The Lab

About - January 2013

Stephen was a Senior Designer with Domain7 and created the visual brand for clients across a variety of media including typography, print, web interfaces and identity. Now, he is embarking on a new adventure, but it’s a little too early to say what the destination might be. Stephen enjoys bringing ideas and functionality into a cohesive whole, providing context, structure and meaning through design. Stephen is a Certified Graphic Designer and member of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and lives with his wife and daughter in Abbotsford, just east of Vancouver, Canada.

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Insomnia

I couldn’t sleep after I woke up close to 1:30 am (I think—I can’t remember exactly). I don’t know if insomnia is something that just happens more when you get older, but I think I’ve always had problems with insomnia for as long as I can remember. Thankfully, it is intermittent. If I’m awake one night, I am so tired by the next night that it is not a problem getting to sleep.

This morning, I got up just after 3:00 am. I grabbed my iPad and headed down to the basement, which is where our family relaxes. Last year, we thought we might be moving to Vancouver. We put our house up for sale and we were looking around for somewhere closer to Downtown Vancouver to move to. Our realtor provided a service that included staging the home to increase the chance of a sale. We decided that this would be a good opportunity to buy some new furniture that we would take with us to the new home. And, since we would very likely be downsizing, we would get rid of furniture that we did not intend to take with us and use the some of the remaining furniture to stage the rest of the rooms. In this way, we finally made our basement into a much more usable and comfortable space.

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