Letter to the Editor

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Clint Schnee

I live in Kelowna. It is an incredibly beautiful place. However our city occasionally has a small-town perspective on creative services, especially advertising and graphic design (although I believe we are slowly coming around).

In response to a recent article by the Kelowna Capital News here. I wrote a letter to the editor. Since the paper did not publish the letter (soon enough), I decided to publish it here. It was subsequently published here. Online comments to the original article from @rtstrategy are also worth a read. Continue reading →

Design, Story and Motion

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Clint Schnee

Our culture is increasingly defining itself through story. Appearance of age. Weathered surfaces. Distressed type. Facebook. Twitter. Tattoos. All of these speak to histories, hardships, events. One thing following another. Sequence.

Story for us takes many forms. The rise and fall of ideas and empires. The coming and going of friends. Microblogging. The birth and death of dreams. The realization of hope. Point A to point B. Anything that proves there is change. We have story because we have movement. Continue reading →

Hello Word

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Clint Schnee

Well, after some really long deliberations (half an hour at least), I’ve entered the stream and made a venue for thoughts that are a little more extensive than @innercrust can support in 140 characters or less.

Looking forward to an expression of thoughts that hopefully refine the crude ore of the everyday into the beautiful and useful.

Refinery

extracting the exceptional from the mundane and ordinary

Letter to the Editor

Design, Story and Motion

Hello Word