OCAD U Illustration Graduate Ahn Na Lim on the cover of 3x3's Illustration Annual No. 14

Ahn Na Lim, 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 - 11:45am

The work of OCAD U Illustration Graduate Ahn Na Lim (2009) will be on the cover of 3x3's Illustration Annual No.14, scheduled for publication December 2017.

In the annual, you’ll also find award-winning work from our 2016/17 students:

Bronze: Andrew Watch (4th year)

Distinguished Merit: Varvara Nedilska (2nd year)

Merit: Andrew Watch (4th year), Ann Sheng (4th year), Lily Snowden-Fine (2nd year)

Honorable Mention: Adam Marin (4th year), Christopher Dupon-Martinez (3rd year), Jisu Lee (3rd year), Varvara Nedilska (2nd year) (2 awards)

Saskia Van Kampen featured on Novella Magazine

image of Saskia's work
Monday, October 17, 2016 - 6:00pm

Graphic Design Assistant Professor Saskia Van Kampen was recently interviewed by Novelle Magazine to talk about what prompted her to study design, the differences about doing her own creative work and working for clients, her work and creative process. 

You can read the interview here

 

Illustration: "Normal Waistline" by Saskia Van Kampen

Global Village

Global Village Image
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 5:00am to Friday, December 5, 2008 - 5:00am

Global Village - def. The whole world considered as a single community served by electronic media and information technology.

Untitled Magazine is a publication integrating works from both communities of design and art. Our focus is to help promote the works of emerging artists by publishing and also exhibiting them.

Image credit: Brenda Gonzalez

Venue & Address: 
Transit Space 100 McCaul St., 2nd Floor, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Fundraiser Raffle: OneHourEmpire

OneHourEmpire
Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 2:00am

Students in Professor Eldon Garnet's class are launching a new cultural magazine entitled OneHourEmpire.

To raise funds, raffle tickets are available for $100 each to win one of eight works:

Edward Burtynsky
Shipyard #13, Mounted C Print 18x22 inches, edition 8/25

Noel Harding
Ecolamp, 1999, glass, wire, light parts

Ian Carr-Harris
Mind Reading, 1994, stainless steel, book, light

Suzy Lake
Beauty at a Proper Distance/In Song, 2001, C-print, framed, 23.5x26 inches

Micah Lexier
Virtrine Drawing (blue), 2007, Two-colour letterpress prints on Strathmore paper, 22x17 inches, edition 11/22

Nick and Sheila Pye
Musing, 2006, C-print, 20x20 inches, edition 1/5

Eldon Garnet
If Only for a Moment, 2006, stainless steel, 1.5x22x.125 inches, edition 2/5

Rirkrit Tiravanija
Saddle, 2008, light jet photographic print, mounted, 33.25x21.75 inches, edition 1/3

The work is on display at the Great Hall from Sunday September 21 to Friday October 3. Tickets can be purchased online at www.onehourempire.com

Venue & Address: 
The Great Hall 1087 Queen St. W, Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Free Drawings Issue #2

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 - 4:00am to Saturday, September 6, 2008 - 4:00am

Peruse the exhibited drawings and pick up your copy of Free Drawings for zero dollars. The party features DJ Jenny Orenda, Vomit Mountain, LSDoubleDcup, Yomul Yuk, and the Bush League.

XPACE

XPACE is a non-profit artist- and student-run centre committed to the exposure of multi-disciplinary emerging artists in a professional context that is recognized within the local and international contemporary art and design community. Their goal is to build a bridge between art and design students and their professional counterparts by offering a platform in which they may exhibit their works and be externally recognized, which in turn promotes relevant programming that instigates public discourse and propels the development of contemporary art and design.

All OCAD students are members of XPACE Cultural Centre, which is a membership driven organization governed by The OCAD Student Union Board of Directors.

Venue & Address: 
X-space 58 Ossington Ave., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Illustrator Fiona Smyth's CHEEZ 2 art show

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 5:00pm to Sunday, April 3, 2016 - 9:00pm

CHEEZ 2 

Opening Wed. March 16 6:00 to 9:00pm

Running March 15- April 3, 2016

Fiona Smyth’s CHEEZ was originally a monthly comic/drawing published in Canada's Exclaim Magazine over a ten year period from 1992 to 2002. There were no editorial restrictions on the work apart from the monthly deadline and the colour restrictions of the paper (the art work had to be black and white). Each strip was created shortly before the deadline and numbered in chronological order. The second incarnation of CHEEZ, running online since 2009 to currently, is a weekly offering continuing with the same numbering sequence and restrictive palette. 

Visual artist Smyth’s creative process is unrestrained in the CHEEZ series. Recurring motifs and icons inform a non-linear narrative that spans nearly twenty-four years. Feminist imaginings of female bodies are central to this drawing world. Smyth’s stream of conscious approach connects to a long lineage of drawers, cartoonists, and imaginers like Moebius, Giles, Gary Panter, Saul Steinberg, George Grosz, John Scott, Frida Kahlo, and Louise Bourgeois. 

A collection of the first one hundred strips was published as CHEEZ 100 by Pedlar Press in 2001

Gallery 50 is offering the sale of individual inkjet prints of the exhibited CHEEZ drawings upon request.

Venue & Address: 
Gallery 50 50 Gladstone Avenue
Website: 
http://www.facebook.com/50tronto/?fref=ts artpost-cheez.blogspot.ca/
Phone: 
416-535-6957

Sculpture Magazine featuring MAAD Chair Dorie Millerson

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 6:15pm

Sculpture Magazine’s March 2016 issue has an article on MAAD Chair Dorie Millerson’s work called “Dorie Millerson: The Matter of Scale” by Gil McElroy, pp. 54-57 http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag16/mar_16/mar16_features6.shtml

Society of Illustrators honours Design professor

Courtney Barnett (by Jody Hewgill)
Monday, January 25, 2016 - 3:00pm

Jody Hewgill’s portrait of Courtney Barnett was recently honoured with an Award of Merit by the Society of Illustrators. The picture appeared in Rolling Stone (March 26, 2015) alongside a review of the Australian singer’s album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. Hewgill’s work is currently on display as part of the Illustrators 58 exhibition in New York City.

“I wanted this portrait to reflect Courtney’s gift for turning seemingly mundane subject matter into humorous and clever lyrics,” says Hewgill, an assistant professor in OCAD University’s Faculty of Design. “I chose to illustrate the background scene upside down to reflect her clever observations and unique perspective on the world around her. It’s also a nod to her hometown, Melbourne, which is on the opposite side of the planet from us.” The painting – acrylic on wood panel – measures 10” x 16”.

This is far from Hewgill’s first pop-culture commission. She has been working with Rolling Stone for 15 years and, in 2015, Hewgill received a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators for her painting – Before Midnight – commissioned for Entertainment Weekly.

How to become a fashion photographer

In my years in the fashion industry, I've learned a lot both behind the scenes and in front of the camera.

Here are some things I've learned about fashion photography:

1. Fashion is one of the most exciting and creative types of photography you can actually get paid for.

2. The wilder your concepts, the more fun the production can be for a team. We make insane sets sometimes, for just one shot!

3. The reward of working with gorgeous clothing, shoes and accessories from world-famous designers every day is pretty special.

4. Sticking to your creative vision is key, but also being able to work collaboratively makes all the difference.

5. When that magical moment happens on set, where everything falls into place and you really know why you're doing this job, it's worth all the work.

6. Make sure your models are happy and fed. You can see an unhappy energy in photos instantly.

 

Thinking of becoming a fashion photographer?

If you want to be part of this world, here are my four tips:

1. Be nice! Be easy to work with, open to other's ideas, yet firm in what your vision is. No one wants to work with someone who can't roll with the punches.

2. Have a very concise vision for your portfolio. Don't have landscapes, and dogs, and people and cars. Curate your portfolio for the editor you are going to meet. Make sure your work reflects the brand of the magazine.

3. Constantly make more work. Even if you're not being hired to shoot, do creatives. Even my biggest photographers still do creatives to keep them moving forward.

4. Think outside of the box. Shooting in a studio all the time is easy. Going to a location and pushing yourself to learn lighting in an outdoor setting will take you leaps and bounds above the rest.

 

There's a lot of work that goes into the post production for your photos.

Here are my tips for making your photos look as great as possible:

1. If you're not a good retoucher, hire someone to do it for you. Retouching is a huge thing in fashion. If it's not done well, your work suffers.

2. Learn lighting. No great fashion photographer has ever made it by just shooting in natural light. Take courses on lighting, rent lighting and try everything until you can master that perfect light.

3. Use great lenses. You can rent professional lenses for about $40 per day. There is no reason to use your kit lens when you have all those amazing lenses to try out.

4. Make sure your images are tack sharp (unless you're going for a dreamy look). Images that are soft or out of focus are unusable for print in our publication. Make sure you know your f-stops, shutter speeds and focusing before you get into shooting with models.

5. Be excited about your work. You won't sell me on your work if you don't believe in it. Be passionate, and know who your influences are, because you will be asked who inspires you!

 

Erin Seaman teaches Introduction to the Business of Fashion Photography at OCAD University's Continuing Studies. She has been working in the photography industry for over 15 years, and has gained extensive knowledge in both film and digital backgrounds through her experience working and shooting in a commercial environment. Erin has owned her own studio, shot for a large range of companies such as Calvin Klein, the Globe and Mail, HELLO Canada and Toronto Life. She holds a BFA from OCAD U and is photo editor at FASHION Magazine.

 

How to become a fashion photographer

Image of a pair of models in photoshoot
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 4:00am

By Erin Seaman, photo editor for FASHION Magazine.

In my years in the fashion industry, I've learned a lot. Being both behind the scenes and in front of the camera with my team, there are some huge lessons one learns quite quickly. Fashion photography is a tricky world, where your contacts and etiquette reign supreme.

Here are some things I've learned about fashion photography:

1. Fashion is one of the most exciting and creative types of photography you can actually get paid for.

2. The wilder your concepts, the more fun the production can be for a team. We make insane sets sometimes, for just one shot!

3. The reward of working with gorgeous clothing, shoes and accessories from world-famous designers every day is pretty special.

4. Sticking to your creative vision is key, but also being able to work collaboratively makes all the difference.

5. When that magical moment happens on set, where everything falls into place and you really know why you're doing this job, it's all worth the work.

6. Make sure your models are happy and fed. You can see an unhappy energy in photos instantly.

 

Now, if you want to be part of this type of team, here are my four tips to becoming a fashion photographer:

1. Be nice! Be easy to work with, and open to others ideas, yet firm in what your vision is. No one wants to work with someone who can't roll with the punches.

2. Have a very concise vision for your portfolio. Don't have landscapes, and dogs, and people, and cars. Curate your portfolio for the editor you are going to meet. Make sure your work reflects the brand of the magazine.

3. Constantly make more work. Even if you're not being hired to shoot, do creatives. Even my biggest photographers still do creatives to keep them moving forward.

4. Think outside of the box. Shooting in a studio all the time is easy, going to a location and pushing yourself to learn lighting in an outdoor setting will take you leaps and bounds above the rest.

As for the final product, there's a lot of work that goes into the post production for our shoots.

Here are my tips for making your photos look as great as possible:

1. If you're not a good retoucher, hire someone to do it for you. Retouching is a huge thing in fashion, and if it's not done well, your work suffers.

2. Learn lighting. No great fashion photographer has ever made it by just shooting in natural light. Take courses on lighting, rent lighting and try everything until you can master that perfect light.

3. Use great lenses. You can rent professional lenses for about $40 per day. There is no reason to use your kit lens when you have all of these amazing lenses to try out.

4. Make sure your images are tack sharp (unless you're going for a dreamy look). Images that are soft or out of focus are unusable for print in our publication. Make sure you know your f-stops, shutter speeds and focusing before you get into shooting with models, it can be tricky.

5. Be excited about your work. You won't sell me on your work if you don't believe in it. Be passionate, and know who your influences are, because you will be asked who inspires you!

You can learn more about fashion photography by registering for Erin Seaman’s course, Introduction to the Business of Fashion Photography, part of OCAD University’s Continuing Studies.

 

Erin Seaman has been working in the photography industry for more than 15 years, and has gained extensive knowledge in both film and digital backgrounds due to her experience working and shooting in a commercial environment. She has owned her own studio, shot for a large range of companies such as Calvin Klein, the Globe and Mail, HELLO Canada and Toronto Life. She holds a BFA from OCAD University and is Photo Editor at FASHION Magazine.