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The Impaired Speed Skating Association of Canada (ISSAC) mission is to have impaired speed skating recognized as a sanctioned sport by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). ISSAC provides funding for registered skaters in an effort to help them represent Canada at international competitions. We at 76design have been fortunate enough to be approached by ISSAC to
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We took a left turn somewhere, and never really got back on track. Last week I could not get the Beastie Boys’ song “Girls” out of my head, and for good reason. A company called GoldieBlox produced a great viral video that used the song as part of the sales hook. There’s been talk of
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When DMW Strategic Consulting approached us to redesign their website, we instantly knew it was one of those projects you’d be talking to your friends over a beer or at home with your partner while making dinner. Not so much because of the cool technology you got to implement—that will instantly make your wife yawn
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In the design community you often hear jokes about clients requesting size changes to their logo, “Make the logo bigger! It needs more impact! Make it pop!” Well, I have news for you: just make the logo. I don’t care if it’s big, small, long or tall– just make it. It doesn’t make sense for
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High Performance Server Configuration in the Age-of-the-Cloud Introduction Building web servers for hosting reliable and performant web sites is a black art. I’d like to discuss how we setup our CentOS servers and manage them conveniently using Webmin. We have learned a few things over time and thought it would be valuable to share the knowledge. tl;dr
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The graphic design world is constantly changing; there are always advances in technology through the development of software and tools. This can influence the look and feel of our design. It is important to keep up with the forever-changing world of design. Clients and employers expect you to be up to date with the latest news
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User experience and user interface design are pieces of a bigger customer experience puzzle Most designers and developers of digital products have wrestled with terms such as ‘user experience’ and ‘user interface’. These two terms have been wrongly used, contributing to their cryptic meaning driving any of us increasingly confused. As these practices evolved and
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Where have all the apostrophes gone? If you’re like most people, you wouldn’t have noticed the decline in the use of the apostrophe in the digital age. It seems that it has been usurped by the footmark, which may look similar, but doesn’t hold the same meaning. Now there are reasons for this, but it’s
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HTML5 Canvas + EaselJs = A match made in heaven A client came to us recently with the challenge of creating them an interactive, touch-based presentation tool that would allow them to demo their products in an engaging way. It was left up to us to determine what technologies were appropriate in order to achieve
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How we’ve optimized our WordPress project setup process At 76design, a major portion of our client work includes WordPress deploys and over the past couple of years, we’ve built a set of tools, base themes, and processes that help us complete these projects. For example, here’s a list of these components: WordPress (http://wordpress.org/) WordPress Roots
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