By ycd, on October 20th, 2010%
You may remember that last year we had a photoshop of Steven Harper playing piano featured on The Rick Mercer Report. Ever since then whenever we watch an episode we always say to each other that we should enter again but by the next day have either forgotten or our photoshops are sidetracked to incorporate the . . . → Read More: Yellow Car Design Work Featured On National Television Again!!!
By ycd, on September 8th, 2010%
This is a wordle – a word cloud visually representative of what our Tweets look like (click on the picture to see it full-size). Cool, isn’t? Looks like we tweet a lot about design, surprisingly enough If you’re not already a follower on Twitter, find us @ycdesign (Vicky) or @yellowcardesign (Marc).
To create your own . . . → Read More: Twitter Wordle
By ycd, on June 1st, 2010%
We realise that the 2010 World cup hasn’t taken place yet but today the 2014 logo was released for the next tournament that is to be held in Brazil. To be honest we’re not 100% sure this is for real as none of us are able to understand Portuguese and mainly due . . . → Read More: World Cup 2014 Logo
By ycd, on May 25th, 2010%
Here at Yellow Car Design we’re big football fans so are understandably looking forward to this summer’s World Cup. To be honest: even more so than usual due to being in Canada while it’s on. We get to support England without all the usual hype and ridiculousness that surrounds an . . . → Read More: World Cup South Africa 2010 Design
By ycd, on April 28th, 2010%
This is a picture of a pedestrian crossing as seen in our neighborhood. Nothing special… but take a closer look at the hand:
Isn’t it an awful drawing? Floppy, boneless, wrinkly, ‘wristless’ and with the most bizarre manicure I’ve ever seen! This hand is traumatizing enough to come and haunt you at night…
Seriously, I might be slightly . . . → Read More: Ugliest Hand Ever Drawn…And it’s all over the city!
By ycd, on April 23rd, 2010%
As owners of two cats that love Royal Canin food to the extent that it has to be kept under tighter security than the gold bullion at Fort Knox this advert really struck a chord with us!
Obviously we’d like to see a version featuring our cats (they’re quite photogenic: Steve only needs to hear the . . . → Read More: Royal Canin: Drooling Dog Advert
By ycd, on April 22nd, 2010%
Designers sometimes have moments of euphoria when they think of a great concept that will look amazing and will really stand out from anything else. Then we create the ‘great concept’ and realize that, damn, it’s not working at all and to make it work we have to modify the ‘great concept’ and take away a . . . → Read More: Form follows function…NOT – sahre victore wilker
By ycd, on February 19th, 2010%
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
By ycd, on January 12th, 2010%
Spot Talk
This “lovely” flyer was in our mailbox today, along with a couple of pamphlets from various pizza places and two bulletins about Toronto’s waterfront real estate market (those didn’t even make it to the apartment – they went straight into the recycling bin). This is a very hideous flyer: the colours are awfully bright . . . → Read More: Ugly, but useful.
By ycd, on December 22nd, 2009%
Gifts
How happy would you be to receive that nicely crafted box of presents? Very happy I’m sure! I took that photo for fun before sending it (for fun + for the fact that with the postal services you never know if a parcel is going to reach its destination… better have a proof that yes, we did . . . → Read More: Christmas Design