The Elbowruminations Archive
Since 2006, Elbowruminations has been ruthlessly producing educational (or least mildly entertaining) articles about design, business and creativity. If you’re just joining us on the web, we encourage you to subscribe to our RSS feed. Then, catch yourself up with the previously-published goodness by exploring our extensive, expansive library.
Features
- Accessorize Your Breath: The Evolution of Gum
- A World Without Design
- Desktop Publishing Tips for the Little Guy
- Website Tips for the Little Guy
- Branding Tips for the Little Guy
- Between the lines: the role of subtext in design
- Graphic Design Tools for Everybody
- WWF Paint Can Posters
- Swoosh Abuse: The Compendium
- A Mega-site for a Megastore
- The Branding of Canada
- How to Cook An Annual Report
- Billboard Saves Man's Life
- Retail Reviews: Jacob, Metrotown, Reitmans, Please Mum
- New logo: Blackwater Worldwide
- Madrid's bid logo waves hello
- Branded locomotives carry the Olympic torch
- TWU Spartans score big with new logo
- Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Logo
- Lithuainia to London: Can we have your logo?
- NFL stands for New Fancy Logo
- Design Around the League: NHL snapshots
- Green is the New Sex
- Logos in the News
- Wired for Customization
- Google, graphic design and the Gwacheon connection
- Good News: CNN.com overhauls website
- Out with the Birds, In with the Words
- Lessons from London
- The Cola Wars: Pepsi & Coke duke it out with new design tactics
- Golden Opportunities Through Branding Well
- The cost of branding: London 2012 Olympics logo
- London Olympics Logo Released: Puzzling.
- God has a (cell-phone) plan for your life!
- Why design studios need to communicate clearly
- Toilets: Talk of the Town
- What Do I Know (about graphic design)
- Designing for the Wacky New Frontier
- Everyone's a Critic: The results are in!
- The Top Ten Websites You’ve Been Missing Online
- Everyone’s a Critic
- ERD 101
- Part 1: Introduction to Graphic Design
- Part 2: How to Tell if You Need Graphic Design Help
- Part 3: The Difference Between Good & Bad Graphic Design
- Part 4: The Creative Family
- Part 5: How Do I Become a Graphic Designer?
Around Calgary
- Good Design: Veer’s 2008 Summer Catalogue
- Calgary Round-up: Stampede Edition
- Good Design: Heritage Park Logo
- Good Design: RBC retirement ads
- Good Design: Swiss Chalet Menu
- Bad Design: Calgary Public Library
- Good Design: Saskatoon Blades Logo
- Enter the Dragon's Den
- No such thing in life as a good Lifestyles ad
- McDonald's job ad doesn’t add up
- Elbowruminations for Mayor!
- Good Design: Calgary Zoo Advertising
- Good Design: Tourism Kamloops
- Calgary Business Magazines: Head to Head
- Bad Design: Freespirit treadmill interface
- Bad Design: Brain Child
- Good Design: Method Cleaning Products
- Mixed Reviews: CBC.ca goes 1.9
- Good Design: Shrek at McDonald's
- This day in history: Calgary Schools' Computer Programming Competition
- Bad Design: Good Life Fitness before & after ad
- Bad Design: Patterns in Bad Fashion
- Good Design: Healthy Sex Life
- Good Design: Second Cup Logo
- Bad Design: Fabricland Logo
- Good Design: 2007 Calgary Stampede promotional poster
- Good Design: New Winners storefront
- Mixed Reviews: Branding Expert Rob Frankel
- Bad Design: KillerSigns.biz
- Good Design: Opera.com
- Bad Design: UVic Signage system
- Good Design: Altamira “Live to Work”
- Mixed Reviews: Homes by Avi
- Bad Design: Mortgage Intelligence
- Good Design: Nellie's All-Natural Laundry Soda
- Show-Stealer: Monterra on Cochrane Lakes
- Bad Design: Mandarin orange box
- Bad Design: McDonald’s Big Mac Hockey Bash
- Good Design: United Way garbage can ad
- Mixed Review: Chinook Centre Billboards
- Good Design: Safeway Produce Logo
- Bad Design: Calgary's Greyhound Station
- Bad Design: Downtown Calgary tourist map
Technology
- EasyListener: A simple little music playing widget
- Thoughts on Building RSS Right
- Social Networking and the News
- The Daily Designer: Two time-saving Firefox tools
- iPhone frenzy roundup
- Kiva.org: Microcredit makes you the bank
- Calgary Sun Spins Cellular Competition
- World’s first anti-piracy dogs sniff out fake DVDs
- Now shipping: Microsoft Furniture
- Cooler colour scheming on the web
- Making sense of RSS
- Photoshop goes online
- Behind the iPhone
- Stick It To Your Computer
Ask the Experts
- Our Favourite Design Innovations of 2007
- Does Elbowroom offer hosting packages?
- A Designers Guide to Canning Spam
- How do I promote my work on the web?
- What about Desktop Publishing?
- Graphic design courses in Calgary?
- How can I start my career in graphic design?
Blogs We Know
- Blogs We Know: ChangeOrder
- ISO50: The Visual Work of Scott Hansen
- Signal vs. Noise
- Brian Kroeker / Cover Songs
- Presentation Zen
- Design*Sponge
- Ad Goodness
- The Name Inspector
- The Canadian Design Resource
- FreelanceSwitch
- kottke.org
- Veer: The Skinny
- Brand New blog (by some old vets)
- Zach Bulick is a friend we know
- Creative Component
- Designers Who Blog
- The New Balearic: A perfect podcast
- John Chow, the one-man hype machine
- Squidfingers hands out fresh patterns
