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WOODEN YOU KNOW

November 14, 2011

Where most people see trash, Stefanie Nieuwenhuys spies opportunity. After discovering tiny, diamond-shaped wood chips on a workshop floor at Kingston University in London—the leftovers of some architecture student, no doubt—the fashion master’s student was reminded of a secondhand snakeskin bag she once purchased. Scooping them up, Nieuwenhuys set to work, layering the wooden scraps [...]

Why every business needs professional copywriting

May 18, 2011

Why you should pay a professional to do your copywriting (and how to get the best bang for your buck!) Why indeed? You passed English in Grade 12 (with a distinction, I might add). Why can’t you just write the copy for your website yourself? I mean really, how hard can it be? Well, it’s [...]

QR whaaat?

May 18, 2011

Ok, so you have seen this funny looking black and white Tetris-looking thingy in your favourite magazine and on menu special stands in restaurants, but you didn’t bother to find out what it was, because it looks complicated, right? Well, its not! Here are some easy to understand info on how it works and how you [...]

HTML vs Flash: The Big Debate

March 5, 2011

Most of my clients are confused when choosing the right platform for their business and needs. Hopefully this article might help to clear up some confusion and help to make the decision process easier. Some Web designers have very strong opinions on whether it is better to use HTML or Flash when creating a new [...]

Six Reasons Why You Should Have a Website

January 25, 2011

We’ve come a long way since the first website went live in 1990. In the past 21 years, websites have gone from being niche oddities to everyday necessities. Today, there is a creative website design on just about every subject and for every use: from finding a designer for your wedding invitation to finding a [...]

Tips When Choosing a Colour For Your Logo/Brand

January 11, 2011

Colour influences our lives in more ways than we can imagine. It can change our emotions, our mood, even our appetite! School children perform better in yellow classrooms and patients recover quicker in blue rooms after major surgery. But this effect is proving to not only be purely psychological. Recent studies have shown that colour [...]

Book Review: Making Ideas Happen

September 26, 2010

Ideas are simple but the execution of the idea is where it gets difficult. This book helps you with that easier-said-than done-part Being a creative and being somewhat disorganized is usually the norm and designers and artists gets labeled as being chaotic in their workplaces, but it needs to be exactly the opposite for ideas to flourish.

Animation Explained

August 17, 2010

Animation is the high-speed display of a string of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion. Animation is becoming increasingly more popular since the enormous progression in Computer Graphics. It is becoming more vital in everyday marketing, advertising and promotions [...]

About Corporate Identity

August 17, 2010

Just like individuals, every company or brand has its own uniqueness, character and identity. A company’s corporate identity is the group of attributes and values that company has, its reason of being, its spirit and essence. It is the collection of pieces, features, thoughts, methods and techniques that your brand needs to be exclusive and [...]

Business Card Design

August 17, 2010

In this digital age, some people tend to forget the importance of business cards. Your business card is a visual depiction of your company, an advertisement, a networking and lead-generating device all combined into one. It is your most precious marketing tool and a vital element to becoming memorable. Sadly, too many people have business [...]

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