Way too much time has passed since I held the last Signalnoise Broadcast. I’ve been way too caught up in work since the holidays came and went, but I miss everyone so enough is enough :)

Tomorrow, Thursday, March 4th at 8pm EST I will be holding Signalnoise Broadcast no.4. It’s long overdue and I’ve been looking forward to chatting with you guys for a couple of months now. So, queue up those questions and swing by for some discussion on art, design and whatever else happens to pop up. If you have any questions you would like me to add to the list, feel free to drop them into the comments here.

I’ll be sure to give the heads up on my Twitter as the time approaches. Hope to see you there!

The Signalnoise Studio has a new mascot, thanks to a birthday gift from my sister. Standing at 4.5 inches long, Emperoth is small but mighty. He enjoys black metal, fish flakes and taking long swims in the tank.

I asked him to be a guest writer on the blog, but he burped bubbles at me and hid in his skull. I guess that’s a no.

It’s been a little while since I gave a bit of an update on what’s going on around these parts. I like having a more frequent update schedule on Signalnoise with work and inspiration stuff, but sometimes client and preparation work steps in and must be done. It’s all fun, but leaves little time for writing.

So, here’s the scoop. As of a few weeks ago Signalnoise Design Studio Inc. has become an official business entity. I have been operating as strictly an individual freelance artist for the past few years and I felt it was time to make the push and set up the structure needed to grow in the business realm. So I have been going through the motions of setting up everything needed to get all processes running smoothly. It’s all new and weird, but it’s all exciting.

At the same time, I’ve been working diligently on a new version of Signalnoise.com. If you’ve been following my tweets over the past while you would have noticed me bitching about CSS stuff, and that’s why :) When it comes to my website I’m a real sticky bastard about not changing things too drastically, mostly because I’m happy with how simple everything is and I don’t want to have to get used to some new crazy thing. So, the new Signalnoise.com will be a bit beefier but maintain a similar overall aesthetic. I have no solid launch date as yet, so all I can say is ’soon’.

While at the same time I’ve been working with some really great clients, two of which are Reckless Love and Nike while cultivating some new exciting jobs over the past few weeks. Not only will I be kicking off these new projects, but the next few months will see me speaking at FITC Toronto (see my presentation entitled Back to the Future) this April.

On top of everything else, I just returned from an excellent trip to New York where I took part in Immersion Day at Getty Images’ office as part of the ThinkCorps team. I’ll have more to say about this soon as it might require it’s own post, but some big highlights were meeting folks like Adelle Charles and Josh Smibert from the mighty Fuel Brand Inc., fellow canuck Chad Mueller from Inspiredology, John Fiorelli of the Cut & Paste digital design tournament and a bunch more. Awesome bunch to hang with.

As you can see, it’s been a wild 2010 for Signalnoise so far with no sign of letting up. Just the way I like it.

I kept things relatively quiet on the blog for the past week in order to keep attention on the Haiti relief effort. I want to send out a huge thanks to all those who ordered posters over the past week to help raise money to be donated to the Canadian Red Cross. In total, $1,187.02 has been raised, which surpassed all of my expectations.

I really appreciate all of those who brought attention to this effort, notably Applied Arts magazine for bringing people together for such a good cause. Thanks so much, everyone.

It’s almost that time of year when we all leave our desks and Photoshops to sit around the tree, unwrap gifts and drink some nog. For most of us, it’s a much needed unplugged break so we can recharge our Flux Capacitors for the upcoming year. 2009 has been a busy one for a lot of us, time to relax and play in the snow.

Things will be a bit quieter around the blog over the next week or so as I travel home to visit the parents for the holidays. But my Twitter will be close by :)

So here’s a big Happy Holidays to you and yours from Signalnoise!

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Flash in the Can (FITC) conference in Toronto, April 25 – 27, 2010. I attended the conference last year and had a wonderful time checking out the presentations and meeting all kinds of creative people, and this year I’ll have the pleasure of being onstage myself.

This will be my first speaking at a con and I can’t say how excited I am. My presentation is lovingly named ‘Back to the Future’, and will involve a bunch of inspirational material, Signalnoise art retrospective, some technical tips and tricks, a brief about online tools for the artist, and some rock n’ roll. I want to bring Signalnoise posters and other goodies along this year, I’ll be sure to update as I go.

Lots of fun, hope to see you there!

In a few short hours I will be going live with the Signalnoise Broadcast 3, starting at 12pm EST. I wanted to air this broadcast earlier then usual so all of our friends over in Europe can tune in without having to stay up until 4am.

I will be broadcasting from the office today, and will be posting the link on my Twitter shortly before I go live. In the meantime if you are looking to check what the broadcasts are all about, head over to the live page.

So prep those questions if you have any and I hope to see you there!

Here is a small supplement to my Best of Halifax 2009 post a little while back. I took home the Best Visual Artist award, and a fancy ribbon :) The party was a good time, nice to see so many familiar faces and meet a few new ones.

Once again, a huge thanks to all those who cast a vote my way. I really appreciate the continued support from all of you.