Category Archives: design tips
6 Efficiency tips for Entrepreneurs & Marketing Consultants.
If you are a Business owner or a Marketing specialist you may have experience some operational challenges in the past, and you may wonder what you can do to avoid those issues. Here are some tips to help you increase your efficiency: Listen to your customers and respond more rapidly than your competitors. Be [...]
Wake-up Call To All Canadian Designers
“Designers, Tear Down These Walls “ by Mark Busse is an opinion piece that really got us thinking — like most designers. Mr. Busse addressed the lack of leadership, involvement and communication amongst Canadian design communities and organizations. With the conversation now open, it is time where designers must band together from students to industry [...]
“Incidental Media” — Beyond Design & Communication
Dentsu London & Berg have collaborated for on a series of videos exploring interaction possibilities in our ever-changing communication landscape. The first video in this 2 part series “Incidental Media” paints a not so impossible picture in which media lives and interacts organically through society. Exploring the possibilities of Mixing Media, Ambient Listening, Innovative Printing, [...]
“Making Idea’s Happen” — A Book Review
Firstly, this is a definite read for anybody in a creative industry! “Making Ideas Happen” by Scott Belsky (CEO & founder of the Behance Network), is a novel that takes a “teach” not “preach” approach to the execution of the creative process. It offers effective steps and solutions that can be used in achieving any [...]
“Smile For London” — Montreal version?
Creative Review posted an interesting article about a new project called “Smile For London”. Since it will exclusively be happening throughout the London transit system it would be interesting to imagine if a Montreal counterpart would be possible — STM here’s looking at you! “Smile For London” looks to uplift commuters’ moral by adding an [...]
“Influencers” — An inspiring film
Here is a film that seems almost awe-inspiring — as it isn’t released yet. Just watching the trailer can get any design-buff more excited then a child. The film explores the thought patterns of trends and creativity, and examines how they become contagious within the design industry. We have all asked ourselves “How” do trends [...]
Combining Typographic Style?
We often ask ourselves how many typographic styles to use in a project? Well, there is no correct answer when it comes to that question, and it all depends on the project. A good design usually shouldn’t use more then three type styles. When putting promo materials together, we should always be cautious when using [...]
HTML5 and CSS3
The World Wide Web is an evolving tool, it is again starting to take a great tweak, which improves the way graphics; text and multimedia are presented. It’s everywhere, it’s coming, and you want to know everything you can before it’s old news. We are talking about HTML5 and CSS3! HTML5 and CSS3 (Cascading [...]
iPad Optimization
Ever since the release of the iPad by Apple, web and graphic designers are faced with a new set of challenges: Creating websites that are mobile device compatible. We found a nice article about what to expect when designing an iPad compatible websites: http://www.inspiredm.com/2010/02/09/ipad-design/ Keys points any web designer should be aware of regarding iPad: [...]
Interview tips for graphic designers
Since I am doing lots of interviews lately to find the “it” designer that could fits with KAI Design & Communications’ philosophy. I thought it will be nice to post some dos & don’ts interview tips for graphic designers. Dos Do your best to fill any gaps in your knowledge Do take examples of relevant [...]
RBC Flame
While I was bored waiting in line at RBC bank, I couldn’t help myself but picking up and going through brochures and flyers about different banking services. Then I noticed this graphic character holding a torch on many of the promo materials….and I learned its about the Vancouver Olympic. And curious me, I ended up [...]
Watching the kids grow – Photoshop Evolution
Just read an interesting article that showcased how Photoshop has evolved since 1988. I am particularly amazed that I once used Photoshop 5.0……bring back memories!! Click the link to read the article: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/evolution-of-photoshop/
“I want a logo that is Web 2.0”
I have received few requests on creating logo that are “Web 2.0”……and I got puzzled every time I heard that. The question in my mind always ends up being what do they mean by a logo that is “Web 2.0”??? Do they mean they want a logo that is “Web 2.0” friendly? Or “Web 2.0” [...]
Expression taking over?
Recently, I came cross the topic of Microsoft Expression” as a design software from one of my client. As I am so Adobe-focused for the past several years….I have to honestly say….I never heard of Expression until my client mentioned it. “So, it’s a software that allows designers to do basically everything adobe illustrator + [...]
There should be a course on "paper"
I was trying to communicate with my printer guy about the type of paper I am looking for early today. And it just hits me that I don’t know too much about papers! I know coated, uncoated, c1s, c2s, matte/glossy, pt/lb and etc. But I don’t really know much about anything else really. So, I [...]