Art Direction and Design
For close to 10 years I have been involved with a variety of companies as an art director and graphic designer. My primary focus has been in the action sports market and specifically, skatebaording.

To view a few samples see my coroflot profle.

Here is a partial list of clients / in-house employers:

Concrete Skateboard Magazine
illiac Golf by Bert LaMar
Fortune Sound Club
Color Magazine
Livestock
Osiris Footwear
Red Dragons Apparel
Element Skateboards
Transworld Skateboarding Magazine
Spy Optic
Red Bull USA
Activision
New Deal Skateboards
Giant Skateboard Distribution
Emerica Footwear
Snowboarder Magazine

Illustration
Along with graphic design, I do illustration and have had work in a variety of publications.

Such as:
Buzzer
Color Magazine
Untitled No. 8
The Make
The Feast
Feasthetic Magazine
Concrete to Canvas One
Tony Hawk's Project 8 Video Game
The Skateboard Mag
Transworld Skateboarding Magazine
Skateboarder Magazine
Snowboarder Magazine
Bend Press
Crownfarmer


Photography
Picking up a camera is just natural and I've done a good amount of it.

My photos have appeared on the web and in print:
Color Magazine
Transworld Skateboarding Magazine
Mumble Magazine
Surfer Magazine Book

A separate site has a selection of photos from my many film shots.


Art
The intersection of graphics and art is constant. To see more of it go to:
lookforwardtothepast


Contact.
laybourne (at) lookforwardtothepast (dot) com

Sketches from blog-porting for Vancouver Is Awesome at Icograda's Design Week Vancouver.

The "Daily Desktop" spread from my new PDF portfolio overview.

A couple of the Fortune posters as seen around Vancouver.

Four colorways were done for the Vancouver tee that was created for Beautymark and Walrus.

A showing of Sometime Ritual (digitally composed images) now on at NLA, Vancouver BC.

A closer view of a tee for Kingshit magazine. A compilation of the illustration done for the summer issue.

Details from a 3-D constructed piece for an El Kartel and Oakley Haiti benefit.

A new tee (in very limited run) is now ready at Walrus or by emailing laybourne (at) lookforwardtothepast (dot) com.


A full blown illustration for Fortune's Christmas Day party.


Some hand-drawn buttons can be bought at Walrus.

A group show I was able to put together is opening at 6 pm on Thur, Nov 19 at Walrus.


Welcome to the Nutty Club.


All four tees I did for Livestock are now in stock at their four stores and online.


This is the ad in support of the Livestock tees that is in the new King Shit and Vice magazines.


See more of the King Shit guest Art Direction. Or go to a Canadian skateboard shop. It's free.


Recycled cars. Cross-processed photo.


Guess the letter.


Stills from Timebomb time-lapse.


Timebomb Trading installation / mural. See more pics here.

Jonathan Taggart has organized a group photo show at Walrus and I have a couple images. Come on down to the opening on Thur night.

The 5th Annual OnDeck skate deck benefit has begun and this is the fourth time I've contributed to it. See the auction here and what I sent here.

-05.04.10

Download my new PDF portfolio that is an overview of the past 10 years of design, photography and art. 32mg file.

-6 April, 2010

New stuff has been added to my portfolio on Coroflot.

A couple more Transworld Ads.

And a bunch of the ads I did for Spy Optic now up here.

-19 Mar, 2010

Over the past few months, I've helped Fortune Sound Club with a number of things. Here are a couple:


Skeet Skeet show.


For Mad Decent show.


Boxing Day party.


Fatale night.


Each day of work (unless things are too crazy busy) over the past 8 years, I've created a new desktop image. See most of them here.

-26 Dec, 2009

A personal project of experimenting with different ways of creating illustration can be see here.


For Concrete's Photo Annual issue I was able to go in and do some design for both the features and columns.


Here is the button I did for Hot One Inch Action's November show and sale.

Vancouver Is Awesome has logos I did for a few features.

Scene & Heard


Home Grown


Imprint

-16 Nov, 2009



One Thirty Three, a nice shop in the Comox Valley, has produced a tee with my art and it is only available through them.


To show my photography a bit more clearly and by theme a new site was created.

-14 Sept, 2009


Livestock has 3 tees coming with my sketchy art on them.


My contribution to the We Are Contributors show can be seen in the upcoming cross-Canada show.


More art, photos and graphics by me can be seen at lookforwardtothepast.

-13 Aug, 2009





Color mag published a one page column with my photos and words about Travis Millard and Mel Kadel's place in LA.



I've been posting stuff up on VIA since moving back up to Canada.
Take a look.


Another bunch of photos from my first Salton Sea excursion.selection of pics from the Salton Sea are up.



and more sketches and desktops for look'n at.


-08 June, 2009




Did a small Q&A with Timebomb and the time-lapse of the mural is viewable on youtube.