Here is the 2010 Thornley Fallis & 76design Christmas / Holiday card and web page.

The card and web page design was done by Jeff Young, Sheila Sugavanam, Frank Carr and Ben Watts.

The web page flash & programming was done by Frank Carr.

The “Frosty joins the Agency” copy (see below) was written by Terry Fallis, Laurence Smink and Steve St. Pierre.

Music was performed by the Old Crowns (Steve St. Pierre’s band).

Frosty joins the Agency

Frosty the Snowman has been hired by our firm.It’s too soon to tell, though he’s doing well,He’s still got a lot to learn.

Frosty the Snowman seems to know just what to do.He’s got a burning thirst to put the client first,And buckles down to see it through.

Success came fast to Frosty and he clearly was the bestBut he worked so hard and he got so hot, that he melted on his desk.

So Frosty the Snowman is a cautionary tale.When the deadlines loom, and come all too soon,Keep you cool and you’ll prevail.

“You can’t understand what a business needs until you speak candidly and openly with the people who own, manage and work at it. Rogers communicates with hundreds of businesses every day in various ways, and we are learning from those conversations,” says Geoffrey Booth, a lead contributor to the newly launched Rogers RedBoard Biz Blog.

In August and September 2010, Thornley Fallis & 76design worked with Rogers to design, build and launch a new forum for discussions with small and medium businesses – RedBoard Biz.

Rogers created RedBoard Biz as a place to share proven tools and know-how that businesses can use to be more successful. Posts will contain news about Rogers products and services, and how businesses are using them. RedBoard Biz will also provide ideas and advice on a broad range of topics of interest to businesses.

The Rogers Redboard Biz Blog was developed following the great success of Rogers Redboard, a hub for consumers to discuss news and ideas as well as industry trends. Launched in March 2010, Redboard continues to gain in popularity.

Earlier this year, Thornley Fallis & 76design worked with the Office of Consumer Affairs at Industry Canada as Secretariat for the Consumer Measures Committee to design and develop a new online presence for the Canadian Consumer Handbook.

Launched in April 2010, the handbook provides users with a searchable and easy-to-navigate platform as well as the option to build a customized handbook that only contains information they are interested in.

The Handbook is intended to help users become better-informed and more confident consumers. It offers information on a wide range of topics such as online shopping, contracts, housing and home renovations, identity theft, collection agencies, and much more, to help users build their buying skills.

Along with consumer tips, the Handbook includes a directory of government and non-government contacts useful to consumers.

The Handbook was created and is updated by the Consumer Measures Committee. This Committee is a joint federal/provincial/territorial committee which provides a forum for national cooperation to improve the marketplace for Canadian consumers, through the harmonization of laws, regulations and practices and through actions to raise public awareness.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the City of Ottawa’s Light Rail website!

Many Ottawans felt as though they were left in the dark when it came to the City’s big Light Rail Transit (LRT) plans. Well folks, there is no longer any need to feel mal-informed. Thornley Fallis and 76design in collaboration with the Light Rail Implementation Team have created an “information-sharing mechanism” that arms the citizens of Ottawa with more than sufficient information relating to the project plan.

The communications efforts applied by Thornley Fallis & 76design were strategic and smart; we have received positive results on the site and its search functions, information content, structure and ease-of-use.

The website in particular has proven to be the most crucial piece of the puzzle. The website we’ve created is meant to engage the entire City; to provide all the facts our users require to fully understand the project and to provide them with a platform to communicate their feelings towards the project.

With the integration of various social media tools (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube), interested citizens are able to keep up-to-date and connect with the Light Rail Implementation Team with any questions or concerns. Any questions submitted to the team will be answered in a timely fashion; responses will then be posted on the website. The LRT website helps make a difference by providing comfort to Ottawans by reminding them that Light Rail green and it will only improve the City.

Since yesterday’s launch, the LRT project is getting great media play, print and radio; it is noted that there are happy people all around.

How many people does it take to handle the crux that is a paper jam? Turns out – all 9 of us housed in the pit of 76design. In a surge of energy usually reserved for client work, we turned our attention to a self-imposed initiative. Three hours of diligence produces a product, a history behind the product, and a website dedicated to solving an issue that riddles offices across the plant. It’s with our pleasure that we introduce PC Loadletter’s Paper Jam: the real full-page spread.

A good friend of ours and past comrade, Matt Wallace of paradisal.ca fame, a stock-photography agency, is launching his annual Paradisal* poster design contest.

There is no cost to enter. The winners get 25% of each sale once they’re printed, a $300 gift certificate for use at www.paradisal.ca and 5 printed copies of their design and 1 of the other winning design. Last year there were 64 submissions with entries coming in from all over the world.

Maybe 76design will simply enter the results of our Aural Design Challenge.

Last year’s winner