New Year – New Website.
Our level-up moment has arrived! I am so proud to reveal what will be an ever-growing demonstration of projects my team has helped bring to life for brands we love!
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Tales From a Work-Term Student
Do you remember when you were finishing school? The nerves. The excitement. That moment when you realize you learned how to do something, but hadn’t yet done it in real life? Enter ‘the work term’. We feel it’s our responsibility to give new grads the chance to experience life in business. This year, we’ve had …
Top 5 Memorable Moments of the Last 5 Years
“90% of businesses will fail in the first five years” – everyone i told i was starting a business, 2009 That stat is crazy and it’s enough to freak you out. Having some incredible people around was a huge help – many of whom are closer to me now than ever. It feels good. Either way, …
Dc Presents a Cup of Cheer
T’is the season for giving and we get it. Christmas shopping is such a romantic concept; the hustlin’ and bustlin’ of shoppers, smiles and warm lighting, the snowflakes in your eyelashes. But just as the Grinch himself realized: “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.“Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” So we asked …
Cup of Cheer: The Big Reveal
Our cups runneth over! This year the Dc team decided to ditch the wine and chocolates and get right into the heart of the season, with an idea we came up with that lets our clients choose a way for us to give back to our community. We called our Christmas campaign “A Cup of …
Dc Does Direction
Ever wondered what it’s like to work in an agency? This ain’t Mad Men people! We work long hours. Craft creative consumers crave. Client work isn’t all drinks and slogans … though that’s part of it! At Dc we do deadlines, we do discipline, we do!And we show. We love bringing in the best and …
Sweet Governor General!!
They’re coming to take me away. Vacations are hard. You have to pack for them. They involve travel (time on a plane with not much to do). Oh yes, and you have to actually step outside the happy hurricane that is your life, and trust that the gods of retribution won’t strike you down for …
A Changing of the Guard
Change isn’t easy. For those of you who work in teams, you know how important it is to have someone you trust with you every day. Jackson McLean has been my co-pilot in all projects that take off here at the Design House for almost three years. When he told me last month that he …
Come inside, we don’t bite
Dc Design House can be an intimidating place. There’s ideas flying everywhere all the time; paper scattered on most surfaces; and let’s face it, in a creative industry, we’re always pushing each other to be better. It’s a wonder our occupational health and safety committee isn’t working overtime All. The. Time. (I kid.) But we …
Bye for Now Sam Grandy
If there’s one thing we love at down at the ol’ Design House, it’s cake. Butter cream icing in the afternoon is what dreams are made of. But if there could be a second thing we love, it’s the cake we have when we celebrate the time spent with a bright talent that we invite …
