Firstly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA! In the spirit of good patriotic acts I’d like to share a website that for any designer embodies patriotic pride quite well. Welcome to the Canadian Design Resource. This website is a showcase of the very best in design, both graphical and industrial, from savvy Canadian designers. The current database is filled with pieces that span an epoch as old as our nation itself. If you are a designer like me and wish to see what great works your fellow citizens have been churning out, by all means have a look. It’s Canada day too, so I mean you get brownie points right…
I hope everyone has a great long weekend and the sun shines oh so bright to truly kick off this festival party we call summer. Cheers!

**The image above is a mitten for smoking. Notice the metal inset hole in the mitt. Only a Canadian could conceive such ingenuity allowing smokers everywhere to feed their addiction in the brisk arctic air.**