Privacy is not the default

If you’re online, living your life without having dozens of machines watching your every move is not the default. Every search you make, every website you visit, and every email you send is logged, tracked, scanned and stored on multiple computers. The reasons for this vary from simple maintenance, to building a profile of you for advertisers. “If you have …

How Ink is Made

This is a beautiful video about the process of making the most basic element of print design, the ink. The Printing Ink Company is a Canadian manufacturer of printing ink, with a clear passion for what they produce.

I wish the default on my vacations was one month

Recently I was playing around with Airbnb.com to check out some of their unique properties. As I tried to set some dates to get a sense of the price per night I started getting frustrated by their Book It! form. Every date I selected would result in a “Those dates are not available” error beneath the date picker. Each time, …

Print is dead? We beg to differ…

Since the rapid surge of Internet and social media we’ve all have heard the myriad of stories of how print is dying. Forward thinking companies on the other hand beg to differ; while many companies and are now embracing and focusing their advertising efforts exclusively on the net, the smarter ones are exploring ways to bridge the gap between print …

LOGOS – PATHOS – ETHOS

No, these are not the names of the Three Musketeers or the Three Stooges… they are the foundation, the cornerstone, the very fabric of what makes us tick at Wide Eyed Communications – the three ingredients that hold the key to our recipe for creating compelling and award-winning advertising. Now those three words may have you scratching your head and …

Looking and Staying ahead with the Movement to Mobile

At Wide Eyed Communications you won’t find a crystal ball in our office: no tarot cards, no blind palm-reading fortune tellers, or any other professional staff members that can boast having blood lines to the likes of Nostradamus, The Amazing Kreskin or the notorious Rasputin; but that’s not to say we aren’t looking toward the future – and what the …

The poinsettia plant

When it comes to marketing, branding and advertising, making the most out of Christmas is a must. Not only is it a natural tie in to the mad shopping frenzy that takes place during this time of year, but it’s also a great way to promote your business. And when it comes to this Yuletide occasion nothing says Christmas like …

Knowing your target audience

Any advertising agency worth their grain of salt recognizes that knowing your target audience is the key to creating great advertising campaigns. Regardless of what your branding, identifying and gaining the devotion of your target audience is the necessary means to reaching your advertising objectives. While this may be common knowledge (even for those fresh out of college or university) …

The bug blog

While looking over our company website the other day I noticed that one of my colleagues posted a blog; unbeknownst to me, I was the subject of that blog. Now before I go on, I guess I should mention my name is Erin (the in-house copywriter at Wide Eyed Communications) and the blog in question read something to the effect …