client: Alberta Oil
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Swamp Monster VS Uncle Sam
Client: Golf Business
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Ipad Videogame Development
Client: Isthmus
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Stop Swearing: Hoh-Leh-Rah!
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Private & Public
Client: Golf Business
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Percentages & The Arts
Client: Isthmus
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Bricks
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Charlie
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New Eco Battlefield
Client: Canadian Lawyer
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Hats On Employees
Client: Golf Business
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LGBT Law Students
Client: Canadian Lawyer/4STUDENTS
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Watching Young Employees
Client: Golf Business
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Training Young Employees
Client: Golf Business
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Balancing Act
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The Long Shadow Over Canada's Housing Market
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Tyrone The Terrible
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10 Big Ideas 4 Small Business (Illustration Series)
Client: Alberta Venture
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I Heart Banjo
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Spread The Word: Come Play Golf
Client: Golf Business
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Computer Golf Spots
Client: Golf Business
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Worse Case Scenario!
Client: Benefits Canada
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Employee Morale (Spot)
Client: Golf Business
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The Mirror Phase
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Phallic Panic
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Mousetrap
Client: The Globe And Mail
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CyberWar & Citizen Lab Illustrations
Client: This Magazine
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i-Train Brain
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Guinea Pig (Like the gp/gp line)
Client: The Globe And Mail
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Night School
Client: The Globe And Mail
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2010 - 3x3 Winner: Merit
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Golf Leagues
Client: Golf Business
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Home Sick Home (Spot)
Client: Las Vegas CityLife
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Home Sick Home (Cover)
Client: Las Vegas CityLife
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Large Screens Verses Small Screens
Client: This Magazine
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Pazuzu
Revista Göoo #7: Witchcraft
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Walrus
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Computer Golf Chatrooms (Spot 2)
Client: Golf Business
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Computer Golf Chatrooms (Spot 1)
Client: Golf Business
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TDFs To Go
Client: Benefits Canada
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C.H.O.I.C.E.
Client: Canadian Business
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Cell
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ARGH! Wanna' Fight?
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Cell Division NOOOOOOOOO!
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Boomer Aged Hippy
Client: This Magazine
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Metal-Head
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Bells & Whistles
Client: Plansponsor
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2010 - Applied Arts Winner
2009 - 3x3 Winner: Merit
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Snug & Smug
Client: Canadian Family
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Innovate Spots
Client: Benefits Canada: Innovate
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2009 - Applied Arts Winner (series)
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Head Two Head
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Send In The Gays!
Client: Las Vegas CityLife
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Hate-Mail
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Mind Meld / Putting Our Heads Together
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Sinister Transcendental Meditation
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Balancing Concepts
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Running In Circles
Client: Golf Business
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Subconscious Layers
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Happy, For A Change?
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Energy!: A Global Dilemma
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Radioactive Green Genes
SuperHero Exhibit & Party
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Baby VS Cobra!
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Brown Noser
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Macho Meanies Flex Their Meany Muscles
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Let's Hope The Pieces Fit!
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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
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Megaphone Man!
Client: Canadian Business
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San Francisco Chronicle: Datebook
Client: San Francisco Chronicle
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Arise Steep Oil Prices!
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Multiplanar
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Stuck In The Same Cycle
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Ass Kisser
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Gmail Tells Your Future
Client: Maisonneuve
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The Big Come Down!
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Smells Like Up Dog, Doesn't It? / What's Up Dog?
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The Hitch-Hiking Crippled Hand
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Crappy Feet are Happy Feet
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Running Gag... Ball
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Battle Of The Bulge
Client: Benefits Canada
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Warning Blood Diamond!
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Brothers In Arms
Client: Golf Business
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War of the Words: Golf Is Dying
Client: Golf Business
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Mean Genes
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2009 - Applied Arts Winner
2008 - Creative Quarterly #12 Winner: Merit
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Can't Get Enough of Kanye Bear
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Big Bad Bill
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Blue Balls/Ribbed For Pleasure/No MSG!
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Push & Pull
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Promotional
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Grip Cover
Client: Grip Magazine
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Q-Bert!
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Once A Day Vitamin
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Spring Loaded Showers
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Red Blue Green/Videotape
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Fitting Within A Budget
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Batman Had Nothing To Do With It
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Tasty Octopus!
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Super Bugs
Client: Canadian Family
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No Television Reception
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Is He Live or Dead?
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Wired Captive
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Ignorance is the Root of Evil
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Priszm Food
Client: Foodservice and Hospitality
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The World Is Your Oyster
Client: Canadian Business
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2008 - Applied Arts Winner
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Lets All Go To The Drug Dealer...
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Run Curry Ball Run!
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Para Shoot!
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See
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Mygrain
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21st Century Schizoid Man
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Not So Macho, Ain't He?
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2009 - CMYK Magazine: Call For Aspiring Creatives #43
2008 - Applied Arts Winner
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Solar Energy Continues to Gain Steam
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Everlasting Emotioncon
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Mystery Mind
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In The Flesh: Body Modification
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2007 - American Illustration 26 (Selected)
2007 - 3x3 Winner: Merit
2007 - Applied Arts Winner
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Evil Seed: Herbicide-Resistant Alfalfa
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Loss of Self-Identity Through Self Replication
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Mailer Promo Illustration
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Dark Justice
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Process
Client: The Seattle Stranger
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Technology & Children
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Reincarnation Cat
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Sleep Walking
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Conversation of The Futureheads
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Three Thoughts
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Viral Marketing
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Inner Turmoil
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Cubed
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Headless Illusionist
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Giant Squid
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Shylock
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Claustrophobia
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War Monger
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Einstein's Dreams
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The Taoist
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Digital Creativity
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2007 - Creative Quarterly #8 Winner: Gold
2007 - 3x3 Winner: Merit
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Zero To Eight
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Outsourcing
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2007 - Applied Arts Winner
2007 - 3x3 Winner: Bronze
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Kid Candy Consumer
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Snow Yeti
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Oil Tycoon
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2007 - 3x3 Winner: Merit
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Women's Health
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Blue Pill Monster
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Lucha Va Voom
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2007 - Applied Arts Winner
2007 - 3x3 Winner: Gold
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Kid Koala
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2007 - 3x3 Winner: Merit
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Angry
Client: Brick Weekly
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Reformating Music Distribution
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Growing Ideas
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Bite The Bullet!
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Burst Your Bubble!
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Lucy
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Opening My Third Eye
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Sparm!
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Mister Missile
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Statistical Spots
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Personal

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The Slithery-Dee
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The Terminator Twins Diptych (2 of 2)
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The Terminator Twins Diptych (1 of 2)
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Mutant Morlock In The Realm Of Light
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Morlock Invasion!
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Morlocks Go Whence You Came
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Don't Ya'll Be Hatin'
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Floater
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2009 - American Illustration 28 (Selected)
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Reach Around
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Masked Parasite
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Bottom Feeder
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Mastermind
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Minion
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Megalomanical Trifecta
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Rainbow Gorilla
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The Archetype
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Untitled Pattern 1
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Ego Brain
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Untitled Pattern 2
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Exorcise
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Untitled Pattern 3
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Innervision
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Untitled Pattern 4
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Invader
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Seer
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Off The Top
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Opposites Attack
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The Giving Head
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The Better Half
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Polymath
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Genie
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Secret Identity
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2008 - American Illustration 27 (Selected)
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Motion

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Capitalist Man
Client: This Magazine
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HOW TO: Talk To A Philosopher(iPAD Version)
Client: Wired UK
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Sketches

Analog
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Sketch 9
Ink on Paper
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Sketch 8
Ink on Paper
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Sketch 7
Ink on Paper
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Sketch 6
Ink on Paper
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Sketch 5
Ink on Paper
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Sketch 4
Ink on Paper
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Sketch 3
Ink on Paper
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Sketch 2
Ink on Paper
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Sketch 1
Ink on Paper
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Digital
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Digital Sketch 12: Delaunay Triangulation Test
Digital
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Digital Sketch 11: The Wizard 3D
Digital
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Digital Sketch 10: The Key
Digital
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Digital Sketch 9: The Wizard
Digital
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Digital Sketch 8: Pixel Face
Digital
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Digital Sketch 7: Heads Experiment
Digital
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Digital Sketch 6: Scared Peas/Emoticons
Digital
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Digital Sketch 5: Drippy Head
Digital
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Digital Sketch 4: Emotionicon Low-Res Experiment
Digital
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Digital Sketch 3: Jeeze!
Digital
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Digital Sketch 2: Square's Maze
Digital
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Digital Sketch 1: What Hat To Wear?
Digital
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Digital Sketch: Opening My Third Eye Halftone
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3D Digital Sketch: Opening My Third Eye
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Information

Alexei Vella specializes in creating images that are both striking and complex, sensual yet undeniably intellectually involving. In order to achieve this unique look, Vella employs a complex colour palette, an eclectic application of graphics and texture, and a sophisticated use of antiquated surfaces.

Appropriating the colloquial iconography of popular retro forms to an emboldened modern sensibility, Vella’s work has achieved international recognition appearing in a variety of exhibitions and print.


Influences:
Early Animation / Osamu Tezuka / Manga / 1950's / Vintage Comics & Cartoons / Superflat / Vinyl Toys / Graffiti / Packaging / Matchbooks / Street Art & Graphics / Signage & Billboards / Pulp Posters / Russian Avantgarde / Dada / Classical and Contemporary Book Design / Typography / Foreign Typography / David Carson / Old & Foreign Advertising / Ephemera / Serigraphy / Pop Art / Hieronymus Bosch / Hans Augusto Rey / Hergé / John Stanley / George Herriman / Joe Oriolo / E.C. Segar / Winsor McCay / The Fleischer Brothers / Rube Goldberg / Gary Panter / Jack Kirby /

Education:
MFA Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design, OCAD University, Toronto, 2011.
Honours Graduate of Sheridan Institute's Bachelor of Applied Art (BAA) Illustration Program, Oakville, 2007.

Clientele:
HOW Magazine / Wired Magazine UK / Macworld Magazine / Rogers Communications Inc. / Alberta Oil Magazine / Isthmus Magazine* / Canadian Lawyer Magazine / Canadian Lawyer: 4STUDENTS Magazine / The Globe And Mail* / OCAD University / Las Vegas CityLife* / Alberta Venture Magazine* / This Magazine* / Asset International & Plansponsor / Benefits Canada Magazine & Innovate Magazine* / Shameless Magazine / San Francisco Chronicle / Canadian Business Magazine* / Maisonneuve Magazine / Grip Magazine / The Seattle Stranger / Hewlett Packard* / Golf Business Magazine* / Canadian Family Magazine* / Foodservice and Hospitality Magazine / ON Nature Magazine / Seattle Metropolitan Magazine / Feathertale* / Electric Pear / Central Student Association (University of Guelph) / Travis Magazine / Brick Weekly / Core Digital Pictures /... [possibly you if I'm lucky enough]

Exhibitions

Current Events & Past Exhibitions:

2012:
October - Black Math (group), The Steam Whistle Brewery, Toronto, Ontario.

 

2011:
October - SpeakEasy Illustration Show 2011 (group), The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.

May - I Do My Own Stunts, (Art Talk), Toronto School Of Art, Toronto, Ontario.

April - It Lacks A Human Corpse - MFA Thesis Show (solo), ESP Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
January - Gladstone 5th Anniversary Show (group), Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.

2010:
November - Applied Arts Award Exhibit (group), Artscape's Wychwood Barns, Toronto, Ontario.
October - The Dino Show (group), Double Punch Gallery, San Francisco, California.
April - Pretty Ugly (group), OCAD Graduate Student Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
February - IMYGRATE Exhibition (group), Olio Artists Co-operative / Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia.

2009:
November - Applied Arts Award Exhibit (group), Burroughes Building, Toronto, Ontario.
December - From Me To You (group), Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
October - Verge (group), OCAD Graduate Student Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
September - SpeakEasy Illustration Show 2009 (group), The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.
July - The Lonely Robot (group), Magic Pony, Toronto, Ontario.
June - Happily Never After (group), Keep Six Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario.
April - The Right Place (group), Double Punch Gallery, San Francisco, California.
March - The Birds and The Bees (group), Jerome Jenner Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

2008:
December - POP Euphoria (group), Aurora Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts.
December - KNOW (group), Art Now Fair, Miami, Florida.
November - Applied Arts Award Exhibit (group), Burroughes Building, Toronto, Ontario.
November - Surfacing (group), Hibbleton Gallery, Fullerton, California.
October - Don't Look At Me, I'm A Monster! (group), HQ Galerie Boutique, Montreal, Quebec.
September - SpeakEasy Illustration Show 2008 (group), The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.

August - Squarefoot Show 2008 (group), AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
July - No Parachute Required (group), Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario.
July - SuperHero (group), San Diego Comic Con, San Diego, California.

July - Master Of The Crystal Castle (solo), The Soda Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
June - Yokai In Your Eye (group), Bear & Bird Boutique + Gallery, Lauderhill, Florida.

June - HQ Turns Two! (group), HQ Galerie Boutique, Montreal, Quebec.
June - Tasty Pulp, Etc. (group), The Soda Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

April - Kaleidoscope! (solo), Metropolis-Store & Gallery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
March - Bepo + Mimi show: '1st Sign of Spring' (group), The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.
January - 8 Degrees of Separation (group), York Quay Centre, Toronto, Ontario.

2007:
December - X-mas Group Exhibit (group), La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
November - Applied Arts Students Award Show (group), Studio One, Toronto, Ontario.
September - SpeakEasy Illustration Show 2007 (group), The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.
April - Sheridan Headlines (group), The Steam Whistle Brewery, Toronto, Ontario.

Recognition & Awards

2010:
MARTY: Emerging Visual Arts - Nomination
3x3 International No.7 Pro Show - Editorial Category - Merit
Applied Arts Illustration Awards #19: Editorial Category

2009:
3x3 International No.6 Pro Show - Editorial Category - Merit
American Illustration 28: 'Selected'
Applied Arts Illustration Awards #18: Editorial Series Category
Applied Arts Illustration Awards #18: Personal Category
Applied Arts: Young Blood Feature
CMYK Magazine: Call For Aspiring Creatives #43

2008
American Illustration 27 'Selected'
Applied Arts Illustration Awards #17: Editorial Category
Applied Arts Illustration Awards #17: Personal Category
Creative Quarterly #12: Illustration Category - Merit

2007:
Creative Quarterly Best of 2007: Honorable Mention

American Illustration 26: 'Selected'
Creative Quarterly #8: Illustration Category - Gold
3x3 International No.4 Student Show - Gold
3x3 International No.4 Student Show - Bronze
3x3 International No.4 Student Show - Merit (x4)
Applied Arts Student Awards: Illustration Category (x3)
Sheridan Student Union Award Of Excellence
Sheridan College Graduate: BAA: Illustration (Honours)


2006:
Hambly and Woolley Award for Best in Show (Sheridan)

Contact

For commissions, licensing/stock inquiries, print sales, group shows, gallery opportunities, comments and questions, you can reach me at:

Alexei Vella MFA
22 McCaul Street
Unit 412

Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5T 3C2

alexei@alexeivella.com
(1) . 416 . 414 . 0268

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