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76design is a creative services and web development agency. We conceptualize, design and develop brands, identities, print materials, website applications, widgets and tools that enable organizations to reach, connect with and create value for their communities.
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The New Canadian Consumer Handbook
Earlier this year, Thornley Fallis & 76design worked with the Office of Consumer Affairs at Industry Canada as Secretariat for the Consumer Measures Committee to design and develop a new online presence for the Canadian Consumer Handbook. Launched in April ...
(Read More)Taking Action Against Distraction
Over the past few years, there have been a lot of high-profile campaigns against drunk driving. Whether it be through outreach in schools or various advertising campaigns in the media, the message has been hammered home: Don’t drink and drive! With the ...
(Read More)‘Picture it Downtown’ Social Media Campaign Secures IABC Excel Award
In order to reinvigorate and revitalize downtown Ottawa businesses hit hard by the recession and the bus strike, Thornley Fallis and 76design conceived, developed and executed the Picture it Downtown campaign for The City of Ottawa, where residents were ...
(Read More)IABC Recognizes 76design and Thornley Fallis for Electronic and Digital Communications
In an attempt to reduce the cost of its annual report, The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) engaged 76design and Thornley Fallis for our unique concept of a paperless report. Highlighting achievements and documenting successes, World Class Care (TOH’s 2008-2009 ...
(Read More)The Real Paper Jam
How many people does it take to handle the crux that is a paper jam? Turns out – all 9 of us housed in the pit of 76design. In a surge of energy usually reserved for client work, we turned our attention to a self-imposed initiative. Three hours of ...
(Read More)Paradisal* poster design contest
A good friend of ours and past comrade, Matt Wallace of paradisal.ca fame, a stock-photography agency, is launching his annual Paradisal* poster design contest. There is no cost to enter. The winners get 25% of each sale once they’re printed, a $300 gift ...
(Read More)Judging a Holiday CD by its Cover
For the second year in a row some coworkers and I have decided to be thrifty with our holiday gift exchange by designing and creating personalized CDs filled with music that we think the other person will like. It started off with a hat, tiny pieces of ...
(Read More)Skunkworks – Twitter Project – Battleship!!
Ben Watts and I were grouped together for this round of Skunkworks. Our idea was to figure out a way to port the board game Battleship onto twitter. The primary way of playing the game had to include twitter, a web interface could be used to augment the ...
(Read More)Skunkworks – Twitter Project – Integration with Mozilla JetPack
Overview This first round of 76design Skunkworks gave us (Jordan Boesch and Shaun Scanlon, both web developers) the opportunity to utilize the Twitter API to create a fun project. We decided to try to integrate Twitter with Mozilla Jetpack. According to ...
(Read More)76design helps to make wishes come true
Campaign design by our very own Ben Watts. A strange yet mysterious veil falls gently over the 76design office in Ottawa every year in the month of November. It is a veil but more accurately it is a mustache – many mustaches. Yes, Mustaches! We grow ...
(Read More)76design is at DemoCampOttawa 12!
It’s been a while since we had a demo camp in Ottawa. So long, in fact, that Rob and I decided to corner Mark Stephenson after the last Third Tuesday and see if we could be of any help in getting another one going. Well, a few drinks later, add a few ...
(Read More)The Candy Bowl Theory or Tragedy of the Commons or Glucose Rage
A couple weeks ago I was randomly inspired to do something kind for my fellow colleagues. Not having any actual hypothesis in mind, I referred to it as a “social experiment”, hoping it would yield some sort of result or impact – and that it did. I ...
(Read More)Getting Around Browser Cache with .htaccess
It’s pretty common to tweak your website assets from time to time. This may be an update to a stylesheet, some javascript, a logo or any other file. When doing this, you may notice that you don’t see the changes right away. You might have to refresh the ...
(Read More)Monitoring Websites with Pingdom
I thought I would continue with the “Monitoring stuff” theme and talk about how we make sure our websites are running smoothly. Over the years, we’ve collected a pretty large number of sites. It’s pretty much impossible for us to check every one of ...
(Read More)Monitoring SVN commits with Twitter
Like a lot of developers, we use SVN on a day to day basis. I can’t imagine working without it. We’ve been using it for over a year now. Svnlook on revision 1 give me this: [steve@76design ~]$ svnlook info /svn -r 1 steve 2007-08-23 18:23:03 -0400 (Thu, ...
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