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MasterLimsTaekwondo.com Goes Live!

Congratulations to Master Lim and Stephanie Wiski on their new website for Master Lim’s Taekwondo Academy!

Their new website was constructed using WordPress as their CMS, is a fully responsive site, able to be seen on regular computer screens, as well as tablets and phones. It also features

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Branding Trillium Health While at Archer

I was very happy my logo design was selected for the rebranding of Aids Care to Trillium Health. Here is a story published at Archer about the work that went into the branding. I love what Trillium does and I worked closely with them during the creation of their Annual Report. 

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Creativity Needs Planning

We often think that creative people are spontaneous types that go with the flow and change plans in an instant… This to me is called “VACATION”. Only on a vacation can I really relax enough to not have a plan. Being a creative by profession means something totally different.

Yes, you have to be creative picking colors or coming up with a design, but these things that seem random do come from somewhere. They are not picked out of the blue. They are all taken from a master plan, which mainly starts with a company’s brand. 

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Evolving Website Design

For the first part of my 20-year career as a designer, I had nothing to do with websites. The web, at first, was something weird to me. It seemed too technical and clunky to use before browsers existed. The urge to design websites hit me around 2000 when graphic websites became more mainstream. Once I started to learn about HTML and coding, it became all-consuming. I wanted to learn as much as possible about how to apply my years of graphic design to this new frontier. 

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Productivity on iPad

Truth be told, getting an iPad seemed extravagant. I got a mini for my husband for his travels, and after trying it, I could not live without one myself. At first, I started using the iPad to play games, read books and browse social media. Then, I began doing all my banking and checking my emails, and even reading the news, which led to me canceling my daily newspaper subscription. Slowly but surely, I started to use the iPad all the time for my personal life and my home computer less and less. But work-wise, I still had not found its niche. After doing some research, I found some tips and tricks that make the iPad really useful for both work and play. 

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Video fever

I have been dabbling in video editing and learning how to make effective short movies. I got a youtube channel and did a few of a vacation we had at Gore Mountain.

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