pass the relish

Yes, I know. Plush toys aren’t exactly a new innovation. Not even ones that spit out some sort of lame audio track on impact. But I couldn’t help but be filled with nintendo fanboy glee when i threw a novelty-sized shell across the room at an unsuspecting bystander, followed by the trademarked ’shell knocking’ noise, and a 1up sound clip. The coin block makes the predictable coin noise, but nintendo has done it again by slotting in a randomized ‘mushroom’ noise to get you going… or i guess growing? If price isn’t a factor for you ($40 each), be sure to make these novelty items a part of your next mario pajama party.

by John on April 7, 2008

I’m amazed at the subtle elegance of the Seed Conference web site. As someone who has a tendency to over-design (before, hopefully, reining it back) it’s work like this that reminds me of how elegant simplicity can be. No gradients — shocking!

by Joshua on April 3, 2008

If you’re growing old waiting for FFFFOUND to open up their nifty image bookmarking service to the general public there’s still hope. No, I didn’t hack into FFFFOUND but I did find a pretty rock solid alternative at We heart it. Like FFFFOUND, We heart it lets you bookmark images, tag them, comment, see who else tagged them and search the entire pool by tag. It’s still early on so the features are a bit limited but it’s certainly worth poking around and seeing what’s there. For the designers in the crowd it’s a helluva of a resource for really inspiring images. Photography, illustration, art… the real cream of the crop.

If you do sign up for an account be sure to install the bookmarklet - makes bookmarking images a real snap!

by Steve Palmer on April 2, 2008

Cabel Sasser, designer at the world’s best software company, Panic, gives a great talk at the C4[1] Mac developer conference. He gives some insight into the origin and the evolution of Panic and speaks at length about the design process behind Relish’s de facto official dev environment, Coda.

by Joshua on March 29, 2008

8 Classic Dunks. Winner takes all.

Known for its breakthrough sites, Nike didn’t disappoint when it decided to take a debate that’s been raging for over 20 years and raise it to the next level. Enter Dunk Wars: an epic and sometimes ruthless battle where two teams, each representing a classic Dunk and captained by their own legendary sneakerhead, go mano-a-mano each week to find out which Dunk truly is king. Choosing only 8 competitors couldn’t have been easy but adding to the drama was Nike’s controversial inclusion of the Terminator. How would a winner be chosen? There was only one way to find out… let the public decide!

Congrats to Arcade Agency for whipping up a visual feast for the eyes. With custom logos, classic chenille patches, vintage cheerleader outfits, and gorgeous glamour shots, no detail went overlooked. Luckily for us, Arcade brought us in to do the flash development, giving us ring-side seats for this timeless battle for sneaker supremacy.

Want to be a part of history? Watch the battles and then cast your vote!

by Sacha on March 24, 2008

Ever get back to the office after having the Garlic Chicken Stir Fry for lunch and wonder if your breath was infecting those around you?

Well the good folks at Procter & Gamble have figured out a solution for you. Helped out by Dentsu Canada, they have produced a site that will allow you to test your breath by either breathing into your computer’s mic or typing in what you ate for your last meal. Check out www.testyourbreath.ca.

Did I mention that we did the Flash development? This was a fun site to be a part of and build. The animators, post production team and sound designers did a great job with the videos. The site design was done by Dentsu.

Don’t be shy. Go ahead and breathe into the mic or type in your last meal. I wonder what would happen if I typed in ‘relish’…

by Paul on March 20, 2008

That’s right, we turn 1 year old today. Happy birthday to us. I was really hoping for Guitar Hero 3 for our Wii, but all we got instead was this blog. It could be worse. All the other 1 year olds that I know are getting Baby Einstein videos or a Jolly Jumper. What, you didn’t get us anything? That’s ok, we’ll be at FITC Toronto next month and you can buy us a drink then.

This past year was a fun ride. We started off small, working in the back of a grocery store along with all our other favourite condiments. Since then we’ve moved into some sweet digs and slowly grown into a really solid team of web geeks with a pretty diverse skill set. Don’t know all of us yet? Just rollover the heads in the top right to find out more and see our individual posts.

This blog will be the place for you to come and get your regular updates on Relish life — what we’re working on, what we’re playing with and anything else we’re thinking about. Maybe you could even throw in a comment or two so that we know what you’re up to.That’s it for me. I’m off to relish the day. Hopefully I’ll bump into you somewhere on the Information SuperHighway.

by Paul on March 19, 2008