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Website Redesign For Sportability BC
A refreshed website design for Sportability BC Sportability BC is Vancouver's multisport organization for the disabled. They contacted us to redesign their website and give it a modern look. View the new Sportability website here Need to update your website?...
Kobe Bryant Tribute
Our Tribute to a Legend We vectorized Kobe. Legends Never Die. Let's Collaborate!
How To Get More Traffic To Your Website
How To Get More Traffic To Your WebsiteSearch Engine Optimization is hard! There are many different things that need to be done in order to rank highly in google - and being on the first page of google is important for a successful business. You can hide a dead body...
Website Design For CRIC
A New Website for Canadian Research Insights CouncilThe Canadian Research Insights Council (CRIC) based in Toronto, contacted us to build a new website for them and its members. This new, bilingual site features robust forms and multiple payment gateways to join.Need...
Create Unique Colour Schemes for your designs with Illustrator’s Colour Guide
How to create unique colour schemes for your designs with Illustrator's Colour GuideIf you're ever struggling to come up with a colour palette for your designs, Illustrator's Colour Guide is a great solution. Whether you are creating branding for a client, or working...
New Website Design for Ganjalier
Website design for Ganjalier.ca A new cannabis related company based in Winnipeg called Ganjalier hired us to develop their new website. They are Canada's premier cannabis information site and directory. Check out ganjalier.ca from wherever you are in Canada to see...
Textures of Mount Pleasant
Textures of Mount Pleasant A Vancouver Photography Diary One of our favourite parts about the Mount Pleasant area is the everyday inspiration we get from the murals and textures surrounding the neighbourhood. Some of Mount Pleasant's most pleasant visual gems are...
16 Tropical Design Elements To Take Your Brand From Summer to Winter Vacation
Make summer last all year with these 16 tropical design elements Summer may be flying by, but there is still plenty of time to infuse a bit of summer into your designs! We've gathered 16 tropical design elements from the talented designers and artists from Creative...
A refreshed website design for Bent Gable Design Inc
A refreshed website design for Bent Gable Design Inc Toronto based Interior Designers, Bent Gable Design Inc. recently asked us to give their website a fresh update from the one we previously designed for them back in 2014. Naturally, we were excited to take on this...
Uncommon Wedding Themes to Design Your Big Day
Uncommon wedding themes from Creative Market to design your big day We recently collaborated with the Creative Market team in putting together some atypical wedding design inspiration for those couples who want to personalize their special day. With the...
Brilliant Ways You Can Use Graphic Design To Refresh Your Home Or Office
From wild to subtly styled – Here are some brilliant ways that graphic design and interior design can collide to freshen up your home or office! Do you ever look at the walls in your home or office and think they could use a major refresh? Well get ready to be...
Designing our Wedding Invitations and Wedding Website
Designing the Wedding Invitations For those of you who don't know, Billy Smith Design Group is spearheaded by husband and wife duo Chris and Kassy. That's us! We tied the knot last September, and thought it would only be fitting for us to design our own wedding...
Responsive Website Design for Susur Lee
Website Redesign for Susur Lee Word renowned, celebrity chef, Susur Lee contacted us to redesign his website. The previous site was built before mobile versions were even a thing which hurt their visibility on search engines. The new, fully responsive...
Valentine’s Day Design Assets To Up Your Marketing Game!
Valentine's Day Design Assets From Creative Market That Will Up Your Marketing Game! With Valentine's Day only a month away, it's time to start creating your eye-catching marketing material! To help you with this, we've put together a collection of perfectly romantic...
10 Cool Uses of Graphic Design in Film & TV
10 Cool Uses of Graphic Design in Film & TV We always appreciate seeing good graphic design in film, so we thought we'd share some of our favourite design moments that we've come across. Have a favourite that we missed? Give us a shout in the comment section below! ...
15 Awesome Handwritten Fonts That We Love!
15 of our favourite handwritten fonts from Creative Market If you work in the design industry you will know that Creative Market is one of the best creative platforms out there for discovering high calibre design assets made by designers all around the globe! One of...
Pantone’s New Colour of the Year: Living Coral
Pantone's Colour of the year 2019 is Living Coral! As most of you in the design world knows, Pantone announced their colour of the year 2019 earlier this month – a vibrant, yet mellow hue called Living Coral, or PANTONE 16-1546. "Representing the fusion of modern...
Adobe Sensei: The Most Intuitive AI Platform on the Market
Adobe Sensei: The Most Intuitive AI Platform on the Market Perhaps you've heard the buzz about one of Adobe's newest additions, Adobe Sensei. Adobe introduces Sensei as using "artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to help you discover hidden...
How to combat the spinning wheel of death on a Mac
How to combat the spinning wheel of death on a Mac Well Mac users, we've all been there – you're spending tireless hours working on your final term paper, creating a masterpiece on Illustrator, or saving your Photoshop project that's due at midnight, when suddenly,...
HOW TO GET MORE WEBSITE TRAFFIC
How to get more traffic to your website. Driving traffic to your website is hard - especially in a saturated niche but don't be scared, it is possible. Here is a great video by Brian Dean of Backlinko.com - He is an SEO pro and has some great tips. Check out his...
New Logo and Brand Identity for Vice & Voyage
New Logo and Branding Design For An Online Travel Publication. We were asked to design a logo and brand identity for Vice & Voyage - a new digital travel publication for millennials, that will specialize in the best destinations to drink, dance and romance. With...
Google 3-Pack Placement for Soul Dental
Soul Dental Website Design Soul Dental contact Billy Smith Design Group to design a simple, minimalistic website to match their beautiful office in South Surrey. Their original website was not responsive and not ranking on google. In 2014, Google implemented an...
Oranj Fitness Website Redesign
Oranj Fitness Website Redesign The awesome peeps at Oranj Fitness contacted us because they needed a fresh and new, responsive website redesign with a few new features. We designed a fully responsive website for them that included a "book now" button for class...
