Fresh Stuff

My two favourite projects are designing books and designing logos and I have been doing lots of both lately. I am just completing the Food Net Haliburton Logo and working on a new logo for Medeba.

As for books, Cell Phones and Sap Buckets by Neil Campbell is growing into a beautiful book. Neil is certainly one of Haliburton County’s special treasures. I am honoured to be the designer of his first book! Neil’s writing combined with illustrations by Charlie Teljeur, edited by Marjorie Ludlow Green and designed by Crystal Image Studio - it cannot help but be a fabulous book!

Neil’s writing is wonderful and witty, so much so, it is hard to stay focussed while designing. Lucky I work by myself as I often break into laughter as reading snippets of his work. I will post more info on availability how and where once it is closer to completion.

Neil Campbell has just been honoured as the best weekly newspaper columnist in Ontario for his musings on life in the Haliburton woods with The Brown Dog Jiggs. Now the best of his writing from the best six years has been collected in Cell Phones and Sap Buckets, to be published this summer. Neil and Jiggs, a smooth collie, live a life off the hydro grid surrounded by 50 acres of sugar maples, about a hundred miles northeast of Toronto. The Ontario Community Newspapers Association award recognizes Neil as columnist of the year for his work for the Minden Times in 2009.

Congratulations Neil on this award and the amazing work you have done for your first book!