From the comfort of his couch, this designer brings queer-positive art to the world
Tim Singleton has lent his rainbow vision to Pride murals, postage stamps and everything in between
Think you've never seen the art of Tim Singleton? Think again.
Singleton works as a freelance artist and designer, so an illustration for a client could appear on a coffee mug, a T-shirt, a multi-storey mural … or a CBC website.
"The sky's the limit for where work can exist," he says, and in that way, he's been able to reach the world from his living room couch.
Singleton's fun-loving, pop-art style sizzles with neon colour, and his designs often celebrate the 2SLGBTQ+ community through joyful iconography and inspirational text.
"The work itself is about self-expression and identity and exploring all of those weird little parts that make us people," he says, and on the new episode of In Process, CBC Arts' studio visit web series, he gives us a Cribs-style tour of his home in Toronto, the place he feels most comfortable to be himself.
Surrounded by his favourite things, Singleton talks us through his creative process. From the comfort of home, he can paint the city in rainbow colours. As of writing, Toronto's Manulife Centre is wrapped in Singleton's psychedelic artwork as a special commission for Pride, and just last month, Canada Post revealed a new collection of postage stamps featuring his artwork — illustrations of significant Canadian queer spaces which are also appearing as murals around the country.
Watch the full episode.
On the CBC Arts series In Process, we capture creativity in action, as the artwork — and the ideas that inform it — take shape in front of the camera.
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