northpublik: design above the 44th parallel

So here it finally is. I’ve been blogging very sporadically over the last couple of years, and now I’m hoping I’ve got my act together. I’ve been wanting to cull not only great design that’s both inspired and inspiring, but great Canadian design.

You’ll have to bear with me—being a graphic designer who grew up in a print-heavy world, I’m not that well versed in blog design. I cheated and picked a standard WordPress theme [with the ittiest of bittiest alterations] and I’m hoping that eventually I’ll get the hang of it enough to have my own styles come through.

But this blog isn’t about the design of the pages. It’s about the art within those pages—the designs from wickedly talented Canadians, both veterans and up-and-comers. I can write a whole bunch of flowery crap here, but all I really want to do is show some cool stuff from a cool country.

So my first post is about Urbanaut, the cutest city-dwelling robot that I’ve seen, discovered on Torontoist. This is the first style of drawing that I think is worthy of a look on Torontoist. Honestly, I think all their other strips are crap and the opposite of funny [yes, I'm talking to you, Povertyville].

Meet Gleebax, courtesy of Rey Ortega, via Torontoist