1. Surface Design
2. Product Design
3. Shape and colour
2. Product Design
3. Shape and colour
Clients:
➝ Mezzaluna Studio
➝ Mezzaluna Studio
Mezzaluna Studio
I create abstract textile and risograph-focussed paper goods designs for my product line, Mezzaluna Studio. Started in 2015, this surface design work awarded me a 2017 Western Living Designer of the Year by a jury of prominent designers including Jonathan Adler.
Mezzaluna goods have been featured in Uppercase Magazine, the book Print & Pattern: Nature, in the National Post and Canadian House and Home.
Goods are carried by boutiques across Canada and the USA, as well as internationally in Japan.
I create abstract textile and risograph-focussed paper goods designs for my product line, Mezzaluna Studio. Started in 2015, this surface design work awarded me a 2017 Western Living Designer of the Year by a jury of prominent designers including Jonathan Adler.
Mezzaluna goods have been featured in Uppercase Magazine, the book Print & Pattern: Nature, in the National Post and Canadian House and Home.
Goods are carried by boutiques across Canada and the USA, as well as internationally in Japan.
1. Print
2. Ain’t
3. Dead
2. Ain’t
3. Dead
It’s a DIY risograph
print shop!
print shop!
Rababar Press
established 2023
︎︎︎Risograph print shop
︎︎︎Studio practice
︎︎︎rabarbarpress.com
On a trip to Japan in 2023, Vikki printed her artwork on a risograph printer at local artist studio and print shop Handsaw Press in Tokyo. Walking out the door of the print shop with fresh riso prints in hand, Vikki knew she needed to get one of these unique printers for her own practice.
A risograph is a Japanese stencil printer that leaves a satisfying matte finish on uncoated paper using eco-friendly, semi-transparent inks. The process is a lot like silkscreening. Ink colours are stored in separate ink drums and swapped out of the riso when printing. Colours are printed onto the paper one layer at a time.
In risograph printing, each print turns out uniquely and deliciously different - it is natural for slight imperfections exist in the printing, and this is part of this totally delightful medium.
Vikki often prints for artists in her community. She also produces all her own artwork, paper goods and installations in her own studio, blending art, design and technical know-how into colourful and modern print culture.
established 2023
︎︎︎Risograph print shop
︎︎︎Studio practice
︎︎︎rabarbarpress.com
On a trip to Japan in 2023, Vikki printed her artwork on a risograph printer at local artist studio and print shop Handsaw Press in Tokyo. Walking out the door of the print shop with fresh riso prints in hand, Vikki knew she needed to get one of these unique printers for her own practice.
A risograph is a Japanese stencil printer that leaves a satisfying matte finish on uncoated paper using eco-friendly, semi-transparent inks. The process is a lot like silkscreening. Ink colours are stored in separate ink drums and swapped out of the riso when printing. Colours are printed onto the paper one layer at a time.
In risograph printing, each print turns out uniquely and deliciously different - it is natural for slight imperfections exist in the printing, and this is part of this totally delightful medium.
Vikki often prints for artists in her community. She also produces all her own artwork, paper goods and installations in her own studio, blending art, design and technical know-how into colourful and modern print culture.
1. Print
2. Ain’t
3. Dead
2. Ain’t
3. Dead
Q: What can risograph printing be?
RISO RUCKUS!
︎︎︎ Exhibit for the 2024 DesignTO festival
︎︎︎ in collaboration with 313 Design Market
Riso Ruckus! is a playful, overflowing and movement-filled window installation that asks: can risograph prints move? Can they become 3D? What can risograph printing be? Filling a DesignTO festival window with geometry, colour and joy, this installation showed viewers the dynamic spirit of risograph printing, bringing analog processes and graphic design along to a world apart from digital media.
Hundreds of folded paper cubes were each individually risograph printed and hand folded. Five large cubes included a motor controlled movement, causing a surprise effect among paper prints.
Visitors were invited to take a riso-printed cube home at the end of the exhibit, what fun!
︎︎︎ Exhibit for the 2024 DesignTO festival
︎︎︎ in collaboration with 313 Design Market
Riso Ruckus! is a playful, overflowing and movement-filled window installation that asks: can risograph prints move? Can they become 3D? What can risograph printing be? Filling a DesignTO festival window with geometry, colour and joy, this installation showed viewers the dynamic spirit of risograph printing, bringing analog processes and graphic design along to a world apart from digital media.
Hundreds of folded paper cubes were each individually risograph printed and hand folded. Five large cubes included a motor controlled movement, causing a surprise effect among paper prints.
Visitors were invited to take a riso-printed cube home at the end of the exhibit, what fun!
1. Spot Illustration
2. Characters
3. Editorial Illustration
2. Characters
3. Editorial Illustration
Clients:
➝ Alberta Views Magazine
➝ Alberta Treasury Branches
➝ New Trail Magazine
➝ etc
➝ Alberta Views Magazine
➝ Alberta Treasury Branches
➝ New Trail Magazine
➝ etc
A selection of editorial and spot illustrations.
CHURCHILL SQUARED
2025 Street Performers • Acrobat/Circus illustration
SHOULD ALBERTA HAVE AN INHERITANCE TAX?
Alberta Views 2022 Debates section
SHOULD ALBERTA STOP FIGHTING THE PINE BEETLE?
Alberta Views 2022 Debates section
NEW TRAIL MAGAZINE
An illustration about the future of privacy - even the cactuses have eyes. This was from the reasonably innocent digital privacy age of 2015 and hoo-wee does this hit close to home these days...
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FUNDAn editorial illo highlighting funding available to non-profits for unusual projects. My solution was to think about it as seeds that grow money for a positive community.
A series of icons based on community activities and architectural buildings in Edmonton for Alberta Treasury branch maps.
CULINA HIGHLANDS POP UP DINNER POSTER
Oh boy were there ever perogies in a community hall that night, let me tell you! Those Lazarenko siblings are unstoppable. A Ukranian/Polish folk art theme (I’m first-gen Polish-Canadian).
ATB LAKELAND CHARACTERS
A series of characters for an eventual design of a mural for ATB Financial’s Lakeland branch. The illustrated characters are based on a day of people watching and sketching at the branch location.
1. Maps + Illustration
2. Design as rebuttal
3. Local Guide/Travel Guide
2. Design as rebuttal
3. Local Guide/Travel Guide
Client: Personal Project
Edmonton: It’s Fine Here!
2023 3rd ed.
2020 2nd ed.
2017 1st ed.
︎︎︎Get your own copy of the Edmonton: It’s Fine Here! map here.
A LOCAL’S GUIDE TO EDMONTON, CANADA
Edmonton: It’s Fine Here is a map originally created in response to Lonely Planet advising its readers that Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was probably not worth visiting. The points of interest in the first edition 2017 map was fully crowdsourced from longtime locals. Now in its third edition, the guide catalogues all sorts of favourite outdoor sculptures, cheap eats, flea markets, The Mall, dive bars, fancy bars, and special views that can make us feel fine about this place we call home.
2023 3rd ed.
2020 2nd ed.
2017 1st ed.
︎︎︎Get your own copy of the Edmonton: It’s Fine Here! map here.
A LOCAL’S GUIDE TO EDMONTON, CANADA
Edmonton: It’s Fine Here is a map originally created in response to Lonely Planet advising its readers that Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was probably not worth visiting. The points of interest in the first edition 2017 map was fully crowdsourced from longtime locals. Now in its third edition, the guide catalogues all sorts of favourite outdoor sculptures, cheap eats, flea markets, The Mall, dive bars, fancy bars, and special views that can make us feel fine about this place we call home.
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︎︎︎ no AI technology is used in my work
