Spacing has always used our merchandise as an important fundraising tool for the magazine — it helps to keep our ad content low, and editorial content high. Now we are teaming up with a number of independent Canadia designers to showcase and sell their work through our e-store. Over the next week we’ll be highlighting these new products as they become available to purchase online. If you or someone you know creates interesting urbanism- or Canadian city–themed products and would like to sell them through Spacing, email us at merchandise@spacing.ca
Alexander Arvelo McQuaig is a Toronto-based graphic designer. His neighbourhood maps are a bold, attractive representation of the area’s streets, laneways, and parks.
“In my love of Toronto I’ve occasionally yearned for maps that depict our unique neighbourhoods — both to celebrate them and note their boundaries — but have been unable to find such a thing. Now that I’m in graphic design school, I decided to try crafting such maps myself. The result is austere designs meant to celebrate our neighbourhoods as distinct from their surroundings, like tiny cities unto themselves. Oriented to our streets’ grid rather than what is technically north, these maps are meant to represent our neighbourhoods simply, as we instinctively think of them in quotidian navigation.”
Currently we have six maps of Alexander’s available: The Annex, The Junction, Kensington Market, Leslieville, Parkdale, and Roncesvalles, and he is hard at work creating more that will be released over the following weeks.
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