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 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 August 15th, 2011%

These are pictures from one of our latest projects for Groupe Serdy, the Quebec production company who owns the TV channels Évasion (showing travel & escape-related shows) and Zeste (Quebec’s very own food network). Our work consisted in designing a kit for each channel to unveil their autumn 2011 programming and showcase . . . → Read More: Zeste/Évasion : One of our latest projects – L’un de nos projets récents
By ycd, on July 5th, 2011%

Go à vélo! completed the challenge! They biked over 1000 km across the province of Quebec last month…
Here are a couple of pictures they sent to us of them on the road and before the departure.
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Ils l’ont encore fait: l’équipe Go à vélo! a parcouru au-delà de 1000 km à travers le Québec le mois . . . → Read More: Go à vélo! Update
By ycd, on April 21st, 2011%

GO à vélo! – 2011
Remember that blog entry from June 2010 featuring the logo we created for GO à vélo!, a team doing the 1000 km bike ride for the Grand Défi Pierre Lavoie? Well, since they doubled the amount of cyclists in order to create 2 teams for this year’s challenge, we updated their . . . → Read More: GO à vélo! – 2011
By ycd, on March 14th, 2011%

We were contacted by the organizers of Folded Dreams at the beginning of 2011 and asked to design a poster, a postcard and some templates for the website of their Annual Paper Airplane Festival & Competition taking place in Ottawa. They wanted something “simple and clean”, and below is what we came up with. This event . . . → Read More: Designs for Paper Airplane Festival & Competition
By ycd, on February 7th, 2011%

Winterlude 2011 – Ottawa, Canada – Confederation Park
We’re not big fans of winter, but yesterday we made an exception and took advantage of the warm-ish weather to go to Winterlude, Ottawa’s annual winter festival. We wanted to see the ice sculptures that were, as you can see above, quite spectacular! We couldn’t . . . → Read More: Winterlude 2011 – Ice Sculpture Competition
By ycd, on December 6th, 2010%

A few weeks ago Felt & Wire was giving away packs of lovely Mohawk Paper envelopes to their Facebook fans following a discussion on what size(s) of envelopes designers/paper lovers were using the most. I received mine in the post a few days later and was very excited about posting about them here, but . . . → Read More: Recycled cards for the Holidays