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IFC started showing Season 1 of Misfits, a science-fiction drama TV series produced in the UK about a group of young offenders (some of which are typical English chavs who remind us of people we used to know in England…aww memories!) forced to work in a community service programme. They get supernatural powers after a weird . . . → Read More: Misfits – the show not the band 
Front Back This is the pretty YCD Happy Holiday card – 2011 Edition – that we designed for our clients & friends. It’s always great fun to spend some time doing design work for ourselves and to have carte blanche for all stylistic choices (including the choice of a reindeer photo amongst . . . → Read More: Our pretty 2011 Christmas cards! 
Certificat-cadeau | Magazine Zeste Lucky people who will be receiving a subscription to Zeste (Quebec’s most delicious-looking food-related magazine) this holiday season will not only receive 4 or 8 issues of one of the best executed magazine in the province: they will also receive this beautiful gift certificate, designed by none other than us . . . → Read More: Latest work! Zeste : un cadeau gourmand. 
If you’re following us on Facebook you’ll remember that a few weeks ago we mentioned that we had ordered a t-shirt from Wordans, a canadian website where you can order custom-designed apparel ranging from t-shirts to aprons, passing by g-strings and tote bags… Well the t-shirt we ordered came and we’re quite . . . → Read More: Little Owls T-shirt 
I like to use my design skills in real life, for example when it comes to creating birthday cards for people. I designed the one above for my goddaughter Arianne who turned 10 (already!) last week. Call me cheap, but I do find that paying $6-7 (ofter more for the very fancy ones) for a generic . . . → Read More: Steve Poses for Birthday Card  Marc noticed these weird cat-sculptures the other day as he was coming out of a multi-story carpark located in the Byward Market. He took a picture with his phone to show me, and of course I was intrigued and wanted to see for myself so we went back last weekend (going back with the camera to . . . → Read More: Carpark Cats in Byward Market  I walked a different way to work this morning and by doing so stumbled upon an exhibition taking place at the underpass of Portage Bridge here in Ottawa. 12 large scale photographic artworks with an environmental theme are painted on the walls as part of the summer edition of the Eco Art project (earlier this year . . . → Read More: Eco Art Exhibition @ Portage Bridge  Letter we received from Snail Mail My Email Isn’t that adorable?! Even though I did come up with that lovely message, I didn’t actually write it down and drew the little illustration: Snail Mail My Email did it for me. Snail Mail was a month-long worldwide collaborative art project that took place from July 15 – . . . → Read More: Snail Mail My Email – Art Project 
Japan has always been at the top of the list of countries we’d like to visit someday. Not only are we fascinated by Japanese arts and design, we’d also like to see if it is as strange there as depicted in Haruki Murakami’s books (recommended readings: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, After Dark, . . . → Read More: Japan: Tradition. Innovation. – An exhibition review 
We went for a walk in Wakefield, QC last weekend and saw this nice mailbox converted into a drop-off box for books outside the public library. We thought it was a great and unique example of recycling and that, actually, it’d be a good idea for Canada Post follow this example and to start . . . → Read More: Converted mailbox – Project idea for Canada Post! |
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