By ycd, on January 20th, 2012
IFC started showing Season 1 of Misfits, a science-fiction drama TV series produced in the UK about a group of young offenders (some of which are typical English chavs who remind us of people we used to know in England…aww memories!) forced to work in a community service programme. They get supernatural powers after a weird . . . → Read More: Misfits – the show not the band
By ycd, on January 4th, 2012

That was ours, a Narcissist Riesling from the wine collection Megalomaniac which we of course bought because we really liked the label, not because of our inflated sense of self-esteem and the overestimation of our powers and beliefs… or was that the reason why we liked it?! Who knows! In any case, . . . → Read More: What was your Christmas day wine?
By ycd, on December 6th, 2011

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This is the pretty YCD Happy Holiday card – 2011 Edition – that we designed for our clients & friends. It’s always great fun to spend some time doing design work for ourselves and to have carte blanche for all stylistic choices (including the choice of a reindeer photo amongst . . . → Read More: Our pretty 2011 Christmas cards!
By ycd, on November 28th, 2011
The title of this post refers to the latest bags we bought to, well… to pick up our dog, Desmond’s poo! We normally buy the Dollars Store’s own version of biodegradable poop bags, but last time we were at Costco we saw these and fell in love with the packaging (if you’re a regular on this . . . → Read More: “Extra-long so you never make unwanted contact.”
By ycd, on November 17th, 2011

Certificat-cadeau | Magazine Zeste
Lucky people who will be receiving a subscription to Zeste (Quebec’s most delicious-looking food-related magazine) this holiday season will not only receive 4 or 8 issues of one of the best executed magazine in the province: they will also receive this beautiful gift certificate, designed by none other than us . . . → Read More: Latest work! Zeste : un cadeau gourmand.
By ycd, on October 13th, 2011

If you’re following us on Facebook you’ll remember that a few weeks ago we mentioned that we had ordered a t-shirt from Wordans, a canadian website where you can order custom-designed apparel ranging from t-shirts to aprons, passing by g-strings and tote bags… Well the t-shirt we ordered came and we’re quite . . . → Read More: Little Owls T-shirt
By ycd, on September 26th, 2011
I like to use my design skills in real life, for example when it comes to creating birthday cards for people. I designed the one above for my goddaughter Arianne who turned 10 (already!) last week. Call me cheap, but I do find that paying $6-7 (ofter more for the very fancy ones) for a generic . . . → Read More: Steve Poses for Birthday Card
By ycd, on September 19th, 2011

In the category “direct mail that grabs your attention”, below is the latest mailing piece we received from the Breast Cancer Society of Canada. Amongst a pile of boring pizzeria flyers and a few despised invoices, that very bright pink bra cutout certainly added a bit of colour to our post. It’s nice to get something . . . → Read More: Dress for the cause
By ycd, on September 13th, 2011

Marc noticed these weird cat-sculptures the other day as he was coming out of a multi-story carpark located in the Byward Market. He took a picture with his phone to show me, and of course I was intrigued and wanted to see for myself so we went back last weekend (going back with the camera to . . . → Read More: Carpark Cats in Byward Market
By ycd, on September 6th, 2011

I walked a different way to work this morning and by doing so stumbled upon an exhibition taking place at the underpass of Portage Bridge here in Ottawa. 12 large scale photographic artworks with an environmental theme are painted on the walls as part of the summer edition of the Eco Art project (earlier this year . . . → Read More: Eco Art Exhibition @ Portage Bridge