
ABOUT
Forest Friend Creative Projects is an indie design studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada & a blog for design, craft, fashion and media geeks.

WHAT WE DO
Fun, unique GRAPHIC & PRINT DESIGN / Style-conscious WEB DESIGN with user-friendly Wordpress / BRANDING & SOCIAL MEDIA

GET STARTED
Whether you’re just starting out in the world or revamping an existing business or project, we can help you get noticed online and around town.
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Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Chronofile and the Irony of the Future
After happening upon about 36 hours of video of Buckminster Fuller lectures from the 1970s, digitized from tape, on YouTube the ot Read more
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Flow Magic, Psychonautics & Season Arcs: Maximizing creativity through altered consciousness
Flow describes the act of engaging in intensely focused activity simply for its own sake, and occurs at the point where the challe Read more
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Popsicle stand blown! Current status: cosmic chaos
I just moved to a new host, abandoning GoDaddy’s bloated and misogynistic servers. Please forgive any errors or broken links Read more
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How to be a productive creative professional without becoming an intractable twat
Being a hummingbird-brained idea vomiter is super fun but not necessarily productive. Read more
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Kitty sweaters, purple lips & combat boots: Fall Fashion 2012 Guide!
All the best styles, colours, shows and inspiration for Fall Fashion 2012 Style Guide Read more
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How to use a nail polish stamp kit
Results may vary based on skill, nail polish quality and your attention span. Read more
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Berlin, the magical rainbow popsicle of everything I love
In which I answer burning questions about Berlin, the incomparable European capital of everything cool and German (two things that Read more
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My Favourite Scandinavians (Finland is Winland)
I saw them from across the park. They were small, light-haired and taciturn. They wore black and had names that were mostly vowels Read more
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Frankfurt, the giant Euro under the rainbow
Frankfurt is an odd kind of city; it’s a major European hub because it has an international airport, and it is significant a Read more
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Die Woche der Überdeutschereise!
That is a phrase I just invented which means Awesome German Trip Week. As I write, I am in the Montreal airport waiting to board m Read more
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Never Let Me Go
If you have never seen the film “Never Let Me Go,” based on Kazuo Ishiguru’s novel of the same name, GO WATCH IT Read more
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Weekly Roundup for May 20-26
Okay, so I’m kinda behind on roundups, so here’s great stuff from the past few weeks: Mara Wilson Writes Stuff Remembe Read more
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Nail Art Like A Boss
So unless you’ve been in space, sequestered in an anchorage hermitage or actually have more important things to do than brow Read more
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Weekly Roundup for April 28
Welcome to the new Weekly Roundup at Forest Friend, a Saturday feature that catalogues the neatest bits of cyber-lint that have co Read more
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Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?
Before I get into this post, here’s virtual high-fives to all y’all who remember Clone High and forever mourned that i Read more
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iPad Apple’s Pockets — But For a Good Reason
Yes, I know the trend-setting ship has sailed on this topic — and been back to port and out to sea again a couple of times. I’m im Read more
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The Neopagan Wheel of the Year
(or, Why we need Fewer Holidays and More Festivals) I’m sick of holidays. Now, I’m not sick of days where I don’t have to get up Read more
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Manage Your Wardrobe with Paper Dolls
Illustration & craft: custom paper dolls & wardrobe Read more
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Five Iconic Notebooks in Film
I am a highly non-linear notebook user. I usually have several on the go at once, for different purposes. I write on scraps and st Read more
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Postage Stamps are Endlessly Fascinating
(Things I learned from hoarding foreign stationery: Part II) Okay, so I didn’t actually learn this from hoarding foreign sta Read more
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The Dryad Tiara and a Cryptozoological Wedding
Long before I set about the daunting task of getting married last year, I noticed that the blogosphere was crammed to its virtual Read more