This is a fun piece for the folks over at Outdoor Canada about DIY hunting and fishing trips.

This site is a great resource to improving your digital photography and also gives you some interesting tips on doing special effects with lighting.

People don’t question their need for good design in their everyday lives. The choice of a Mercedes car over a Yugo, an Ipod over a no-name MP3 player. We appreciate when design enriches our lives by improving our experience. If something has been designed to be easier to use or understand, most of us will buy into that.

A well designed website isn’t the prettiest—it’s the easiest to use and the most useful sites that we appreciate. So many times I’ve been asked to “pretty something up” or my personal favourite “get all artsy-farsy with this”.

The GDC, of which I’m a member wanted to change the designation of their members this year from Professional Member to Certified Graphic Designer. One designation batted around was Communication Professional. I like that, because it’s my job to take the problem a business wants solved and work out a solution to that—wether it’s an Advert, a brochure, or fixing their website.

If you think design is a superfluous expense to your business, you’re missing out on an opportunity to grow your business in different ways. Check out this link to the AIGA’s (American Institute of Graphic Arts) brief on the value of design.

Here’s a group of portraits I did for Teresa Johnstone, AD for Wine Access Magazine. Thanks Teresa!

Michael Beruit puts up an interesting correlation between what stand up comics do and what a designer does. Comparing design to performance makes a lot of sense since design is a form of performance where you don’t see the performer, but you experience their work.

According to Austin Kleon—theft is the answer. Could he be saying this about all our great artists?

Here’s a collection of a great vintage poster collection being exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The posters are part of an extensive collection of  vintage posters, prints, drawings and assorted ephemera. William H. Helfand  started this collection back in the 1950′s.

Comedy is one of those things I don’t think we can ever appreciate enough. Besides Michael Richard’s rant about black people, I’ve never heard of a fight breaking out i a comedy club—everyone is in too good a mood. Jerry Seinfeld has put up a site that is an archive of some of his old routines and some new shtick.

Sixty one designers recommend 818 books. I plan on starting on Milton Glaser’s list, only because I see him as one of the world’s most insightful and intelligent designers.