- unorthodox perspectives
a catalog of images, icons, words & sounds -- ideas -- in no particular order 
.Image, part of a print advertising design - ColoRip Pre-Press, Inc.
Adobe Photoshop 2.5- I find few things more therapeutic than working in Photoshop, a magical place in which it is possible to meld any number of unrelated things into a new, cohesive whole; or even into something surreally askew!
This piece (above) was done in 1993 (i think) using a relatively early version of Adobe Photoshop.
More stuff follows... 
Theoretical physics poster (11" x 14") - Series: “Anything ...in ten words or less”
Concept: 2005, Design and print: 2008 - Adobe Illustrator CS4
PDF available for high-quality printing
....Club crests - TorontoChessClub.com
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CS4- Quote - 2002
The future is going to be collaborative. Everyone will be participating in the workflow. Yes, even the clients. So, tomorrow's firms will have to be responsive, cordial and accountable if they wish to take a central role in the evolving industry.
Article: "The Next Ten Years: Key Philosophies in Print"
The Graphic Arts magazine - September 2002 
Logo Design - Vortex Racing, Montréal, Canada
Adobe Illustrator CS3- .
Magazine Ad - Schneider Electric Canada
Promotional campaign concept, copywriting, design - Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CS; QuarkXpress 6.0
Plus special product labeling, ballots, wobblers, radio campaign, partner relationship management - .
Copywriting, promotional arrangements - 30 sec. radio spot - Schneider Electric Canada
Advertising a 60-min. retrospective examination of the August 14, 2003 Blackout
The Ross MacLeod Show - AM 640 Toronto - Friday, August 13, 2004 - .
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Winged disc icon - Archangel Media Inc.
Adobe Photoshop 3.0 - .
Splash screen / landing page - Adobe Photoshop 5.5 - viz / earthboppin.net - .
Educational campaign design, copywriting, graphics, evangelism - dMACS industry initiative - Magazines Canada
Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Photoshop 5.0, QuarkXpress 3.32, Quark Immedia, Apache Server, HTML, Perl 5 - .
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Label and Seal design - LifeMel Honey, Benamarc Inc.
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CS; QuarkXpress 5.5 - Life:
Ubiquitous, chronic ailment of which very little is actually known.
Doctors generally advise that it be allowed to run its course, even though death is expected in 100% of cases.
While scientists agree that more research is the answer, billions of dollars are already expended annually to combat the rising tide of infection; trillions, if military applications are included.Some researchers, citing the OPPC (ounce of prevention vs. pound of cure) axiom, maintain that prevention is the only viable strategy. However, that argument is rejected by those who contend that any such program could risk the pre-emption of an individual otherwise fated to discover the elusive cure.The WHO predicts that the number of people afflicted by the condition will soon rise to seven billion.
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This scene was created in Photoshop 5.0 using the images shown below. - Quote - 2010Strategy is inherently a predictive process which takes into account past events; former and current trends; present circumstances; and construes from these, the best possible actions to take in the future, vis-à-vis one's declared objectives.
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Proposal design - APoJi
(A Peace of Jerusalem initiative)
WordPress; Adobe InDesign, Photoshop CS4 - Clamshell packaging (digital comp.), design, copy - NODOR Odor Neutralizer - imeanbiz.com
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Mathematical concept: diametric dimensionality, chart design - Adobe Illustrator 8 - Email me for a PDF file of the current version(latest update: January, 2012)
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TIFF posters (27"x40") - Scanning, colour management, film separations, proofing
ColoRip Pre-Press, Inc. for Mariposa Communications Group Inc.
Toronto International Film Festival 1994,1995 - .
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Audio CD design - Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CS - .
Annual Report, 8-pg. gatefold - AHWS via Willow Printing Group Ltd.
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign CS3 - .
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CD-ROM magazine "Digital Bridge" - Graphic Exchange magazine, 1995
Protagonist / Narrator for “The Big Delete”, an animated digital short based on a series of stories
I did on the life of Jack Syntax, P.I. (PostScript Investigator) - published Graphic Exchange, 1992.
The CD-ROM was runner-up at the Interactive Media and Marketing Awards in Hollywood. - Quote - 1997
You can never drive fast enough to get away from the werewolf in your back seat. - .
Album/CD Cover design - Adobe Photoshop CS - Track Title: 123 Running Time: 1:23 Live recording, Godin LG guitar
- Track Title: Mi Casa Running Time: 4:22 iLife Garage Band
- Track Title: twasbrillig Running Time: 1:47 Record & Mix via Garage Band
- Labatt Genuine Draft beer can and label reproduction (not exactly as shown) - ColoRip Pre-Press, Inc.
1st industry success w/stochastic (fm) graduated screens on metal/foil @ American Can Company (Chicago, 1994)Adobe Photoshop 2.5, Illustrator 5.0; RipTone FM screening; Scangraphic 2051 imagesetter - .
Parkin-Bade Economics text - Tony Gordon Limited - Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1991
First full-colour traditional textbook in Canada produced with direct-to-film PostScript colour separation.
Ventura Publisher, Adobe Separator -- with custom colour separation routines. Imagesetting on Linotype L300. - .
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Large format poster, "Occupational Therapy in Rheumatology retrospective" - Southlake Regional Health Centre
Copy editing, design, print management - Adobe Illustrator CS, QuarkXpress 5.0 - Promotional card (copywriting, design, print) - Storage NOW / Storagemaxx via Willow Printing Group Ltd.
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator CS3; QuarkXpress 7.0 - .
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Logo - Adobe Illustrator CS3 - Gravity Waves - 2008
An oxymoron, but theoretically observable as sumo wrestling approaches lightspeed.
-- from the series: "Anything ...in ten words or less" - Retail store layout - Knodes Active Knowledge Centres
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Digital music file format (filename.i45) origination, specification, design variations - Musicrypt Inc.
Adobe Illustrator 10 - .
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Magazine cover, 9-pg. technical report on Stochastic Screening - Graphic Exchange magazine, May 1994
Adobe Photoshop 2.5, QuarkXpress 3.32, RipTone FM (frequency modulated) screening, Scangraphic imaging
Demand for the special report led to a second printing in the form of an 8-page excerpt.
ColoRip Pre-Press, Inc. - voice at playno processing or digital effects
- Title: Voice Demo 1 Running Time: 2:53 GarageBand, profile: 'Male Basic'
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Magazine cover (The Jeff Healey Band's first national cover) - Music Express magazine, March 1989
At the Music Express Awards, Jeff complimented me on the design, saying, "Yeah, it looks great!"
Joe said he couldn't remember ever posing in front of a red brick wall.
And Tom, magazine in hand, said that he was definitely going to get laid.
Jeff, you sure had a way with music -- and words. Pictures... not so much.
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Logo, business card - The Innovation Center (Chicago)
Adobe Illustrator CS - A very successful magazine ad: 1,200+ requests for free brains (tips & tricks booklet) - ColoRip Pre-Press, Inc.Appeared in Graphic Exchange magazine, May 1994, just once; est. circulation ~14,000 copies
Concept, design, copywriting, imagesetting, proofing - Adobe Illustrator 5.0, Photoshop 2.5 - We published two editions of our helpful tips and tricks booklets; 12- and 16-pages, respectively.
Technical writing/editing, imagesetting, proofing - Adobe Illustrator 5.0, Photoshop 2.5; FM and supercell screening
Art by Dale Moser, Dave Holmes, Shane Steinman; ColoRip logo by Dave Holmes;
Concept by Tom Beakbane and Shane Steinman - .
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Logo - Reynolds & Associates
Adobe Illustrator 10 - .
Workflow, calibration and Q.A. for 7,000+ scans of licensed archival materials (line-art, grayscale, RGB, CMYK)
ColoRip Pre-Press, Inc. for Sonar Communications / EclectiCollections Publishing Ltd., 1996
High resolution scanning, digital retouching, colour correction. Scitex EverSmart Scanner, Photoshop 3.0
Special thanks to David Arculus for doing yeoman's work on the scanning. - Riddle 31 - 2010Old widow Peabody was mortified when, in making an adjustment to the time on her precious grandfather clock, she inadvertently snapped the minute hand in two. A friend recommended an antique shop that carried all the parts for the same model clock. She visited there but returned disappointed. Why?
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Annual Report, 8-pg. gatefold - AHWS via Willow Printing Group Ltd.
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign CS4 - On Russell’s Paradox - 2009
Proves a rule is proved by its most fundamental exception.
-- from the series: "Anything ...in ten words or less" - Variously, copywriting, design, production management for marketing and display materials
Schneider Electric Canada
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CS; QuarkXpress 6 - Stab-Lok loadcentre promotion - Scratch 'n Win - Schneider Electric Canada
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Membership campaign, propaganda, manifesto - Marxist-Darwinist Party
“Survival of the glibbest!” - Logo - Co-Creator.ca
Adobe Illustrator 10 - Logo, card design - The Innovation Center (Chicago)
Adobe Illustrator 10 - Logo/icon - Somersault Technologies Inc.
Adobe Illustrator 10 - Logo, card design - The Innovation Center (Chicago)
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Logo/icon - Earthly Alternatives Inc.
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Annual Report, 8-pg. gatefold - AHWS via Willow Printing Group Ltd.
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign CS4 - Quote - 2010A single atom can exist for many billions of years; theoretically, for as long as the universe will. Such is the perfectly profound state of its integral unity. And yet, simple man, whose life is briefer than a moment in comparison, conflicted and contrasted as he is, can muster the understanding necessary to shatter such harmony in an instant even shorter than the universe's experience of him.
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Adobe Photoshop 3.0 - Archangel Media Inc. - .
Copywriting & character selection - imahd.ca - absurdditty
You're a beautiful person inside
such a beautiful person inside
So, wear your insides on your outside
and you just won't believe
what wearing your heart on your sleeve can do
Wear your insides on your outside
and everyone will be in love with you
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Now don't be so clandestine
Show off some intestine
and everyone will be in love with you
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Lyrics, composition - "Ode to a Python", 1979 - .
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Report cover - Adobe Photoshop CS4 - embedded energy - Proving Uncertainty - 2009
A simple dimensional solution for Heisenberg's uncertainty principle:
The absolute position of a particle can be determined solely using 3D (xyz) space, but the motion of a particle must be evaluated in 4D (xyz +t) space. Both attributes cannot be known at the same time because that dimension (time) doesn't exist in 3D space.
The only exception would be a particle at perfect rest in its 4D environment, in which case, motion is nil and time is obviated as a meaningful factor.
Meanwhile, the momentum of a particle may only be known in a type of 5D (xyz+t+m) space.
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Simple interior design study - Adobe Photoshop 5.5 - .
Photography, Adobe Photoshop 1.0 - .
2010 Conclave promotional teaser - Monks of Invention, The Innovation Center (Chicago)
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Copywriting & character selection (cartoons) - imahd.ca
"Pointdexter" icon design (above middle) - Adobe Illustrator CS - VizReport - .
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Technoid illustration - Adobe Illustrator CS2 - .
CD cover (and cassette tape insert) design - Sangeet Kaur Khalsa & Harjinder Singh Gill
Adobe Illustrator 7.0, Photoshop 5.0 - .
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Emblem/icon - imahd.caAdobe Illustrator CS3 - .
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Mood and contradiction study - humblerock
Photography, Adobe Photoshop 4.0 - Compassion
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We dare to hope that war abates
And men cast off their precious hates.
Compassion whispers at the door,
But who can hear above the roar?
The world can't stand another round
Of breaking up and breaking down,
So silent go, and do your chore,
Let whispers of compassion soar.
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November, 2008
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Editorial image, caption - VizReport
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"Homepage" collage - Winston & Holmes
Adobe Photoshop 3.2, Illustrator 5.5
