Nice to meet you!
Jake Zeldin
I’m a Graphic Designer, Creative Strategist and Mixed-Media Artist living in Toronto, Ontario. My passions for music, creativity, and culture are evident in much of my work, as is my passionate pursuit of making a design that engages with people in meaningful ways.
Merging street ephemera, torn papers, screen-prints, photographs, ink, oil pastels, acrylic and spray paint; Zeldin’s densely layered and conceptual assemblage of text, texture and colour exudes the eccentricity and empowerment of its time, exemplifying the characters and personalities of cultural icons and urban decay.
With energy, spontaneity and purpose, Zeldin captures the radical spirit of each of his subjects, using portraiture to celebrate some of the artists, musicians and political activists; obscuring the central characters with peeling, torn paper fragments and paint, frenetically surrounding a stilled subject.