Tom Adshead is a Brazilian-Canadian designer based in Montréal.
Services include branding design, print + layout work, social media production, web design, and audio/video editing. Specialization in publication design, having produced various magazines and journals in Montréal (access to publication files available by request). Lead designer for SUKO Magazine, which recently released its fourth annual volume. Head of Design for the 2024-25 Montreal Art Matters Festival. Freelance availability re-opening in January 2026.

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(I also release music as Glyphbound.)



SUKO Magazine Vol. 4 (2025)
      For Volume 4, SUKO had a complete overhaul of the magazine’s brand identity, including a remade logo, cover design, style guide, and set of primary typefaces. Layout design of the magazine’s content was done alongside Fernanda Larrain and Sophie Dixon.


Cover Redesigns for SUKO Vol. 4 (Works by Chih-Chien Wang and Panya Clark Espinal)

Styleguide excerpt. Arizona Flare and Standard are SUKO’s new primary typefaces.



Old and new templates for the front cover. The new design allows for greater flexibility with cover images.

Brand deck excerpt for retail stockists - giving an explanation of how Vol. 4 differentiates itself from previous issues.


Sensory Labs - Brand Identity, Logo Design
        Logo + wordmark and branding guide for Sensory Labs, an upcoming furniture and material research studio with a vernissage at Café SAT on November 29th, 2025. The design process was informed by the natural phenomena of bokeh, liquid self-adherence, and tactile material design.



Parquette x SUKO Vol. 4 Launch - Promotional Design
        Promotional design for SUKO’s Volume 4 launch at Parquette, printed and online. Invites to the SUKO launch party were printed and distributed at Expozine 2025 and at SUKO’s vendors. A poster was also created to physically and digitally promote the launch party.
        For Volume 4, a new style guide was developed which redefined SUKO’s use of colour, type, and overall creative direction. This style guide is in use in these materials, and in the print issue of SUKO Magazine Vol. 4.

Margaux Domec - Portfolio Site
margo.cargo
        Photography portfolio for Margaux Domec’s practice. Projects are sorted by general, editorial and miscellaneous projects, and a bio/CV is accessible from the navigation. Designed in Cargo 3 for easy editing and adding of new work on Margaux’s end.
 

Tapestry Records - Tapestry 001
(Coming Soon)
        Tapestry Records is an upcoming compilation project based out of Montreal. Its first release is a collection of mix-friendly DJ tools. Numbered Tapestry releases will be a recurring series of compiled and collaborative mixtapes that celebrate left-field, challenging, and ambient dance music. 

Contributed photo from Max Shoham. 

[NEW] sukomag.com        Complete redesign of SUKO Magazine’s website. Added blog functionality allows SUKO to publish articles in-between print issues. Built on three vertical scrolls, the desktop homepage allows users to find relevant info about each print volume, info on the team, and recent news from the editors. The mobile site maintains a similar functionality, with overlapping scrolling accessible through a simplified main header. 
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SUKO Magazine, Vol. 3  (2024)        Layout and print design in collaboration with Lauren Kim and Fernanda Larrain.  For the third issue of SUKO, the team hosted release parties in both Montreal and Toronto, supported by It’s OK* Studios, Sounds Good Toronto, Bar Sparrow, and Zamalek. 



FASA Concordia           Designed print and web-based content for FASA, and redesigned the organization's logo and branding. FASA’s style-guide is centred around playful use of archival imagery and clean-yet-approachable typography.



Art Matters Festival 2025            Former Head of Design for the Art Matters Festival. Created designs for print, web, and on-site use. Built the current website in Cargo, created a printed festival publication, and created a new universal style-guide, including the current logo. Designs were coordinated with associated organizations, including FASA, Livart, Dieu du Ciel, POP Montreal, Zamalek, and others.



Art Matters’ 25th edition had a pre-determined material theme of ‘silver,’ which guided many early decisions in the creation of the visual identity.
            The logo’s layered waveform design was inspired from documentation the festival coordinators provided, which charted visual stimuli in both computer-vision and the human eye. The show’s eventual subtitle was ‘Adapted Visions,’ so the idea of creating a festival logo from these sources came together quickly.
            A program guide was made for distribution at the festival’s events. It contained information about the venues and artists, and had a page for collecting ink stamps at each of the shows.






Symbols, 2024.
        An audiovideo installation loosely adapting Juan Eduardo Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols. Archival images are paired by subject, creating a wholistic look at the varied contexts of cultural imagery. The piece attempts to highlight the ‘flattening’ effect archives have on art history, reckoning with the role of museums and archeology as institutions which rob artworks of their own context.


Archival imagery courtesy of of ARAS, Smithsonian, and MMFA.






e-motion
        Designed promotional posters for e-motion, a recurring techno and house mix series hosted by WASIE, Patience Girl, Monsieurmadam and Glyphbound.




SUKO Magazine, Vol. 2   (2023)       Layout and print design in collaboration with Lauren Kim. This issue features an interview between myself and Min-Jia Guo, who I also designed the spread for. 



VAV Gallery
       Head of Design for 2022-2023 at the VAV Gallery. Designed print, social media, and web-based material for promoting events. Designs were coordinated with the artists of each event. Rebuilt the gallery site in Squarespace.




SUKO Magazine, Vol. 1 (2022)
       Layout and print designer for the first volume of SUKO Magazine. Developed the initial styleguide, which was adapted for use in the second and third issues. A new styleguide was created for the fourth issue.
Cover illustration by William Mora.




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