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On Feb 9th we’re turning down the heat and wearing our warm fuzzy sweaters to take action against climate change. I work in a basement so I’ll probably put on 2 sweaters!

About Sweater Day

On Feb 9th, put on your favourite sweater and turn the heat down a few degrees to help WWF take action against climate change, and work toward a sustainable future.

By rethinking how we use energy and how much we use, we can make a big impact on climate change.
If every Canadian lowered the heat a few degrees this winter, it’d be like taking 300,000 vehicles off the road!
So wear that sweater and make the world a better place for your Grandchildren.

To make sure you put one on, Grannies are standing by to personally call and remind you.

To pledge your support and book your call now click here

Wow, I was just sorting through some of my old design files and came across some early Punch Brand designs. Here’s a logo design done on 3D Studio circa 1998. That was inspired by the some of the digital art I talked about in my previous blog. The idea was to create a 3D floral design with the word Punch Brand in a chrome look. I used this logo in various parts of my graduation line.

My line was called “Visions”, it was a collection of womens wear featuring an exotic multi-ethnic look blended carefully with an array of fine fabrics and rich colour palette.

Here’s the inspiration board I made for the Visions collection. I still have some of the sketches I did for the line. It was interesting that I was really into digital art and technology very early on. I hand sketched the images and scanned the line drawings into a computer and digitally colored the art by scanning the fabrics and filling in the drawings with the actual fabrics so you can see the textures and true colors of the fabrics.

I’ll try to post more of my earlier works if anyone’s interested in seeing it. It’s cool to see how we’ve evolved through the years. It’s so much fun looking back at older works because you never know, it could perhaps be the inspiration for future designs

So it’s been a couple weeks since the start of the new year. And we’re already fully into the swing of things. Having your own company is great but you can never take too much time off or the work piles up. Too bad we don’t have little minions to do the work for us We took a few days off between Christmas and new years to visit friends and family. We were back in Toronto for about 10 days to visit our family in the East Coast. I got to do a bit of shopping and bought some funky new ankle boots. Yay!! As for Christmas presents, I got a few things on my wish list. Like a Dust Buster!

You might think it’s lame but I think its great… no more dusting with the swiffer cause my office gets really dusty. It’s such an awesome device it sucks up all the dust and threads really fast. ha ha. And I got a great “Too Faced” makeup brush set from my husband.

Now I can do makeup like a professional! And hide those tired bags under my eyes

We’ll be doing our first convention of the year- Ohayocon Jan 27-29. It’s in Columbus, Ohio. Check out http://ohayocon.org/ for more information. We’ll update our convention schedule with our 2012 tour schedule soon.

We’re off to a great year. Happy 2012 everyone.

Season’s Greetings. Wishing you the happiest of holidays from all of us at Punch Brand. May your holiday season and New Year be filled with Peace and Happiness Love, Glynis & Jason