Monthly Archives: October 2008

Googly-Eyed

With Halloween’s approach, we were curious to see what modification Google made to their logo this year, which got us thinking. You know you’ve established an extremely successful brand when you can play with / fiddle with / completely change the presentation of your logo on a near-weekly basis, not to mention attract people to [...]

Uh, how much?

Well if you’ve been unsuccessful in finding just the right Halloween costume for your dog, (yes, you read that correctly) you may want to pay a trip to your local Target store to peruse their selection of pet dress-up duds. The possibilities will make you laugh out loud, first at the unavoidable cuteness (you have [...]

Friendly Giant, Chapter 2

And it continues. Pepsi becomes the latest titanic brand to remake their identity into something more approachable and humane. Following in the footsteps of Walmart, the soft drink deputy underwent a five month long rebrand and just released to the world how the new logo, (and can) will look shortly. The new graphic is meant [...]

Get scared. Feel good.

Truth be told, it’s not yet time for our Halloween issue, but we couldn’t resist sending something out early for this very special haunted affair. The Thornhill Woods Haunted House opened in Toronto again this year, and is rapidly becoming an annual go-to place to get some good ol’ fashioned neck chills and goose bumps. [...]

King of the Orchard

I guess when you’re as good-looking as Apple is, you get a little defensive when others try to emulate. And so it was recently, when the computer giant reached from California to Victoria, BC to pluck from the branding tree another apple-based logo, used by the Victoria School of Business and Technology. Apple thinks the [...]

and Queen of the Pond

And so it’s that time of year again when we strip our yards of the pretty things and prepare our little outdoor worlds for the onslaught. I could be wistful here, and pine for the summer that barely happened, but alas… Anyway, if you’re someone who forayed into the world of outdoor ponds and ecosystems [...]

Draw Ball

Welcome to Draw Ball. An online collaborative art project that invites users to draw digitally on a huge virtual canvas. Each user is able to e-etch a tiny amount per day, equal to approximately 1/10,000th of the surface of this thing. It began with aspirations of encouraging crafties to express themselves, but through time, has [...]

So close.

This sign was spotted recently on the lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington and serves as a reminder that this two-year Battle Royale is finally coming to a hopeful close. Whatever will we talk about?