Dutch graphic designer Martijn van Dam works at Momkai, an independent, interactive agency based in Amsterdam. He created an illustration for the upcoming 11th edition of Champion Sound. The piece was created entirely from scratch in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and a tiny bit of Illustrator CS3. The featured music is by Black Sun Empire feat. State of mind.

Angela Spizig is Mayor of Cologne and cultural and educational politician. It was an honour that she came especially to our DESIGNSPOTTER stand at imm cologne 09 for an interview about Cologne as a design hot spot and some very interesting aspects according to creative spaces in Cologne. (german version)

In May 2008 DESIGNSPOTTER went on the road to Canada, realizing a brand new project called ROADSPOTTER. In Toronto we made an interview with Georgia and Julian from MODEL CITIZEN who are located in Kensington Market...

Aakashs street art mostly consists of isometric rectangles and squares. He selectively places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry of the city itself. All execution of a piece is done on site with little to no planning.

Nokomis Clothing in Edmonton is a fashion store that carries exclusively Canadian-crafted and designed clothing & accessories. Every item is handpicked to showcase the best of Canadian design talent.

INFLUX Jewellery Gallery is a well-designed and well-rounded art jewellery gallery in Calgary. The gallery/boutique specializes in national and international jewellery of all types, and is clearly focused on quality, innovation and creativity.

Our first stop over in Alberta/Canada was in Calgary. In the Art Central we found the AXIS art gallery where owner Rob showed us some really cool contemporary pieces of canadian and international art.

The Gladstone Hotel is a unique urban hotel providing both travelers and Torontonians with a truly authentic experience of the local creative culture. We met Christina Zeidler, president of the Gladstone Hotel, and she told us about the hotel's thirty-seven artist-designed guest rooms and many more exclusive issues...

Nice project from our friends from slashthree.com. Directed, designed, composed and animated by myaka, with music by NEO.

In Kensington Market we suddently discovered the fashion and golf store FREE YOUR GAME and asked the owner Jeff Walter some questions about the idea behind his shop in general and especially his own addiction to golf.