By ycd, on September 1st, 2011

Back when we lived in Toronto, the daily walk to my office job involved walking across Union Station, where every week I was bombarded with direct promotional items from big brand companies: bags of Uncle Ben’s Rice, Coke Zero cans, chewing gum, Kleenex, Shampoo & Conditioner sample, bottles of Frank’s Hot . . . → Read More: Mile High Raccoon Promo
By ycd, on August 30th, 2011

Letter we received from Snail Mail My Email
Isn’t that adorable?! Even though I did come up with that lovely message, I didn’t actually write it down and drew the little illustration: Snail Mail My Email did it for me. Snail Mail was a month-long worldwide collaborative art project that took place from July 15 – . . . → Read More: Snail Mail My Email – Art Project
By ycd, on August 23rd, 2011

Japan has always been at the top of the list of countries we’d like to visit someday. Not only are we fascinated by Japanese arts and design, we’d also like to see if it is as strange there as depicted in Haruki Murakami’s books (recommended readings: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, After Dark, . . . → Read More: Japan: Tradition. Innovation. – An exhibition review
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 May 5th, 2011

We went for a walk in Wakefield, QC last weekend and saw this nice mailbox converted into a drop-off box for books outside the public library. We thought it was a great and unique example of recycling and that, actually, it’d be a good idea for Canada Post follow this example and to start . . . → Read More: Converted mailbox – Project idea for Canada Post!
By ycd, on April 27th, 2011

Ottawa is often described as a plain and boring city – mostly by us, we must admit – but we went on a little walk the other day and saw some street art worth sharing on The Blog (which we neglected in the last few weeks due to us being busy with work, the . . . → Read More: Wall arts…
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