Leschinski Design

Everything for Everybody?

John L — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:03:22 +0000

In the real world there are walled gardens, ivory towers, private clubs. Some places have dress codes, some require gobs of money, and others you need to pass a test in order to gain access. But on the internet this is unacceptable. Online communities need to be open, transparent, and free. This philosophy has taken such [...]

An Inch of Joy

John L — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:38:19 +0000

Lately I've been on a bit of a button kick, of the one inch variety, gathering a respectable collection of them in the last year or so to show for it. The majority of them are design and civic pride related buttons, but I've also convinced a few clients to get in on the mix as well. Last month I did three sets for PodCamp Toronto, and one for Leschinski Design; a little less recently I did a series for CastRoller at PAB. All were a big hit with people, and I often get asked where they were made.

PodCamp Toronto

John L — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:40:16 +0000

After the great experience working with the PodCamp London team, and knocking it out of the park, I thought I’d see if I could hit two for two with PodCamp Toronto and have as much fun. PodCamp Toronto is the premier social & new media event in Toronto, maybe even all of Canada, but they’ve [...]

Hello 2010.

John L — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:25:22 +0000

It wouldn’t be a new year if I didn’t push out some new updates for the site and reflect a little on the previous year’s comings and goings. A Year in Review. 2009 started off rather briskly with the work on CastRoller going public as the service came out of beta. Almost immediately people took notice and [...]

CodeCamp Waterloo Identity

John L — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:25:10 +0000

CodeCamp Waterloo is a BarCamp style event for programmers and developers in Waterloo Ontario Canada. Will Spaetzel, lead organizer, approached me to create their events identity and this is an insight into the creation of it.

The Better Way-finding

John L — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:55:09 +0000

The TTC has a long history of abusing users with haphazard signage, but for a second in the early 90’s the TTC seemed to care and wayfinding expert Paul Arthur was hired to make sense of the mess. Arthur’s new signage aimed to be easily understood by everyone including kids, the visually impaired, and the [...]

Titus Ferguson

John L — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:40:46 +0000

Titus and I had been going back and forth for a while about ideas for his business cards, trying to pin down a style that somehow captured him in a caricature or focusing on his love of coffee. However I’m not terribly good at faces, and I was never sold on the coffee angle. In April, [...]

Punk A Day

John L — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:54:45 +0000

Back in May Ben Delano asked me to take a look a logo he put together for a new podcast he was starting and to give him my input on it. Being a visual person, I sometimes find it easier to convey the idea graphically rather then spelling it out in words. As they say, a [...]

Flimsy Credentials

John L — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:55:02 +0000

Steve Groves at the London Free Press posted a link on twitter to an interview with photojournalist Derek Ruttan that had a selection of press passes he’d collected during his career. It was almost surprising to see how little care is put into them. That journalists are granted access to sensitive areas, from crime scenes [...]

Custom Stamps!

John L — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:55:03 +0000

My good friend Kataish at Odd-ish Creations has been hand carving stamps for the last couple of months and has been turning out some great stuff. So when I got a message from her with a link to the image below I was more then pleased to see my logo immortalized as a hand carved [...]