Graphic Design & Culture

Mexico is a wonderful country. They have a flair for life and community that is refreshing. They also have an amazing flair for colour and style in art, design and decoration, and as a culture they embrace ornamentation. As a designer, I truly enjoy seeing different...

A Word on Branding and Identity Standards

In the end, you may get something printed beautifully that is a close, but not exact match. An interesting thing has been coming up lately: how to deal with identity standards. Specifically, colour in relation to identity standards. Many of our clients are now in...

The Uncertain Vagaries of CMYK profiling

Lately we’ve been working with a myriad of suppliers who print a myriad of products. We’ve found out some interesting things regarding printing and colour calibration. The biggest thing it seems, (though unsupported by any empirical data) is that with the...
City of Red Deer Tradeshow

City of Red Deer Tradeshow

Today we visited the “Let’s Talk 2008” tradeshow at Parkland Mall in north Red Deer. It’s an annual event in which the City departments descend upon one of the Red Deer malls and meet and greet the citizens of Red Deer. What’s so significant about this? We did the...