Is it useful? Absolutely, just about everything you might need to get to in Vancouver is accessible by Skytrain or Bus. Lets just say I probably spent in the area of ninety dollars in three weeks on transit alone, and that’s with a lot of casual forgetfulness thrown in to soften the expense.

The city looked pretty as ever.. Olympic-ness as far as the eye could see, and characteristically bustling with metropolitan activity, most of it reserved and polite. I was considering a relocation on this trip, and visited upwards of sixty different Design-related business over a two day period. Almost all of them were in stages of post-Olympic-business shock or at a near standstill and praying for signs of economic life. If someone is reaping the boon of Olympic spending, it’s not your average boutique design firm.

One thing I loved about the Vancouver Olympics was the level of support for local artistry and culture. There were tonnes of art installations, and the Native component of BC’s cultural landscape was pretty well represented, even in the official merch’ offerings. There was plenty of discontent around, but many of the admittedly disgruntled were proud of how Canada was getting behind the Olympics.

For all its issues, if you can afford to live there, Vancouver is probably one of the prettiest, safest and friendliest cities in the world!

On return, with most of my web projects squared away, I plan on digging into some quality painting and drawing. You can expect to see some fresh T’s for Sweet Nothing Clothes, and some finished paintings as well…

À la prochaine!

I recently had the pleasure of working with owner Kip Ludwig on creating a fresh logo for her business. She wanted to keep some aspects of her old logo without losing the punch of a fresh design (a woodblock print feel, and other visual elements representative of her business)… The result is eye-catching! I’ll be posting some process pics in the near future… stay tuned

Check it out at roboticrelative.com , you’ll come away inspired to get in touch with somebody and be all tingly on your insides… Jess is truly talented!

The numechron clock  (the authors own) is also a fine example of some simple flash enhancement, a practical addition to the sidebar that enhances the overall atmosphere of modern antiquity-ishness.

Note: The opinions and viewpoints of “the Bushwhacker” in NO way whatsoever reflect my own views. That said, he does have some strong (and conservative) religious and political views and ideas, and if this is your cup of tea you might enjoy it…. I know this for sure, he’d love to debate them with you!

Got this random email about a design contest and gave it a whirl, concept was a logo for a start-up called ’studio lounge’ (they promptly changed their name too sketch lounge a week later… hmmm). Presumably the start-up was a production company that created applications for mobile phones.

At any rate, I didn’t submit the design because the contest seemed a little sketchy, but the illustration came out pretty sweet! So sweet I decided to use it as a background for the ‘blurb’ section on my home-page…