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Are Disability Fetishists Exploiting People with Disabilities?

VICE commissioned Deshi Deng to illustrate their column exploring the topic of whether or not disability fetishists are exploiting people with disabilities.

Read the article here:
http://www.vice.com/read/are-disability-fetishists-exploiting-people-with-disabilities

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December 2, 2016

Cleaning Up Christmas

Just in time for Christmas! Maurice Vellekoop recently created this illustration for the The Walrus‘ article about the history of Saint Nicholas.
 
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An Odd Sea Book Launch

Blair Drawson announces a launch of his new book, An Odd Sea.
Thursday, December 8th, 7 to 9 pm, in the lobby of OCADU, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto.

An Odd Sea, in 256 pages of text and with 41 black and white illustrations, retells Homer’s Odyssey with naughty humour and a freewheeling disregard for time or historical fact.

Please join Blair on Dec. 8. Pick up a copy. Pay for it. Have it signed, if you like. Only $39.50!

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Dating with a Disability

Deshi Deng recently completed this illustration for the online VICE article about the difficulties of dating with a disability.

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Read the article here:
http://www.vice.com/read/the-difficulties-of-dating-with-a-disability

November 10, 2016

12 Ways to Look Your Worst

Men’s Health magazine comissioned Maurice Vellekoop to illustrate ’12 Ways to Look Your Worst.’ Check out these clothes, accessories, and grooming trends that have since faded out.
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August 26, 2016

Smuggling Porn into Jails

Deshi Deng’s latest illustration for Vice.com for an article about people smuggling porn into jails.

Read the article here.

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July 21, 2016

Fast Company’s June Issue

Alëna Skarina created this illustration about super social media stars in the latest issue of Fast Company.

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June 2, 2016

Milken Institute Review

Check out Steven Guarnaccia’s spot illustrations for the Milken Institute Review article ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’ by Robert Gordon.

Read the article here: http://assets1c.milkeninstitute.org/…/MIR…/PDF/75-94MR69.pdf
 
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April 11, 2016

Deshi Deng for Vice

Our illustrator Deshi Deng was recently commissioned by Vice to illustrate Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s article depicting the Jihadist war on bloggers in Bangladesh.

Check out the Vice article here:
http://www.vice.com/read/inside-the-jihadist-war-on-bloggers-on-bangladesh
 

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March 29, 2016

The Museum of the Street: 50 Years of Toronto Illustration

The Museum of the Street: 50 Years of Toronto Illustration
 

The Museum Of The Street: 50 Years of Toronto Illustration

Show Dates: January 12 to February 5, 2016
Opening reception: from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Thursday, January 14, 2016

The exhibition will be open to the public, Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

The Museum Of The Street will be a exhibition of the 50 years of illustration featuring the work of 38 Toronto illustrators who began their careers in the years between the 1960’s and the mid 1980’s.

Here’s the list of artists in the show…

Jamie Bennett
Huntley Brown
Tak Bui
David Chestnutt
Julius Ciss
Mike Constable
Sylvie Daigneault
Ken Dallison
Will Davis
Sandra Dionisi
Blair Drawson
Bob Fortier
Gail Geltner
James Hill
Roger Hill
Jeff Jackson
Barbara Klunder
Jerzy Kolacz
Anita Kunz
Ted Larson
Ross MacDonald
Doug Martin
Tom McNeely
Joe Morse
Simon Ng
Tomio Nitto
Dennis Noble
Doug Panton
Maureen Paxton
Joe Salina
Gerry Sevier
Peter Swan
James Sweetland
Mark Thurman
Maurice Vellekoop
Richard Whyte
Muriel Wood
Rene Zamic

(Painting by James Hill for the Canadian Opera Company’s 1979/1980 season poster)

January 12, 2016