Rock Your Website
"For an example of an online portfolio done right, look no further than Vancouver-based strategic interactive agency smashLAB. The case studies showcased in the portfolio show a variety...
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Social Networks: Where Advertisers Fear to Tread
"You have to look at social networks as a kind of plumbing," says Eric Karjaluoto of smashLAB, which has created the social network MakeFive. "It's not rocket science."
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Eric Karjaluoto on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer
"Eric Karjaluoto is an award winning Canadian designer and Emily Carr graduate with a slightly green tinge. He wants his graphic design cohorts to unite, green up and address climate change in ..."
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Weather Network feature on Design Can Change
"Eric Karjaluoto is a graphic designer who's helping his profession design change when it comes to its impact on the environment. Design can change is an effort to bring designers together to both ..."
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Green by design
As part of the publishing industry, we here at Desktop are ever conscious of the detrimental impact caused to the environment by the graphic design process. From the destruction of forests...
Smash climate change
An online green initiative has helped Vancouver-
based interactive design firm smashLAB gain the type of international exposure many companies can only dream of. "There's not a lot of work so far...
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Smashing global warming with greener design
The goal of graphic design is to make things look good. Really good. So good that we want to buy these things, even if we don't need them. That can be a problem - or perhaps an opportunity...
Need a primer on social media? Read on
Interactive agency smashLAB has created a white paper on social media designed as a primer for those who want to learn more about it. Below are excerpts from two sections: opportunities in...
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The Design 100
Launched by Canadian studio smashLAB, this website is a network of graphic designers focused on creating products with the lowest possible carbon footprint. The goal is to positively address...
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The little lab that could
This small firm of five people is doing some big things from their hip office in Gastown, Vancouver. The company, founded in 2000 is the result of a unique partnership of design and technology that...
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Warm regards
As I write this in October, there are strong reasons to think that we have arrived at the tipping point of global awareness about climate change and the need to act as a matter of urgency. A recent BBC...
The Heart of the Matter
Introducing a new party to an existing design process can present serious challenges. A case in point: Two years ago, I was caught off-guard. Our firm had been working with a start-up company...
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Intelligent Design
Last June, the designers at Vancouver company smashLAB were thinking a lot about climate change. And they were also considering how their industry affects the environment. “We felt really...
Best of the web 2007
Though it smarts to say it, designers are a wasteful bunch. "We had been talking about how our studio could do less damage to the environment," says smashLAB creative director Eric Karjaluoto. "It felt...
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Time to start planning
You may be thinking that it's the beginning of the year, Easter is the next big holiday and that we shouldn't even give Christmas another thought. But it may be worth giving it a moment of your time...
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