How to tell if a web page sucks
For you interweb amateurs out there, here’s a handy system to determine if a web page sucks.
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, November 2nd, 2007
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Google & Translink hook up
Oh FINALLY. If you’re like me, and you absolutely abhor using Translink’s website (for countless reasons, one of them being it’s slower than the second coming of Christ), then you’ll be all over this. Translink final [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, November 2nd, 2007
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Awwww shit
Here’s an interesting fucking article. Turns out swearing at work isn’t a bad thing! Phew.
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
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LeighAnywhere
I don’t want to harp on my pathetic luck, but last week I rebroke my foot doing too much too soon. It’s highly disappointing discovering that you are not, in fact, invincible, and that stubbornness is your own worst enemy. IR [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, September 14th, 2007
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Sexy New Hardware
Apple announced the new iMacs today. Pretty sleek, although I’ll miss the white. My only gripe is that black frame around the screen. Why not make the entire face of it black, in all its fingerprint-prone glory? I think the brushed al [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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That’s a compact?
I’m generally disgusted by the way people conduct themselves in cars, so this concept seems right up my alley: “Sick of a car taking up two spaces on the street? How about a car too close to yours? What about the car at the mall [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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, you probably already know about the 7-11 stores across the US that have been temporarily converted to Kwik-E-Marts to promote the upcoming Simpsons movie. What you may not know is that we have one in the GVR, specifically in Coquitlam. This is particularly special when you consider that it is the only Kwik-E-Mart in Canada, and one of only 12 in North America.
The store is full of Simpsons products like Buzz Cola and Squishies (Slurpee machines re-skinned), and apparently in the US stores you can even buy Duff Beer. To see some pictures of our local store, check out this <a href=)
Homer no function beer well without.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or without your daily internets (heaven forbid!), you probably already know about the 7-11 stores across the US that have been temporarily converted to Kwik-E-Marts to promote the upcoming Simpsons [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Categories: Advertising, Film, Marketing, Vancouver | No Comments »
Warped Wallpaper
Surrealalien.de has come up with an interesting idea: wallpaper that warps around your doors and wall hangings. The concept: “Our product dissolves limits between architecture, wallpaper and hangings, with the wallpaper functioning as [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, June 15th, 2007
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 waste of money. What in the world is it? Read on:
<blockquote>Bruster's® Real Ice Cream™, the country's premium ice cream retail franchise with more than 260 stores in 18 states, unveiled the world's first $1 million ice cream cone at the JCK Las Vegas Show. This work of art is created in the likeness of its signature waffle cone.</blockquote>
It is, however, highly topical as I stumbled upon it my RSS feeds not 45 minutes after Ben)
Work of art?
I present to you another example of the dire state of the human race. Considering all of the things going on in the world, this seems like a frivolous, almost immoral (as Mark put it) waste of money. What in the world is it? Read on: Bruste [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Thursday, June 14th, 2007
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Office Sound Bites
Some of you wouldn’t believe the things that come out of our mouths here at IBC, and I think it would be a good idea to start posting some of these random sound bites without the benefit of any sort of context. After all, if we don [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Categories: Industrial Brand | 2 Comments »
Heeeey Duuuude
Man, I remember when I used to sit around listening to the Beatles, thinking “this is really cool and all, but I’d like to hear some of these songs as James Hetfield would sing them.” Thanks to Beatallica, I no longer have [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Categories: Fun, Music, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Geography of Online Communities
Today I stumbled upon this map of online community dominance represented in a geographical format. An interesting way to look at the prevalence of some of these communities and their relationships to one another. Also, if you read some of t [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
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When taxidermy and technology collide
I don’t want to meet the person that would want to use this real mouse.
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, April 27th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Technology | 2 Comments »
I hurt myself today…
There’s something so creepy, yet so perfect about Kermit the Frog singing the NIN song “Hurt” in a music video with all the stereotypical drug addict scenarios being played out by Kermit himself. It doesn’t end there [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, April 6th, 2007
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Shorpy
Shorpy isn’t just any photo blog, it showcases photos from the turn of the last century up to the early 1940s. Some of the images are fantastic, especially the ones from the 1940s. For some reason I never imagined photography that was [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, March 30th, 2007
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Yet another face
In the spirit of the art and illustration theme we’ve had going on lately, here’s a small but really cool portfolio via Drawn! The Illustration Blog. They’re 3D computer generated pieces based on automatic drawings. The re [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
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When mascots go terribly wrong….
Here’s some Friday fun courtesy of Drivl: The Worst NCAA D-I College Mascots. My personal favourite is number 21, Sammy the Owl. Any mascot that resembles a cross between the Predator and one of the bums from Bumfight, (and is suppose [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, March 16th, 2007
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Mosh pits never looked so good
I stumbled upon fantastic street artist Dan Witz via Wooster Collective last night. His street art is amazing and beautiful, but I particularly like his mosh pit series of paintings. The style of these really reminds me of Norman Rockwell, [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
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Got Googe?
I always enjoy seeing what Google comes up with when specializing their logo for holidays and events. They must have been in a hurry to get their Valentine’s Day logo up (what with taking over the world and all) because their designer [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Categories: Pop Culture, Typography, Websites | 1 Comment »
The future is TOO friendly.
If you don’t currently have a stalker, and are feeling a bit left out, the Mini Cooper might help you fill that void with billboards that speak to you. The boards, which usually carry typical advertising, are programmed to identify ap [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »
NYC’s True Graffiti Problem
Although I work in an industry that is unavoidably related to advertising, I have to admit that the prevalence of advertising is reaching ridiculous levels, embedding itself deep within almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives. That̵ [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Thursday, January 25th, 2007
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For the person who has everything.
There seems to be an entire culture surrounding moleskine notebooks, to the point where there are galleries on the net displaying the contents of people’s moleskines. Behold the perfect gift for the moleskine-obsessed loved one: elect [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Categories: Design, Pop Culture | No Comments »
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