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The Designers Notebook
Design Thinkers Ontario Overview Part I
It’s been a few weeks since I got back from Ontario, and before it gets too distant, I thought I'd recap the week’s events.Push vs. Pull The conference was quite interesting. I think the biggest single theme I came across was that the world economy is changing and...
Web 2.0 Seminar
We had the opportunity to present at Red Deer City Hall on October 26 to a group of Alberta Municipal Web Group members on web trends, web 2.0 and other fun stuff. We discussed technology, when to use flash and other widgets, how to organize information and what users...
Award Winning Design
Working in a smaller market like Red Deer doesn’t often garner a lot of design awards, but some of our recent work for Red Deer College has gotten some attention. Red Deer College was awarded with five Medallion Awards from District 7 of the National Council for...
Off to Toronto! Design thinkers Conference 2007
Look out Hogtown… Redpoint Design is coming to town! I’m off to Toronto this week for a conference sponsored by the RGD (Registered Graphic Designers) association of Ontario. Design Thinkers 2007 is a hodgepodge of new media, branding and design leaders from across...
Greatness
Which is greater? Leaving a community in hope of greatness, or staying and creating greatness? An interesting question. Yesterday I attended a press conference where the Alberta Minister of Advanced Education and Technology, the Honourable Doug Horner, presented Red...
Say it like you mean it.
It was hot in Alberta this weekend. Really hot. Likely the most important weekend in the entire year for Tim Horton’s to have Ice Capps for the world. We, like the rest of Alberta, wanted and Ice Capp on Sunday afternoon. But the first Timmies we went to offered only...
We are making art here.
Is Graphic Design art? Some might argue no, depending on how pressing their deadlines were, but sometimes as a designer, little things help highlight how we create things that end up a bit more than just fishwrap. I was at a meeting at the Red Deer Museum this morning...
Subliminal Influences
Some look at designers as being psychologists… able to weave a complex web of messages to promote a behavior in viewers. Sure there’s a bit of that, but I’d like to believe that communicating well will get the point across well enough without being tricky. So if...
A Movie about a font – Helvetica: The Movie
Last night we drove up to Calgary (Brian & Sonya) to see the screening of “ Helvetica: The Movie” at The Uptown Theatre, and event sponsored by the GDC South and Veer. All I can say is... “Wow”. You might ask why make a movie about a font and how in the world...
Graphic Design Seminar – Alberta Communicators Group
We were invited to share a little insight into graphic design an how it related to members of a Communication Department today. We presented at Red Deer City Hall and got to share with representatives from municipal communicators from as far as Grande Prairie and as...
Whistler Blackcomb & the Norse God of Snow
While on vacation in BC, we visited our friend and colleague Kim who is the Brand Manager for Whistler Blackcomb. Sure if was fun hanging around the village and eating sushi, but we had an opportunity to tour the offices and have a peek as some of the fresh creative...
Web 2.0 Workshop – Banff Alberta
We had the pleasure of sitting in on a 3 day workshop in Banff this past weekend relating to website production, coding, and business best practices. We were introduced to a panel including from agencies in Calgary and Detroit, to game designers, crowd-sourcing (look...
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