My paint throwing pal eepmon has just recently had his works installed at the Canadian branch of Japanese agency firm Dentsu.

Spanning 3 x 10.6 feet wide, eepmon’s work installed around Dentsu Canada’s exterior new office is truly realized in this proportion as every bit of detail is exposed– especially his Citylights series.

Called the “Dentsu Outdoor Gallery” (D.O.G.), this new gallery initiative is designed to feature Canadian artists from a broad range of disciplines including graffitists, mixed-media artists, illustrators, street artists, photographers and visual artists.

Way to go dude! More pictures after the jump…

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My friend Eric Chan (Eepmon) just recently just finished two art pieces done for Yahoo! in South East Asia, for a campaign called “BIG IDE CHAIR”. This is one of the two pieces he created for their event. Great, as always!

My very talented friend Eepmon has created a nice little site showing off all his tour dates and shows this month in Tokyo. Check it out, some gorgeous pieces like none of his work prior are on display, like this mixed media on canvas piece shown here.  If you’re in Japan right now, stop by one of his shows and then tell me all about it, please.

Related: Eepmon Goes Big In Japan

While most artists struggle to be big in the States, others strive for the glory of being big in Japan after they’ve flopped in America.  

Of course, that isn’t really the case with (our dear friend) the Canadian-born multi-disciplinary artist eepmon (Eric Sze-Lang Chan), an already-successful creator who will be touring Japan all this May. During that time, eepmon will put on two solo exhibits and be a part of many other art events in Tokyo. Though a large part of his work features poppy, bright colors and subjects like flowers and animals (pieces in this style will be shown at the Design Festa Gallery in his “i am my introspection” exhibit), we suspect Akira influenced him more than Takashi Murakami. Shapes fall upon one another in monstrous, jumbled ways, so that each time you glance at a piece, you can continue to find new and exciting images buried inside.

His other paintings, revealed within the “Intersections” exhibit at the Gallery O2, are also brimming with color, but are abstract and Pollock-like in their fury. Nevertheless, whether you’re viewing calmer works like the organic “Chaos Bloom 8″ or the abstract attacks on canvas in “Intersections,” his creations are visually arresting. We love them, more after the jump.
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Our friend Eric Chan (aka Eepmon) just sent us a scoop from Deutschland: XBox 360, the console that you are probably procrastinating with right now, are using E’s frenetic, acid-dripped designs in a new, multi-platform Austrian campaign. If we’re lucky there may be some A1-sized posters up for grabs in the near future. You can check out the details on Eepmon’s projects page, and the bigger versions of these luscious graphics after the jump.

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If we can trust what Wikipedia has to say on the matter, people born in the Chinese Year of the Monkey have it made. They are smart, quick witted, inventive problem-solvers, and they come with a side of sharp-shooting, horribly unfair skills– like the ability to absorb conversations happening around them, even while they themselves are heavily engaged in another.

Eric Chan, also known as eepmon, is a young, Ontario-based new media artist with enough experience under his belt to make much more seasoned designers quiver. He is also an enthusiastic member of that lucky Zodiac sign– and from what we can tell, should be, as he fills in its outlines to an intimidating degree.

Read up as we talk with Eric about his bright future, his studious (and very recent) past, and the exciting things that have been bridging his path from day to day.

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Here’s a little eye candy from one of my favorite artists, eepmon. I’m not even quite sure what Mini Financial Services is, nor do I even think it matters– because this 13 month Mini Cooper Canada Calendar (yeah, that’s a mouthful) he created is incredible. 13 Illustrations for 13 months, where each month contains a different original illustration to compliment the Mini vehicle. The hard copy versions will be available at Mini dealerships across Canada in a sexy hang-on-your-wall format soon. And I’m sending all my Canadian friends to grab them. Intrigued? Check out all the images here.

Update: Credit where credit is due, Eepmon worked with Canadian agency TAXI on this project– check them out.

Fleming Creative Group, a firm in Vancouver, Canada, recently called on Eric Chan, a.k.a. Eepmon (see also: one of our favorite techie-slash-artists) to create an installation piece for their reception area. Chan was given the company’s motto, “The Story Through Design,” for inspiration, and worked all through the month of August on the over fifteen-foot long/seven-foot high design. Chan approached the work with the same intensity that we’ve grown to expect from him (if you haven’t checked his site before, GO. It’s nearly perfect.), and the completed piece is nothing short of incredible, with saturated colors and lifelike graphics working together to form a powerful first impression for Fleming’s entryway. Given the rapidly evolving area (aesthetically) that is design, commissioning such a piece was a brave thing for a creative firm to do, so points go out to both Fleming’s for going for it, and Eric for pulling it off.

One of our favorite designers up in the Great White North, Eric Chan, has just revamped his Eepmon site. A couple of months ago, we took a liking to his old site (and its contents)– but I have to say, the new one blows doors on both the old site, and on most flash sites I have seen lately. Eric has really made an effort to design the update to be the complete website experience– from the aesthetics, to the Susumu Yokota music tracks, to an XML weather feed that greets you with the current conditions, to the seamless nav tutorials that take all of the possible confusion out of navigating this flash masterpiece. Eric, what can I say? You’ve even one-upped yourself this time. Well done!

A few weeks ago, we received some canvas prints from Eric Chan, and we were immediately impressed with his work. Eric strikes me as being both a talented artist and a proficient techie. When you visit his website, eepmon, that will become apparent to you as well. There aren’t too many people out there who could create a flash site like that, let alone all of the artistic content on the site. Eric’s prints are heavily influenced by Japanese print, graffiti, and music– the intricacy and detail cannot be fully appreciated with these graphics, so you should definitely look at them on the eepmon website where there is a zoom feature. Eepmon showcases a wide array of Eric’s work, and will also key you into locations where you can see his work in person– mostly in Canada. Keep up the great work Eric!