It’s easy to advertise your website and drive traffic, but it’s harder (although worthwhile) to find out how your web design plus SEO could be better. Poor web design and development might not seem like the reason you’re losing profits, but there’s a good chance yours could be better and start keeping interested customers or…
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This article will explore the design process designers go through when designing for a printed piece- sketching, designing, color correction and more! You’ve probably seen the term “print design” before, and you may know that designing for print is different from designing for a website. But what does designing for print really mean? And how…
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Like plants, we all want to grow, and even more so if we’re trying to scale up a business. You’re also probably looking for the “magic solution” to solving your scaling issues. Guess what? We are too. It turns out that there are many factors when it comes to scaling your design business. You can’t…
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Almost everyone has had a bad food experience where the packaging or branding package didn’t match the quality or quantity of food inside (looking at you bags of chips). Branding done poorly can have the same effect. Tina Walczak our Chief Brand Officer and Jake MacLaren, one of our content strategists, discusses branding mistakes and how when it comes to…
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Cool logos are everywhere nowadays with new companies popping up each day, and existing companies rebranding or redesigning their own. A logo is the main embodiment of a business and the design of it shouldn’t be handed to just someone off the internet who took an Adobe Illustrator class once. A business is often reflected through…
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Facebook ads have only grown in popularity over the years with the extensive development of the Facebook Ads platform. Nowadays, you’ll find jewelry Facebook ads, Instagram story ads, and many other varieties of ads to choose from all from the same platform. However, because numerous businesses are endlessly competing for the best results on the platform it can be challenging to…
Read MoreWatch (YouTube - Local Marketing Strategy Top Grade Tire and OK Tire CEO Justin Bullock) as William Walczak, Hiilite CEO and University of British Columbia Consumer Behavior Professor, leads a weekly open marketing call to help businesses affected by the COVID-19 economic crisis. Working directly with local businesses the to help find new opportunities, pivot…
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How many times has a team member or client requested that you come up with an innovative or creative solution to the problem at hand? How do you switch to a “creative mindset”? Many organizations have completely lost touch with true creativity and are consistently churning out lacklustre results that rarely “wow” the user or…
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Logical and Uncomplicated Aspirations Logical, uncomplicated, simple design is a mainstay trend that most designers aspire to in their work. Unless you’re attempting to create an art piece, these are universally appreciated concepts for the end-user. How you accomplish it differs based on industry, but given that simplicity has become a core tenet…
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Design - Visual Identity How your brand represents itself visually is an essential factor to your overall business. Creating consistency in your branding allows your customers to easily identify your business. If your brand's visual identity is scattered, you will spend more time and money than is necessary gaining brand recognition and reach for your brand. What…
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Your business card is like your handshake... Is your design strong and confident, or does it lay flat, like a dead fish? (no one likes a dead fish handshake ????) As a designer or any other creative, you need to understand that your work will be displayed and interacted with on various mediums. Every time…
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Information visualization is one of the most recent movements that inspires great design. The visual communication of information or data can be effective, intriguing, and beautiful – or it can confusing, boring, and ugly. Hiilite Creative Group's William Walczak believes "everything communicates" and an effective design should speak to its audience and produce results. Everything Communicates Has…
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