Brand Design

Business Cards, Brochures, Outdoor Signage – All The Graphic Design!

Sumack Loft can provide you with exceptional branded company materials, from gorgeous targeted business cards, to clean compelling brochures, to awesome indoor and outdoor signage!

Graphic Design

Looking for poster and display banner graphic design in Ottawa?

Looking for poster and display banner design? Stand out and get noticed. I believe in producing great print design that’s eye-catching and memorable!

Ottawa Graphic Design – Birch Bark, Chipmunk Illustration
illustration

Launch of New “Solar Engine” Illustration for Ottawa Passive House Builders

Introducing the Eko Solar Engine! A new illustration produced at Sumack Loft for EkoBuilt, showing the component parts of their passive house building solution. We recently completed a fairly major website overhaul for our admirable and most excellent clients at EkoBuilt, helping them showcase new service offerings in a big, bold way. My wonderful partners … Continue reading

Graphic Design

How To Hire A Good Graphic Designer

Where to look, who to ask, what to look for!   You know how when you look around — whether you're out and about or simply looking at the TV or the internet — you're bombarded with visuals from the myriad different companies out there? If you want to stand out, you know you need … Continue reading

Anecdote

The Studio at Sumack Loft

Clean, organized, and ready for the new year! I know, I know, I already posted once today, but I'm so excited because I just finished cleaning, organizing, and tidying my studio space. Here's how it looks today... let's hope it stays that way! Cheers, everybody! *:) Auni

Brand Design

There’s more to good branding than just a first-class logo!

Let's make your company look great and get you more clients, shall we? Did you know that having a great logo is not the be all and end all of your company brand? Most businesses need a business card and a website to start, right? Your trusty designer will create a whole visual language to … Continue reading

Brand Design, Graphic Design

Creating a new look and feel for the Crown & Pumpkin Studio Tour.

That time you decided to work way over the agreed budget, because art! We are very fortunate in our little neck of the woods to have a really great studio tour, The Crown & Pumpkin, which celebrated its 20th year in 2016! I've known the organizers casually for years since I generally visit their studios … Continue reading

Graphic Design

Falling In Love On The Job… Again and Again and Again.

I fall in love at work on a pretty regular basis. Wait! Is that wrong? Okay, well, I fall in love with my clients' brands. As weird as that may seem. I invest so much time and thought and strategy into each logo, brochure, and web design, as well as all the careful, loving revisions that every design needs, that my little … Continue reading

Print Design

What do your clothes and your business cards have in common?

Business cards tell people a lot more than you might guess about how much you care about your business. You know the expression “clothes make the man”? Okay, well, it was written by Mark Twain sometime between 1835 and 1910. The rest of the quote goes “Naked people have little or no influence on society” (he … Continue reading

Anecdote

Sometimes a Cup of Coffee is Just a Cup of Coffee!

Is this a nice chat over coffee or am I trying to win your business?   You know what? I've realized over the last few years that a cup of coffee with someone who's approached me about doing business really doesn't have to be any more than a just a great chance to get to … Continue reading