Sometimes it is convenient that our food world and our design world cross paths. Recently Foodtree asked us to help rebrand in the time leading up to the launch of their new iPhone app and City of Vancouver collaboration. Rolled out simulta [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Categories: Branding, Industrial Brand, Sustainability | 1 Comment »
If you didn’t catch the grammatical error in the title of this post (or the many in the photo for that matter), read on… Unlock the latch and propping open the lid of my secret chest of pet peeves and you’ll see that nothi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, July 27th, 2009
Categories: Design, Education, Marketing, Tips | 1 Comment »
DOXA Documentary Film Festival is launching something new at this year’s festival-their first-ever celebrity camera auction. Equipped with single-use cameras, some of our favorite famous people have unleashed their point & shoot c [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Categories: Art, Events, Pop Culture, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
Not sure if Bansky has hit Berlin or not really, but now you have a better chance of finding out. Adidas has created an iPhone app that acts as map and guide for locating street art in Berlin. So, if you’re tired of yet another museum [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Categories: Art, Pop Culture, Travel, We love | No Comments »
The latest issue of Design Edge just hit the streets and features our own Mark Busse on page 14 in the Newsmakers section! For those of you who don’t know (and that’s not many), Mark has been instrumental in reviving and enliven [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Categories: Design, News | No Comments »
Seems it’s become a bit of an annual tradition for me to post the annual winner gallery from the World Press Photo Competition. So, without further adieu, this year’s winning photos.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 27th, 2009
Categories: Photography | No Comments »
In addition to ADCC and W3 awards we took home earlier in the year, we were recently very pleased to learn that our website for UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture was honoured with a Lotus Merit in the interactive categor [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Categories: Architecture, Awards, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
Those of you who know a thing or two about us know that we’re very much into our food. You might have perused this blog and noticed a distinct absence of food-related posts. The reason is that some time ago we decided the topic was so [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 28th, 2008
Categories: Food, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
After months of work and anticipation, today is the day. The day we launch our new identity with a new website, blog and an unimaginable list of collateral and promotional item including a new logo, new tagline, new stationery, new promo it [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 14th, 2008
Categories: Events, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
I don’t usually re-post from Gizmodo since so many of you are already following that blog, but since today is Halloween and this kid’s mech costume is so freakin’ cool, I couldn’t resist. This costume would probably [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 31st, 2008
Categories: Fun, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Smashing Magazine has posted their latest picks for 50 Beautiful Blog Designs. In their words: In the showcase below we present 50 beautiful blog designs that literally stand out — either through their layout or through their design or th [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 24th, 2008
Categories: Design, Websites | No Comments »
Just a little teaser: we took down the old logo on the front door the other day. Hint: if the suspense is killing you and you can’t wait for the new website, or to get handed a new business card, do a drive by.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Inspiration | No Comments »
Fame and fortune oftentimes brings trouble for those not grounded enough to handle it. Hell, even then the most innocent and well-intentioned have fallen into the dark side. Probably tough enough for a human to stay on the straight and narr [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, September 15th, 2008
Categories: Food, Fun, Photography, We love | No Comments »
Filminute is billed as The International One-Minute Film Festival and now the 2008 finalists are all online and awaiting your vote! You do the math: 25, one-minute films won’t take that long to watch. Screen them all for the shortest [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, September 15th, 2008
Categories: Film | No Comments »
We just received an intriguing promo from the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) for their current exhibit titled, Clip/Stamp/Fold 6 The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X. The exhibition is based around the explosion of o [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Categories: Architecture, Design, Events | No Comments »
This came in today via LiquidTreat. It’s a documentary called Died Young, Stayed Pretty which is billed as a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. These artists dig deep into the culture of our times, and pas [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 15th, 2008
Categories: Art, Film, Pop Culture | No Comments »
We recently learned our website for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has been accepted into Directions 2008, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s (ADCC) annual awards show. Thought we should share t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Categories: Architecture, Awards, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
Font humour in all it’s cheesy glory. (Via Gizmodo)
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Categories: Fun, Video | No Comments »
Just today I was trying to decide whether to bother entering a few of our recent web projects into the W3 Awards and was in a bit of a fence-sitting position about it. Over the course of a year we are becoming bombarded by more and more awa [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles | 1 Comment »
This is NSFW (unless you have headphones). Anyway, thanks to Nathan for the heads up on this. Bo Selecta screwing with Jamie Oliver. I mean, what could be better than a foul-mouthed bear beating up Jamie Oliver for letting his sidekick Stev [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 11th, 2008
Categories: Food, Fun | 1 Comment »
I gave up band in grade 10. After that it was too serious a commitment to practice and performing. Clearly Nathan “Flutebox” Lee kept it up. This dude is doing some seriously amazing shit on his flute. And that’s not even [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 4th, 2008
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
Apparently this has been going around for a little while, but the sheer effort, not to mention volume of paint, of this street art (I hesitate to call it grafitti) is impressive. Muto is “an ambiguous animation painted on public walls [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Today Rogers Wireless formally announced their iPhone package rates. Set to be available July 11th, this is the newest 3G iPhone 2.0 for $199 for the 8GB or $299 for 16GB. Plans start at $60, and frankly, seem pretty decent all things consi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 27th, 2008
Categories: Technology, We love | 4 Comments »
This past Friday marked the launch and public debut (party!) of our client CondoVue’s website, and essentially, their business. For us, it’s terrific to finally be able to show off the identity we did for them earlier this year. [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Categories: Design, Websites | 1 Comment »
Getting a coffee this morning I was confronted by a compelling stack of promotional material for something called The Cheaper Show. Like most, I’m swayed by a bargain, so was curious. Turns out, the flyer is for a group show/sale by n [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 20th, 2008
Categories: Art, Events | No Comments »
So, just how do you get a really great creative idea for that next DM piece? Juice it. But is it organic? (via Liquid Treat)
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 6th, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Design, Fun | No Comments »
My wife, who doesn’t even eat lamb, sent me a link to a company called Edible. Divided into sections: Insectivore, Herbs & Spices, Aphrodesiac, Carnivore, Herbivore, and Apothecary, the company scours the earth for the rare, the e [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Categories: Design, Food, Marketing | 1 Comment »
A bunch of funny commercials for a car dealership that may, unfortunately ring a little too true for anyone who’s been car shopping anytime over the last, say, thirty years. And yeah, so we love exploiting small furry animals for mark [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »
This ad isn’t something that hasn’t been done before, but is quite effective nonetheless. As design professionals, you’d think we’re either hyper aware, or so jaded we don’t see anything and this just reminded [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 14th, 2008
Categories: Advertising | No Comments »
This is creepy, even for a Friday afternoon. Slick, but creepy.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 7th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Websites | 1 Comment »
Not sure how this escaped our blog until now. For the last while many of us here have been afflicted with sleep deprivation as a result of having access to complete seasons of the best episodic television has to offer. Case in point: Life o [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Categories: Film, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Personally, when I see a little cow out in the field I don’t immediately think of veal, but now maybe I might. Today, I came across a site devoted to “depiction of animals that act as though they wish to be consumed” calle [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Categories: Design, Food | 1 Comment »
Every year Design Within Reach, purveyors of sweet, expensive modern furniture hold a contest to see who can design the coolest chair out of the champagne corks left over from new year’s drinking binges. Grand prize went to Miwa Kle [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Categories: Design | No Comments »
I’ve always wanted to make a roast turkey costume for my cat. A combination of my own laziness and the cat’s reluctance to wear costumes (go figure) has sidelined those plans. Yet, today I was confronted by a project we can both [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
Every once in a while something crosses my path that defies any kind of definition or categorization. Moo is certainly in that vein. The randomness, meaty and twisted nature of this animation slots right into our collective adoration of wei [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 30th, 2007
Categories: Fun, We love | No Comments »
As featured on Design Taxi Macro or Micro? The new Vancouver International Film Centre seems like the perfect venue for something called VIDFEST, a five day “festival” put on by New Media BC and meant to connect and promote the [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Categories: Articles | No Comments »
Happy Halloween. Scaaaaaary. While we eat way to much chocolate that’s really supposed to go to children, you can enjoy McSweeney’s Halloween Tales. An excerpt: I gave Ethan a long, why-didn’t-you-tell-me stare. WHY DIDN&# [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Categories: Fun, We love | No Comments »
I can’t recall how, but recently I came across the Canadian Design Resource. Bascially, it’s a simple blog with some terrific examples of all things deign that also happen to be of Canadian origin. While not a comprehensive reso [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, October 29th, 2007
Categories: Design | No Comments »
Random surfing this morning turned up this fascinating look at how an entire airplane factory was camouflaged during WW2. Located in Burbank, the obvious solution was Hollywood-style trompe l’oeil to disguise the factory as an average [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 7th, 2007
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
In the event you need/wish to eat human flesh you may want to consult the handy guide Thirty Illnesses Sorted According to Whether or Not You Can Eat the Victims kindly provided courtesy of McSweeney’s. Of course, it’s not all t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Categories: Food, Tips | No Comments »
Not sure how I came to find this site really (I think I was googling something entirely unrelated and it caught my eye). Anyway, Retro Thing is a terrific site dedicated to vintage gadgets, gizmos and books. Perusing though the entries is l [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 31st, 2007
Categories: Design, Technology | No Comments »
It’s always great to see business publications touting the same messages we often deliver when educating our clients and prospects so I was pleased to read a two page article on corporate blogging in this week’s Business Edge. W [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 24th, 2007
Categories: Marketing | No Comments »
Not sure how or why, but for a little while I’ve been fascinated with the apparent lack of modern design in funerary monuments and other things like urns, crypts and even coffins. I’m not talking about some crazy high-tech video [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Categories: Architecture, Design | 3 Comments »
Turn left at the Leopleurodon.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 13th, 2007
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
To correspond with the 50th anniversary of that oh-so-serious font Helvetica, the Vancouver chapter of the GDC is hosting the Vancouver premier screening of the film by the same name, Helvetica The Film. But wait, there’s more! For th [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Categories: Design, Events | No Comments »
For fans of Vice Mag’s Do’s and Don’ts, is a slightly more serious take on street fashion. Billed as “an international style competition between blogs & photographers around the world”, round one got underw [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Categories: Events, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Feeling a little lazy these days, and fat. As a result my thoughts have been to sitting around, and what better way to do it than in something called the Fatboy. Fatboy is a modern take on the old school bean bag. Feeling extra stylish, go [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 29th, 2007
Categories: Design | 1 Comment »
This is good stuff for a Friday, and just in time for the weekend theatre bingers: The Hollywood Reporter announced the nominees for The 36th Annual Key Art Awards. In their words: This year there are 34 award categories, covering film post [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Categories: Art, Design, Film | No Comments »
Flickr has become a pretty useful tool for me to post my photos to, but I don’t really consider how others might use my images (hence the reason why I don’t have any nudes up there!). Props to our friend Derrick for bringing thi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 18th, 2007
Categories: Photography, Technology | 1 Comment »
I prefer to prepare for travel by reading fiction set in or about the places I intend to go, but aside from travel reference material, have never used texts of the non-fiction variety. Having just returned from my trip to France, I just got [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 15th, 2007
Categories: Architecture, Design, Travel | No Comments »
Check out this amazing video showing how even experienced advertising creatives can be manipulated using subliminal cues.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 11th, 2007
Categories: Advertising, Marketing | No Comments »
That was the mantra of Airstream founder Wally Byam, but in 2000 architect-designer Chris Deam gutted a vintage trailer to create a booth for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Turns out DWR, purveyor of iconic furniture, liked [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Categories: Design, Travel | No Comments »
Mark’s post on the London 2012 logo reminded me about Vancouver’s new limited edition 2010 Olympics license plate, which sucks. Enough’s been said here and elsewhere about the logo itself, but this license plate is more ev [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Categories: Branding, Design, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
For those of you who know us you know we don’t need to say one thing about this hamster powered paper shredder. Okay, one word…sah-weeet! (via Core77)
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 1st, 2007
Categories: Art, Fun, We love | No Comments »
Hey, I know, let’s have a contest where we offer next to nothing to designers and see who we can convince to submit spec ideas for our (small) company which we can then sift through and critique endlessly as we hunt for that elusive & [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Categories: Design | 2 Comments »
Recently while in France I did a double take when I saw an ad for Nespresso featuring George Clooney. Stars selling their image (souls) out for big bucks in markets other than North America is nothing new, but I thought this one was so very [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Categories: Advertising, Film, Travel | No Comments »
A little recognition goes a long way. A while ago we designed the Heavy Petal blog for our friend Andrea. We like to use her as an example of someone dedicated to regularly posting to her blog and for maintaining a consistent editorial styl [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 30th, 2007
Categories: Design, Websites | 1 Comment »
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is the stuff all those clear plastic pop and water bottles are made of. Most of us don’t think of them as anything other than containers for our favourite soft drink, but artist Miwa Koizumi has taken [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, April 20th, 2007
Categories: Art | No Comments »
Blu Dot, US-based maker of decent designer furniture has some cool content on their site. Specifically, they are collaborating with independent filmmakers to create weird short little films. It’s an interesting brand extension for sur [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Categories: Design, Film, Fun | No Comments »
I came across LUMAS recently while surfing for home decor. They offer an incredible collection of photographic works by emerging, master and historical photographers. Here’s the deal: We created LUMAS with the hope of making the art m [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Categories: Art, Photography | No Comments »
When designing for print, being millitant about typos and other errors is critical, but then in the heat of the usual panic to get things delivered on time there’s often great opportunity for clients or others to overlook glaringly ob [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Categories: Advertising, Design, Marketing | No Comments »
Mark just asked me to take ten minutes and jot down my opinions about what a student (or anyone I guess) should do/include/avoid when putting together and presenting a portfolio. A couple years ago I actually did a post on the topic on this [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Categories: Articles | 33 Comments »
Not too long ago I came across the most amazing paper sculptures by artist Peter Callesen. What sets these apart from the kind you sometimes see at your local craft market is the incredible skill and conceptual thinking in most of these pie [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Categories: Art | No Comments »
Clement over at Crit has an interesting post about the graphic designer stereotype along with this rather humourous cartoon. If all we’re doing is copying from the Germans while sucking back caramel latt és perhaps the debate on rena [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Categories: Design, Fun | No Comments »
Well, we did it, again. The Industrial Brand/Legends Memorabilia “PicniCANtics” took top honours in this year’s Canstruction Vancouver for the third, THIRD, year in a row (2005 Award, 2006 Award). For those not in the know, Canstr [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, March 12th, 2007
Categories: Articles | 4 Comments »
In the spririt of clearing our minds and bodies daily in anticipation of creative greatness, we at Industrial Brand follow a strict morning exercise regime. Now you can follow along too.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 9th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand, Tips | 1 Comment »
If you ever get stuck working in your basement studio while everyone else is out enjoying the sun, or need a little mid-winter pick up, then Adam Frank’s Reveal light is for you. The light which can be mounted on a wall or placed on a [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Categories: Design | No Comments »
This morning I Rasterbated. Try it, you’ll like it.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Categories: Art, Design, Fun, Technology | No Comments »
Yup, it’s that time of the year again – time to build an 8 foot sculpture out of canned food at Canstruction Vancouver this coming March 4-11th, 2007! Hot off taking top honours two years running we’re throwing out a chall [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Categories: Canstruction, Design, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »
“Well, we have real beards, of course. We belong to an organization called the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas. It’s an international organization.” Now that the last shopping day of Christmas is almost over, let [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
I just came across this list of the top ten most dangerous toys of all time. This might be a little late to factor into this year’s holiday shopping, but then again, I doubt you’ll be able to find the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Categories: Marketing, Pop Culture | No Comments »
I’m usually so sick of Christmas music by this time of the year that I’ll listen to almost anything else. Of course this doesn’t go over very well at my traditionalist in-laws’ place so I was excited to find out that [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Categories: Music | No Comments »
If you find yourself with some extra time over the holidays, and a hangover, you might grab a couple champagne corks, wire and foil out of the blue bin and maybe win yourself $1,500 from Design Within Reach. That’s right, all you budd [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Categories: Design, Fun, Marketing | 1 Comment »
Mike Libby combines high quality scientific insect specimens with antique watch parts and electronics to create a very sweet looking altered reality remniscent of an old X-Files episode or any number of other alien sci-fi movies.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Categories: Art | No Comments »
When I first saw this I thought it was a very unique idea. Kind of like being able to sit in your front yard in a big comy couch and tv without concern for the elements. Then again, a read through the comments on this post about Adam Kalkin [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
If you know at all, or have ever experienced our corporate fascination with victimizing hamsters, you’ll realize just how perfect this completely useless novelty USB gadget is for us.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 4th, 2006
Categories: Fun, We love | No Comments »
Our friend and colleague Haig has been showing up in the office in all sorts of snazzy CBC-branded clothing to the point we aren’t sure he has much else in the wardrobe. Admittedly, he worked at the CBC, so for now we’ll forgive [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Categories: Pop Culture | No Comments »
When stock photography agencies aren’t folding into the now giant Getty collection, they are trying to gain the upper hand and wind the hearts, and dollars, of the image-buying hoards. Over the last several years Masterfile has gone f [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 10th, 2006
Categories: Design, Marketing, Photography | No Comments »
If you are planning to take over the world one meeeeleeeon dollars at a time, then you’re going to need this evil chair. Only $4500.00 CDN. Thanks to our good, yet diabolical, friend John M for this one!
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Categories: Design, Tips | 1 Comment »
I recently came across this rather interesting study on label placement in forms. By measuring saccadic activity and saccades times (eye movements) to evaluate the usability of search forms, they were able to determine ideal positioning of [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Categories: Design | 2 Comments »
I just stumbled onto this great reference page put together by a “webmaster and web developer”. On it are links to all the resources he (or she) uses in the course of their work. It’s stuffed full of handy dandy links, too [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 27th, 2006
Categories: Design, Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »
Sometimes I never think to turn to places like Adobe for resources other than things related to the software of theirs we use, but I just came across their Design Center Think Tank filled with intelligent and thought provoking articles on t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Reading, Technology | 1 Comment »
I guess Viking is the UK equivalent to our Staples or Office Depot. Anyway, they’re running an inventive online promotion right now called Stationery Movies. There are 20 scenes made entirely of office supplies and you have to guess t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 20th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Film, Pop Culture, Websites | 2 Comments »
The latest Sony Bravia spot we mentioned here a couple weeks ago has now been released. Watch all 70,000 litres of paint explode into the air here.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »
First of all, congrats to fellow Canadian Simon Lamarre on the launch of the Volvo C30. It’s not everyday you get to design a car let alone one that looks as cool as this one. It’s also not all that often that you come across th [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Categories: Design | No Comments »
When it comes to today’s television offerings, even 300 channels can’t deliver very much good programming. After a recent move to our new home we decided not to get cable. Yes, I miss a few good shows and of course the Food Netw [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, October 16th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Websites | 2 Comments »
As you claw your way up the design career ladder you might find yourself at home very little. Thus, the Hanse Colani Rotor House may be just the thing for your busy professinal life. Comapct in size, the home’s main feature is a six s [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Categories: Architecture | No Comments »
In 1993, then 22-year-old Markus Freitag and his brother Daniel designed a messenger bag out of recycled truck tarps. Flash forward to 2006 and the company has built their flagship store out of 26 stacked shipping containers.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design | 1 Comment »
The London Design Festival just wrapped up. With a mandate to “celebrate and promote all things design”, and from the looks of the website, must have been an amazing event. I came across this installation called Bridge by artist [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 6th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Art, Design, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
By no means a definitive list, check out these ten “seeeeeriously cool workplaces“. I often wonder if any of these high concept, really modern and cool looking places are just really cool to look at in photos and not such great [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Inspiration | No Comments »
Hard to forget the Sony Bravia commercial when they unleashed millions of coloured rubber balls through the streets of San Francisco. Hard to top it too. Well, they’re trying: they’ve splattered an apartment block in Glasgow wit [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Categories: Advertising | No Comments »
There’s been plenty of negative press lately surrounding the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee. It’s about time we heard some good news, isn’t it? Well, here’s some great news. VANOC has just released a pub [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, News, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
I first heard Madeleine Peyroux on her album Careless Love about a year ago and fell in love with her dynamic, sultry voice. I had envisioned a sexy chanteuse emerging from a smoky Parisian cafe, and listening to her transported me back to [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 29th, 2006
Categories: Music, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »
Check out the AIGA’s recently released 50 Books/50 Covers winners. Some fantastic design singled out from the 900 entries submitted this year. We’ve blogged about the AIGA Design Archives before – it’s a great resour [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 29th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
If you haven’t seen them already, check out these amazing examples of communication design. Icaro Doria is the Brazilian artist behind these world flags that feature various statistics related to each colour in the country’s fla [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Art, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
This is just the thing to knock you out of your Monday morning fog…and get your juices flowing for a night at the disco come Friday.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Categories: Pop Culture | No Comments »
Every once in a while I visit my bookmarks and look at random things that at some point in the past I must have felt would come in handy one day or that I didn’t want to loose. Looking through these I see that indeed, I’ve becom [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Categories: Tips | No Comments »
It seems so obvious to use glass to recreate the effect of water drops splashing. How it’s done maybe isn’t so easy, but who cares when you can buy it! These beautiful pieces comprise a collection called Soft Explosion by sculpt [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Categories: Design | No Comments »
Billed as a “live digital design battle”, Cut and Paste looks like an amazing good time. If you’re located in NYC, Chicago, LA or San Francisco it’d be worth checking out. If you’re also a talented digital desi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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These are some surreal and stange portrait photographs of Dancers and Disco Queens by Danish photographer Morten Nilsson. I find the rigid and almost plasticine quality of the models as compelling as they are creepy. (via grow-a-brain).
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 8th, 2006
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Nothing like a biting, almost nasty, roast on a Thursday morning courtesy of Comedy Central and Jeff Ross. William Shatner is the perfect mark for this. And if you haven’t seen his 1978 rendition of Elton John’s “Rocket Ma [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, September 7th, 2006
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For the 2006 London Architecture Biennale Jason Bruges Studio created a unique wayfinding system consisting of pink weather balloons and strategically placed pavement graphics to guide visitors, draw their attention to surrounding buildings [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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If you like David Hasslehoff, or the spectacle of him, you’ll love these 50 “Best Of the Hoff” videos. Nothing else needs to be said.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, August 17th, 2006
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Take a bunch of treadmills, add some clever choreography and your independent band’s music and what have you got? A unique music video. Kind of renders MJ’s moonwalking redundant.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Categories: Music, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
Check out these humourous videos created to deliver the message about fighting for Net Neutrality. Great costume ideas for Halloween too.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
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Pleix is a Paris-based digital artist collective and their site features some amazing visual effects/shorts. Check out their latest, “Birds”, a sort of early 80′s rock video meets the local kennel.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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Us designers often have a fickle aesthetic when it comes to houseplants. Thus, you’ll love what Abby over at Kermodi is doing. Not only does she scour suppliers for modern containers, she also singles out the coolest looking plants fo [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 21st, 2006
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In the afterglow of Vidfest with the word “crowdsourcing” buzzing in my head today I read a great article on do-it-yourself design over at Design Observer. Then I came across the Jackson Pollock Simulator. Use your mouse and cli [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Categories: Art, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
Next time you are planning a picnic at the beach this summer, grab a few extra 2L bottles of Coke and a dozen rolls of Mentos… Yes, you too can create your own “hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fou [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
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Around the same time Mark and I started Industrial Brand I discovered Joe Frank. We’ve mentioned him before, but today I got their infrequent newsletter. Joe’s been battling serious illness for some time and though on the road t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 23rd, 2006
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Here’s a good one for Friday afternoon surfing: A site featuring 30 second versions of classic movies re-enacted by cartoon bunnies. It’s surprisngly hip. Thanks to our friend Ryan for this one.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 23rd, 2006
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Last week at Vidfest there was lots of talk about content. Who makes it, who takes it, what happens when it forms the basis for new work and who owns what. Everyone had their own say and perspective of course, even the lawyers. Terry McBrid [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Categories: Events, Marketing, Music, Technology | 1 Comment »
It’s been a long but intersting day today at Vidfest. We’ll tell you more about Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and creator of Pong and the session with Joshua Davis later. Early this afternoon I found myself in a little white [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
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Kids these days! A recent NY Times article cites how clever teens are using a steath ring tone to evade detection of incoming calls by strict disciplinarians such as their parents and teachers who restrict mobile phone use in classrooms (go [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
Categories: Technology | 3 Comments »
If you’ve ever gone to a press check you’ve probably seen stacks of paper that look like they’ve had twenty projects printed on them. Well, they have. They’re called test prints or make-ready sheets, used to set up t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, June 8th, 2006
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We have a fondness for all things abattoir related, like these cool plates from Sprout Home. Imagine a nice arrangement of lamp chops, potatoes and some fresh peas, or maybe some bbq pork? Yes, learn from your place settings, then make a st [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
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I like to read the “I saw you” section of the paper. Not because I’m hoping to be some stranger’s muse, but it feeds an aspect of the voyeur in me that also loves the interesting snippits gleaned from overheard conve [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Pop Culture, Reading | No Comments »
Several years ago I was handed the first take-out cup of coffee with advertising on the insulater sleeve. While some people might be put off by the increasing intrusiveness of advertising, but on a disposable item like this, why not? This c [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Design | No Comments »
Today a little direct mail piece arrived from Nebs. You know, the company that prints all the cheques and other business forms. On the cover is the word “I.D.ENTITY Logo design…the key to your identity”. Curious, I opened [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, May 11th, 2006
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We recently blogged about the art installation Vancouver School by artists Douglas Coupland, Graham Gillmore, Angela Grossmann, Attila Richard Lukacs and Derek Root. So this weekend I made my way to North Vancouver and checked it out. Wow, [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 24th, 2006
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How much thought do you normally give to what goes into the making of an ad? Here’s a clever spot that reveals the dedication of the unsung hero’s of folley. BTW, the tag at the end translates roughly to “We make everythin [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 17th, 2006
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Came across this insane Norwegian group called Hurra Torpedo that’s part Stomp, part…oh I give up. You just have to see them doing this cover of Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. Percussion is a large chest freeze [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
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The folks over at BCR Yachts ask what word can they use to describe their yachts. They say yachts are, by their very nature luxurious so how do you accurately describe classes of yachts? Good point. However, the bigger issue is that the wor [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
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Though originally published in STEP Inside Design Magazine in September 2005, Jupiter Images has republished this interesting article on designers who blog titled, “Designing Inside the Blog: Oz Speaks!”. Definitely worth a read [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
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As designers many of us have found inspiration at the bottom of a box of chocolates. Yes, we use chocolate, but do we ever stop to think about where it comes from? If you’re in Vancouver this weekend stop by the Purdy’s Chocolat [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 31st, 2006
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Many years ago while travelling throughout Europe I discoverd the work of Spansh architect Santigo Calatrava. I was immediately drawn to the marvellously complex yet elegant arcitectural forms of his structures (especially his bridges). Alm [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 31st, 2006
Categories: Architecture | 2 Comments »
If you’re a designer it’s unlikely your aesthetic sensibilities cease when you go home. Apartment Therapy, whose tag line is “Changing the world, one apartment at a time.”, is currently running their 2nd Annual Small [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
This morning we were browsing the latest issue of Applied Arts Magazine and were pleasantly surprised when we saw ourselves mentioned in Frank Lenk’s Tech Talk column. He talks about “rapidly proliferating designer blogs”, [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 24th, 2006
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Even if you’ve only recently started reading our blog you might have picked up on the fact that we like Michel Gondry. His latest feature film project, called The Science of Sleep, looks well, Gondryesque. It’s about an artist w [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, March 20th, 2006
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We’re big fans of designer Charles S. Anderson and have been on the receiving end of many a French Paper promo featuring his work. Hell, a couple years ago I even made a special trip down to Bellingham to see the Halloween decor he di [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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Only four days left to get in on the Legends Memorabilia Canstruction Charity Auction. This is the fundraising effort used to fund our participation in Canstruction Vancover. I’ve no idea what a “force lance” is, but IR [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Categories: Canstruction, Events, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
Our good friend Ryan Murphy writes about Five New Frontiers for Advertising on AskMen.com. My favourite: He concludes that “Only time will tell if the Big Dipper will one day be blotted out with an electronically generated billboard f [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
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Our involvement in Canstruction Vancover is dependent on the funds our partner, Legends Memorabilia, raises through an online auction of props, costumes, studio art and signed memorabilia from television shows such as Stargate-SG1, Stargate [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, February 9th, 2006
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You’ve heard us talk about Canstruction before, but now’s your chance to get involved. If you are in the Vancouver area and are on a team or interested in entering a team in this year’s (or even next year’s!) competi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Categories: Canstruction, Food, Fun, Inspiration, Pop Culture | No Comments »
We refer to the term Communication Design often in our business, but what about design as communication? Well, Shot Code seems to have created a very cool way of making it easy for people with camera phones to access (marketing) information [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Design, Marketing, Technology | No Comments »
Since I’m going to be out of town during the upcoming federal elections on January 23rd I thought I’d look up some info on advance voting on the Elections Canada website. In my search through the FAQ section I learned that, no, [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Categories: Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
It’s over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it – holiday eating that is. Just before New Year’s we had the opportunity to meet our clients from Singapore for the first time over dinner at Kerrisdale la [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
Categories: Food | No Comments »
Early on in my consumption of podcasts I discovered Kurt Anderson’s Studio 360. Kurt covers the arts and culture scene on KCRW, the California based public radio station that used to be home to another favourite, Joe Frank. Anyway, in [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, December 23rd, 2005
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If you’ve seen our entries from past Canstruction Vancouver events, you might have wondered how we did it or maybe even how to get involved. If you’re the competitive type, you were probably thinking how you might unseat us from [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 19th, 2005
Categories: Canstruction, Design, Food, Inspiration | No Comments »
As foodies we lament the crappy dinner roll. It really ruins the dining experience. Same thing applies to design, marketing and just about anything – why bother being in business if you can’t be proud of your product/service? Se [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 8th, 2005
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At last night’s GDC Colours of Cuba event I won a copy of The Designer’s Lexicon. On the random page I flipped it open to I found this: cockroach A colloquial term for display text set entirely in lower case type. I’ll be [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 8th, 2005
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This weekend while doing some image research I came across this 1968 Westinghouse ad. It bears a striking resemblance to the brain navigation in the original Industrial Brand website we launched in 2001. The site and the navigation design w [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 5th, 2005
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
That’s right, it’s December and it’s now okay to talk about the holiday ‘season’. Speaking of which, this is the official invitation for you to drop in and ‘season’ us with a nice box of chocolatey [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 1st, 2005
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Recently we became aware of the startling similarity between our blog and that of another local company’s. How’d we find out? Well, they called on us to talk about a business relationship. Hell of an introduction! When confronte [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 25th, 2005
Categories: Branding, Design, Technology, Websites | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 25th, 2005
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Not too long ago we set up a blog for our client Nathan over at United Nathan Productions. He’s already posted some terrific entries, but my favourite is the one about ukuleles. When I hear the word ‘ukulele’ I usually thi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, November 21st, 2005
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At this year’s Canstruction Vancouver where we took top honours, a reporter from Attaché Magazine was wandering around talking to people and making copious notes. The result of his efforts was recently published as The Architec [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 18th, 2005
Categories: Canstruction, Fun, Industrial Brand, Inspiration | No Comments »
Those little moleskin notebooks are cool. You get one and use it for sketches and phone numbers and all that sort of stuff. Humus is an online collaboration produced by two Italian designers, Luca and Mirko of Zerouno Design based on the id [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 18th, 2005
Categories: Design, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
The lead time for entering award shows often creates a huge gap in time between the date you enter and the date of the actual awards. Thus, when we found out earlier this week that our blog (this blog!) received a Merit in the Interactive M [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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If you’ve heard of IDEO, the famous industrial design company, you might also have wondered just how they create one brilliant innovation after another. Wonder no more! IDEO has created a set of 51 “Method Cards” that show [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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Recently we met up with Sarah Doody whom we blogged about back in September. She was in town supporting her client Michelle Kaufmann who was here to show Vancouver her fantastic Glide House. So, we got to combine two of our favourite things [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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I could have titled this entry “Taking Liberties with Taxidermy”, or should that be “Mouse-a-dermy”? For Jeanie M it started out as an obsession with taking photos of roadkill. One thing led to another and a friend g [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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As featured in Graphic Exchange Magazine and www.gxo.com. In the early to mid 1990s the Internet was hitting the mainstream and clients were asking the same questions about websites as they are now about blogs and blogging, specifically, &# [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
Categories: Articles | 8 Comments »
What better way to write an article on Wikipedia, the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia, than to have it completed by the community it’s about? Writer A.J. Jacobs posted a crappy, error-laden first draft of [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 13th, 2005
Categories: Technology | No Comments »
The new 2006 Passat has “120 not-so-standard” features. To highlight this they commissioned 120 15-second films from different artists, one for each feature. Of note is Chrome Front Grill Frame.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Categories: Advertising, Film, Marketing | 7 Comments »
Forget ever having to light a match or spraying noxious aerosol after a trip to the loo. Now there’s Whiff. What a blessing this will be for all of us here at Industrial Brand! (via Strange New Products)
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
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Should the day ever come when insects sport corporate logos, you might take extra delight in swatting them when they crash your next picnic. Check out these cool photos by a 19 year old Carnagie Mellon student. Incidentally, I came across t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
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BlogDay2005 is upon us and that means we get to blog about another blog. At Industrial Brand we’re rather into cooking. Recently I came across a cool site called Cooking For Engineers. Engineers aren’t always known for being gre [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
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We can’t ignore anything that exploits hamsters. So, do you pay $30 for a cell phone charger, or get in touch with this ingenious 16 year old? (via Gizmodo)
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
iLounge has just released their latest iPod Book stuffed with product reviews, resources and tips. Download it for free from their site.Copyright 2005 Industrial Brand Creative
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, August 18th, 2005
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As far as powdered addicting substances go, green is the new white. Lately we’ve become hooked on the buzz we get drinking iced matcha lattes. Matcha is a powdered green tea first discoverd over 900 years ago. It provides energy and a [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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From a branding perspective, serving the food your restaurant pushes out of the kitchen in miniture toilet bowls is questionable, but that’s exactly what this toilet restaurant does. In fact, the entire place is decorated with them. I [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, August 8th, 2005
Categories: Food | 1 Comment »
Relatively speaking, I don’t think we get a massive number of people knocking on our door looking for work, but we do get more than our fair share. It’s not long enough that I don’t remember being fresh out of university a [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Categories: Design | 1 Comment »
I thought raving was dead. Guess not. Apparently there’s a group of people who never stopped. They’re called Grayvers and they’re partying like it’s 1993. Must be kind of weird arranging for both a babysitter and sco [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
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On Wednesday of this week I spoke on branding and blogging at the Future of Publishing Conference alongside Arieanna Foley, Kris Krug, Eric Karjaluoto and Janet Johnson. The panel was moderated by Robert Ouiment of At Large Media. Regardles [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 29th, 2005
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In clicking through links for my last post, I revisited Timothy McSweeney’s and came across this gem: Reviews of New Food is just that, short, well-written and quirky essays on various authors’ first encounters with different fo [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Categories: Food | No Comments »
Author Dave Eggers’s is responsible for some really cool stuff. My first brush with all of this was years ago when I stumbled upon an compendium of literary works called Timothy McSweeney’s. With submissions by numerous writers, [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Categories: Reading | No Comments »
Back in April we blogged our good friends’ Leonard Brody and David Raffa’s new book titled, “Everything I Needed to Know About Business…I Learned From a Canadian”. Now that the book is on the shelves (and selli [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
Categories: Marketing, Reading | 1 Comment »
Our filmmaker friend (and Ben’s brother) Nathan first introduced us to the Directors Label DVD series. The first three discs are highlights from the works of Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, notable superstars in music [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
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Performance art is cool. It’s even more cool when it screws wth people. Czech Dream is a documentary (mockumentary?) about two guys who create a ficticious supermarket in an empty field. They hire an advertising agency to create and p [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
Categories: Film, Marketing | No Comments »
Marketing Sherpa has announced their 10 Best Blogs for 2005 (as voted by their readership). Anyone in marketing, advertising, public relations and communications will find some terrific resources in not only the winners, but also at Marketi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, June 16th, 2005
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We’ve blogged the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists here before, but check out their Beast Blender. You can make your own disturbing creatures without ruining your leather seats collecting road kills. (via AdCritic).
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, May 19th, 2005
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This is a nice short film about what you can achieve when you focus your energy. In a way, it kind of reminds me of Peter Lynch’s Project Grizzly, though with a less sardonic lens. There’s still humour in the eccentricity depict [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, April 29th, 2005
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We’re getting to that age when our friends are all having babies, or they’re writing books. Our good friend, Leonard Brody (a childless lawyer), has teamed up with our corporate lawyer, David Raffa, and given birth to a brand sp [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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Have you ever looked longingly at your luncheon meat and thought about being an artist? Me either, but now I’m kicking myself. Check out these great paintings (yes, paintings) by artist Victoria Reynolds.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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The problem with work is in the name. Work. From the moment the alarm goes off in the morning and we shake off the last of our slumber, we shift into autopilot as we prepare for our day at the office. It's ofte [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
Categories: Articles | 3 Comments »
Starting Friday evening we had exactly 48 hours to concept, write, shoot, edit and deliver a 30 second commercial spot for Room to Read as part of The Great Canadian Commercial Contest. Fourty four teams competed, each producing a spot for [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 18th, 2005
Categories: Advertising, Industrial Brand | 1 Comment »
This video could be al Queda’s next target.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 11th, 2005
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In early April we blogged about our visit to the studio of psychedelic concert poster artist Bob Masse and his subsequent trip to our studio for a top secret [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
Categories: Articles | 1 Comment »
Happy Death, Inc. has a great selection of galleries featuring vintage bowling, circus and propaganda art. Additionally, a state by state photo archive of chic roadside statues and other miscellaneous kitch one comes across on extended road [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 18th, 2005
Categories: Art | 2 Comments »
These days we’re programmed to hit delete at the first whiff of SPAM, but have you ever thought about turning the tables on these annoying bastards? Rich Siegel, an advertising copywriter did, and then crafted the escapades into a boo [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
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Just prior to going on maternity leave, our friend Heather, a copywriter over at ReThink sent this spot via email. Though it’s not her, it is the last project she worked on before giving birth. Should be interesting to see how she exp [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, March 7th, 2005
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In movies like The Matrix, man imbues the machine world with technology to the point they surpass man as the dominant species on earth. In this altered reality, rodents get night vision goggles, hamsters use GPS to locate their winter stash [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, March 7th, 2005
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We’ve already made this guy (Levy Lorenzo) an offer to come work for us. I mean, music made by hamsters, that’s brilliant. Making it transparent too, genius. The Habitrail is already in the garbage. So is our CD collection. (via [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 25th, 2005
Categories: Fun, Music | 2 Comments »
Design is cool. Cool kitchen gadgets and accessories are really cool! This knife block gives new meaning to the term psycho in the kitchen. I want one. (via Gizmodo)
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, February 24th, 2005
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The international jury of the 48th annual World Press Photo contest selected a color image of the Indian photographer Arko Datta of Reuters as World Press Photo of the Year 2004. The picture shows an Indian woman mourning the death of a rel [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 11th, 2005
Categories: Photography | No Comments »
This is a great site for the voyeur in everyone. How excited do you get when you discover a lost or discarded photo of someone’s grandmother vacationing in Tijuana? The ‘Notes’ section is brilliant.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 4th, 2005
Categories: Photography | No Comments »
In Vancouver if you don’t love the rain enough to sing in it, you’re miserable all winter. Check out this cool old-meets-new commercial for…
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, January 28th, 2005
Categories: Advertising, Marketing | No Comments »
Since our business philosophy is to cultivate long term relationships with our clients, these 10 Golden Rules for Getting Great Work From a Design Agency really hit the mark.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
Categories: Design | No Comments »
Once again Industrial Brand, together with Legends Memorabilia, is participating in Canstruction, a fundraiser for the Vancouver Food Bank. Every year teams create sculptures made of non-perishable food. At the end of the event, all food is [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
Categories: Canstruction, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
If you’re a fan of the documentary Project Grizzly, you’ll love this. Troy Hurtubise dedicated his life (and a considerable amount of cash) to build an armoured suit that would allow him to go one-on-one with a grizzly bear. His [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, January 20th, 2005
Categories: Technology | No Comments »
Following a brief affair with our own test kitchen wizard Betty Fuller, Industrial Brand partner Mark Busse married the real love of his life, Andrea Munro, in a private beach-side ceremony attended only by family. Spotted by helicopter was [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
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Inspiration is a crucial component to any company, especially one that has creativity as its focus. At Industrial Brand Creative, we are lucky in this sense, that our work so closely resembles pl [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
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The problem with many do-it-yourself craft projects is that they don’t look cool. ReadyMade solves this. For example, not sure what to do with those empty 50-100 CD spindles? Rather than throw them out, make a cool lamp!
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, January 6th, 2005
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We’re constantly looking for cool new music because we’ve got the tunes on all day long. Although other people’s “Top Pick’s” lists are usually really subjective, they are also great ways to source out ne [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
Categories: Music | No Comments »
Look what we’ve cooked up for the holidays! Wishing you a warm (at 350 degrees F for 35 minutes) and beefy holiday season. From Betty Fuller and the crazy cooks at Industrial Brand Creative. Get Beefin’ Up The Holidays now while [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
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Every morning, about a half hour after I arrive this guy shows up and starts cleaning our kitchen, makes coffee and then leaves. We call him the Kitchen Bitch.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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At Industrial Brand we count down to the holidays using empty boxes of chocolates. Last night we were working late and one of our guys asked me to hide the latest, a nice quantity of mint Frangos imported from Chicago (you can’t get t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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