• Contact
    raymond@fifteen.ca
    tel. 1-514-264-2382
    2679 rue Wellington, Montreal
    QC, Canada, H3K 1X8

    About
    I’m a Montréal-based illustrator, artist, and best-selling author very into editorial and commercial work, and while the portfolio part of this website may include only a trim two dozen projects, I’ve been part of more than 1000 assignments on five continents since 2002. That might sound impressive (and make commissioning me to make new work sound expensive), but I work on a sliding scale and respond to every inquiry. Other interests: minimalism, maximalism, world and local history, equality, diversity, economics, music, science fiction, historic buildings, pictorial maps, Canadiana, wall art, preserving a 145-year-old home, etc. I’m also a proud member of Illustration Québec, which is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring together and support illustrators.

    You can think of much of my work as a collage that doesn’t look like a collage—pieces made from real-world lines, shapes, and textures scanned into a computer that’s used as an infinitely-forgiving Xerox machine, glue, and scissors. These “collaged” components lose their recognizability in the process, but through repetitive use bring flaws, eccentricities, and geometries that form a unique visual vocabulary.

  • Past Clients
    Applied Arts, the Baffler, Barron’s, Billboard, Businessweek, the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadaland, Coach House Books, Creative Review, Dwell, the Economist, Editions Flammarion, Fast Company, the Financial Times, Folio Society, Foreign Policy, Fortune, Gestalten, the Globe & Mail, the Guardian, GQ, Harvard Business, the Hollywood Reporter, La Repubblica, Le Monde, Men’s Health, MIT Technology Review, Monocle, NPR, NEON, New Scientist, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Nido, NYLON, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Pentagram, Pitchfork, Politico, PRINT, the Progressive, ProPublica, Reader’s Digest, Real Simple, Reuters, the Royal Economics Society, Runner’s World, Saveur, Scientific American, SPIN, the Seattle Stranger, Sub Pop, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Time, Today’s Parent, Variety, the Walrus, the Washington Post, WIRED, etc.

    Books
    305 Lost Buildings of Canada with Alex Bozikovic (Goose Lane Editions, 2022)

    B&W Illustrations (Belgravian Press, 2012)
    This is WWI (Mille Putois, 2011)

    Press
    Kreative Kontrol (23 April 2024)
    Talk Paper Scissors (1 Feb. 2024)
    The Walrus (Sept. 2022)
    Glass Bookshop Radio (6 May 2022)
    The Globe & Mail (25 March 2022)
    CBC’s Sunday Magazine (13 March 2022)
    The Edmonton Journal (12 March 2022)
    Newspaper Club (8 Oct. 2018)
    Design Kids (April 2018)

  • Ordering Prints
    All prints are printed in-studio with an Epson T3170 on enhanced matte 192 GSM paper. Prints are shipped every Monday and are wrapped in kraft paper, rolled in a protective tube, and then ensconced in a shipping box. I don’t offer framing. Once your order is out my door, estimated shipping times are as follows: 3-9 business days within Canada or to the United States, and around 6-10 days or so to get everywhere else. Oh, and you can indeed save some dollars by picking up your order in the lovely Montréal neighbourhood of Pointe St. Charles. If you want that, just select it as an option during checkout.

    Stockists
    Besides being available through my online shop, prints can be bought at the following real-world places: Kit (Calgary), SLOW. Interieur (Gatineau), Lost & Found (Halifax), Hamilton Museums (Hamilton), Eh-to-Zed (Harriston), the Galt Museum (Lethbridge), Spruce Moose (London), Sumi’s (Los Angeles), L’Affichiste, Arloca, La Boutique du Musée McCord, Marché St Laurent, Montréal Images, Nuspace and Paperole (Montreal), Gift Horse (Nashville), the OAG Shop (Ottawa), PAFA Museum Store (Philadelphia), Off The Wall Framing and the Toronto Railway Museum (Toronto), Gifted (Waterloo), and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Winnipeg). Are you a shop interested in stocking RB things? Drop me an e-mail and introduce yourself.