Steiner Graphics

08/22/2024

Book Cover Design
George Ronald Publisher, Oxford

08/19/2024

08/17/2024

Two Steiner Graphics posters — "Grow" and "Hate Corrodes" will be included in the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition in 2024.
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"The biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) is a collection from the world’s most distinguished poster artists and designers. Hosted by CSU’s Department of Art and Art History, CIIPE is one of only a few international invitational poster exhibitions in the world. This popular event allows campus and Northern Colorado communities to experience firsthand the best the poster world has to offer."

07/24/2024

"Live" Poster Series wins Graphis Gold

Throughout the ages the number four has symbolized solidity, wholeness and universality. The intersectionality of the cross moving in four directions and yet returning to a centre is an obvious metaphor. Four letter words that embody proactive intention can make a similar statement — and there are many of them — “love” “look” “feel” “fuse”. The verb “live” also has four letters and in a way embodies all of the others. The goal of this poster series was to communicate this dynamic in an abstract form. Using yellow and light blue as base colours symbolizing dynamism and optimism posters played with layered visual themes evoked by the four-letter words chosen.

Graphis

07/01/2024

Canada Day 2024

“Cultural appropriation is an act of immaturity. Canada needs to grow out of it.”
― Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

“When racism doesn’t harm you personally, noticing it requires conscious effort, or at least empathy — just as acknowledging that you benefit from racism requires you to acknowledge its existence.”
― Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

05/02/2024

Book Cover Design
for George Ronald Publisher, Oxford

02/14/2024

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
• Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

02/09/2024

Poster Series
"LIve" is a Four-Letter Word

"Almost from prehistoric times, the number four was employed to signify what was solid, what could be touched and felt. Its relationship to the cross (four points) made it an outstanding symbol of wholeness and universality, a symbol which drew all to itself". Where lines of latitude and longitude intersect, they divide the earth into four proportions.”
—Wikipedia

“This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.”
— Maria Popova

“Design is thinking made visual”
— Saul Bass

01/23/2024

Poster Design

“Whether peace is to be reached only after unimaginable horrors precipitated by humanity’s stubborn clinging to old patterns of behaviour, or is to be embraced now by an act of consultative will, is the choice before all who inhabit the earth. At this critical juncture when the intractable problems confronting nations have been fused into one common concern for the whole world, failure to stem the tide of conflict and disorder would be unconscionably irresponsible.”
— The Promise of World Peace

01/20/2024

“For the tongue is a smoldering fire, and excess of speech a deadly poison. Material fire consumeth the body, whereas the fire of the tongue devoureth both heart and soul. The force of the former lasteth but for a time, whilst the effects of the latter endureth a century.”
—Bahá’u’lláh

“How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...”
― Robert Fulghum

“The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“We need to be the kind of person whose name pops into the minds of others when they are asked about those who encourage them.”
― Kent Kraning

“What we say with our lips is the true reading of where our heart is. Our words are able to start a fire that can burn down a forest or it can start a meaningful blaze that can empower a person to become more than they thought they could be.”
― Chris J. Gregas

01/19/2024

“But with the human soul, there is no decline. Its only movement is towards perfection; growth and progress alone constitute the motion of the soul.”
— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I’m two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren’t attached.”
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud’s blowed from or who the soul’ll be ‘morrow? Only Sonmi the east an’ the west an’ the compass an’ the atlas, yay, only the atlas o’ clouds.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.”
― John O’Donohue

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt Whitman

01/18/2024

Poster Design

“Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.”
― Ashton Applewhite

01/17/2024

Poster Design

“I wondered if the motto for our era should be: I tried to live, but I got distracted.”
― Johann Hari

01/16/2024

Poster Design

“Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult.
Words are powerful. Be careful how you use them because once you have pronounced them, you cannot remove the scar they leave behind.”
― Vashti Quiroz-Vega

01/02/2024

Card Design
for AZHA Attorneys-at-Law, Geneva, Switzerland

12/28/2023

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”
— Robert L. Peters

“The earth is still turning...
The seasons enter,
play their part, bow and move on
every year, one to the next,
never overstaying their welcome
but always always returning.
There is great comfort in that.”
― Shellen Lubin

11/12/2023

Poster Design

Hatred is corrosive. The exponential rise in hate crimes against the Jewish people worldwide is indicative of a deeper malaise which is rearing its ugly head yet again spurred on by the relentless and frenzied expressions of outrage fanned on by the algorithms of social media. Just the other day I witnessed supporters of the atrocities committed by Hamas tearing down posters drawing attention to the plight of the Jewish hostages in Gaza — and this in front of the Bahá’í Centre in Toronto — a community whose members in Iran are currently experiencing a renewed wave of arrests and persecution of their own spurred on by a similarly backward mentality. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” (Maya Angelou)

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

11/09/2023

Poster Design

We have been squandering the earth’s finite resources as well as human resources for self-destructive purposes for millennia. Without approaching the myriad challenges facing the international community in a unified and peaceful fashion we are doomed.

10/25/2023

Report Design
for the Bahá’í International Community
168 pages

10/09/2023

Invitation Design
for the Bahá'í Office of Public Information, Canada

07/17/2023

Annual Report Layout
for Patrimonium Swiss Real Estate Fund, Switzerland

07/12/2023

LinkedIn Event Announcement Design
for Patrimonium, Switzerland

07/11/2023

Poster Design
Peace Please

"For the first time in history it is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad diversified peoples, in one perspective. World peace is not only possible but inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet—in the words of one great thinker, “the planetization of mankind”.
Whether peace is to be reached only after unimaginable horrors precipitated by humanity’s stubborn clinging to old patterns of behaviour, or is to be embraced now by an act of consultative will, is the choice before all who inhabit the earth. At this critical juncture when the intractable problems confronting nations have been fused into one common concern for the whole world, failure to stem the tide of conflict and disorder would be unconscionably irresponsible."
— The Promise of World Peace

07/10/2023

Website Design
for the Old Came Rectory, Dorset, England
www.oldcamerectory.com

06/21/2023

June 18th marked 40 years since 10 Iranian Bahá’í women in the city of Shiraz were hanged for refusing to renounce their commitment to the vision of a world where women are equal to men, a world free of the prejudice and calcifying effect of religious dogma that has for so many centuries held the people of Iran back from achieving their full potential. Little did anyone believe, at the time, that a generation later, the war against the women of Iran would still be raging and that we would be witnessing the struggle of millions to achieve some modicum of freedom to make their own choices when it comes to the way they express personal beliefs, dress, work and play. We stand in solidarity with these women (and men) — “OurStoryIsOne”.

04/27/2023

Book Cover Design
for author Dariush Lamy