The Boss of You

It’s been a while since we did an event in Van­cou­ver, but we’re about to make up for that. We’re delighted to announce that we will be mak­ing an appear­ance at the down­town Van­cou­ver Chap­ters store (at Rob­son and Howe) next Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 5 19, between noon and 2pm. We’ll be sign­ing books and we […]

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A cou­ple of peo­ple have emailed us lately to ask for details on the de-lovely script font we use on this here web­site*, and that got me think­ing that per­haps it would be help­ful to some of you if I shared a few of my favourite resources for research­ing and test-driving type­faces. I use these […]

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We had such a truly fan­tas­tic time at The Lab last month in Seat­tle. Veloc­ity does an incred­i­ble job of putting on a great event, attract­ing smart and tal­ented business/arty folks, and cre­at­ing an inquis­i­tive envi­ron­ment where folks feel safe shar­ing chal­lenges and swap­ping sto­ries. Veloc­ity is putting up pod­casts of their events and the […]

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Bring Your Own Bag (AKA BYOB) is one of the women-owned busi­ness pro­filed in The Boss of You; they make gor­geous, nat­ural cot­ton reusable totes (as well as their new pro­duce bag & super-cute vin­tage satchel lines) right here in Van­cou­ver. Well, they’ve got a wicked sale on right now and I thought I would […]

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With options that vary as widely as choos­ing between hav­ing your boyfriend’s room­mate build you a web­site in exchange for mak­ing him din­ners for a week, or pay­ing a pro­fes­sional stu­dio like ours to design your web­site (let’s put our cards on the table here and I’ll let you know that typ­i­cally our bud­gets start […]

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