N-Product | Dominic Coballe

Arts & Crafts Director living and learning in Ottawa, Canada

Post archive for ‘Design’

Kitchen Reno: Part 4 – Break It Down. Build It Up.

Sometimes words aren’t necessary and sometimes you’re too lazy to write anything. This is both of those times. Whatever, just look at the pretty pictures.

Kitchen Reno: Part 3 – Details, details, details.

Congratulations, you have survived the speed dating portion of the renovation. You and your contractor(s) have entered a deep and meaningful commitment for the upcoming weeks. You have signed quotes, shook hands and now the most exciting slash annoying days are just ahead of you.
You will laugh, cry and hold each other in warm embraces.
Decisions [...]

Kitchen Reno: Part 2 – Enlist Mercenaries

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire…The A-Team.
When home renovations require work that involves equipment, training and experience that extend beyond watching a weekend marathon of Holmes on Homes. You need professionals. You can act the part of Hannibal, but you [...]

Kitchen Reno: Phase 1 – The Conversation

Most sane people decide to either have a child or renovate their kitchen. Not do both simultaneously. And if those two endeavours do ever coincide, savvy humans start the reno during the first trimester, not the final month. For those of you out there who snub common sense and like to hurl danger into the [...]

CD Package Design: The John Punch Band

I have been designing for almost 12 years, and some of the most rewarding work that I have produced have been for artists and musicians. They have also provided some of the most eye-stabbingly painful experiences as well. Artists are pretty particular people but in a strange twist of irony, some of the most talented [...]

Office Extracurricular Activity: Round 2

After a successful Round 1, the office was hyped to continue with the next homework assignment. This time, it’s t-shirt magic time. The selected track was Rumble by the Link Wray. A friekin’ awesome track. Here’s my stab at it, so to speak. Two words: Arrid. Desert. So here’s a squishy cacti blob, with sweet [...]

Live Action Photoshop = Awesome

Sometimes, you procrastinate online while you should be prepping for big pitch and you find something that just makes you say out loud – that’s the shit. Feast your eyes on the set found here. On the behalf of all the Photoshop nerds around the world, I thank the makers of this wondrous gift.
And thank [...]

Office Extracurricular Activity

I hear it all the time at my work, and you probably do too. We should be more creative. This statement gets uttered about every hour on the hour at creative shops. It’s in the name for godsake. So, to spice the punch a bit, I decided to introduce a tried and true school exercise [...]

Sweet Jam x Baby’s Nightlight

With the baby 3 months away, the creative furnace has been burning oil at a much higher clip. I had found a really cool cardboard box while traveling in Vietnam, saw it in a store display and said out loud, “this will become a lamp”. My sister can bare witness to those events. I brought [...]