Daily Brad, the blog

My friend Jonathan has been working on getting me to put together a new design for a custom snowboard for myself. He found a local manufacturer named Revolution that offers a design your own snowboard option. In fact, I think the snowboard that I currently ride was manufactured by them. I don’t recall exactly, because the agency I worked for at the time (Studeo, Inc) gave it to me as a Christmas present back in 1997 or 1998. (All I had to do was pitch in $50 as I recall for bindings). Studeo had done some work for them, and in trade they got custom Studeo boards. I still ride that board, and will continue to ride it until I feel that I’m good enough to deserve a new one. (And perhaps the time has come, as I’m becoming a much better ‘boarder) In fact, it’s that ‘board that I’m clutching in one of my portfolio website pictures.

So what about snowboard design and snowboard art? I looked around to see what I could find…

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What is Web Directions North?

Put together by designers and developers, for designer and developers, this conference is brought to you by Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp. Over two days and nights, Web Directions North is packed tight with sessions by renowned, inspiring, entertaining speakers and experts, parties, and more.

Come along and hear Kelly Goto, Andy Clarke, Adrian Holovaty, Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Joe Clark, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone, Veerle Pieters, Jeremy Keith and all the other present and future web luminaries, who’ll be covering covering Ajax and Javascript, CSS, Microformats, mashups, standards based web design and development, accessibility, web app development, XHTML and HTML and more. Beginning with an optional day of workshops from some of the web’s best educators, and rounded off with two optional days of skiing and boarding at Whistler [that’s British Columbia folks], Web Directions North is 2007’s web design and development event not to be missed.

What did I say about the Design a Snowboard contest? This contest is sponsored by Digital Web Magazine and here’s what they had to say about it:

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I received my Communication Arts Magazine today which features the latest and greatest in design. (Communication Arts is nearly a must read for every graphic designer who wants to keep up with trends).

Here are the companies from Utah that were featured.

Page 14:
Struck Design, Salt Lake City, for Packaging Design

Page 59:
And Design Capitalists (No Website), Salt Lake City for a Logo Design

Page 95:
BYU Publications & Graphics, Provo, UT for an Editorial Design

Congratulations to all this years winners!

So my Print Regional Design Annual for 2006 came the other day and I quicky flipped to find out who was featured from Utah. Since they aren’t as big as other states when it comes to design, they were under the heading “Rest of the West”. In their intro they mention “Salt Lake City has 12 firms doing great work where there use to be two, says Jeff Olsen of B/O/W/G. He adds that clients from both coasts are sustaining a new crop of startup agencies, and the excellent designers graduating from local schools like Brigham Young leave town, “but come back a few years later.”

Here are the companies from Utah that were featured.

Page 119:
Axis41, Salt Lake City, for a Self-Promotional Campaign
B/O/W/G, Salt Lake City, for a Logo Design

Page 120-121:
Axis41, Salt Lake City, for an Invitation
Struck Design, Salt Lake City, for a Logo
H Theory, Salt Lake City, for a Stationery System
Stephen Hales Creative, Provo, for a Magazine Spread
angryporcupine*design, Park City, for a Logo

Page 122-123:
H Theory, Salt Lake City, for a Stationery System
H Theory, Salt Lake City, for a Stationery System
B/O/W/G, Salt Lake City, for Packaging
Richter7, Salt Lake City, for a Poster

Page 124-125
A+B Works, Salt Lake City, for a Stationery System
Visual Think, Salt Lake City, for a Book
Axis41, Salt Lake City, for a Holiday Card
Struck Design, Salt Lake City, for a Poster
B/O/W/G, Salt Lake City, for a Handbook/Guide

Congratulations to all this years winners!