Free hiking guides for hiking Mt. Baker: second edition available today
The Mt. Baker Hiking Guides we designed and produced for Baker Birch Bay Tourism last year were a great success…
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customized folders can make your proposals look great
We have used our letterpress quite a few times to print onto presentation folders for clients. We recently completed a…
Poster design for KulshanCLT’s Annual Community Party
We recently completed this Poster design for KulshanCLT’s Annual Community Party. KulshanCLT wanted to hold their annual event this year…
textures
Carrying a camera with us wherever we go is something we do by default. The use of textures in graphic…
Bluegrass Bash poster design
Animals As Natural Therapy has an annual fundraiser live music event at their farm, and this year we donated the…
empathy-based messaging
We recently completed an ad campaign for Cedar Male Medical, a clinic specializing in treating men to balance their testosterone…
Chuckanut Builders t-shirt
Long time supporters of the Subdued Stringband Jamboree, Chuckanut Builders wanted to have shirts designed and produced to wear and…
all together now – standards and consistency
With so much marketing taking place through a multitude of different mediums and applications, the tendency is for messages to…
experience as message
Framing marketing communications in terms of experience opens up new opportunities for engaging your audience. Our Be in Bellingham campaign…
experiences > things
A paradox of destination marketing is that while each destination is unique in its own way, the materials and messages…
standing out, fitting in
“Just to make this stand out” is to design what “Trust me. This is going to work” is to buddy…
victory has a thousand parents
Years ago, my initial interpretation of the phrase “victory has a thousand parents, but defeat is an orphan” was a…
print intentionally
Despite all predictions to the contrary, print communications still play a crucial role in how organizations reach out to their…
clean up your navigation through analytics
Most things are more complicated than they need to be. Navigation is no exception. You can fairly easily see what…
artwalk with us
It’s the first Friday of the month. Where will you typically find us that night? At Bellingham’s Artwalk. Downtown is…
hey, dummy
While developing a packaging concept for a high end manufacturer, we encountered some feedback from a friend of the client…
making choices, creating value
Making choices, creating value. I constantly think about why people value the things they do, and how design and messaging…
don’t stop believing
Eric and I started commuting to work on our bikes almost a year ago. Details that were normally overlooked were…
Social media resources
Thanks to those of you who attended our presentation yesterday. Here are the social media resources documents Jackie referenced. Please…
minimalism, trust, and some really good chocolate
Research plays a crucial part of creating good design, and so a designer’s life is essentially a never ending series…
