Check it out at lifelongenerjoy.com, leave a comment here, or contact us to get started on designing or updating your functional, beautiful, friendly site.

A careful collaborative process has produced a refined and elegant aesthetic for the new site, reflecting the professionalism and sensitivity of founders Cristine Urquhart, MSW, RSW and Frances Jasiura, BPHE, BSW. Highlighting news, resources and events, the site is poised to become a portal into the many facets of this vibrant business.

Check out the custom logo, site structure, and custom coding at http://changetalk.ca

And watch for a new software initiative from Charles Buchwald & Friends in the New Year focused on coaches, facilitators, therapists and other helping professionals….

A Vancouver business and a Victoria-area entrepreneur have contracted with Charles Buchwald and Friends to develop new iOS based apps. Currently in development, both are anticipated to debut in the Apple App Store in Q3, 2011, with Android versions following quickly.

While CB&F’s three key advantages for app development—publishing on multiple platforms from the same code base, reduced development time, and significant depth of experience—are helping to realize these projects quickly and efficiently, finely tuned marketing programmes will separate them from the crowd.

Do you have an app idea? Contact Charles Buchwald & Friends and let’s grab a cup of coffee and discuss it.

A simple shopping cart, combined with the WordPress gallery feature, makes for an easy to manage ecommerce solution. PayPal helps maintain online buyer confidence and simplify the payment system. “Easy” is the key word, since maintenance of the site falls to Simon and Stephanie, while they also create, sell, and photograph their beautiful jewelry.

The custom WordPress theme, developed by CB&F, takes it inspiration from the jewellers’ colourful and evocative booth sign, with a forest/ocean/moonlight motif. This helps build brand recognition by maintaining the consistency of their visual identity, and reflecting their unique Northwest Coast island design sense.

Check out the new site, and leave a comment about your impressions!

The 22 page book(let) is being printed, and has been compiled for online distribution as an Acrobat (PDF) document, as well as a variety of ebook formats (including ePub and others) planned for online distribution on the Tasman website, the Apple iBook store, and other ebook distribution websites.

Charles Buchwald and Friends drew on a depth of experience with publication design and integrated production methods to produce the print files and ebook files with particular expediency and efficiency. With the increasing popularity of ebook distribution, it’s anticipated that these innovative production techniques will help advance strong and cost effective publication-based marketing efforts in the future.

UPDATE: View the PDF or ebooks in EPUB, MOBI or PDB format.

A simple implementation of the WordPress CMS helps ensure the site is easy to update and otherwise maintain and expand. A custom logo and illustrations developed for a promotional print piece add character while reinforcing a consistent message. Understated design and animation convey Janelle’s commitment to quality and tasteful innovation and reflect a bit of the rich agricultural and cultural heritage of Salt Spring Island.

Sometimes it means going back to basics and working with success coaches and advisors to refine or redefine your goals. Often it means our coordinated efforts help integrate all your business materials across a range of media with focus and clarity, making for a message that is direct, consistent, and powerful.

Whether yours is a small solopreneurship, a charity, or an established Fortune 500™ firm, we have worked with clients like you, and we can help. Our experience and capabilities encompass mobile, social, web, print, photo/video, illustration, animation, software, and identity systems in traditional advertising, marketing and PR, and business systems.  Small or large, we treat you and yours with intention, care and respect.

Our network of local collaborators is unique, offering a suite of services that include:

• mobile marketing, including custom app development for iOS, Android and Win Mobile 6.5
• social media marketing, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn
• environmentally and socially responsible business planning and strategy
• business identity development, incl. logos, signage, stationary systems
• user-maintainable web sites built with the best Content Management Systems
• green hosting, on 130% wind-powered servers with streaming media capacity
• print design for marketing collateral, packaging and signage
• multi-channel, integrated publishing systems
• marketing, advertising and public relations

Projects of all kinds have benefited from our unique blend of extraordinary creativity, out-of-the-box thinking, and remarkable experience…. Will you be next?

This 3D rendering of a building project in Sooke was completed expediently, thanks to Google SketchUp and a 3Dconnexion Space Navigator controller… and several years of experience as an architectural draftsperson. It’s amazing how efficient and flexible modern architectural visualization tools have become. Since working with the original upFRONT software, which surely must be a direct ancestor of SketchUp, work has become fluid, immediate and direct. No more waiting to see a shaded rendered version, or carefully and slowly switching views.

It will be fascinating to see these same technologies applied to upcoming design projects. Do you have experience using SketchUp and the Space Navigator for design? Then please leave a comment!

From their site:

GreenWay Partners provides a range of design, planning, research and engineering services to improve our clients’ economic, environmental and social performance. Our mission is to play a leading role in the development and implementation of the policies and practices that effectively regenerate both human and natural systems.

We work with governments, tribes, schools and universities, private firms, and other organizations using a design perspective and innovative methods to develop solutions that respond to the unique context and specific needs of each of our clients.

See more about their successful “Plan It Green” conference, too. And if you are working to make the world a better place, please connect with me on Facebook or here on the web.