Denise Santillan Moreno

An illustration for Satellite Magazine about the author's adventures using the hallucinogenic ayahuasca  in the jungles of Peru. Using paper, glitter, and photography, I created the typography to evoke drug-induced visions.

Illustration for Satellite Magazine. The article talks about Rojak – a Malaysian dish that is a surprising mixture of foods and flavours– as a metaphor for describing Malaysian society comprising a variety of cultures, religions, and ethnicities. The graphic concept is the many little pieces coming together to form a larger whole.

A giant letter B created for a group show at Gallery Hijinks in San Francisco dealing with typography.

Limited edition cd packaging using the idea of a Trojan horse (the band name means The Ambush in french). The packaging opens up into a poster. Graphics are made with paper and roses.

CD packaging design, the inside includes a band poster.

Cards meant to convey the idea of nice materials, an attention to details, and handmade quality. Featured in In Effect – Groundbreaking Finishes and Materials in Graphic Design. Published by Dopress Books

Cards for a boutique production company. includes a die-cut viewfinder to encourage new ideas.

Poster advertising a city-wide high school arts festival. The logo was designed so that the colour of the A can change year to year, giving it a time-specific memory, and allowing more change in the future of the designs. Shown here are the 2013 and 2014 posters.

The work in this series was the beginning of exploratory drawings of hair as costume, which later evolved to hair as an animate and suffocating entity (see La Bataille series). Accompanying the drawings was crown made of hair I brought back from Mexico city. This same crown was later dismantled and shown as a giant mass accompanying the subsequent drawings. This series was shown at the FOFA Gallery in Montréal.

These large-scale drawings (4.5' x 9') were part of an exhibit at Galerie [sas] in Montréal. Drawn with pen and ink, these were the second series of drawings exploring hair as costume and in this case, a suffocating entity. Accompanied by the installation of a big bow and tangle of hair brought back form Mexico.

Inspired by Stefan Sagmeister's sentence "Obsessions are helpful professionally and inane privately", this work was shown in the Biennale de Montréal 2009 edition. Creating infinite mirrors and way of looking at oneself and others, this work is a playful take on our often self-obsessed and narcissistic culture.

Inspired by Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, and Midnight's Children.

Using any excuse to play with food, this typeface was developed using the with the concept of the Québéquois "casse-croûte" (small mom and pop burger joints found all over the province).

Illustration for Naked Eye Magazine, about watching stoner movies. Required extensive research.