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Here are the final screen printed bag designs for our Culture and Cases books!
Growl Movement
posted by Christopher S. on 2009.10.19, under Design
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If you have not discovered the world of Growl yet, I suggest that you do.
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X that displays a small notification box in the corner of your screen. It pops up when you receive a new e-mail, the next song starts playing on your iTunes, or something happens with any number of applications you set it to work with. It is very discreet and stays on your screen for an amount of time determined by the user.
Click here to download Growl v1.2
And once you’ve got that going, head over to fixedgear.ca to download our web programmer, Chris Lobay’s, sleek Growl style. It’s called Basics 1.2 and what’s nice about his Growl style is that the application icon slides in all smooth and light and has a nice minimalist layout for the type.
Above is a screen cap of my Basics 1.2 style Growl working with iTunes. Make sure to give it a try. It’s pretty handy. Not to mention pretty to look at.
Meet The Meeting Room
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We’re all chipping in to spruce up the new meeting room just down the hall. And we made a video about it. And here it is.
Furniture Fridays vol. 1
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Every Friday the Clark + Huot blog will be updating readers on furniture design news and the progression of Staff Sofa 1, designed by Thom Fougere and Nils Vik of Keep it Cartesian.
Video one is Chris and Thom’s brief visit to JP furniture and repairs. Upon our brief meeting with the man himself, JP, I could tell you that he is quiet, hard working and old fashioned. Very old fashioned. Yet there seems to be an adventurous side to him. Despite the fact that in his 30 years of building furniture he had “never seen anything like this,” he was still willing to take on our challenging design – that is, after passively declaring the job to be impossible several times (both on and off camera). It was thanks to some persistence and reassurance of the fact that we were willing to do whatever it takes (give him money) to get the job done that changed the mind of the master craftsman.
More on Staff Sofa 1 to come.
Shaw Printing or: Come Shee What We Shaw!
posted by Christopher S. on 2009.09.30, under CH Office
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Today we took a trip to one of our local Winnipeg printers. Not only do they print, but they also do letterpress, embossing, custom die cuts and basically everything you can imagine. So where is this illustrious printing plant located? Near the baseball stadium practically under the train tracks. Oh and it’s not so much a plant as it is a shop.
We came for business cards, but left with a bounty of great footage and photos of a tour of their shop. All we can give you so far are some photos, but video of these beautiful, rare machines and interviews (including an interview with someone who worked there for over 40 years!) are on their way!
Photos by Mark Reimer
Repost(er)!
posted by Christopher S. on 2009.09.29, under Design
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We’ve all seen them. Do-it-yourself poster ads carelessly thrown up around the city. They are usually a desperate, last minute attempt to get rid of, find or advertise something. Visual jibber-jabber, if you will.
What Cardon Copy is doing is taking this non-sense and making sense of it all.
The process involves finding some fliers/posters/what-have-you, taking down the information word for word and redesigning them into a more powerful, eye-catching message. He then removes the original and replaces it with his own. Sort of like a poster redesign fairy.
Take a look at Cardon Copy’s gallery to see what I’m taking about.
