About | Little Brother Media

Little brother at your service and your family's.

Let's dispense for a minute with the archetypal little brother chores such as mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, and taking out the trash. Little Brother also specializes in digital products such as websites, apps, graphics, videos, and brand identity. Located in Vancouver, Canada, we serve small to medium sized businesses around the world. We love our work. We love working with people and seeing good digital design employed to revive communities, teams, brands, and soul. We love seeing good design empowering artists, musicians, non-profits, and businesses. We've seen our team collaborations open doors for people and brands. A high quality website redesign or digital upgrade has the potential to build community, increase sales, increase donations, and make the world a better place. Send us a quick message if you'd like to hear about our case studies where we saw breakthroughs.

Life is full of possibilities. Everyone is welcome. Nobody is perfect. Anything is possible.

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We've been building websites for over twenty five years. After building a few, Joel enrolled and spent seven years studying the visual language, drawing, painting, and art-history, at Trinity Western University and Emily Carr University with some of the best professors in Canada. Along the way he picked up coding languages such as HTML, PHP, CSS, and Javascript. He founded the company in 2012 and picked up years of experience building high-grade custom WordPress and Drupal websites. In 2020, Joel's father Mark Anderson joined the company as a project manager. On most work days, Mark is collaborating on visual design work, brainstorming website strategy, and meeting with larger client-teams when needed. He speaks English and Arabic and brings to the team two masters degrees, a proficiency in creative writing, and a wealth of multi-cultural experience.

Little Brother fun facts

Little Brother naturally has had a fair share of "little brother" experiences. Here are some semi-random facts and happenings from our business practice through the years: the wild, the playful, the fun, the surprises, the "little brother" moments.

The Wilder Snail

The wildest place we met a client for a business meeting was a coffee shop called The Wilder Snail. It is a wild snail paradise. We loved it. The meeting went well. The wild snails would be proud.

Merch #1

We once built a website for a rock band and they invited us to their concerts. They gave us free tickets so we got in the car and drove two hours. Found the country hall and went in. Rock'n roll. Americana. They also gave us their new rock album. It was legit.

Most laughter

I was once working for a church congregation, helping them with visuals. Every month they had a welcome dinner. The pastor had me create a visual for the big screen to advertise the dinner each month. Inspired, I decided to photoshop my pastor's face onto an image of a gourmet chef holding a steaming dish. The bodily proportions were highly amusing.

The pastor was on the fence about it, but he ran with it. When it displayed on Sunday the congregation burst into roaring laughter and laughed for three minutes straight till the pastor calmed them down. Mission accomplished. People loved it.

Outside the box

As one of my female friends likes to say, Welcome the child within. For one of our clients I (Joel) got in touch with the child within and made a bunch of child-art, photographed it and put the photos on their website as needed. Who knew you could still make art like a child?

LOTR

If you're a graphic designer, you're always faced with the question, Would it be kosher to put images of Gandalf and the hobbits and dwarves into my client's graphic? Strange as it may seem, I crossed that thin red line more than once. There remains a graphic poster or two for clients in my archives complete with Tolkien's brood.

What's up Africa?

Some of our most fun clients are Africans locally and in Africa. They've been working with us for years and teaching us their languages. After years of working with one African client, we collaborated and wrote a song in his native language. Working with Africans around the world is a great honor.