Recent Posts Tagged With 'graphic design'

• Saving the World One Design at a Time

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 07:00 in graphic design, Advertising, ottawa, ottawa news

  Ottawa native David Berman is a pretty interesting guy. He is a Fellow and the Ethics Chair of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, a vice-president of Icograda, the world body for graphic design, a Canadian communication designer and author, ...

• Improving a Graphic Design Portfolio

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 14:33 in graphic design, marketing breakthroughs

  Over on the Marketing Breakthroughs main site, we've added quite a few more entries to our portfoli0. We also created a video production showcase page.It's been quite a process going through our old work and sourcing some of this, but I think it's be...

• Apple Marketing and Advertising Thinks Different

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 07:48 in apple, graphic design, Marketing, Advertising

  If you know me, I, like many people, have probably blathered on about how great Apple's advertising is. I've probably already blogged about it. Well, I'm going to blog about it some more, because it really is fantastic.The best part? The advertising ...

• Pepsi's New Look: A Pointless Endeavour?

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 12:31 in graphic design, Marketing, Branding, logos, pepsi

  Perhaps you've seen or read about the brand new Pepsi logo and can design. I must say, it looks very nice -- quite modern and minimalist, almost like something you'd see in a sci-fi movie set in the "not-too-distant future" (although the slightly dif...

• Take the Shortcut!

  Posted on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 20:24 in graphic design, shortcuts, Mac OS X, tim hortons, designer's desk

  Take a second and look around. How many printed words do you see? No, not just on the computer screen in front of you, but besides that? Your 'Tim Horton's' coffee cup, words on the motivational poster on your wall, words in the logo on your pen or t...

• A Tale of Two Apples

  Posted on Tuesday October 7th, 2008 at 18:47 in apple, graphic design, Marketing, Branding

  Apple is threatening legal action against the Victoria School of Business and Technology, the Globe & Mail reported earlier this week. According to the lawyers representing Apple Inc., the school's logo reproduces the Apple logo, thereby "falsly ...

• Why Newspaper Ads Fail - And How You Can Fix Yours

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 08:56 in graphic design, copywriting, newspapers

  I just was reading our local paper and couldn't get over the number of boring and just plain poorly laid out ads there were in this publication. Leading the list of boring ads were the ones placed by a well-known Ottawa furniture retailer and a shop ...

• Orange You Glad to Shop at Wal-Mart?

  Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 15:00 in graphic design, Branding, wal-mart

  Rumour has it that Wal-Mart will be changing up its branding -- and it looks the retail giant is going Dutch. According to this story first reported in the Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart will be dropping the hyphen/star from its name, and its new logo...