http://www.trevorfischer.com The weblog of Canadian web and graphic designer Trevor Fischer. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:32:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2010/04/28/kim-gibbons-mortgage-superhero-site/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2010/04/28/kim-gibbons-mortgage-superhero-site/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:38:21 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=1177 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2010/04/28/kim-gibbons-mortgage-superhero-site/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/20/some-orphaned-designs/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/20/some-orphaned-designs/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:48:47 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=894 One of the pitfalls of being a freelancer is that, on occasion, you run into situations where it's necessary to do some work to get some work. By that I mean, you have to attend meetings, prepare design sketches and present them to a client all before being paid a penny. Some times this pays off and some times it doesn't. When it doesn't, you find yourself in possession of "orphans", designs that are doomed to walk the earth, never fully realized and unattached to a project. This is the story of just such a scenario and the designs that resulted.]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/20/some-orphaned-designs/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/14/life-after-40/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/14/life-after-40/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:33:03 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=867 I have found that, since turning forty, it's become a lot harder to keep on top of all the hair that's suddenly sprouting up all over my body. It's like some sort of late-onset puberty. This post demonstrates a typical scenario.]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/04/14/life-after-40/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/03/23/my-life-in-music-the-monkees-collection-incident/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/03/23/my-life-in-music-the-monkees-collection-incident/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:24:33 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=676 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/03/23/my-life-in-music-the-monkees-collection-incident/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/09/it-steals-your-money-part-2/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/09/it-steals-your-money-part-2/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:48:57 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=661 last entry through Google Translate to see if I could get a better idea of what it read.  The result was much more natural in tone but I still don't know what the spammer was trying to achieve.  The Google translation was as follows: ]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/09/it-steals-your-money-part-2/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/06/it-steals-your-money/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/06/it-steals-your-money/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:23:40 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=646 This arrived in my inbox a few minutes ago. The text is in Russian so I had it translated with Babel Fish.  The results made me chuckle. ]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/02/06/it-steals-your-money/feed/ 2 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/01/05/sammy-the-hanukkah-lobster-on-much-more-music/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/01/05/sammy-the-hanukkah-lobster-on-much-more-music/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:41:35 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=584 I was happy to learn that Sammy the Hanukkah Lobster was featured on Much More Music's Listed program over the holidays! Sure it was as a horrible holiday tune but we were among some good company. I'm proud to have our work featured alongside Ren and Stimpy, Max Headroom and Gary Coleman. ]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2009/01/05/sammy-the-hanukkah-lobster-on-much-more-music/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2008/12/24/happy-holidays/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2008/12/24/happy-holidays/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:16:39 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/2008/12/24/happy-holidays/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2008/12/24/happy-holidays/feed/ 0 http://www.trevorfischer.com/2008/11/18/a-little-help-with-my-business-card/ http://www.trevorfischer.com/2008/11/18/a-little-help-with-my-business-card/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:56:21 +0000 Trevor http://www.trevorfischer.com/?p=523 I've recently designed a new business card (business cards, actually: three versions based on the three colour schemes for my corporate site ) and I'm having difficulty deciding how to handle the image on the back. Here are the two options that I'm choosing between: ]]> http://www.trevorfischer.com/2008/11/18/a-little-help-with-my-business-card/feed/ 5