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Canadian Design Resource
Recently launched by Michael Erdmann and Todd Falkowsky of the Toronto-based design collective Motherbrand, Canadian Design Resource is a growing online treasure trove of Canadian design products and...
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New GDC.net website launched!
After much feedback, evaluation, planning—including a healthy dose of debate and discussion—the all new GDC.net website has launched at long last, with a section devoted to the GDC BC Chapter. Having...
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Stuff White People Like
It’s absolutely terrible (and hilarious) how accurate this website is about the stuff white people like. It appears to be only a couple months old with its oldest post from January, 2008, but its...
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Pivot!
Readers who watch Friends, you might know what my title means. For the past few weeks Todd and I have been working on furnishing his new place. Not only has this move given me an opportunity to fuel...
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Henriquez Partners Architects Blog and Website Launched
We really enjoy working with architects. The simple fact that we speak the same language of design and work in the creative field, often immersed in a similar processes makes it all the more...
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Design School Didn’t Tell You…
Design Edge Magazine recently launched a new section on their website and invited my friend David Berman and I to be regular contributors. My column is called Design School Didn’t Tell You… and my...
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Clients Aren’t Really Our Clients
Seriously, they’re not. Not really. Think about it. Our clients’ clients are our clients. Before any fellow design instructors flip out, insisting they spend a good deal of time teaching their...
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Competitive analysis – a path to mediocrity?
I recently met a fellow design firm owner in the U.S. with a particularly salty view of competitive analysis. In his firm, if a designer is caught going online to research a client’s competition...
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Odds are, you won’t succeed as a designer
Below is Mark Busse’s most recent article published by Design Edge Magazine on how to break into the graphic and communication design industry: Most of you won’t make it in the graphic design...
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Who cares whether your website looks good? For starters, your employees do.
We recently updated Francl Architecture's brand and website. These days, employee retention is on the tips of many business owners’ tongues. According to multiple sources, such as Forbes Magazine, the...
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