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 ...
Can business printing actually HELP a forest? On THIS paper, maybe it can.
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 ...
How to use your Supply Chain to educate and sell.
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 ...
This tree-free paper delivers green benefits without costing more greenbacks.
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 ...
The iconic ‘stubby’ beer bottle brings package design issues to a head.
The iconic stubby Canadian beer bottle - now a symbol of uber-cool package design?
Taking print off the endangered species list.
It's OK to print again. Really. The sustainable side of ink-on-paper.
How To Make Cheap Charming – What WalMart could learn from Honest Ed’s Hand-Lettered Brand.
WalMart can't compete with Honest Ed's almost lost art of hand painted signs.
Sole source, Sole branding for the supply-chain-conscious.
See how supply-chain-conscious branding brings the coffee farmer right on to the package with a product name that stands alone.
Tevie’s Termite Taxi – I don’t know if it’s sustainable, but it sure is durable.
I get to design a brochure for Vancouver's most famous 1947 Woody Wagon - Tevie's Termite Taxi!
Introducing hPad. Hemlock Printers goes analog to tell their digital evolution story.
The hPad launch for Hemlock Printers. How to launch digital technology with analog design.
