Interview: Raymond Biesinger

The self-taught Canadian illustrator on the sometimes blurry line between corporate and personal work

Montreal-based Raymond Biesinger is a self-taught illustrator. His work has featured in publications including the New Yorker, Monocle, the Guardian, Time, GQ, Dwell, the Globe & Mail. With such immense commercial success, we recently caught up with Biesinger in his studio for a chat about what it’s like working for “The Man” and how he approaches personal projects. Explain your process on a personal piece …

Secret Squirrel Cold Brew

Creating the ultimate all-American cold brew coffee with Hawaiian beans and LA illustrators

Trevor and Rebecca Smith began their love affair with cold brew coffee by experimenting at home. Their adventures with beans, roasting profiles, brew times, filters and recipes led them to launch Secret Squirrel Cold Brew. The duo transforms organic fair-trade coffee into a cold-brewed concentrate, double filtering each batch for 18 to 24 hours. The 16 oz. bottles yield about seven servings (of eight oz. …

Jon Burgerman’s Drawings of Girls I’ve Seen on Tumblr

Brooklyn's cheeky illustrator looks to the ladies of the internet for colorful inspiration

Intrigued by the Tumblr-girl phenomenon—where images of girls are posted online and then endlessly reblogged on various Tumblr sites—Brooklyn-based illustrator Jon Burgerman has decided to join in. Only instead of simply reposting selected images of girls he sees on various Tumblr sites, he’s been drawing them and then blogging the resulting colourful, playfully irreverent images. “I draw girls I see on Tumblr and place them …