Graphic design &
web design blog.
The Designers Notebook.
www.X-celCommunications.com – New Site!
We have been having a race lately to see which projects get completed first and We recently went live with a web project for X-cel communications. It’s a nice site with a few really nice features. As usual, the client has complete access to all content and can create...
Volunteers, Dinner and Christmas Trees
We took in the Festival of Trees Opening event - the Celebration of Lights last night. All the sponsors (Redpoint was a Gold sponsor this year) were treated to a private viewing of the event that will take over Red Deer this weekend. I think the humbling thing I...
Downtown Red Deer Banners! Installed!
Finally! We’ve been waiting for almost two months for today! We completed a re-design of the downtown Red Deer street banners in the summer, and our task was to replace the previous set which had been in use for almost 4 years. The wait while the banners were in...
How bad do you want it?
Passion. Committeeman. Perseverance. Ingenuity. Creativity. Tenacity. Desire. Words taken from the halftime speech in a Walt Disney come-from-behind football movie? Maybe. Words taken from any one of our clients referring to any portion of their daily routines?...
One Funky Ford
Vehicle graphics are one of the more interesting projects we get to work on – we don’t do vehicles very often – but it’s great to see the latest hot rod roll out of the shop and the Newly minted Bikewerx Ford Flex is no exception! We were asked to design a sleek,...
Collaboration + the College of Paramedics
We had a marvelous opportunity this summer to collaborate with a major Edmonton web development firm to develop a new online presence for the Alberta College of Paramedics. The College has an incredible amount of content and required a major re-working of the site...
Summer is the time for donations
It’s been and interesting summer, this summer of ’08… With all the holidays for staff and clients, we haven’t gotten as much finished this summer as planned. Well, with more work than ever before active, just on holidays, we decided to donate the summer away. We’ve...
Welcome Kayla
This week marked the first week we‘ve enjoyed the company of a new addition here at the Redpoint Office. Kayla Nielson has joined us for the summer, on break from her graphic design studies at SAIT in Calgary. It was a busy week, and Kayla survived both the flurry of...
What Side Are Your Signs On?
Today I saw some street signs (handwritten, no less) advertising an event at a hotel. A sale, actually – someone had taken the time to rent a convention room, and set up a clearance for their products. Sounds good. An Industrious, clever and hard working type of idea....
Graphic Design & Culture
Mexico is a wonderful country. They have a flair for life and community that is refreshing. They also have an amazing flair for colour and style in art, design and decoration, and as a culture they embrace ornamentation. As a designer, I truly enjoy seeing different...
A Word on Branding and Identity Standards
In the end, you may get something printed beautifully that is a close, but not exact match. An interesting thing has been coming up lately: how to deal with identity standards. Specifically, colour in relation to identity standards. Many of our clients are now in...
The Uncertain Vagaries of CMYK profiling
Lately we've been working with a myriad of suppliers who print a myriad of products. We’ve found out some interesting things regarding printing and colour calibration. The biggest thing it seems, (though unsupported by any empirical data) is that with the release of...
City of Red Deer Tradeshow
Today we visited the “Let’s Talk 2008” tradeshow at Parkland Mall in north Red Deer. It’s an annual event in which the City departments descend upon one of the Red Deer malls and meet and greet the citizens of Red Deer. What’s so significant about this? We did the...
International Design Award Gold Medal!
We were excited to hear friday from Red Deer College that another project we completed for them has won an award. The 2007 Series brochure, part of larger campaign, was just awarded a gold “Paragon” award at the NCMPR (National Council for Marketing and Public...
www.kingsenergy.com launched!
We launched another large website development project this past week: www.kingsenergy.com. Another site we began last fall, it’s great to see this project open to the public. We employed some new innovations for the content management and site functionality here, so...
www.laebon.com launched!
Today we launched the new www.laebon.com for the world to see. We’ve been working on the site since September, and it’s great to finally have it live. The site features a robust content manager offering control over just about every word on the site. Laebon now has...
Welcome Back!
A the first week of January comes to a close, it’s worth reviewing 2007 and all it brought. 2007 brought a new designer to Redpoint: Sonya, a new office, tonnes of new clients, as well as continued loyalty from existing clients. Moving back downtown gave us an...
How are you proofing your projects?
Remember to turn Overprint Preview ON. It recently occurred to us that some very simple pdf tricks can assist many of you when you are proofing your projects with us. Have you ever printed a piece and noticed the reversed (white) logos were missing, even though you...
Design Thinkers Ontario Overview Part II
Another major theme we caught at the conference was the title: “DesignThinkers.” Design Thinking Andrea Siodmok, of the Design Council in Britain, and a few other more analytical speakers, brought up the issue of Design Thinking. Andrea offered more statistics on...
Design Thinkers Ontario Overview Part I
It’s been a few weeks since I got back from Ontario, and before it gets too distant, I thought I'd recap the week’s events.Push vs. Pull The conference was quite interesting. I think the biggest single theme I came across was that the world economy is changing and...
Let’s get started!
We’d love to talk with you about your company and where you want to take it.