Oct 302 min read

215: Collecting & Collaging with Eric Bargenda

If you were anything like me as a teen, cutting and pasting and collaging my walls with 90’s boy bands, colourful products of the day and clippings of all kinds that spoke to me, you’ll enjoy today’s conversation. This episode is all about collage!

Eric Bargenda is seasoned design director with over 20 years of graphic design experience working in Victoria, Toronto, and most recently St. Thomas, Ontario. As the co-founder of strategic creative agency Arable Brand Communications, Eric has taken his love for graphic design, ephemera and all things vintage and applied it to the art of analog collage. Eric’s work is 100% cut, pasted and pressed, avoiding digital and mechanical enhancements and techniques. His work covers a wide range of themes and pulls influences from comic books, pulp and sci-fi novels and magazines as well as commercial and fine art.

In this episode, you’ll hear the ways in which collage is a natural extension of graphic design through the piecing together of elements under constraint. You’ll hear Eric describe his collage process and the surprising way community and collaboration has popped into Eric’s artistic work.

We talk about the power of getting feedback, explore a reframing of the designer’s role beyond simply being ‘a creative’ and you’ll hear about the bricks and mortar design store Eric and his wife run in St. Thomas, ON called Revival Studio.

Let’s listen in…