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    Adding Bluesky social icons to headers and footers

    By Sherwin Arnott February 14, 2025February 14, 2025

    Many of our clients are moving to Bluesky and quitting Twitter/X. If they are in the habit of advertising their social outposts on their websites,…

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  • Comics creator Sam Hester: How visual storytelling creates better health care
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    Comics creator Sam Hester: How visual storytelling creates better health care

    By Sherwin Arnott June 18, 2023June 18, 2023

    Sam Hester is a graphic recorder and comics creator in Calgary. This TED talk is a brilliant insight into the power of visual learning. Her…

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  • Scissors, made and designed by Ernest Wright, lying in a pile before they're polished.
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    Well designed scissors

    By Sherwin Arnott March 7, 2023March 3, 2023

    Sometimes things that look simple, just aren’t. It’s fascinating to me that there’s a team of putter togetherers. Learn more about Ernest Wright scissors.

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  • How to be at home, by Andrea Dorfman
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    How to be at home, by Andrea Dorfman

    By Pink Sheep Design March 3, 2023March 8, 2023

    Youtube | How To Be At Home Andrea Dorfman | provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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  • An illustration of a wolf with a large full moon floating in the background.
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    Putting pages into a WordPress RSS feed

    By Sherwin Arnott February 20, 2023March 3, 2023

    Every once in a while I want to put pages into an RSS feed on a self-hosted WordPress site. When I do this, I prefer…

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  • A silver iPhone six laying face-down on the floor.
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    An ode to obsolescence

    By Ryan Elizabeth Cope November 22, 2021November 23, 2021

    A smartphone rendered obsolete by the advancement of technology; an ode to the modern-day dilemma we all invariably face.

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  • Screenshot of the Pink Sheep Media hubsite.
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    Looking for a new feed to post aggregator

    By Sherwin Arnott October 26, 2021February 20, 2023

    For the last couple of years, we’ve been aggregating the dispatches from the people in our network. We do this so we can keep up…

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  • Overview of a sheet of paper with notes from a narrative design research process.
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    The use of narratives in research and design

    By Sherwin Arnott August 6, 2021October 7, 2021

    These videos by Dr. Stan Ruecker and Dr. Milena Radzikowska are an excellent resource.

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  • Simone Giertz cuts her tesla in half to create "truckla"
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    Fearless and fun design with Simone Giertz

    By Hannah Rhoslyn March 26, 2021September 22, 2021

    As a maker of digital (and occasionally tangible) things, I love watching makers who use big, solid materials like wood, metal, and in this case,…

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  • An illustration of a rat with a magnifying glass held up to it. Rather than magnifying it, the glass turns the grey rat technicolour.
    Communications | Design

    Ologies podcast and the art of interviewing

    By Hannah Rhoslyn March 10, 2021September 22, 2021

    Each episode of Alie Ward’s Ologies podcast begins with the premise of a featured “-ology” (a branch of science), but by the end is so much more.

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  • panels from Aubrey Hirsch's comic, "Anger"
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    An argument for anger

    By Hannah Rhoslyn March 10, 2021September 22, 2021

    Aubrey Hirsch’s comic blends simple, clear visuals with research data on women and expressions of anger.

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    Working with breadcrumbs tied to menus

    By Sherwin Arnott January 23, 2021February 20, 2023

    Creating breadcrumbs from menus in WordPress can be very handy.

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  • A giant eye in a giant flower.
    Design

    Big mouth

    By Sherwin Arnott January 3, 2021September 22, 2021

    Sometimes being truthful is not aligned with being nice.

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    Fixing some old media library folder problems in WordPress

    By Pink Sheep Design January 3, 2021February 20, 2023

    One of the WordPress websites we manage had a legacy media library problem. There were thousands of files in the uploads folder and they weren’t…

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  • Two people look at each other, accepting themselves, in a painting.
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    Acceptance, love, and the power of postcards

    By Pink Sheep Design December 7, 2020September 22, 2021

    This is a beautiful story of two people with different ideas and how they learned to share them and be changed by them.

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