What I love most about Photoshop on the iPhone is the functionality. Adobe has really thought of everything. Designers, prepare to throw your laptops and towers away. The iPhone is really all you need.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, September 17th, 2007
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William Gibson’s stretched stooped figure curls over book and microphone under yellow lights that hang like a field of beauty salon hair dryers before an unlit neon sign tracing out the words Studio One on a wall deep within the bowels of [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 7th, 2007
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You will never need to tear your hair out wondering if you left the iron on ever again. Jack Godfrey Wood’s Whole House-Off Switch is a single button that can turn off of the unnecessary power in the house –lights, tv, etc.̵ [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 17th, 2007
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We’re currently working on a brand evolution project for a client that found me spending a couple of hours the other morning rooting through YouTube for title animations of film companies. Ironically the one particular ID that I had i [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 10th, 2007
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As noted over at Coudal: “It’s a bad week for heroes.” Michelangelo Antonioni, (September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007) Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
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A cool little demonstration of information design in action: a behind-the-genius peek at Michel Gondry mapping out the video for the Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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From Visual Complexity: “Using information design principles and graphical techniques, the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band. [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Sunday, July 15th, 2007
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.. of Mark Coleran.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 14th, 2007
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The awesome, isometrically inclined work of Josh Keyes.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision — she has made it already. We don’t know whom she r [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, May 11th, 2007
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It seems that Mark has sent us some advance video footage from the after party at the GDC AGM in Montreal last week. Those designers sure know how to bust a move.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
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David Lynch’s new movie INLAND EMPIRE looks very…er…Lynch-like. Which is never a bad thing. Rolling Stone describes it as “three hours of mesmerizing (often infuriating) incoherence, a puzzle whose pieces you’l [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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As a fitting follow up to Mark’s recent post, watch how this impromtu performance of “In The Air Tonight” by Naturally 7 on a Paris subway gradually wins over their fellow passengers. Except for the one guy who is right up [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
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Here’s something that I bet you didn’t know: 240 pencils can be made from the ash of an average human body. Somewhat morbidly appropriate for a post-Easter weekend, Nadine Jarvis designs products made out of cremains.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
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Brilliant as always, Marian Bantjes’ Limited Edition Cover for Wallpaper Magazine.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, March 19th, 2007
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It started as a joke during the research phase of a current project, but we were just informed that our t-shirt design Puma Vs. Unicorn has passed the Threadless submission phase and is now up for voting in the public sphere. Help us make t [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 15th, 2007
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History has proven time and again that if the powers-that-be put up a wall, the people will eventually tear it down. Such was the case at last night’s Bloc Party concert at the Orpheum when 80+ fans, grown tired of the formal sit down [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
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Helvetica is arguably the greatest font to ever fill a text box, not to mention that it is currently the only font that qualifies for a star on Hollywood Blvd. But sometimes even the best gets tired and overused and you need something to cl [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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“VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, acr [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, February 5th, 2007
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Working with the residents of the slums of Rio De Janeiro, artists Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koohaas have been painting a giant mural right in the heart of the community with the goal of instilling a sense of pride among the people and to impro [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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New to iTunes, the Sundance Film Festival 07 Short Films podcast series includes features on Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, “The Devil and Daniel Johnston”, Stuart Copeland and many more. New content will continue to be added until [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
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It’s been one of those kinds of weeks, a mad and chaotic whirlwind of pressing projects, left-field client revisions, last minute tweaks and skin-of-our-teeth deadlines. But we seem to have made it out onto the other side without any [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, January 19th, 2007
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With the iPhone topping Saddam’s hanging (an ’06 event but one that was conveniently slipped in after all of the Year in Reviews had gone to press) as the top story of this young year, it seems everywhere one clicks someone is d [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, January 11th, 2007
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There’s nothing quite like starting off the new year with a little post-apocalyptic anarchy care of Brian Wood‘s beautifully rendered graphic series DMZ, in which the U.S. has plunged back into civil war, and Manhattan serves as [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
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Just over 2 years to the day of launching this blog, we find ourselves at our 1000th entry. On this momentous occasion we look back warmly on the journey thus far, the strange corners of the internet that we have explored, the friends we ha [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
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The real lyrics were: She moves in mysterious ways But I misheard them as: Shamu the mysterious whale More aural blunders over at kissthisguy.com
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, December 14th, 2006
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We were just informed that we have made it to the second round of voting for the Canadian Blog Awards in the category of Best Business Blog. It is a strange category to find ourselves in. First round competitors included Canadian Entreprene [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Saturday, November 25th, 2006
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Highly surreal images composed from a combination of ultrasounds and computer graphics for an upcoming BBC documentary called Animals in the Womb.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 24th, 2006
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Is Chris Ware the Norman Rockwell of our generation? Browsing through his Thanksgiving-themed cover series for The New Yorker magazine, it seems an appropriate comparison. Happy Thanksgiving to our friends south of the border. (Via The Skin [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 24th, 2006
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For those of you not camped out outside of a FutureShop or BestBuy, the US ads for PlayStation 3 really pack a punch. Kickstart your Friday morning with Baby, Eggs and Rubik.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 17th, 2006
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Last night Vancouver’s Advertising and Design community gathered at the Westin Bayshore for the AAABC‘s 2006 Lotus Awards, which showcases some of the best advertising, design and interactive work done in British Columbia. Our o [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Events, Industrial Brand, Vancouver | 3 Comments »
Ok, we’ll be the first to admit that the title for this would have been much more suitable if we had actually managed to get this posted for Halloween. But regardless, the above phone call is a little gem that we recently revisited in [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 3rd, 2006
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On June 13th, 2006, artist Jeroen Witvliet bought a number of newspapers and proceeded to cut out images from their pages. From this collection, he would select those which he responded to most and paint them. In doing so, they became somet [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 3rd, 2006
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In keeping with the spirit of the season, Hideo Nakata’s Dark Water in 10 parts on YouTube.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
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Stephen Wiltshire is autistic and possesses an uncanny ability to recall the most minute details of a landscape. In these videos, Stephen draws aerial views of Tokyo and Rome from memory.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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The term “getting hit in the face with a water balloon” has never played out more beautifully.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, October 20th, 2006
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Riding the London Tube can be an indifferent & claustrophobic experience. Down in the underground the rat race stops for no one; so it is best to keep your head down, find your place in the flow, and shuffle on. In this mindset, imagin [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, Greenland is melting!” This was how Lorraine Gauthier and Alex Quinto introduced themselves at this year’s ICOGRADA in Seattle. It was early in the conference and the first statement that truly made [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
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It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Here be a link to get ye inspirrrred.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
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Photos from Banksy’s LA exhibit “Barely Legal”. Plus an interview with the artist himself.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
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In full 2.0 fashion, 37 Signals has officially declared that “Reflections are the new drop shadow”.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 15th, 2006
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September 23 – 30 is Banned Books Week which recognizes those great works of literature that society for one reason or another has taken issue with. Catcher in the Rye, Ulysses, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, all of these works at [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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Jacque Fresco designs the civilizations of the future; and in the process, he defines how the human race will need to change in order to get there.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
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The inimitable McSweeneys pitches a few Mac Ad Ideas of their own. (via Coudal)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 8th, 2006
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We recently helped our friend Alessandro Tento set up his website featuring some absolutely brilliant photos from his travels through China. Enjoy.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 25th, 2006
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The discovery of Fritz Kahn’s work over at the always brilliant Bibliodyssey, immediately reminded me of some of the imagery that we were using way back in the day for the IBC brand. Really cool stuff.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
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Ricky Gervais reprises his role as David Brent alongside Steve Merchant in these spots for Microsoft UK.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, August 21st, 2006
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Here’s a sure sign of the end of the consumer customization trend (or at the very least, a new low). At MyHeinz.com you can “Say it with Heinz” by placing a personalized message on your next bottle of mustard or ketchup. N [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
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There will be no bribing your way into space via Bangalore. A photo gallery from today’s Wired blog of India’s Space Program.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, August 14th, 2006
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I always tend to venture beyond the local borders when it comes to searching for inspiration, looking to what is big in Japan, or currently rising out of Europe. So it was a pleasant surprise to find myself spending a good chunk of my after [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 11th, 2006
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The unstoppable Stephen Colbert is Wired Magazine’s August Cover model. Inside, he imparts his wisdom on how to be an expert on anything, including this gem: “USE THE WORD ZEITGEIST AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. Ideally, you want to fin [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
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Warning: clicking on the link below will more than certain result in hours of lost, irreplaceable time. eyesuckink.com
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, July 28th, 2006
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While on break from ICOGRADA here at the University of Washington, we went to the Henry Art Gallery to check out the Maya Lin exhibit, Systematic Landscapes. Lin is best know for her incredibly powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washingt [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
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Check out Patrick Rebisz’s award-winning Between You and Me, a short film composed entirely of digital still photos.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, July 7th, 2006
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Intriguing and bizarre trailer for the film Brothers of the Head.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, July 6th, 2006
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Ever wonder what happens between the time you put your coin in a Coke machine and the bottle popping out at the bottom? According to this ad by Psyop, a heck of a lot more than you’d think.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 30th, 2006
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Uh…oh yeah. About that last post… Before you start writing to inform us that our blog has been hijacked, we’d like to introduce Todd Smith, designer, playboy, madman and gentleman. He’ll be guest contributing for the [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
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As a followup to our coverage of Vidfest, we caught up with Ben Burden Smith, the producer of Tony Hawk and the Boom Boom Sabotage after its world premiere screening and talked to him about the Hawk, the local pros and the challenge of capt [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
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Douglas Coupland doesn’t want to end the Book Club meeting on a positive note. They always end upbeat he explains. For once, he wants things to end darkly. “Doomed. We are all doomed.” He throws this out there as his final [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
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Please to see this website from Kazakhstani MTVe SuperStar.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 23rd, 2006
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Appropriately timed with much of what was being discussed at Vidfest last week, the New York Times has created a new blog called Screens. Written by Virginia Heffernan, the Times TV critic and former editor at Harper’s and Talk magazi [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 23rd, 2006
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Written by Ben Garfinkel and Kevin BroomeAs featured on the TAXI Design Network Conferences like Vidfest (the Vancouver International Digital Festival), which took place last week in Vancouver, Canada are excellent venues to meet people, nu [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
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Community Centre Website Course: $75.00 Domain Name Registration: $19.00 Webspace: $115.00 Leaving the branding agency’s name in your title after stealing their metatags: PRICELESS
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, June 19th, 2006
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“The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way,” said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, June 19th, 2006
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That was the message that the CBC delivered on the closing of the second day of Vidfest. Indeed, after a long hiatus last year by CBC Radio 3, during which time terms like blogging and podcasting became household words, it has returned stro [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 16th, 2006
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For the next two days, we will be at Vidfest 2006 covering the event for the TAXI Design Network out of Singapore. Our review should be posted on their site later next week but in the meantime, we’ll be posting a few photos and featur [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
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The V&A in Britain is running an exhibit showcasing the image of Che Guevara as pop culture icon. In the Curator’s Intro, Trisha Ziff states that the portrait of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara as photographed by Alberto Diaz K [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
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It is amazing how wide the gap is between pop culture and mainstream media. Last night on the evening news I learned that there was this phenomenon on the internet called “Viral Videos”. The term “viral” comes from t [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 9th, 2006
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The Field-Tested Books project is our version of the Heisenberg principle: reading a certain book in a certain place uniquely affects a person’s experience with both. The writing you’ll find here is grounded in that idea. You wo [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 9th, 2006
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And with that, Skittles officially enters the realm of “creepy advertising”. Brilliantly skin-crawling.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
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“I mean even these ceremonies are too safe. I mean this mortarboard…look, it’s padded. It’s padded everywhere. When I graduated from college, we had the edges sharpened. When we threw ours up in the air, we knew some [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
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Today’s Ping Mag features an interview with Gez Fry who decided four years ago that he wanted to be a Manga-style illustrator. His advancements since then are astounding. His personal site can be found here.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 2nd, 2006
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At A Collage a Day, artist Randel Plowman creates and posts a new 4″ x 4″ collage to this site … every day. Each collage is offered for sale and cost $25.00, which includes: 8″ x 8″ archival gallery matting, do [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Categories: Art | 1 Comment »
This will obviously not be up for long but check out the current bombed out state of 2Advanced Studios’ site. Rumour has it they are planning a redesign launch on the 1st of June. It will be interesting to see if they stick with their [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Categories: Websites | 1 Comment »
There is much anticipation for Richard Linklaters upcoming rotoscope adaptation of Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. It looks incredible. As part of the marketing package, Res Magazine is hosting a contest to remix the A Scanner Darkl [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
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There was a smaller version of this film going around a couple of weeks back, so we were pretty psyched to find that this larger version had been made available. Codehunters, a sweet anime-style short from MTV Asia.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Categories: Film | 3 Comments »
It should come as no surprise that aliens have been stealing our cows. It’s been going on for years. But it is comforting to know that someone has created a site to address this issue and hopefully bring an end to this terrible crisis [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, May 19th, 2006
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We were down at the Vancouver International Film Centre last night for the Siggraph presentation of “Vancouver Does Visual FX!” featuring a brilliant presentation by Marc Roth of The Embassy. I won a copy of the Can Con DVD from [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Categories: Film, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
Some good ol unapologetic pull-no-punches hardcore motion graphics for a Monday afternoon.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, May 15th, 2006
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Forbes magazine has released a slide show of the world’s top ten tallest buildings. Which reminded me of the MOMA’s sweet site of a couple of years ago
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
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There have been numerous arguments and theories – not to mention a few postgrad theses – postulating the Simpsons to be the most intelligent, moral, culturally relevant, Freudian, feminist, multi-cultural, political, socially sa [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, May 5th, 2006
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At Industrial Brand Creative we NEVER fall prey to the flighty trends of web design… *cough* Ok, well maybe a little. How can you not? As writer Jon states in his disclaimer before plunging into his Web Design Trend Obituary and Death [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, May 1st, 2006
Categories: Websites | 1 Comment »
Yesterday we had an awesome birthday party with the guys from Bryght for Mark’s 37th birthday. Check out all the fun we had here.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | 7 Comments »
Our friend Ze Frank has been busy with a new project as of late. The Show is a daily vidcast of newsworthy and not so worthy content that is sure to make you chuckle. Enjoy.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
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The Writers Guild of America has published a list of their 101 Greatest Screenplays. Few surprises in the Top Ten but it is nice to see people like Charlie Kaufmann and the Coen Brothers getting the nod. I thought that Patrick Marber’ [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Categories: Film | 1 Comment »
This entry almost seems more fitting over on our Kitchen Blog. Beck performs his tune “Clap Hands” on German TV as only Beck can.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, April 17th, 2006
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Interesting Wikipedia entry on the origins of the OBEY giant.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
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As we already noted a couple of weeks ago, the Applied Arts article got it somewhat wrong when it suggested that most of our blog posts “give an informal perspective on projects that Industrial Brand has undertaken”. Those of yo [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
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If you were to pick up a pencil and told to draw the Lacoste logo from memory, what would you draw? How about Adidas? Toyota? Monochrom asked 25 Austrians to draw the logos of 12 international brands as a way of testing their market strengt [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Categories: Branding | 2 Comments »
When you first start watching this sweet animation of Little Red Riding Hood, you simply assume that something is getting lost in the translation. Then things get really weird. (via Screenhead.)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
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A few months ago, we blogged about an urban marketing campaign by Sony Playstation that was met with a very hostile response from the street artist community. The lesson learned from that experience might be summed up as “don’t [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Marketing, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
What happens when the Beastie Boys hand out 50 video cameras to their fans at a concert at Madison Square Garden? Always pushing the limits, Awesome..I F**ckin’ Shot That looks…well…f**kin’ awesome. Another brilliant [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Categories: Film, Music, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
Awesome online database of Haring’s work at the Keith Haring Foundation. Be sure to check out the flipbooks.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 16th, 2006
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This just in: less is more.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Categories: Design, Fun, Learning, Marketing, Tips | 2 Comments »
We have always been very clear with potential clients, and very vocal on this blog about the issue of spec work. Other local design blogs such as ideasonideas and the GDC blog have also taken up the torch recently exposing the process for w [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
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You know that you are a true design geek when you are listening to Doyald Young recount the moment in 50′s Paris when Adrian Frutiger showed him the early drafts of a font called Univers, and you have goosebumps on your arm.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, March 10th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning | 2 Comments »
“Editing is crucial, maybe even more creative than the actual shooting. Every time you juxtapose two images, you say something. Editing is how you transmit your message, even if the message is that there is no message. You can make so [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 9th, 2006
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Okay, so “phenomenon” might be a little overstated, but there has been a pronounced trend online lately towards using or replicating a tilt-shift lens effect to make a normal photograph look like a miniature. Sam Javanrouh over [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
Categories: Photography | 3 Comments »
With Canstruction looming on the weekend’s horizon, it is interesting to check out what other food-based sculpture competitions exist out there. Without a doubt, there are few people who can turn a block of parmesan into a masterpiece [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Categories: Canstruction, Food, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
Since October, The Times and Canongate Books have been running an international call for submissions to illustrate Yann Martel’s brilliant Booker-prizewinning novel, Life of Pi. The entries have now been narrowed down to 15 shortliste [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Categories: Art, Reading | 2 Comments »
Within minutes of the arrival of my new iMac G5 Power PC this morning, the IBC team discovered the Photo Booth feature.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 17th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand | 1 Comment »
Solar Initiatives from the Netherlands has created the first full motion postage stamp in commemoration of the Olympics using lenticular technology. This goes way beyond those Cracker Jack prizes that we used to get as kids. Amazing.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Categories: Design, Learning, News, Pop Culture, Technology | No Comments »
Stumbled upon this manifesto by architect Michael McDonough while researching illustrators for a design project. From Number 7: The power to create things and impose them on the world is a privilege. Do not abuse it, do not underestimate it [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
My latest source of visual caffeine in the morning has been coming from bibliOdyssey, a blog that essentially posts etchings and illustrations from old books. Images range from the fantastical to the scientific to this rather bizarre entry [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Websites | No Comments »
In Chris Oakley’s video “The Catalogue”, human beings are reduced to little more than the sum of their spending habits and future needs. A disturbingly believable depiction of the not-too-distant future.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Categories: Film, Marketing | No Comments »
Two of our favourite writers, Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland are performing a rare joint reading at UBC at 7:30 on February 27th. It is an interesting combo. Both writers make their subject matter out of the more absurd fragments of o [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 10th, 2006
Categories: Events, Reading | No Comments »
The Vancouver International FIlm Centre is quickly becoming one of my favourite hideouts in this city. Following up last month’s viewing of the brilliant documentary
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 10th, 2006
Categories: Film | No Comments »
If you spell Chuck Norris in Scrabble, you win. Forever.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
With the Super Bowl looming on the weekend horizon, we are thankful that such a day exists for jocks and creatives to join together in celebration of the pinnicle events of their respective passions. With that in mind, Miller has posted thi [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 3rd, 2006
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So as of tomorrow morning, I will be starting my guest editing gig with the fine and talented folk over at Coudal.com. Should be a wild show. When it comes down to it, Coudal is one of the fundamental reasons that we got messed up in this b [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand, Inspiration, We love, Websites | No Comments »
Some days there is just too much good stuff floating to the cyber-surface and you want to blog it all but you also have the bills to pay. So here is the best of it: Trailer for tortured soul musical genius documentary.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, January 27th, 2006
Categories: Film, Music | No Comments »
Israeli typographer and artist Obed Ezer thinks the English language is boring; that there is a freshness in other languages that we need to keep alive in our shared culture. One look at the way in which Ezer manipulates the Hebrew text, an [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Interview | No Comments »
This made my morning. So simple and yet so effective.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
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Always a favourite topic of mine, check out this brilliant collection of Tokyo cityscapes. (via Coudal).
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
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Touch the Sound is a documentary about Evelyn Glennie, a world class international solo percussionist, composer, and teacher. She is also almost completely deaf. The film is centred around an improvised recording session with her and Fred F [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
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A collaboration between Urbanmedium and DJ Spider, The Heavy Ammunition Project” is a limited edition mix of urban sights and sounds from the streets of LA. Love the Che Troopers. Eye Candy Galore!
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
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It is often the case that societies fail to recognize the important artists of their own time, waiting instead for history — and its documenters — to filter the spoils so that they may confidently champion the winners. This arti [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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“This is what War of the Worlds should have been like” is how Spy Films plugs “Alive in Joburg”, the latest effort by Neill Blomkamp. CG expert turned director, Blomkamp has created some memorable spots with the team [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
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In this season of Top Ten Lists, Typographica has released the first of two installments of their “Favorite Fonts of 2005″. What, no Comic Sans?
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, January 6th, 2006
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Interviewed by Kevin Broome When I first stumbled upon Jeroen Witvliet’s work at the Cristall Gallery in Vancouver – his larger landscape canvasses and the starkly impactful airport series – they immediately felt important; seemin [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
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Our perspectives on ethnology, consumerism and culture will be spun on their collective heads at the end of this month when Brian Jungen arrives back in Vancouver with his New York exhibition in tow. At first glance, his work seems more fit [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
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It’s true, Koko Productions really can make anything sound good. (via The Skinny)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
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“TeaChef is a community of people who are passionate about two things: cooking and tea. Or, more specifically, cooking with tea.” Personally, I’m holding out for the Lapsang Suchong month. In the meantime, if anyone has a [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, December 8th, 2005
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Director Spike Jonze once again works his magic in this “I’ve-always-wanted-do-that” spot for the Gap. (via Screenhead)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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Stumbled over this in the morning surf. I don’t know much about this photographer other than the fact that he has done music videos for artists like Perry Farrell and Garbage, and he snaps some very provocative and engaging pics. Has [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
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It is a fine line that the big corporations walk when they try to market directly to a counter-culture. Alternative marketing techniques such as Sony’s recent urban tagging can often come across as transparent and insincere and as a r [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, December 5th, 2005
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An unsolicited video for Grandaddy’s “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)” programmed in Applesoft II on a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM. Seriously.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, November 28th, 2005
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Recently, we reported that the virtual band The Gorillaz would be going on tour using cutting edge 3D holographic format. It would seem that all of the accolades they have been racking up with their 2005 album Demon Days (Album of the Year [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, November 24th, 2005
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Europe has a drinking problem
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
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In our noble and valiant rise into the blogosphere, it is important not to forget our roots, those early blog entries that made us what we are today. In keeping with that spirit, here’s one for the Maya Hee Maya Hoo fans out there.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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WARNING: after reading this blog entry, you may never walk by your neighbour’s garage with the “backup generator” the same way ever again. A recent exhibition at the Museum of Sex in NYC features Timothy Archibald’s [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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Weirdness. That’s about all I can say about
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 4th, 2005
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In what has become a tradition of sorts at the IBC studio, Halloween was celebrated with a broadcast of the Orson Welles’ radio classic “The War of the Worlds”. Some great background info including police reports of public [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 31st, 2005
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A very fitting entry today at daily dose.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 31st, 2005
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My blog is worth $24,275.22.How much is your blog worth?
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
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“Around three a.m. a couple of days ago, I was working on some unfinished project in my studio when suddenly somebody tapped me on my left shoulder. I turned and saw F standing there. Before I could ask him how he showed up in my stud [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 24th, 2005
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Two years ago, while in Ontario visiting with friends and family, I was kindly invited to my cousin’s new home for Thanksgiving dinner. Getting there required taking the subway out to Kipling, its westernmost stop and then driving ano [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 17th, 2005
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Coudal.com’s usual Friday Drink Links was superseded today by a string of links about their “patron saint” Stanley Kubrick, including this brilliant essay on William Gibson and the Garage Kubrick. The inspiration for this [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, October 14th, 2005
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Ever since launching our new website back in December, there has been a general feeling that something was missing; that we had left something behind in the move to a kinder, gentler corporate message. With that in mind, we are pleased to a [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
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Our friend and sometime collaborator Jer Thorp is premiering his new art show tree.growth on Thursday, September [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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If you are anything like us, you are still playing the heck out of Bloc Party’s debut album “Silent Alarm”. For a band that could have easily ridden the coattails of fellow UK new wavers, Franz Ferdinand, they have demonst [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, September 8th, 2005
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In the book Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, the main character, Cayce Pollard, has a physical aversion to brands. Too much Prada or Louis Vuitton can literally turn her stomach. Seems fitting then that she excels at her job as a prof [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, September 1st, 2005
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Recently launched in association with Wooster Collective, Streetsy.com is a daily blog of street art. Most of the photos are taken with a mobile phone so the quality is not always great; but with an open policy toward sharing photos and dir [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
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Swedish Interactive Design Firm extraordinaire, North Kingdom has updated their site. Beautiful.Copyright 2005 Industrial Brand Creative
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
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Wired interviews Jon Stewart and Ben Karlin — the Daily Show’s executive producer — on the future of television and how they are leading the charge to get there.Copyright 2005 Industrial Brand Creative
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
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Reminiscent of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists, Jessica Joslin’s art melds together materials as diverse as bone, fur and brass to create truly unique creatures. via WoosterCopyright 2005 Industrial Brand Creative
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, August 22nd, 2005
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Live 8 was over two and a half months ago. The media has long since packed up and moved on to the next noble cause. Bloggers have found new headlines to tag. These beautiful and moving spots by Gorgeous show that the pressing urgency of the [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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A few months ago we blogged about the appearance of Invader’s mosaic-based Space Invader artwork in our neighbourhood. As a follow up to this, art.blogging.la, reports that many of Invader’s pieces in L.A. are being torn down, s [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
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There was little coverage to be found in the mainstream media prior to the release of the independent mockumentary It's All Gone Pete Tong. Not that it deserved to be overlook [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 5th, 2005
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“‘William Gibson is in the house,’ Bono observes through the Vertigo sound system. The ghostly red Scalectrix of the Ellipse whips past us. We wave to him.” William Gibson writes about the U2 Vertigo tour in this mon [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 5th, 2005
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Skateboarders shooting hoops from a half pipe will always make for good entertainment in my books. It does make you wonder how many missed shots did not make the final cut. Regardless, the DCShoes logo at the end of this clip led us to thei [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
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Song of the moment at the IBC studio is Death Cab for Cutie’s new single “Soul Meets Body”, available online as a free download. The album comes out on August 30th.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
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Beautiful, stark, organic and complex algorithmic artwork at complexification.net. Via blprnt.blg.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, July 15th, 2005
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“Black market LSD blotter generally bears art or a design printed on the paper. The paper is perforated into individual “tabs” or “hits” approximately 1/4 in. x 1/4 in. The sheets are then dipped in a solution [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, July 14th, 2005
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Pro skater Danny Way set a new world record this weekend by jumping over the Great Wall of China.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, July 11th, 2005
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Always inspiring, Frank Gehry reveals his proposed design for the Brooklyn Nets arena and surrounding 21 acre corridor. The Times architectural critic, Nicolai Ouroussoff proclaims “If it is approved, it will radically alter the Brook [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
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One of our favourite writers here at IBC, William Gibson has poked his head back into cyberspace after an extended sabbatical from his blog with an article in Wired magazine that compares beat writer William Burroughs’ ‘cut up m [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
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A beautifully presented and vast collection of circus posters. via Coudal.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, June 20th, 2005
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Here is one very good reason why you shouldn’t bother buying that “advanced copy” of Revenge of the Sith from the streets of Shanghai.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 17th, 2005
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Found posted on The Skinny, Mark Morford offers forth a spot-on and hilarious analysis of the Coldplay phenomenon.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 17th, 2005
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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod’s roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton ki [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 16th, 2005
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Industrial Brand Creative congratulates PSFK on a successful first year. Your keen observations on where the cultural winds blow are always a compelling read. We look forward to what you have in store in the years ahead at psfk.com and in c [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
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“Being a Pinhole photographer, Bethany’s view of the world is quite deformed. Her everyday surroundings are looked at with a Pinhole eye. Sugar cubes are like bricks and chicken-feet are tree-trunks. Inspiration comes from many [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 9th, 2005
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For those of you in the Vancouver area, Jeroen Witvliet returns to the Cristall Gallery this weekend with his stark and compelling canvases of half-constructed buildings and desolate airport runways. A personal favourite, be sure to check h [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
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Our friend Alan Wong Moon’s band The Almighty Truth is competing Friday, June 3rd on 99.3 the Fox’s Cage Match Band Battle Royale. We invite you to check them out and then rock the vote!!
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
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Eugene Mirman is an android. He has a radio in his finger. Does he want to enslave the human race? A little. Click here for more great videos from Eugene Mirman.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
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The generation that grew up listening to Fugazi and Black Flag can now be assured that their kids are raised with the same anti-establishment and DIY ethics by tuning into Pancake Mountain. Who doesn’t want to rock out to Arcade Fire [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
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Stripper dancing, clown dancing and krumping: David LaChapelle focuses his lens on the new rhythms rizing out of South Central LA.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
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Our recent adventures in the blogosphere have introduced us to a number of interesting characters and opportunities. In particular, we have been working closely with Piers Fawkes of PSFK.com, skinning and contributing to a new project calle [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, May 23rd, 2005
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Banksy is at it again. The British Museum recently discovered an unauthorized addition to their Roman Britain gallery that depicts a caveman pushing a ‘supermarket trolley’. The piece (which has become known as ‘The Peckha [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, May 20th, 2005
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The only thing better than sushi… chocolate sushi. via Veer.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
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A very cool cross reference of sampling and source in hip hop. via Coudal.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
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After being voted as having the world’s “Worst Agency Reel” by Adweek, Grey Advertising has set out to make the most of their new status by posting their reel online for the masses to decide. via PSFK
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
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Mike Industries recently held a competition in which contestants sent in photos of iPod Shuffles they had built out of food. A slide show of the honour roll entries including the winner by Davin Risk can be viewed here. The spam (of the can [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
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“Giving this away is an experiment. I’m interested to see what comes of it, what issues are raised and what the results are.” – Trent Reznor While the record studios are calling for Congressional aid in shutting down [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
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Behind the mild lunacy and absurd notion of adopting a chicken from Ghana is a very focused and serious message by Pressureworks, an extension of Christian Aid, obviously created with the purpose of presenting an edgier side of the global d [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, April 15th, 2005
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It would seem these days that if you aren’t using Flickr for some reason or another then you are truly out of the loop. To that regard, PSFK, a trend spotting blog and a regular on my daily visits list, have introduced the PSFK Global [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
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A most excellent and comprehensive collection of Radiohead artwork.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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Banksy, one of the most infamous and influential street artists around, recently created a stir with the unauthorized installation of his own artwork in the Brooklyn Museum, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’s Muse [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
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I caught the Colleen Flynn Lawson exhibit at the Jennifer Kostuik Gallery on South Granville this weekend. Beautiful, organic, and soft focused – like forests reflected in still ponds. Her tall panel canvases are intermixed throughout [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
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Back in the day, before Bling and Courvoisier, hip hop was a new energy rising up from the inner city streets of America. These flyers from the early 80′s take it back to its roots.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, March 7th, 2005
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Yahoo! turns 10 today and to commemorate this benchmark they have launched an “netrospective” that looks back on the 100 most significant online events of the past ten years. Browsing through these, it is amazing to realize how [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
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Project Blinkenlight turns the side of buildings in Paris and Berlin into night time animated light shows by tapping into their lighting systems and essentially creating a pixel board out of their windows. Their latest project features an i [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, February 28th, 2005
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A couple of months ago, we stumbled upon a photoblog website out of Japan called fotologue.jp. Its clean and dynamic interface far surpassed anything that we had seen in the North American market. Basically, we wanted one for our own. So af [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 25th, 2005
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18 artists were sent a set of Russian nesting dolls and here is what came back.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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If M.C. Escher were around today, he would probably be doing things like this.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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The self proclaimed creator of gonzo journalism and long time hero of mine, Hunter S. Thompson shot himself yesterday afternoon at his home in Woody Creek, Colo. A nasty way to go, to be sure. One might argue that the myth had no more use f [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, February 21st, 2005
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Us vs. Them. War vs. Peace. Yes vs. No. Ernie vs. Bert. All the great battles of the our time find an arena at googlefight.com. A great way to waste 5 hours.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 18th, 2005
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Kirstan Horton has watched Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 730 times in the last two years. This has led him to build replicate stills from the film using everyday objects around [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
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Brilliant illustration at mediumphobic.com.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 10th, 2005
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It is the Year of the Rooster. People who are born in this year like to be busy and are devoted beyond their capabilities. Hence, it comes as no surprise to learn that this is the year Mark was born. In celebration of this day, here is a co [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
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With Valentine’s day just around the corner, we can be thankful that we have Hallmark Greeting Cards to express our feelings for us. Brilliant animated short by Chris Harding. (via Coudal)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 4th, 2005
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I’ve just recently finished posting the “Top Ten Most Important Websites (to me) of 2004″ at my personal site. Coudal Partners earned top honours and then reciprocated by posting my site (and IBC’s) on their Fresh Si [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
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A very useful link for something very dear to all of us at Industrial Brand. After picking up a few pointers, check out the recipe page in the B-sides of our website.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
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We are in the process of creating the soundscape for our new website. As inspiration for our sound designer Alan Wong Moon, we sent over these incredible photos of the Tokyo underground.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
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Alexandre Orion’s art is a two step process combining street art and photography to produce something altogether unique. (via Wooster Collective)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 31st, 2005
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Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, January 28th, 2005
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Boom Selection want to remind you that music piracy supports terrorism. But it is hard to adhere to this with all of the amazing music they offer.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
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Created by Jason Koxvold of bubble & squeak as “a soapbox on which I could stand to voice my lofty ideas for how to make the world a better place”, betaplanet.org is a good place to go if you’ve got an hour or four to [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 24th, 2005
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It is a rare occasion these days for any of us to see the wrong side of the sunrise; but the wee hours of this past Saturday morning found us fine-tuning a shot treatment for our entry into the first annual
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
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Three weeks ago, a few of us climbed aboard a 1958 Beaver float plane - one of two vessels in the Salt Spring Island Airlines fleet - and made a pilgrimage out to t [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
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There is something in the air today about trains: Tag the System (via coudal) Daily Dose Chromasia
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, January 20th, 2005
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These photos of high rise Hong Kong living by Michael Wolf make for excellent screen savers but leave us feeling a tad claustrophobic.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
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Still in its inception phase, Design for Asia is being organized by Liquid Orb and Newstoday to raise money for the disaster in Asia. Get involved.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
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The tsunami wreaked havoc on all levels of the ocean. This russian website has documented some of the surreal deep sea creatures that were brought out of their dimension into ours.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 17th, 2005
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How many times have you found yourself wishing that life could be more like a musical? Check out this video from Prangstgrup.(via Coudal).
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
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After waiting patiently for word from Steve Jobs’ keynote address, followed by endless googling for the latest info and photos of the Mac mini and iPod Shuffle, I am left feeling somewhat deflated. Neither of these offerings seem on p [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 11th, 2005
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It is not surprising to note that the recent round of postings at coudal.com seems to be preoccupied with the power of water and the absolute devastation it can cause. Check out these hurricane photos by Clifford Ross.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
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“ Frank Kozik was born in Madrid, Spain in 1962. At the age of 14, he moved to the United States and settled in Austin Texas. Credited with single handedly reviving the “lost” art of the concert poster, Frank’s creat [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
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The National Press Photographers Association has just released the winners for the best photojournalism of 2004. Compelling and powerful.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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Mamoru Oshii’s follow-up to the 1995 epic and genre defining animated feature, Ghost in the Shell comes out on DVD in North America today. I have been in possession of a early release from Tokyo for a couple of weeks now but the trans [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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It is always a pleasant way to start the morning with a remix of your latest song waiting in your InBox. firstChild is a project that Alan Wong Moon and I have been working on for the last six months or so. This is song number three, curren [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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