* Happy Canada Day!
> Make Sure You BBQ/Drink/Play/Smile/Laugh/Frolic Today
Canada Day is July 1st of every year. It’s the day that all Canadians enjoy relaxation while spending time with family & friends. It typically involves outdoor activities such as BBQ’ing, drinking alcohol, sun-tanning, rafting, weed smoking, skateboarding and most importantly, fireworks! Many communities across the country host Canada Day events to commemorate the birth of our beloved country that incorporate some, but not necessarily all of the previously mentioned activities.
* Summer Savings Deals
> We’re In Business For Your Business
Summer has finally decided to show up at Calgary’s front door and in light of the great weather weve decided to pass on some great savings to you, our valued customers. Check the rest of this post for more great deals and give us a call if you have any questions. Happy Rafting Season!
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* Honey Pixel Has a Brand New Look
> Check Out The New Website
After the decision to overhaul the website, we sat down and did some brainstorming to come up with a look & feel that better reflected our business as a modern, forward-thinking company. Let us know what you think of the new look!
* The Power of Color
> The Importance of Vibrant Surroundings
Black and white are the safe choices in the design world. The color of luxury is elegant and subdued. Yet, at the same time, even top-tier designers, artists and luxury brands have always used bright colors as well. It is not about either or. It is not black-and-white or color. Just try telling those who love Dale Chihuly’s art, Versace interiors, Karim Rashid’s Corian eco-house or Renzo Piano’s Central St Giles facades in London that the “designer look” is always predominantly black and white.
* 1000 Business Cards For $69.00
> Summer Opener Promotion!
For the month of June we are offering a promotion of 1000 business cards @ thick cardstock, full color, one sided, gloss finish for only $69.00 – Better get in on that before it’s too late!
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* La Casa Son Vida
> Individuality Through Architecture
This may not be your idea of a home but it is bold and fun, and it has certainly attracted wide media attention. The 8,500 square-foot Casa Son Vida is a cooperation between three powerhouses: Luxury residential developer Cosmopolitan Estates, eclectic Dutch designer and founder of Mooi, Marcel Wanders,, and award-winning Los Angeles, Switzerland and Hong Kong-based tecARCHITECTURE. Casa Son Vida is located in the Balearic Islands off Spain, on the Island of Mallorca, where humans have lived since 6000–4000 BC and where more recently, tourists have over-crowded every beach. But Casa Son Vida avoids the touristy kitsch and aims much higher. It is in the exclusive Son Vida community, just 15 minutes from the capital of Palma.
* Vitra Haus by Herzog & de Meuron
> A True Design Haus
Vitra Haus, the new home of Vitra’s Home Collection, has been covered widely by design media, and not in vain. It is a beautiful example of Jacques Herzog’s and Pierre de Meuron’s ability to take the ubiquitous stacked-houses concept and still make it look new, interesting and inviting. Reaching five storeys in height and containing 12 separate houses, Vitra House is geared toward the general public, design-aware consumers who will appreciate the building as well as the Vitra products inside. The entire contraption appears both grandiose and intimate at the same time, with the gray exterior disguising the disheveled heap within the site, while the open glass-walled ends and stark, white interiors facilitate the presentation of residential-scale displays.
* The Plus+ House
> A Family Friendly Marble Oasis
The architects of this stunning beauty are husband and wife, Masahiro (36) and Mao (33) Harada, who founded Mount Fuji Architects Studio in 2004. Both are avid mountaineers — so much so that they named their company after the country’s highest and most admired mountain, also located in the Shizuoka Prefecture. Plus House shows off their talents at being bold but not grandiose, and at involving the surrounding nature in delicate detail but without giving up the individuality and presence of the building.
* The Paraty House
> A Modern Jungle Hideaway
Elegant, calm, minimalist, clean and beautiful are among the adjectives that can be used to describe almost all of Marcio Kogan’s much-publicized and much-awarded residential masterpieces. The magnificent, streamlined residences must serve as an antidote of some sort to the Brazilian architect who has been quoted as saying that he loves his home town of São Paulo and New York because they are similar in their chaotic ugliness, and because he likes “energy, chaos and a multi-cultural population in a city.”
* The Trojan House
> A Modernist Wooden Palace
From the street, this Edwardian house might seem unassuming, undeserving of a second glance. From the back, however, the addition to the Trojan House by Jackson Clements Burrows, where three children’s bedrooms are cantilevered above a large living space, is anything but ordinary. The entire addition is wrapped in a seamless timber skin that conceals any obvious openings. Windows, covered by shutters that follow the pattern of the façade, reveal nothing of the interior space.
