Maximal and minimal meanings
One of the challenges of branding and marketing is working with and relying on the many subtle, implicit and subconscious …
Hours of focus
I don’t know how he does it. He has a kind of discipline that I don’t understand. If he didn’t …
Local and live at Spiral cafe
There’s a coffee shop in my neighbourhood and they do stuff there that I really admire. Yes, they also serve …
Weekend on Galiano
Spent last weekend on Galiano. There’s nothing better than sharing a cool island weekend with cool friends.
What to do about hate?
Okay, so it’s one thing to notice and criticize ads that are demeaning, racist or hateful. But I’ve been thinking …
A helpful vid by Leo Murray
This thoughtful film appeals to me so much because I think the animation is really artful. It reviews the notion …
XKCD interlude
These always make me laugh. XKCD
Good magazine, being bad
I like Good Magazine! They’ve been rewarding good ideas lately with some good video ads!
Positioning the other, again
So last week I wrote about a bus ad that I photographed and posted claiming that it was racist. But …
About pencils
Just in case you ever wondered about the blackness (B) and hardness (H) ratings for pencils, I have provided for …
An average Magazine
We made this piece last year. We picked up a magazine off of the shelf in our neighbourhood grocery store. …
Truth in Advertising
This is a good ad. I love the copy. It’s folksy – the language is down to earth. Heck, it …
Autumn prairie
Between Vulcan and the Little Bow Provincial Park.
Positioning the other
Advertisements push our buttons and our boundaries. Ad copy that once might have been rejected for being too risky or …
Testing the WordPress app for iPhone
Well this is pretty cool. I loaded the WordPress app onto my iPhone and I’m going to actually post. This …
A good php resource
PHP is a scripting language. I really don’t know a lot about PHP other than that WordPress and Drupal work …
Pentagram redesigns craigslist
Pentagram is a stellar design studio and I enjoy to check out their blog now and then. They did a …
Drupal Camp Victoria 2009
I had the good fortune of going to Drupal Camp last weekend here in Victoria. There were so many cool …
About this theme
This blog owes most of it’s functionality to WordPress. The look and feel of this site was originally inspired by …