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The Concept of 9 to 5 is a Joke.

The idea of working 9am-5pm has always felt like a joke to me.Reasons: When are you meant to do the post? What is the point in shopping after 5pm when all the shops are closed? How about legal stuff? Do you meet the lawyer in your lunch break? Is your productivity really optimum from 3pm onwards? If you're only spending ...

How to apply for a graphic design job

If you’re wondering how to apply for a graphic design job – then I promise you, this post is going to make a difference in your day. Recently, I advertised an opening at Kish+Co for a mid-weight designer and we were flooded with applications. Within a week, I had over 130 applications in my inbox. Are you job hunting? Did you …

Social Media Management

For a lot of businesses, social media management is a tedious aspect of marketing, which takes up at least 1-2 hours a day with additional planning and strategy labour behind it. It gets pushed to the back burner and the outcome is a Facebook page with 30 likes and a Twitter feed with a tweet last month. This. Is. Bad. …

Make the logo bigger, sitting at the table and other conversations.

For “Make the logo bigger” – all illustration credit goes to Alisha Jensen – you can check out her Insta, Pinterest and Society6 pages for more goodness. +++++++++++ I know a lot of designers who want to get their opinion heard. They want to talk to a client and have the client respect their thoughts on a piece. They want …

Branding for a Wedding

Wedding Branding?! Pfft.. My wedding was back in 2008. At that time, I had no idea what sort of a wedding I wanted. I just knew that I wanted fairy lights and perfect tunes. So when my sister got engaged in early 2013, I was pumped. Assuming that I’d have a lot of reign over the visual – I was …

Disruptor

A little bit of awesome for you today! Today I attended a Business Chicks event (highly recommended if you want to take your learning to another level) and heard Mark Bouris speak and as usual, I walked out thinking “damn I need to write about this!”. The main thing I wanted to talk about was what he calls a “disruptor”. …

How we price our design services.

Header image is by our lovely intern, Shiva   Source This is a post on how we price our design services – it’s applicable to service based businesses that are wondering how best to price their services as well as anyone keen on having our agency on their service list. It’ll give you an idea of how we work. First …

How to make a business decision

Before I start – I just wanted to credit Leslie Wood for her gorgeous image in the big box above – she’s my newest Pinterest discovery. She has an etsy shop here and you can connect with her on twitter here. When there are so many factors to consider – sometimes it can be hard to make a strategic decision for your …