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Logo and Visual Branding: Gifts of Light
The Bethesda Foundation for many years has put on the “Gifts of Light” campaign to raise money for health care projects in Steinbach. This year, Golden West partnered with the foundation, helping develop the campaign to give it more visibility and more opportunities for the public to be involved and give. The campaign included a…
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Share to Enjoy
Ever notice how natural it is, when you see something beautiful or amazing, to want to share it with someone else? For me, I’m a “sky guy”. My favourite time of day comes at sunset, when the sky transforms into an explosion of colour. Then, as the earth falls slowly to sleep, there’s the “blue…
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Where Brilliance Begins
I’ve been reading a super helpful book lately (thanks Kent!), The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry. Aimed at people who do creative work, Henry talks about the importance of being Brilliant, Prolific and Healthy in your work. If you want to deliver the right idea at the right moment, you must begin the process far…
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Happy Halloween
Apparently Halloween this year has been brought to the Manke residence by Disney and Rovio… Hope you enjoy an evening of fun, family, friends and neighbours! We’ll be spending the evening helping fill kids’ loot bags, and hoping Olivia keeps her costume on long enough to knock on some doors along our street (then trying…
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Always the Right Answer
Back in spring we took a day trip to the beach during our vacation in Holland. Maybe we were caught off guard at the 30-degree weather in May, or maybe we didn’t realize that Holland had some sweet beaches, but we came seriously unprepared. No swim suits or towels. Of course, Olivia made a beeline…
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Everything You Do
A while back I heard a McDonald’s franchisee share his, “Everything you do is marketing” mantra in talking about the importance of taking care of every customer that comes into his restaurants. Recently I saw this mantra in action at another McDonald’s restaurant. Last month, some friends of ours lost a wallet while they were…
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Show and Tell and the Critic
Today I had a chance to update some of the recent work on my site. Looking back, it’s been a really busy summer, but a lot of fun. At Golden West I’m part of a great Online crew that’s been able to take on more responsibility in the company and work on some cool projects…
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The Genius of Working Less
The story goes (as told by Dan Miller, quoting this book), that while Leonardo da Vinci was painting The Last Supper, he would spend many long days painting atop his scaffold, then would disappear for several days without warning. The prior of Santa Maria delle Grazie, who’d hired da Vinci, tried to convince the painter…
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David Kelley on Creative Confidence
Is creativity a gift or a skill? Are we born creative (or not), or is creativity a muscle that can be exercised and developed? David Kelley, founder of IDEO, which has developed things like the first computer mouse, believes that we’re all creative, but that often our creativity gets stifled along the way. He has…
