A few years ago… two and a half, to be exact, we designed a logo for our friends over at the Dog and Cat Hospital. Dr. Volk had been our vet for years, so it was natural. You may have seen the neon shining in the Clearview market. The logo is a cute little animal face...
I wrote recently about the conundrum of content. As a designer, you're paid to create the visuals the content goes into. As a client you pay designers for communications solutions (design is one part of this). It's neither cost-effective or efficient to write content...
I've been thinking a lot over the past couple of months about content. All sorts of content, from brochure text, trade show display lists, and website pages. The old adage goes "content is King", but from the point of view of many projects, actual content is more...
We recently completed two tradeshow banners for Pink Suede Imaging. They turned out so wonderful I felt the need to blog. Pink Suede is a service that assists women in the area of personal image. Think of them as the What Not to Wear of Red Deer. If Clint & Stacy...
2009 has been a year of stops and starts, there is no doubt. One thing has really become clear, though. Managing any type of marketing requires a lot of effort. A lot of our clients are small central Alberta companies and associations who don't have full time...
The concept of the creative process is a pretty cloudy one. Shops guard their "process" carefully, larger shops acting aloof and technical, and the smaller shops tend to try and look bouncy and approachable to counteract the larger shops. The client is either being...
Today was a pretty cool day. We visited the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery in their new temporary location at the Parkland Mall in Red Deer. The Museum staff were very excited to embark on this new adventure. Firstly, they have closed the regular downtown location for...
After quite a few months, we’ve finally launched the new website for the Career Assistance Network in Red Deer. It has been a fun process and the amazing thing about a site is watching the content come together. I have to admit, I’m a sceptic when talk turns to the...
It’s not often we get gifts from clients - usually we are the one giving them to our clients. But a few weeks back, we received a card in the mail from a client with a tip inside. A small token that allowed for some free and easy ordering at the local watering hole -...
We have been having a race lately to see which projects get completed first and We recently went live with a web project for X-cel communications. It’s a nice site with a few really nice features. As usual, the client has complete access to all content and can create...
We took in the Festival of Trees Opening event - the Celebration of Lights last night. All the sponsors (Redpoint was a Gold sponsor this year) were treated to a private viewing of the event that will take over Red Deer this weekend. I think the humbling thing I...
Finally! We’ve been waiting for almost two months for today! We completed a re-design of the downtown Red Deer street banners in the summer, and our task was to replace the previous set which had been in use for almost 4 years. The wait while the banners were in...
Vehicle graphics are one of the more interesting projects we get to work on – we don’t do vehicles very often – but it’s great to see the latest hot rod roll out of the shop and the Newly minted Bikewerx Ford Flex is no exception! We were asked to design a sleek,...
We had a marvelous opportunity this summer to collaborate with a major Edmonton web development firm to develop a new online presence for the Alberta College of Paramedics. The College has an incredible amount of content and required a major re-working of the site...
We were excited to hear friday from Red Deer College that another project we completed for them has won an award. The 2007 Series brochure, part of larger campaign, was just awarded a gold “Paragon” award at the NCMPR (National Council for Marketing and Public...