ourrug [r-rug] aka Russell Smith

Web Analyst for OCAD University (OCADU), Principal and Senior Web Designer at OURRUG UNLTD. and Faimui founder.

Freelance Opportunities

ourrug unltd. (aka Russell Smith) is currently in business and readily available for freelance contracts involving, but not limited to:

Graphic and/or Print Design

  • Business identity, branding and required collateral

Web Design & Development

  • Website domain name and hosting consultation
  • Website design and development
  • Web-blog consultation, set-up and maintenance
  • Website analytics consultation, set-up and monitoring
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) consultation, development and monitoring

Currently busy working on an contract with Majesteas Inc.; a small Leslieville, Toronto start-up, in consultation (pro bono) with both Tin Roof Global and Windfall Clothing and involved for the past two years on a monthly maintenance retainer with The Ontario College of Art & Design Faculty Association (OCADFA).

Past Client Testimonials:

INFO Financial Inc.

“I wanted to take a few minutes to thank ourrug unltd. for the work that you have completed on our Website. Your ability to take an idea from an industry that you were unfamiliar and design a Website to suit its needs was simply impressive. The website you designed is exactly what we had envisioned.

We finally have a site that provides our current and potential future clients with an accurate portrayal of who we are and the many services that we can provide to them”.

- Roddy Laing, Associate Manager

Gattefossé Canada Inc.

“Gattefossè was looking for a site with speed and functionality, but we also wanted our customers to have the ability to find our product information easily. Encapsulating all of these elements, we were looking for a clean, fresh design.

ourrug unltd. certainly met all of these expectations in an efficient, cost effective and timely manner. They were able to listen and understand our needs and to provide us with a site which our customers should find easy to navigate and valuable to visit”.

- Joseph Duszczyszyn, President & CEO

Tom Robles

“Russell Smith has been most helpful in collaborating with me in creating my own Website. His easygoing manner, in addition to his broad knowledge of Website creation helped me save time and provided me with new ways to create a highly functional, user-friendly, and attractive Website.

Consulting with Russell has provided me with new skills and tools that I can use to further advance my own Website-creation skills. In this way, he has empowered me to help myself”.

- Tom Robles, B.Ed, Teaching Assistant, OCAD

Personal Bio

Russell is the Web Analyst at Canada's largest art and design University, proprietor of his own web design and development shop, Faimui founder and a new father of one!

Using this blog as a means to express ideas both relating to his personal and professional life.

April 7th 2009
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