I came across this website – http://kuler.adobe.com/ – a little while ago but didn’t take time to experiment with it much… However, yesterday was a rainy bank holiday so I chose a few pictures taken during the past summer and uploaded them to my Kuler. Kuler is actually a free tool (simply create an account) by . . . → Read More: Kuler – Nice tool for designers
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Yalumba – The Y Series (+ Steve The Cat's nose) Just as we often buy books for their covers, we usually choose our wines according to their bottles. We chose this 2009 Y Series Viognier because we liked the texture, embossing and overall look of its label. The illustration shows vine shoots found in a vineyard . . . → Read More: The Y Series – wine bottle label YCD Paris I recently re-read Made You Look by Stefan Sagmeister, one of my favourite designers. He’s not one of my favourites because of his work (rather ugly, sometimes!), but I like him because of the thinking behind his designs and I just find that the stuff he writes in his books/interviews is quite hilarious and . . . → Read More: YCD Paris From Marc ♥ From the in-laws From the sister in-law A few days before my birthday we went on a trip to Niagara-on-the-Lake with Marc’s family, who came all the day from England to visit us. Off the main street we found a great little shop that specializes in selling Japan-imported goods (From Japan Inc. – . . . → Read More: Greetings from Japan (via Niagara-on-the-Lake) GO à Vélo – Logo, Jersey & Cuissard Il y a quelques mois, GO à vélo!, une équipe inscrite au Grand Défi Pierre Lavoie, nous a contacté pour savoir si nous accepterions de créer un logo pour leur équipe de vélo. Nous avons créé le logo, et puisque le grand départ de cette randonnée de 1000 . . . → Read More: GO à vélo! Shepard Fairey Way before Shepard Fairey became famous for having designed the Obama “HOPE” poster, we went to one of his exhibition at Stolenspace Gallery, a very cool place in London (http://www.stolenspace.com). We fell in love with the picture above (it was gigantic; the size of a wall so very impressive) and decided that we wanted . . . → Read More: Obey vs The Labour Party Fresh: Edmonton Tourism I came across this promotion piece for Edmonton Tourism while at work; it’s to promote their meeting and conference hosting services. The whole concept revolves around them being a ‘fresh’ alternative to group events as they offer eco-friendly options such as ECO report card, sustainable event planning guide and sustainable event planning tips . . . → Read More: Fresh: “Plantable” label for Edmonton Tourism Promotion Piece Spring is in the air: it smells like mud, we’ve already seen people wearing shorts & flip flops (!), Easter is in 2 weeks and it’s daffodils season (in England at least; sadly, here it’s daffodils seasons in flower shops only. Who pays $4 for a handful of flowers when in England you could just steal . . . → Read More: Yellow : The colour Our apologies for the lack of updates this month; we’ve been very busy with a combination of design jobs and a semi-unexpected move so the blog has had to go on the backburner until we finish up some of our current projects and moved into our new place. Anyway onto the point of this blog post: as . . . → Read More: Photoshop 20th Anniversary Vancouver 2010 10 days left (at the moment of writing this blog) before the Winter Olympics & Paralympics Games. I don’t have much interest in the games themselves and probably won’t go out of my way in order to watch the events (except maybe the hockey). However, I do like the ‘Olympic Spirit’ AKA the advertising, . . . → Read More: Olympics Design |
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