Category Archives : Design Blog
RSS FEEDUlrich Design Business Cards circa 2006
Today I was at my parent’s house and I started helping my mom go through some old stuff that I had: old boxes for software I no longer use, boxes to old Apple products including an iPod I had stolen from me, assignments from University, and various issues of Photoshop Magazine. It was some good [...]
read more »UD Quickie: Shopping for Insurance
If you’ve never purchased insurance for a business, my advice is to shop around. This might seem like common sense but I just want to press the importance of it in the case of insurance. It’s not like shopping around for a laptop where you might save $100. I’ve gone into insurance dealers and brokers [...]
read more »Fossfotography Wedding Ad
I must have done a dozen newspaper ads for Manitoba photographer, Tami Foss of Fossfotography but I decided to take a different approach with the latest ad. In the past I’ve found clever and artistic ways to show off a selection of her portfolio. They looked good but really they were merely “awareness ads”. They didn’t do [...]
read more »UD Quickie: Gainfully Unemployed
UD Quickie: Last Friday was my last day of official employment. I am now what I like to call “gainfully unemployed”. I’ll be sharing office space with technology firm, Qwantech in the new Thunder Bay Centre of Change (formerly Hillcrest High School).
read more »Why Logoworks Sucks
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” ~Albert Einstein Sorry for the divisive title. The message of this blog post should maybe be “A good example of why Logoworks and other logo manufacturing sites that treat logo design as a commodity are not your best option and for your business’ identity” but I [...]
read more »Book Review: iheartlogos – season one
I received my copy of iheartlogos, season one, a book put together by the company of the same name, iheartlogos (www.iheartlogos.com). If you go to their website, it’s pretty self-expanitory. The site takes submissions of logos by designers (at a fee of $10 per logo). All rights and properties of the logos remain with the [...]
read more »Pro-bono: Thunder Bay Food Bank – Part II
The Facility This past Tuesday morning I headed to the Thunder Bay Food Bank to see them in action. There was a big line of people going through, firstly, a check-in desk where they had to show their ID, secondly, they’d go along the shelves and put items in their basket, thirdly, through another counter [...]
read more »Pro-bono: Thunder Bay Food Bank – Part I
Bank Drop This evening I met with the board of the Thunder Bay Food Bank at their building on Miles Street. Ten volunteers and myself met around a few tables pushed together in the middle of a room walled by shelves filled with nonperishable food items. I first learned about Thunder Bay Food Bank while [...]
read more »Video Review: MOO Mini Business Cards
Recently I placed an order with UK-based MOO (moo.com) for myself and one of my clients, fossfotography. Below you can watch my 90-second video review on MOO’s mini business cards and holders, and their Sticker Books. Their products are pretty slick and they put a lot of thought into everything they do right down to [...]
read more »Intrigued by Deadened Infrastructure
The Audacity! I’ve never done a photo diary before. It might not seem all that odd that a graphic designer hasn’t done one but it was at Photoshop World in Las Vegas in 2008 where I learned that most professional photographers at least do graphic design as a hobby and the reverse is also true. [...]
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