I did a little contribution artwork for the movie Tron Legacy back at his opening in theaters. It was a fun experimental typography that took me around 6 hours of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Today the movie is coming out on DVD, so I decided to show you guys the process of "My Grid" artwork inspired by the movie. As you can see, I started it all with a simple gradient for the background and later added the typo vector base, the shadow and of course the lighting to complete the poster.

I hope that was enjoyable to see in a few pictures the process of this artwork! Now go grab the movie and you'll see there's a lot of 'color dodge' effects in the Tron Legacy Movie! :)

Aoiro.

On March 26th, the whole world is coming together for one hour of pure celebration.

It's the annual Earth Hour celebration and this time my friend Radim Malinic from ColourSpaces was throwing an amazing poster contest for the event. We had to design a poster to express our vision of the Earth Hour.

It was an offer that I couldn't refuse so here's my submission. I wanna congratulate the winner Antony Kitson that did a simple but effective design. Awesome job! To check out the submissions, just click here.

Let us remember that on March 26th, to turn off the lights for the better of our future!

Aoiro.

As you may have heard, Japan was destroyed by an 8.9 earthquake and tsunami.

I almost spent the whole day watching the news and checking the tweets on Twitter. I couldn't barely work because of this disaster. I wasn't gonna sit there and do nothing, so I decided do whatever I can, to help the situation in Japan.

One of my good friend James White from Signalnoise started something amazing today on his blog. He showed us some good links for us to donate for the Japan relief. Check out the link by clicking here.

Inspired by the movement created by James White and others like Hydro74 and PJ Tierney. I decided to make this print entitled: Wake from Death and Return to Life. It's a japanese expression "kishi kaisei" and it means "To come out of a desperate situation and make a complete return in one sudden burst." It's to honour the courage of the japanese people after such a montruous tragedy.

I already sent this 12 x18 in poster to my printer and this will be included into a set of two (2) posters for sale on my online store. I'll include also my Retro Montreal Poster as a gift for your support!

I'll also put down the prices of what's left from the Montreal Meets Store and ALL the sales will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross.

As a designer, it's the least I can do to help those you can't do anything right now and this whole disaster makes you feel very fortunate for what you have in your life. I hope my gesture will inspire you to do the same! Join me.

Thank you and let's help Japan! Peace!

Aoiro.

I had such an amazing week so far! So here's some of the news that happened earlier this week.

First things first, I published the Montreal Meets Recap 2011 Video on Vimeo. To be pretty honest, it was my very first attempt of making a video montage. I am really happy with the result and my goal was to really captivate the great moments of the event for those who couldn't be there.

So here's the link for you guys if you haven't seen it yet: http://vimeo.com/20822771

Secondly, I answered some questions with the mighty Colin Oakes from OakesDesign.ca about the next Montreal Meets happening in 2012. If you wanna check that out, click on the link here.

And also take a look at Colin's website; it's full of great articles and more!

Last but not least, I gave a speech on March 9th at Concordia University for "Industry Meets the Makers" with DASA. I wanted to thank the people that manage to found some time on their Wednesday afternoon to meet me! It had a great time talking about my experience in the business and my path for making the Montreal Meets.

Thanks guys for your support and stay tuned because there's more news coming real soon!

Aoiro.

Hi everyone! After more than a month since the big event of Montreal Meets, the DASA (Design Student Art Association) of Concordia University gave me the opportunity to talk in front of a group of students.

I was pretty honoured by the invitation so I said yes! It will be my first experience, I'd probably know what to expect but still has its joy and excitement. Something I've learned from my predecessors is that I'll bring some goodies to giveaway to the audience!

So here are the details, I'll be feature into an hour presentation talking about creativity, inspiration, experience and a peek of Montreal Meets 2012.

When: Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Where: Concordia University, Montreal Quebec
Time: at 3hpm
Room: EV 6-720 (EV Building)

I am really looking forward to this intimate talk and hope to see you there!

Aoiro.

I guess the title says it all! Thanks to Fabio Sasso, I just became their latest contributor for Abduzeedo, one of the world's best design blogs.

I am joining a team full of really great people abducted to design like Fabiano Meneghetti, Paulo Gabriel, Alexis Papageorgiou, Paulo Canabarro, Gisele Muller, Amanda Macedo, Nathan Weller, Marcelo Seferin and Marcos Torres. I am really grateful and honored to be part of this dream team!

My very first post was about the Visual Artist named Tara Babando and her stunning paintings! Check her post on Abduzeedo right here.

If you have any suggestions or requests, just email or contact me via my Email or Twitter.

Aoiro.

There's a contest giveway going on right now on Montreal Meets, Abduzeedo and Signalnoise.

Just leave a comment on the contest post and that's it! We'll pick a random winner for each sites! So three prizes, three sites so three chances to win! :)

What's the prize? You get to win the two posters of Montreal Meets done by Fabio Sasso and James White. And also the official t-shirt of Montreal Meets 2011.

Have the best of luck everyone! The contest ends on February 25th, 2011.

For more info on the Montreal Meets Gear, check out the store right here.

Aoiro.

It's been a long time since I haven't blogged on my site! Sorry guys, I was caught really busy with the Montreal Meets and some work. Now I've found the time to share with you guys my picks of the week.

And I just got this idea of sharing some my links that inspired me during the week because as we all know most of our time we do lots of surfing on the Net. :) It's also pretty inspired by the Best of the Week from the amazing folks from Abduzeedo.

Okay! So this is my own Picks of the Week and this is the number 5! So let's go!

1. http://www.oakesdesign.ca/20-questions...
2. http://www.aoirostudio.com/montrealmeets/news/news5_recap...
3. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810026349...
4. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/02/01/smashing-book-2
5. http://www.toxel.com/tech/2011/02/04/hang-glider-on-wheels

References: Oakes Design, Montreal Meets, Movies Yahoo, Smashing Magazine, Toxel

Hope you will enjoy the links! Thanks!

Aoiro.