The Elusive Fish — Creative Services

On October 23rd, I was part of a panel discussion on “Blogs, RSS, Wikis, Social Bookmarking and Podcasts”. This is my presentation on RSS.

This one gets filed under the ‘you learn something new every day’, category. Have you ever noticed PowerPoint files ballooning to horrendous sizes making emailing tricky if not an exercise in futility? I was working with a PowerPoint file that should have been no more than 200-300kb but was instead close to five […]

Another example of the work I did on the Stan Slade comic strips for the Chief Information and Privacy Officer.

From my brain to your eyes - the steps involved in bringing an illustration onto a blank page.

Every now and then a work doesn’t quite make it through committee. Normally these pieces would fall to the wayside, never to see the light of day again. Fortunately the blog affords me the opportunity to share these works.
This work is 100% digital - no trees pulped in the production of this work […]

The Office of the Chief Information and Privacy Officer for Ontario used Comics as Communication in a recent campaign to boost awareness of privacy issues.

The smart marketer knows that the surest way to sway you is to appeal not to your reason but your emotions.

When your PowerPoint crutch is kicked out from under you, can you recover. Good presenters can, as PowerPoint was never a crutch for them in the first place…

A free ebook that briefly outlines the whats and whys of blogging for the small business.

A story by Reuters, reported on CNET, claims that “Students are more comfortable manipulating computer graphics than doodling, drafting and drawing with pen on paper, and this has created a sharp decline in drawing skills in recent years…” What’s more, “…tech-savvy students simply lack the initiative and persistence developed by drawing, resulting in uninspired […]