One of my favourite parts of design is working with companies to create (or re-create) a logo, brand, or brand system. The cool part is it is an infinitely scalable process that can take 5 hours (don’t tell anyone I said that) or it can hundreds of hours. The real difference between the lower end [...]
A while back I posted about the design I was working for the Wiens Mandolins shirt. Here is a pic of the finished product. They come in a variety of small-batch colours, and custom requests are welcome. For more information about how you can get yourself one of these spanky shirts go to the Wiens [...]
On occasion I get to dabble in furniture and architectural accessory design in my work with my colleagues at Reimer & Co. Here are some furniture ideas I’ve been working on for a modern timber residence up in Golden, BC. Furniture is one of my favourite design mediums, though the opportunity to design pieces that [...]
Well, our plot for world-domination is beginning to come to fruition. The site we designed for a local consortium of progressive organizations (Wildsight, Columbia Basin Trust, West Kootenay Ecological Society) has been picked up and added to the list of top 20-ish green design websites at Pro Blog Design. Thanks goes to Michael Martin, proprietor [...]
There are some projects that you ‘get through’, and there are some projects you endure. But once in a while, and I mean on a rare occasion, you get a project that is really interesting, that the client lets you have a ton of creative freedom, and they are usually so floored by what you [...]
A few months ago we were contracted by the Cranbrook Public Library to design a new website for them. The exciting part is the group in charge of the design have been on board with something that is forward-thinking. As a whole, libraries have terrible websites. I find this to be counter-intuitive. My brother has [...]