Well it has been a pretty well-assembled year here at Green Briefs and Unicycle Creative. To celebrate, I made this fun little card with my family, showing how all the pieces of 2014 clicked together (more or less) to create a pretty awesome set. Many best wishes and gratitude to all my readers, clients and […]

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It’s interesting how the perceptions and realities of sustainability ebb and flow. It wasn’t too long ago that we were all shunning the printed page, saving trees by not printing that e-mail. Until we calculated the carbon footprint of the server farms that dish up all that e-spam. Or the piles of wasted devices we […]

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When most companies think of marketing, it’s all about simplifying and wrapping up their advantages in a few carefully-chosen words and images. But sometimes showing customers and prospects the bigger picture can make a greater impact. Hemlock Printers recently hosted a booth at the Globe 2014 Exposition, part of the world-famous summit on business and […]

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Your CEO may not be interested in spending extra money to save the world’s forests, but if everything else were equal, (including price), who wouldn’t choose to hug a tree? The Wheat Sheet is an office-grade paper that offers the same quality, appearance and performance of regular paper, but uses less trees, produces less carbon […]

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The iconic stubby Canadian beer bottle – now a symbol of uber-cool package design?

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It’s OK to print again. Really. The sustainable side of ink-on-paper.

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WalMart can’t compete with Honest Ed’s almost lost art of hand painted signs.

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See how supply-chain-conscious branding brings the coffee farmer right on to the package with a product name that stands alone.

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I get to design a brochure for Vancouver’s most famous 1947 Woody Wagon – Tevie’s Termite Taxi!

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The hPad launch for Hemlock Printers. How to launch digital technology with analog design.

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