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RSS FEEDYou Suck: An Inspirational Message
I have a hunch about your average graphic designer. And maybe it’s not so much a hunch about graphic designers as it is about people in general but my hunch is that, typically, we are insecure. Whether we’ve done reputable work or not, we’d like to believe that we’re the best at what we do… [...]
read more »Dealing with Revision Requests
Any graphic designer who has had to send a proof to a client has received feedback and/or revision requests that nearly put them into an epileptic seizure. Sometimes it’s warranted, sometimes though it’s just a bad reaction to the feeling of rejection. How do you deal with it? Maybe you go on a tirade to other [...]
read more »State of the Union!
State of the Union I’ve been doing freelance graphic design part-time for years now and recently, thanks in part to a grant from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), I’ve been able to freelance for Ulrich Design full-time. As a freelancer you’re continually on the job search. In this respect, the first quarter of [...]
read more »New Educational Blog Series
I have a series of blog posts planned which I will be using as educational reference tools to my clients and prospective clients. If you’re looking at getting into graphic design, specifically logo design, you might find them helpful too. If they help new clients find me, well, that’s just an added bonus. In the [...]
read more »Illogical Procrastination
I always end up doing it sooner or later. I might go 12 projects in a row but eventually I have that one project where I procrastinate and just don’t “feel” like getting around to doing it. And there doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason to it, it’s not any particular type of [...]
read more »Regular Season Wrap-up
Our First Schnide For the first time this season, we’ve strung together back-to-back losses as well as three winless games (0-2-1 in last 3). While it’s not time to hit the panic button, as we locked up 1st place about a month ago, it’s definitely worth while to look at where we’re going wrong. After [...]
read more »Games 23 & 24 vs. Bruins & Beavers
This week we have a couple games against the two clubs battling it out for second place to earn the coveted playoff bye into the semi-finals, the West End Bruins and Thunder Bay Beavers, Game 23 vs. West End Bruins Including tournaments, this would be our 6th meeting with the West End Bruins. West End [...]
read more »Game 22 vs. Westfort Rangers
The last time we had played the Westfort Rangers, they actually gave us quite a scare as we took a 3-3 tie with them into the third. We ended up winning 5-3 but they played extremely well. The Rangers continued their play going on a run of 2-2-2 in their next 6 games, nipping at [...]
read more »Game 21 vs. South End Jr. Stars
About 16 hours after returning to Thunder Bay, we had a regular season game against the South End Jr. Stars. As I had mentioned in my last blog post, we lost a young man named Mathew Gibbons well before his time, so before the game we observed a moment of silence. Eric Donaldson, who was [...]
read more »Wayzata Tournament
Thursday morning, we made the bus trip down to the Minneapolis/St.Paul area for the ‘Wayzata Junior Gold B Tournament’ to compete with a total of eight teams; Five teams from Minnesota, including the Osseo-Maple Grove team that we played in the Grantsburg tournament, one from Fargo, North Dakota, and our old rivals, the Des Moines [...]
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