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 Here in Ottawa for the last few months temperatures have being way below the seasonal average of -6°C, most days have being at least -10°C with wind chills of double that but for a day or two at least the temperatures have shot up massively, so much so that we’re currently experiencing a balmy 8°C. While . . . → Read More: Chapmans Ice Cream Label  Year of the Rabbit Last week I received a letter in the post with a stamp that caught my attention. You can’t really tell by the scan I took of it, but it’s really nice and bright and there’s a gold outline around the drawings. In other words, it is MUCH more attractive than your usual . . . → Read More: Year of the Rabbit – or of the Hare?! – Stamp by Canada Post 
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  My Mighty Lion – Cat treats Marc, Desmond-the-puppy and I were doing our weekly shopping at PetSmart last weekend when Marc spotted that very nice bag of cat treats. Before even reading the ingredients to make sure that our cats Steve and Bobo would like them, we knew we had to buy a pack in order . . . → Read More: Packaging Design for Mighty Lions & Wolves  Throughout the year we pick up business cards wherever we go and keep them for whenever we need inspiration (or as examples of what NOT to do, in certain cases). My idea was to sort the cards that we founds during the past year into various categories (best, worst, funniest, most colourful, best illustration, . . . → Read More: 2010 Business Cards  This is the time of the year where every blog, website and magazine has its Top 10 Gifts for Everyone on the Planet: Men, Women, Mum, Dad, Fashionista, Fast Food Addict, New Girlfriend, etc. We’ve decided to follow the trend and do one for what we know best: Graphic Designers (well, it could have been Gift . . . → Read More: 10 Gifts for the Graphic Designer on your list  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 
Music, a Manchester design studio that I quite like because they gave me the correct answer to win a contest organized by Grafik Magazine (I won the studio’s . . . → Read More: BRIT Awards Rebranding by Music 
We were shopping at Bayshore shopping centre not so long ago when we came across this Aritzia shop window. The crazy cat lady in me couldn’t resist and had to take a few pictures. Don’t they just look adorable these little cat angels (or Magic Cats as Aritzia calls them)? I want one….And guess . . . → Read More: Display for Crazy Cat Ladies at Aritzia I came across this website – http://kuler.adobe.com/ – a little while ago but didn’t take time to experiment with it much… However, yesterday was a rainy bank holiday so I chose a few pictures taken during the past summer and uploaded them to my Kuler. Kuler is actually a free tool (simply create an account) by . . . → Read More: Kuler – Nice tool for designers |
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