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Salaam/Shalom
If you are like me, you feel devastated witnessing the horror unfolding in Gaza/Israel. At times like this (but have there ever been such times???) it can feel that we are powerless: but we are never truly that. Here’s something we can do: I’m inviting you all to join the…
Resilient Gardens for a Changing Climate
The Echo Valley Farm group offers a beautiful example of how collectivizing food production can create not only healthy systems but healthy human cultures. Robert Birch, who has been farming together with his neighbours on their patch of south-end ground since the project’s inception, thinks of the Echo Valley Farm…
Strong As Cedar
A campaign to shine a light on institutional racism faced by Indigenous Peoples in Canada, particularly by police and the financial sector.
Festival Afloat
A fun, on-the-water paddle-powered concert series taking place during COVID, allowing people to safely gather in canoes, kayaks, paddle boards and rowboats to enjoy live music.
New site for RAVENTrust.com
RAVEN needed a site upgrade to bring their work – raising legal defence funds for Indigenous Nations – to the next level. Incorporating a dynamic, Google-based “Mapping Justice” interactive map, Press Kit templates for campaigns, timelines, interactive visual storytelling and a lyrical, impactful design sensibility, the site has also been…
“Raven People Rising” Documentary screens at VIFF gala
Ahh…. that time you write and direct a film on a wing and a prayer and, by some mysterious blend of luck and timing, it ends up screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival… Throughout 2018, I worked on contract with RAVEN (https://raventrust.com) with a dream team (Alex Harris, Gary…
Permaculture Potluck
Fun poster for a community gathering.
The Indigenous nation exposing the lie of Canada’s “world class” oil spill response
A different kind of sentencing hearing took place today on B.C.’s central coast, in an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Three years after the Nathan E. Stewart sank, spilling 110,000 litres of diesel, effluent, and engine oil into Heiltsuk fishing grounds, the Indigenous nation is still waiting for…
Victories 2017
Map of successes in Indigenous justice.
Wild For Salmon
Wild salmon are the backbone of British Columbia. As the original stewards of this precious gift of the rivers and ocean, First Nations are standing up to industrial projects that threaten to wipe out the lifeblood of our province. Four Aboriginal groups along the Skeena and the Nass Rivers are…
NO MO Foundation Infographic
The client: NO MO Foundation, a public health research & development foundation The job: Infographic to describe the organization’s theory of change. The challenge: taking dry, dense public health research and communicating it in story form, with positive emphasis and clear call to action. What was fun: highlighting the truly impressive ambitions…
RAVEN Trust Victory Infographic
The client: RAVEN Trust The job: Infographics for year-end donation drive. The challenge: highlighting 2016 victories. What was fun: sampling from thousands of wonderful images of Indigenous nations and supporter events; playing with Coast Salish iconography from artist Mark Gauti. What was challenging: finding milestones for multi-year campaigns, summarizing complex legal approaches, finding…
Renewable Energy Conference
Poster for Community Energy Strategy.
Transition Salt Spring
Transition Salt Spring hosts regular potlucks, movie nights, and speaker series. This was a graphic for the bi-ennial Eco Home tour, which I helped to promote. We raised $10,000 by inviting the masses to check out green built homes on Salt Spring Island. Great day & fun graphics!
Week to End Enbridge
Graphics for various events and businesses who raised an awesome $70,000 in just one week!
Seagrass Conservation Working Group
With the motto, “Working together to conserve and restore seagrass on BC’s coast” this valiant organization mobilizes citizen scientists to map and restore critical ocean habitat. Check out the site at www.seagrassconservation.org
Awakening the power of yoga to stop a pipeline
(Published in Aqua Magazine, November 2014) Moksha Yoga founder Ted Grand is not the kind of guy who does things by halves. With 70 studios from Sydney, Australia to Paris, France, one of Salt Spring’s great ‘activist entrepreneurs’ believes that yoga is for everyone— and that the practice can be…
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If you have a case to make, my innovative communication tools will help your audience get the picture. If you're looking for impactful communications to move hearts and foster action, book a discovery session.
TALK BEAUTY WITH ME
If you have a case to make, my innovative communication tools will help your audience get the picture. If you're looking for impactful communications to move hearts and foster action, book a discovery session.