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Click here to see the photos of Duane Gordon’s Website Launch / Art Vernissage photos hosted at KAI Design & Communication’s studio on Feb 26th, 2010.

The party was a huge success with more than 100 people in attendance throughout  the 3-hour-long event!

Duane Gordon, the artist, met some wonderful people on that night which led him to another art vernissage the next day and received an television interview with local media.  KAI Design & Communication is proud to have Duane Gordon as one of the royal clients!!!

Bravo Duane Gordon!!!

KAI Design attended an interesting day of workshops and conferences presented by Canopèe’s called Practical tools to become green and contribute for an eco-friendly paper market; that took place at the UQAM on February 12^th.

At this conference we learned about many ways to present our clients with ecological solutions for their printing needs. We became more knowledgeable about solutions on recycled papers, alcohol-free inks and ecological printing machines (non-alcohol dampener, less ink consumption, oil-less bearings and the adoption of new spray powder). These measurements prevent environmental pollution and yield a major reduction in paper wastage, contributing to the conservation of paper resources.

An interesting fun fact we learned: Happy Potter book series are the greenest books EVER!! Saving over 130,000 trees!!

Overall, the conference provided us with practical tools to initiate a turn towards environmental papers and also strengthen our abilities to intervene and to motivate our suppliers and clients to be more ecological.

A wonderful rebrand of Molson Canadian beer!  The new logo radiances Canada-pride!  Love the texture that is used on the maple leaf design. It is rich and detailed.

Molson Canadian is a brand of 5% abv pale lager brewed by Molson, the Canadian division of Molson Coors Brewing Company.

For more information about the Molson Canadian: www.molsoncanadian.ca

KAI Design & Communication is organizing a party for one of its client on Friday, Feb 26th.  From 6pm-9pm at KAI Design’s studio space.

Theme: Duane Gordon Vernissage / Website Launch

The night will be filled with fabulous art, fine wine & cheese and great people.

About the artist:

Duane Gordon, IT consultant at CGI by day, passionate artist by night.  His art work is Art Deco inspired, mixed with a contemporary modern landscape influence.

We are looking forward to see you there on Friday night!!

For more information about the event, check out the facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218506979952&index=1

The other day while driving thought the city we noticed that Mikes Restaurant had changed their logo.

Not sure if this is an improvement, I can see that their past logo had an 80’s feeling, but found the new logo’s typography kind of weak. Got the feeling that maybe the client “forced” the logo designer to add drop shadow effect on the word “Mikes”, and also to add gradient background….lol

People should know this…drop shadow and gradient effect on a logo is VERY passé!!  Unless its done in a very Web 2.0 way….

However, we have to admit that they did a good job with the circle on the back, as well as the beige, green and red colors, which relate to food. Perhaps even a hint of “healthy” food with this new color scheme.

Would we say this is an upgrade from their previous logo?  Not very likely.

But in a positive note…at lease this rebranding project can be served as a great design course materials for “Rebranding gone bad” for all future design students.

KAI Design inject new blood into its team

KAI Design welcomes a new talent. Starting today Luis London makes part of our team, as a Design Consultant. He comes from an eclectic background, given that he is a graphic designer and a painter as well. Having several years of experience working on a corporate and commercial level, he acquired a lot of knowledge in the graphic design field.

Bringing his own style and expertise into KAI Design, he will help to compliment the company’s strength and flair. His work has already help creating a unique style on many diverse different projects.

Luis will sure help KAI Design on answering the clients’ needs, with the same philosophy and approach that defines us.

You can see some of Luis London’s past work in his website at: www.luislondon.com

Let’s all wish Luis a warm welcome.

A recent web project from KAI Design & Communication for a Montreal-based hair salon – Jardin d’art et de coiffure.

This unique hair salon combines the philosophy of zen, art and beauty.  With monthly music event hosted right in the earthy-inspired environment, Jardin d’art et de coiffure is the place to “go to” when you want to experience an authentic make-over while being in touch with your inner zen-ness.

Jardin d’art et de coiffure is located in the heart of Plateau Mont-Royal (5 minutes from métro Mont-Royal).

175, ave Mont-Royal Est, Montréal, Québec H2T 1P2

To book an appointment: (514) 845-1958

www.jardinartcoiffure.com

Recently came across a quote by Andy Warhol.  Love it~

December 22nd, 2009 – Andrew Chen donated $400 to ACCM on behave of
KAI Design & Communication (www.kaidesign.ca), Nathalie B Studios (www.nathaliebstudios.com) and their Friends in the effort to help ACCM to establish a new integrated drop-in center.  The new drop-in center will become a place where people of all ages can access information about HIV, counseling, testing, food collection, free yoga, painting classes, drama therapy and various workshops. The drop-in center is currently under renovation.

KAI Design & Communication would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who participated and made positive contribute to ACCM.

You can learn more about the foundation by visiting www.accmontreal.org

” You may not be able to choose your family, but you sure can choose whom you do business with!”

Recently I am reading this “funny” book about “Instant Referrals” by Bradley J. Sugars – Founder and Chairman of Action International. Personally, I don’t like the tone of the author, the way he wrote the book is as if all the readers are stupid. But I have to admit that he provides some amazing insight about building solid referral business model. There are many useful tips and great exercises that allows the readers to really think about their own business. I guess for that reason, I managed to flip through pages after pages even if he strokes his own ego in almost every page.

“Understand that business is a cyclical phenomenon: As the owner of the business, if you look after your team, they will in turn look after the customers, who will in turn look after your business, which will then look after you!”