To our clients, suppliers and associates we say, Thank You!
Warm greetings to you all. Have a wonderful time with your families and friends.
We’ll be back in 2012, rested and ready to create great new design and fresh ideas.
~ the Studio-N team
Special Thanks to Jeff Macklin at Jackson Creek Press for designing and printing our words this Christmas on his old style letter press.
Since we’ll be closed Christmas week, we thought Elvis should sing to you and let you know how we feel….
From all of us at Studio-N we hope you have a great Christmas and a Wonderful 2011.
It’s been a busy few months but we have managed to fit in some painting. You’d think as designers after being ‘creative’ all day the tank would be empty. Not so, making ‘art’ is quite motivating and relaxes the mind. Especially when the work of art is going well. (If it’s not going well it can be frustrating, but I digress) These paintings now hang in our office and range from a few inches wide to 5 feet square. Also watching over our work is our Kitty-Kat-Clock and the odd ladybug. Justa-nother day!
I’m sitting at a lake right now thinking “where the heck did the summer go”? It’s the LAST weekend of August. We’ve had a busy summer at Studio-N, many large projects that we started in the spring have carried over into the summer months as well as some new designs and inevitable rush jobs. Through all of that we managed to get some well earned time off and these pictures are just a sample of the great summer that we just experienced.
But really…. summer’s not over yet. And there are still many weeks of warm weather in store even though the lazy days of summer are ticking down.
As you can see from our photos (had a tough time choosing) we had fun. There was sunsets, concerts, storms, art, nature (lots of nature), barbecues, tree climbing, fishing, exploring and swimming just to name a few. Oh and there was a litter of 6 kittens in there too.
We kicked this summer off waaaaay back in May with our Open House and it really set the tone for an outgoing summer. None of us went too far afield on the whole and except for a couple non Ontario family things we “staycationed” in Ontario. I have to say that we have it pretty good around here.
Becky worked with us at Studio-N this summer helping out around the office – she’s heading back to Guelph University for her last year and we wish her all the best. We really enjoyed our trips to the “Wednesday Farmer’s Market” together and that became a weekly lunch ritual for the three of us. (We love the Market because the curry there rocks!) Have a great year Becky, we’ll miss you!
Our front lawn looks different. We got an awesome rock that, fortunately for us, wasn’t wanted by it’s owner. Isn’t it beautiful?! It reminds us of Northern Ontario. Anyway, this is a monumental way to celebrate our tenth year in business… plunking a 1 ton (I’m guessing) rock in front of our building. It will be a daily reminder that we made it this far. And that is a beautiful thing!
A few words about our 10th Anniversary Open House May 27th. Special THANKS to our clients and friends… many of you came out to enjoy Friday evening with us! We got so wrapped up in the fun we forgot to take pictures of the gathering. The delicious food was prepared by BE Catering. We received many great compliments on the finger food and we ate plenty ourselves. Also thank you to the 4 artists who were kind enough to lend us some of their work for our Open House…. Letterpress prints from Jeff Macklin of Jackson Creek Press, photos of Yellowstone by Jesse Goodrice, photos of New York City by Michael Hurcomb and multi-media paintings by William Kingfisher. These original works brightened up our space and were very well received.
arborite can be beautiful
We’ve grown a little! We welcome our new team member… a student for the summer to help us with office admin, and we’re thrilled to have her.
Check out her desk, a $25 dollar find on kijiji. A good cleaning and some steel wool – and voila! I think we’re ready for summer.
This picture almost needs no caption. These are wild flowers from just north of Peterborough in North Kawartha. They emerge and bloom profusely almost as soon a the snow recedes. It truly is impossible to top natures beauty. Check out the detail inside each flower… and the colour. Better than a Pantone Colour Book pick!
Sure why not. Back in the old days when we resided on King Street we had our logo proudly on the wall. It was subdued and the same colour as the wall. It looked nice. But we’ve moved on. And now we have a cool new space. We understand messing with a logo is a no no, better than most in fact. But you know, it was just irresistible to play with the letters and colours. We may be messing with people’s heads a bit when they enter our foyer and see this thing. It does give a person the urge to spell new words. Anyone in our foyer will likely recognize our logo and get that we girls just wanna have some fun.
Back at it
It really feels like a new year doesn’t it? We all took a break from our busy design schedules and cleared our heads to get ready for new challenges. And for Santa of course.
We have a new team member…. meet Ben, our in house code-slinger. And there’s Dana too, our Trent student, Office Admin Assistant who has been helping us hugely since early last fall.
We’ve rested, geared up and are now ready for a new year. I’ve always known that a break from the usual day to day will inspire new ideas and creativity, but this holiday was especially invigorating. The old routine looks new again. It might be fun to carry forward some of the holiday zen into our packed schedule. Done!