Design thinking is still an unknown concept to many business owners, but the concept can be applied very easily. Take a simple coffee sleeve for instance, this slim piece of card serves an important function – it stops people burning their hands on hot coffee … Read More →
Author Archives: Pretty Lethal Designs
Exercises at Your Desk
in theory working at home should mean it’s easy to put the mouse to rest and go work out for an hour – but freelance workloads can often mean we’re sitting at our computers for even more than a nine hour work day. The Decemeber … Read More →
Postcard or Letter?
While most of our clients are focusing on electronic marketing these days, there is still the occasional request for direct mail. When planning a mail campaign, however, the design of the piece will, of course, effect the postage cost. Postcards are the cheapest form of direct mail, … Read More →
Too soon for Google+ pages?
It took a while,but Google have finally released pages for their Google+ social network – we decided to set up a Pretty Lethal Designs page to test it out, but it looks like there’s a few key features missing before pages will become really useful … Read More →
Cafe ‘N’ Play Logo
Cafe ‘N’ Play is a new kid-friendly cafe opening in Naperville in early 2012. The logo was developed to represent both the cafe – with the coffee cup, and the child play areas – with the bubble blower.
Scam Alert
It amazes me how low some people will go for money. News stories on my recent trip to the UK, for instance, included thieves stealing the metal from war memorials to melt down and sell, and of course, there’s always a slew of online scams … Read More →
How Design Conference
Can you ever have too many ideas? After returning from yet another excellent How Design Live conference this weekend, I’m beginning to think its possible – or at least have too many ideas with too little time to implement them. Highlights at this year’s conference included a … Read More →
Small Business Awards With A Smile
We’d like to say good luck to Sherman Oaks Dental at the Naperville Small Business Awards on Friday. Dr Lydia Sosenko and her dental practice are competing in the professional services category at the awards, hopefully with an entry boosted by the award packet we … Read More →
Rain Barrels & Design Thinking
As a Brit I’ve often thought that the UK building codes should include a mandatory rain barrel on every home. It’s not a stereotype – the UK, and Wales in particular, really is a very rainy country; so just imagine how many millions of gallons … Read More →
Our Favorite 2011 Finds
Finding the right partner businesses can be a trial and error task when running a small business, for us, the challenge is to find the right printers, tools and software that enable us to run our design studio more efficiently, so here’s a shout out … Read More →