Jon Valade, MGDC

Trip to the Okanagan Valley

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:54:35 +0000

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BC Ferries – From the mainland to Vancouver Island at dusk

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:42:45 +0000

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Horses on Mary’s Farm

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 07:58:29 +0000

Mary is a wonderful lady with a wonderful mission. She takes in horses that otherwise would very likely be euthanized. My son and I were invited to her farm on Easter for an Easter egg hunt and I fell in love with the location. After speaking with Mary it became evident that there was a lot [...]

CBC’s business practices violates graphic designers’ code of ethics

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:00:31 +0000

One way of trying to get free, or at the very least cheap, design material is to launch a contest for a logo or other design elements. This is not surprising coming from an association as clueless as the IOC but for Canada’s ‘leading’ media supplier to take this on as a practice is ethically [...]

WordPress – How to stop the visual editor from filtering out line breaks

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:39:45 +0000

The visual editor in WordPress is built around the open source TinyMCE editor. By default this editor scrubs out empty paragraph tags <p> and additional line breaks <br>. This is useful for encouraging clean code but frustrating should anyone actually want any level of control over the layout and text flow of a page. Finally there is [...]

Hiking Vancouver Island – Tod Inlet

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:16:15 +0000

Tod Inlet is one of my Favorited places on the Saanich Peninsula near Victoria, British Columbia. A little more playing around with the focus and exposure then I usually do on these shots. Bookmarksu=http://jonvalade.ca/2010/04/hiking-around-vancouver-island-tod-inlet/&title=Hiking+Vancouver+Island+%26%238211%3B+Tod+Inlet" title="Add 'Hiking Vancouver Island – Tod Inlet' to BlueDot">

Make Power Point Suck Less

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:01:31 +0000

WARNING… content may be offensive to any employee that has been knighted as “Communication Professional” by their corporate head office. This is my very special Power Point “Do Not” list. If anyone is offended by the following content then you need to examine your Power Point Habits. Power point offers about 50 different slide transition options. 48 [...]

Fun with multiple exposures

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:03:52 +0000

Click images below to enlarge Yard work is so much easier for Josh now since the ‘INCIDENT’ Bookmarksu=http://jonvalade.ca/2010/04/fun-with-multiple-exposures/&title=Fun+with+multiple+exposures" title="Add 'Fun with multiple exposures' to BlueDot">

Hike — Mount Douglas

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:48:25 +0000

Was kind of a drab boring day with absolutely no colour to the sky… and the trail was very muddy with many fallen trees because of the storm yesterday. Bookmarksu=http://jonvalade.ca/2010/04/hike-mount-douglas/&title=Hike+%26%238212%3B+Mount+Douglas" title="Add 'Hike — Mount Douglas' to BlueDot">

Hike – Durance Lake in the evening

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:37:19 +0000

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