Without a View, 2020
More in Common, 2020
Schadenfreude, 2018
IL FUT UN TEMPS OÙ
VOIR ÉTAIT LE SYNONYME DE SAVOIR, MAIS RIEN DE PLUS.
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN
SEEING WAS AKIN TO KNOWING. BUT NO MORE.
The more the happiness industry tries to see, the more it tries to read faces and spaces with numerical abstractions, the less it seems to know. It confuses smiles with happiness and makes all sorts of basic
La Partecipazione Alle Idee, 2010
Group exhibition
Capo Di Lucca,
Bologna, IT
De Verenigde Sandbergen magazine, 2010
with Lauren Grusenmeyer
Sandberg Instituut,
Amsterdam, NL
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE BECOMES “GOOD” FOR YOU, SO TO SPEAK? FOR YOUR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS?
MONTRÉAL, QC
A Solo Space For All to See, 2020, Essay on “the happiness industry” in the home under pandemic peril and Google Urbanism.
The Big Picture, NewCities Foundation
Photo by Fred Ross, Toronto Star
The Big Picture, NewCities Foundation
Photo by Fred Ross, Toronto Star
AMSTERDAM, NL
These Are Still The Times, 2020, Interview with Pratt Institute professor Chris Lee, about economic crises and their effects on graphic art and education.
Design Dedication,
Sandberg Instituut and Valiz
Design Dedication,
Sandberg Instituut and Valiz
PARIS, FR
Apprendre de LUST : mirroirs et folie numérique, 2018, Une remémoire épistolaire avec Greg J. Smith sur la dissolution du studio de design néerlandais LUST.
Back Office, Édition B42
Back Office, Édition B42
Digital book, 2020
Art direction, Web design
Writing and photography by Daniel Canty
Montréal, QC
Art direction, Web design
Writing and photography by Daniel Canty
Montréal, QC
Contact sheet from the process of photography direction
Photography by Daniel Canty
Photography by Daniel Canty
Plana Pastoralem, 2019
Terra Nullius no. 1, 2019
AMSTERDAM, NL
Where The Image Flows: How Sidewalk Labs’ Public Relations Came To Dominate Journalism, 2019, Visual essay on how Google’s sister company pitched a “smart” city image for Toronto.
Failed Architecture, FA Foundation
Failed Architecture, FA Foundation
AMSTERDAM, NL
On Criticism As A Fun Mechanism, 2013, Essay on how design and architecture criticism could be more fun and conversational—whether positive or negative.
Volume magazine, Archis Foundation
Volume magazine, Archis Foundation
AMSTERDAM, NL
New City Myths, 2012, Essay on the visual culture of private towns as a key tool in the power brokering of architecture, real estate, and geopolitics.
Volume magazine, Archis Foundation
Volume magazine, Archis Foundation
Ligna, 2019
Terra Nullius no. 2, 2019
lies in his youthful “sunny ways”, and Eric Schmidt follows suit with his brand of “radical optimism”. Sunny. Confident. Cheerful. It’s the ideology of positive psychology upgraded to the level of
public-
private
statecraft.”
New City Myths,” 2012
Visual essay
Volume magazine
Edit by Brendan Cormier
Archis Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
Turrim, 2019
Editor, Guest professor at École de design
UQAM, Montréal, QC
Artist in Residence,” 2013
Art direction
Coat by Miu Miu
Sculpture by Vanessa Maltese
Style by Rita Liefhebber
Portrait by Norman Wong
Flare magazine, Toronto, CA
The Art of the Cutaway,” 2015
Art direction
Portrait of Shin Yoshikaw by Ryan Young
Photo direction by Catherine Dean
Apex, Los Angeles, US
Handwriting in an Era of Glitter Text,” 2017
Essay, Art direction
Portrait of Chef by Norman Wong
The Gradient, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, US
Writing, Visual identity, Website design, 2019 to 2021
Founded by Jim Balsillie, Edit with Neve Peric
Code by Nicolas Roy at Folklore Inc., Photograph by Philip Cheung
Centre for Digital Rights, Toronto, CA
Code by Nicolas Roy at Folklore Inc., Photograph by Philip Cheung
Centre for Digital Rights, Toronto, CA
Centre for Digital Rights site,
2019 to 2021
Mobile view
Code by Nicolas Roy at Folklore Inc.
Code by Nicolas Roy at Folklore Inc.
Centre for Digital Rights print ad, 2020
Writing, Photography direction
Writing, Photography direction
Edit by Neve Peric
Photography by Philip Cheung
Photography by Philip Cheung
Printed in the Globe and Mail,
Financial Post
Financial Post
On The Road to Jazz Fest,” 2015
Art direction
Art direction
Photography by Norman Wong
Apex, New Orleans, US
Apex, New Orleans, US
PSYCHOLOGISTS AND DATA SCIENTISTS DOMINATE THE VOCABULARY OF THE HAPPINESS INDUSTRY. EVEN ECONOMISTS AT THE UNITED NATIONS.
WHY?
Research Residency,
2018
Artexte, Montréal,
QC
Artexte.ca – Detail of “SAFE” (Panel #4 of 4), by Adrien Piper, 1990 Mixed media installation: four enlarged magazine photos with silkscreened text, audiotrack. From Adrian Piper: Pretend. [New York], NY: Adrian Piper; s.l.: John Weber Gallery, 1990.
[e-Artexte catalogue] Dossier 420 – PIPER, ADRIAN.
MONTREAL, QC
A conversation with Michèle Champagne,” 2018, Written interview on the vocabulary of the happiness industry and the critical alternatives offered by art and architecture.
Articles, Artexte
Articles, Artexte
TORONTO, CA
Greg Durrell: Design Canada, 2019, Film review of Design Canada as a specimen of Canada’s dominant colonial fiction—repackaged with modern design and happy house tunes.
C Magazine, C The Visual Arts Foundation
C Magazine, C The Visual Arts Foundation
Happiness is Desire, 2018
On The Road to Jazz Fest,” 2015
Art direction
Photography by Norman Wong
Photography direction by Catherine Dean
Apex, New Orleans, US
Daar Zijn Wij Van, 2010
Print catalogue
Print catalogue
with Brigiet van den Berg
VPRO, Hilversum, NL
VPRO, Hilversum, NL
VPRO postcards, 2010
Exhibited at Brakke Grond,
Amsterdam, NL
Beste Jaarverslag, 2010
Awarded by Grafische Cultuurstichting
Exhibited at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, NL
Hazlitt magazine
Digital literary magazine, 2014
Edit by Christopher Frey
Penguin Random House, Toronto, CA
Website of the Year,
National Magazine Awards, 2015
Hazlitt magazine, 2014
Mobile view
Code by Wayne Thayer
Built with WordPress
Hz application, 2014
Custom Hazlitt image editing app
Code by Cedric Flazinski
Built with Processing
On The Road to Jazz Fest,” 2015
Art direction
Photography by Norman Wong
Photography direction by Catherine Dean
Apex, New Orleans, US
Art direction
Photography by Norman Wong
Photography direction by Catherine Dean
Apex, New Orleans, US
Handwriting in an Era of Glitter Text,” 2017
Essay, Art direction
Photography by Norman Wong
The Gradient, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, US
Essay, Art direction
Photography by Norman Wong
The Gradient, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, US
Montréal, Québec