Author: Andrea La Valleur
Andrea is a European transplant now living in Seattle | USA. She is a Freelance Graphic Designer and entrepreneur, loves Beamers, dogs and Americanos with extra cream. Find her tweets @divinefusion.
Water Babies, a dreamy tale
Zena Holloway is best known for her dreamy underwater photographs of celebs, supermodels and athletes. Her images are highly sought after by magazines, ad campaigns and editorials. She recently completed a 2 year project of "The Water Babies," a book inspired by Charles Kingsley's 1863 classic tale ...
Bitrebels ©h®is™@s g33k wish list
Have you been thinking about your wish list all year? If you haven't finished all your Christmas shopping last week and need a pressie for the geek in your family...take a look at this list of geek-a-holic toys. We have gathered our Bitrebels Author's top items on their wish lists. From super geek ...
Get these iPhone Accessories on your Christmas List
In my last post about iphone gadgets we showed you some of the hot iphone accessories for Autumn. Now that we are close to Christmas, I want to show you some fun and practical accessories you can still add to your christmas wish list.
Take a look at the über handy multi USB extension iphone c ...
Google OS vs Windows, a fair fight?
Leave it to Google to teach us how to rethink for the future. The way we use our computers is changing quickly and frequently. Now imagine your computer that runs a totally different operating system, one that utilizes 'cloud computing,' drawing resources, applications and data from web services vs ...
Google Wave: Extensions
So we've played around in wave a few weeks, while its fun and crazy at the same time when all your contacts are online at the same time. So until we all get a wave account, what else can we do?
Have you had a look at Wave Extensions? A Wave extension is a robot or a gadget. The robots are applica ...
CardStar | handy utility app for iphone, droid & Blackberry
Have you been schlepping around your loyalty cards in your wallet? Switched purses and forgot to bring all your cards? Alas, there is a solution. I am loving the "CardStar" phone app, which allows you to manage all of your membership and rewards numbers in one place. There are over 19 categories wit ...
Confessions of a Creative Mind
I had to laugh when I received a email this week titled "Confessions of a Creative Mind." Filter, one of the national agencies located in Seattle, is calling all creatives to confess their secrets, white lies and fibs on their website.. "We all have ‘em, and we’ve all told ‘em. Maybe you have a t ...
Design Thinking
Sometimes we are so consumed with the 'brilliant idea' factor, that are eyes and minds don't think of the obvious, the user experience or the common good of the products and services we design. Even though most of us are graphic and web designers, I find this (older) TED video by Paul Bennett, Creat ...
Big is beautiful | The new 27″ imac
The new release of the much anticipated 27" imac has all of us mac lovers drooling. I spent the other morning perusing apple.com, reviewing the sleek design of the all-in-one imac. The 27" display dominates all the way to the edge. No distractions, no mimics. Everything you see is intentional, not a ...
2010 Olympic Medals, recycled electronics
In just a few days the Olympic torch will be lit and the countdown to the games will begin. Vancouver has been preparing for this grand event for years, building new facilities, hotels, streets and making surrounding cities a beautiful experience for the thousands of people traveling to Canada. I am ...
Bare Necessities
Lately I've been thinking about scaling down 'the clutter' in several areas of my life. I don't live in a ginormous house, nor do I drive a massively large car, but I do have stuff that collects dust, takes up room and I don't use often. Every now an then, I go through my boxes, cupboards and shelve ...
Bold Anti-Smoking ads
Gone are the days of the sexy Marlboro Man, who made smoking appealing, manly and part of the cowboy way. Tobacco advertising is one of the most highly regulated forms of marketing today. Canada is one of the leading anti-smoking advertisers in the world, compared to some of the middle eastern coun ...
Life explained: I lego NY
Legos were one of my favorite toys to play with as a kid. The engineering brain in me constantly wanted to test the laws of gravity, pushing the boundaries of lego's building capabilities. I still remember the day my Mother sold our lego chest. I was 15 and hid my tears as a young mother carried off ...
A Rain Forest you’ve never seen before
In my personal art, I love to manipulate everyday objects, taking them out of their original context and therefore transforming their meaning. When I stumbled upon Japanese artist Yuken Teruya, I was immediately drawn into his paper cut-outs using toilet paper rolls. Looking through his beautiful po ...
2010 Snowboard designs
For all of us who can't wait for the snow to cover the mountain tops with enough of the powdery stuff so we can GET OUT THERE and ride the slopes........ this post will hopefully get your mind focused on boarding {again}. I've previewed the Burton Endeavor and Salomon and hand picked my favorite des ...