Stephen King’s 20 Rules for Writers
Posted October 12, 2018
Some great tips for anyone who writes: fiction, non-fiction, essays or blog posts. Reprinted from Open Culture. (See the full article here.)
1. First write for yourself, and then worry about the audience. “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”
2. Don’t use passive voice. “Timid writers like passive verbs for the same reason that timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe.”
NEW WORK: Website Redesign for Henbart
Posted July 9, 2018Henbart, LLC is the real estate development arm of Bartell Drugs. We recently designed this responsive WordPress site for them to better reflect their stature in the Seattle development community. Great client. www.henbart.com.
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What is The Perfect Color Worth?
Posted March 8, 2018Good article in the NY Times Magazine about the value of color to brands. And how Pantone has built a brand for themselves that extends far beyond just designers. Read it here.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Posted February 14, 2018
NEW WORK: Trade Show Banners for Clark Nuber
Posted November 26, 2017
We recently designed these 32″ x 80″ banners for the accounting firm of Clark Nuber to be used in free-standing banner displays. Great, inexpensive way to increase the impact of your presence at shows.
April Who?
Posted March 31, 2017
Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day but I’m ready. Like most people I’ve already been tricked more times than I can count. You might consider yourself a good, honest person – trusting, but with a healthy dose of skepticism – and still on any given day you could be fooled by:
Happy Holidays from Welsh&Co.
Posted December 21, 2016
NEW WORK: Gas Works Park Renderings
Posted November 16, 2016
Welsh&Co. produced these renderings for Seattle Department of Parks and Rec to show their planned renovation of the popular Gas Works Park.
NEW WORK: Law Firm Website Design
Posted August 18, 2016
This prominent law firm had outgrown their old website and needed a refreshed design that better served mobile users and better represented them as leaders in their field. The design we came up with portrays them as “problem solvers” and partners to their clients.
The Origins of April Fools
Posted April 1, 2016
It’s said that April Fool’s originated in the 1500s when France switched from the Julian calendar, in which the new year was celebrated on April 1, to the Gregorian calendar, which made January 1 the beginning of the new year. Anybody who continued to celebrate the new year on April 1st was branded an “April Fool”. Except in France they shout, “Poisson d’Avril!” which means, literally, “April Fish!” (“April fish” refers to a young fish, thus one easily caught.) Ok. In Scotland, where April 1 is devoted to spoofs involving the buttocks and who’s citizens are credited with inventing the classic “Kick Me!” sign, they refer to the pranked as an April “gowk”, the Scottish word for cuckoo.
Chihuahua or Muffin?
Posted March 15, 2016
I don’t know. For some reason this cracked me up.