I will be relocating to the Ottawa area this September and am looking to be part of a creative team that does great work. If you’re a progressive agency that is looking for an Art Director, I’d love to hear more about you. You can contact me at stefan [at] mstrpln.com

2010 marks a new change for MSTRPLN. New look to the website along with new projects added to the portfolio. Have a look at http://www.mstrpln.com

An updated mobile version of the new MSTRPLN website. If you have an iPhone of an iPod Touch, you can view it here: http://www.mstrpln.com.

Because the only thing more annoying than those vuvuzela horns at the FIFA World Cup would be the vuvuzela horns with autotune as your ringtone. I mixed this up in Garageband, you can download the ringtone for your iPhone here.

WRG?Mag.com recently conducted an interview with me about my work for MSTRPLN. It’s a pretty good read. Shout out to WRG for the opportunity. You can read it here.

I hooked up with Grafik Armor to put together a Snowboard Graphic Design Contest over at Forsnowboarding. So far things are off to a good start and entries are coming through. The contest is going on until the end of the month and the winner will get their snowboard graphic created into a Grafik Armor decal wrap for their snowboard. You can check out the gallery of submissions here, and for more information and the rules and regulations, hit up Forsnowboarding.

The Warfare Collective’s Chris and I have entered some designs into a contest run by The Clink Room. The Clink Room is a site run by a couple of guys at this design firm who specialize in baseball team logos/identities (both minor and major league teams). They decided to hold a contest and give their readers an opportunity to design an identity for a make believe team. The winner gets their hat produced by New Era, 10 hats for themselves, and a cash prize.

We’re on the ballot and you can really help us out by voting for our designs. It’s open to the public and each person gets 3 choices for their vote. We’re (clockwise in the picture above) F2, A4, D8, E6. Check out the rest of the entries on the site, if you like ours, Email your 3 choices, in order to theclinkroom@planbbranding.com and make sure to put “SSL VOTE” in the subject line.

Help us win!

Speaking of retros and throwbacks, I also picked up a case of Pepsi Throwback on my latest trip south. I’m a fiend for Pepsi so this was a pleasant surprise. Vintage packaging, cans and taste, as they are using real sugar in the mix like back in the day.

After walking around town on my lunch hour in the freezing rain from store to store, I managed to finally track down the last pair of 11.5s in Montreal. Awesome. Case closed.

Why does this feel oddly familiar. Drove down to the US to pick up a pair of the Air Jordan VI retro’s that were just re-released. They had a full run of these in stock, only problem was that my size 11.5 was all sold out. I tried on an 11, I tried on a 12, but they just didn’t do it. Now I have to hit the streets of Montreal to see if I can track down a pair at the Canadian retail price point that Nike set for these ($209.99). Fucking awesome. At least I have the Air Jordan V’s banked thanks to a few good friends, but that was a similar ordeal that has come back to haunt me.