Our team is looking to partner with local Hamilton, Ontario-based artists and creatives as part of a new project that we're working on for next year. So this post is intended to be a call to artists. If you're based in Hamilton and doing great work, we would love to hear from you. Please drop me an email (brandon@slateam.com).

In my mind, art and culture is a fundamental ingredient in Hamilton's ongoing renaissance. Each and every time I'm in the city, I feel like I meet someone who is an artist. And there are so many great examples that we can point to.

Take Scott Martin (aka Burnt Toast). Scott is a Hamilton-based illustrator and co-creator of the fantastically popular Doodles NFT collection. I don't have one in my wallet, but I can tell you that I want one. The current starting price for a Doodle is nearly US$9k. But as an alternative, you could also just go to downtown Hamilton and look at one of Scott's public murals.

Go Hamilton. Please show us what else you are creating.

Photo by Abigail Chen on Unsplash

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always enjoyed seeing people’s places. I like seeing different homes and I like seeing how people decorate them. Which is why I’m a big fan of photographer Todd Selby’s project, The Selby Is In Your Place. 

Starting in June 2008, Selby has gone around and photographed the personal spaces of creative people all around the world–everyone from fashion designers to artists to entrepreneurs. The most recent is the home of Carolina Castiglioni, who is Director of Special Projects at Marni in Milan.

The project has been a huge success for Todd and his website now receives over 100,000 unique visitors a day. He’s also gone on to publish 3 books. The first was simply called ‘The Selby is In Your Place’. If you’d like to pickup a copy for your coffee table, you can do so here.

Our team is looking to partner with local Hamilton, Ontario-based artists and creatives as part of a new project that we're working on for next year. So this post is intended to be a call to artists. If you're based in Hamilton and doing great work, we would love to hear from you. Please drop me an email (brandon@slateam.com).

In my mind, art and culture is a fundamental ingredient in Hamilton's ongoing renaissance. Each and every time I'm in the city, I feel like I meet someone who is an artist. And there are so many great examples that we can point to.

Take Scott Martin (aka Burnt Toast). Scott is a Hamilton-based illustrator and co-creator of the fantastically popular Doodles NFT collection. I don't have one in my wallet, but I can tell you that I want one. The current starting price for a Doodle is nearly US$9k. But as an alternative, you could also just go to downtown Hamilton and look at one of Scott's public murals.

Go Hamilton. Please show us what else you are creating.

Photo by Abigail Chen on Unsplash

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always enjoyed seeing people’s places. I like seeing different homes and I like seeing how people decorate them. Which is why I’m a big fan of photographer Todd Selby’s project, The Selby Is In Your Place. 

Starting in June 2008, Selby has gone around and photographed the personal spaces of creative people all around the world–everyone from fashion designers to artists to entrepreneurs. The most recent is the home of Carolina Castiglioni, who is Director of Special Projects at Marni in Milan.

The project has been a huge success for Todd and his website now receives over 100,000 unique visitors a day. He’s also gone on to publish 3 books. The first was simply called ‘The Selby is In Your Place’. If you’d like to pickup a copy for your coffee table, you can do so here.