Archive for the ‘Industry’ Category

30
Nov

Service is the New Marketing

I read this headline last week with a bit of a chuckle. As someone who has spent the last 20 years in the retail industry, I would not consider this to be a new concept. I’ve always known that the way to get someone back into my store was to provide the customer with a [...]

26
Jun

Print tour + Liquid lunch = Much discussion about twins

Last Thursday the ladies of Design Lab hit the road for Aurora. Destination? The AIIM printing house, for a tour of their facilities. Luckily, Alexia was driving or else MC would have driven us to Ancaster.
AIIM, which stands for Avant Imaging and Information Management, prints the lottery brochures and print material for one of our [...]

30
Apr

FITC 2009 - Flash Peers, Crowd Cheers, Cold Beers

Well, it really paid to be a woman this year!  The ladies at Design Lab want to thank Shawn Pucknell and the FITC team for organizing an amazing conference and giving 100+ women the opportunity to join in the fun for FREE!
The equation for this year: Video submission + Female organs = Free FITC ticket [...]

24
Apr

Pre-FITC: it’s almost here!

Ok, I admit I’m one of those people—I’m still using AS2! So to lessen my pain of converting to AS3, I’m going to attend FITC’s Get Off Your Ass and Start Using AS3 Already! presentation. Thankfully they’re providing source files so that I can copy and paste to my heart’s content. I’m kidding… I WILL [...]

05
Nov

World, why are you still using IE 6?

Do you hate me? Is that why you continue to use an out dated antique of a browser conceived by the most evil minds Microsoft had at their disposal 7 years ago. That’s right 7 YEARS AGO. Internet Explorer 6 has been a blight upon the internet and programmers everywhere for almost 10 years.
Now don’t [...]

08
Oct

Chrome

When I think of chrome I think of those old school spinning animated gifs or the overused Photoshop F-X, mainly by me.
Now Google wants you to think beyond that (and it’s search engine) with its new Chrome browser. Only in beta for PC, Chrome was released to little fan fare on September 2nd. As a [...]