Recently a prospective new client asked us some rather pointed questions about the nature of what we provided as brand designers, the difference between branding and marketing, as well as some other rather insightful queries. This client wa [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 30th, 2012
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We are concerned about our impact on the environment and strive to create business practices that support sustainability. In our business we strive to reduce our use of paper and take other steps to control our impact environmentally. In ou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 29th, 2011
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I was recently asked to be a presenter at PechaKucha Toronto. Of course it was an honour and, telling myself that these sort of challenges lead to discovery and reward, I happily agreed. As the day grew near I started to fret—OK, I was [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Categories: Articles, Events, Inspiration, Learning | 1 Comment »
We recently sent our summer newsletter which covers topics like how to brew the perfect cup of iced coffee, a quick look at a couple recent success stories, an article about how businesses can select the best design partner, and an announc [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
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An article titled Substance over Style by our Design Director Mark Busse was recently featured in the latest issue of Business In Vancouver’s Adpages Magazine about how businesses can more effectively attract, evaluate and select a de [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
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An edited version of the following article was published on DesignEdgeCanada.com on June 7, 2011: Walking into the Interlink Conference felt a bit like witnessing two worlds collide. Half the audience was the hardcore designer set, with th [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
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The following article was published on DesignEdgeCanada.com on June 2, 2011: Web design veteran Shawn Johnston was frustrated by a lack of local forums for progressive conversation and collaboration aimed at propelling the web from a new i [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
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Industrial Brand is excited to welcome two new members to our growing communication design team. Sylvia Rigakis comes to us from Edmonton Alberta where she owned and managed her Chaos Communications for 14 years and served as President of t [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
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Move beyond the RFP to evaluate and hire the best design firm I have responded to numerous Requests For Proposals (RFPs) in the two decades I have been managing a design studio, and we have developed a point of view that makes some business [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, April 8th, 2011
Categories: Articles, Industrial Brand, Learning, Tips | 1 Comment »
The next Likemind Vancouver event will be held at 8am on Friday, April 15th, and hosted by Ethical Bean Café 91315 Kootenay Street (near Boundary & 1st Ave) (Click here for directions).
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 31st, 2011
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Article in BIV's How-To 2011 publication argues that businesses who invest in hiring experienced designers have advantage and reap rewards.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, February 13th, 2011
Categories: Articles, Industrial Brand, Reading, Tips, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
There’s something happily surreal about sipping on your morning coffee and reading the newspaper when you stumbled across a story about a client’s success story. Very nice indeed. A few years ago we designed the logo, brand iden [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
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An open letter to our future clients on why we charge more.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Categories: Articles, Industrial Brand, Tips, We love | 2 Comments »
The next Likemind Vancouver event will be held at 8am on Friday, January 21st, and hosted by Prophouse Café at 1636 Venables St. (one block west of Commercial Dr) (Click here for directions).
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
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Our firm is entering its 15th year, and despite being frequently hailed as successful design industry veterans, my partner Ben and I often feel like we have much to learn—both personally and professionally—hence our recently joining The [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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Design is in chaos, and leadership is sorely lacking. It’s time for those with the ability to take the reins of power and haul the industry into the modern world.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
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Over the years as a design director, design association executive, and design instructor, I’ve been asked by innumerable potential students about the merits or shortcomings of the various local design schools. It seemed time to put these [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 15th, 2010
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Separating Church and State (of Mind). At some point in our lives, each of us learns the lesson that discussing religion or politics in mixed company can backfire.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 15th, 2010
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Industrial Brand is looking for the next member of their communication design team. If you think that’s you, visit this job posting on GDC.net and convince us you’re the right choice. Before you send us that cover letter and res [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Categories: Industrial Brand, News | 1 Comment »
The next Likemind Vancouver event will be held at 8am on Friday, August 20th and hosted by Kafka’s Coffee & Tea House at 2525 Main Street (at Broadway) (Click here for directions).
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, July 31st, 2010
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Last year our brand identity project for Yaaway was featured in BIV’s special AdPages issue in an article called Logos Stick written by Jill Lambert. This year we are proud to have some of our work and opinions featured by BIV again, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
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Matt recently wrote a great article about why he was excited about the upcoming Icograda Design Week Vancouver 2010 conference. This week Icograda released this animated promo video about the theme of Design Currency created by Rethink, Gia [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration, Vancouver, Video, We love, animation | 1 Comment »
After a lengthy search resulting in dozens of portfolio reviews and interviews, Industrial Brand is proud to announce the newest member of its growing communication design team. Joanna Ambrosio was born in Mexico City and raised in Guadalaj [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Categories: Industrial Brand, News | 7 Comments »
“We need a Facebook page and a Twitter account, right?” ask many of our clients these days. Much like clients who want news sections or blogs as part of their websites, our answer is always “It really depends.” If so [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Categories: Articles, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Tips | 2 Comments »
Our very own Matt SamyciaWood was featured in a recent issue of Business in Vancouver with his article A Home Business is Still a Business. Addressing some of the more common mistakes with branding a business, Matt shares insights into how [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
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Jim Rimmer died last week and I really wasn’t sure I wanted to post anything online after writing a tribute post for my recently deceased friend Leo Obstbaum. Losing people takes the wind right out of your sails. Then I found the foll [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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Happy New Year! The first Likemind event of 2010 is scheduled for 8am, January 15th and will be hosted by W2 Community Arts at the W2 Culture + Media House at 112 West Hastings Street (the Perel building across the street from the fancy new [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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We just received the Call For Entries for Graphex 2010—GDC’s biennial national design awards. The concept is “A Reflection Of The Best Designers In Canada”, so I photographed myself reflected in the shiny mirror postcard [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
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If you are serious about your career as a designer, and want to learn from the world’s top experts while participating in an important dialogue about the nature and value of our industry, leaving you better equipped to tackle social, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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I recently spoke with a client who expressed his frustration with design firms who include associates on websites or in proposal responses without clearly expressing that they are external contractors and not employees. Does it really matte [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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GDC/BC‘s President, Marga Lopez, recently asked me to submit an overview of 2009 from my perspective as a GDC Executive. After a little thought, I jotted down the following, which I thought I’d share here.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 10th, 2009
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IMPORTANT UPDATE – See amendment below for some good news. I love living in Vancouver for a myriad of reasons. The more I travel, the more I realize how good we have it here. But I have to say, as a creative professional who makes his [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 30th, 2009
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More competition than ever. Arts funding cuts. An industry in collapse. These are the challenges Canadian musicians have faced for years. I don’t envy any young artist who decides to make a career out of music these days.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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When I was a much younger man studying fine art in university, we spent a lot of time practicing how to interpret and describe artwork, its meaning and how it made us feel. Later, during my business administrations studies, writing essays, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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My friend and colleague Leo Obstbaum, the creative mastermind behind the designs of the Vancouver Olympic Games, died suddenly in his home of natural causes in the early hours of Friday, August 21st. He left behind his beautiful wife Monice [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
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Those who argue that plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery are full of crap and deluding themselves. Plagiarism is taking someone’s original material and pretending it is your own for your own gain. I was recently informed (tha [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, September 28th, 2009
Categories: Articles | 8 Comments »
We’re often asked about how Industrial Brand does business development and find our clients. Good question, but not one that can be easily answered in a short explanation or blog post. One issue that always gets met with raised eyebro [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 25th, 2009
Categories: Articles, Branding, Tips | 1 Comment »
We just finished a new identity and marketing campaign for a development project called District South Main for our client Amacon. The first teaser advertisements just hit the streets and the initial website has launched and is now acceptin [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Categories: Design, Marketing, News, Vancouver | 3 Comments »
Likemind has come a long way since its inception and profile in the New York Times. With about 250 members in Vancouver, our “chapter” has become one of the most active, with a lively Facebook Group, Flickr page and Twitter feed [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
We recently revealed a fun outdoor advertising campaign for Bikram’s Yoga Metrotown. Aimed at a broad spectrum of men and women from a variety of cultures, ages, shapes, and fitness, our challenge was to create brand awareness ads tha [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 13th, 2009
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A design student asked me to rant on video for a project she was working on and asked me to speak about the topic of speculative design work. So I agreed and showed up to present the following diatribe on camera—you should have seen their [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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There’s a new book that’s been published by maomao publications called Blogs, Mad about Design, featuring profiles and screenshots from more than 250 blogs about design-related topics—including this blog. Sort of a compendium [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 19th, 2009
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Icograda has formally announced Design Week 2010 to be hosted by GDC in Vancouver with official event profile information on their website.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 15th, 2009
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Likemind is gaining momentum in Vancouver, with over 200 members on its Facebook Group. Events the each 3rd Friday of each month, with the next gathering on June 19th at Elysian Coffee‘s new location at 590 West Broadway, between Camb [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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One great thing about what we do as brand and interactive designers is the variety of clients and projects we get to work on, each very different needs, goals, and audiences. One day it’s a brand and collateral aimed at investors or a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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There’s an old saying about 15 minutes of fame—that “all publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell your name right.” Well maybe my appearance this week on ESPN’s Jim Rome is Burning was the closest thing t [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Categories: Fun, News, Pop Culture, Vancouver, Video | 1 Comment »
Bill Buxton is so cool. He’s Canadian, a massively talented designer, and arguably the world authority on interaction and usability design. What’s not to like? Oh, Buxton does work at Microsoft as their Principal Researcher, but [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Interaction, Learning, Technology, Video, We love | No Comments »
I sense a long article coming on. This happens with me sometimes as things rattle around in my brain, and if I don’t write something—often something snarky—it haunts me to the point of distraction. As someone who has always been r [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Categories: Industrial Brand, Tips | 5 Comments »
It’s certainly no secret that we’re huge fans of GDC, the national design association in Canada, and the various events they produce. So, I’d like to encourage any and all creative professionals that work within the commun [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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Last night I visited the the brand new Vancouver Convention Centre for the first time. While there I took special notice of the convention centre’s new identity and its applications. At first I must admit the logo baffled me a bit as [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Categories: Branding, Design, Inspiration, Vancouver | 6 Comments »
April 27th is World Graphic Design Day, and the Canadian design community celebrated with GDC announcing new sustainability definitions and principles for its members at the National AGM in Winnipeg on April 26th. This is a huge leap forwar [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Categories: Associations, Design, News, Sustainability | 1 Comment »
It’s time again for Likemind Vancouver, this time on Friday, April 17th at the Starbucks at Nelson and Mainland. Come join this growing group of very cool people for a cup of coffee and some terrific conversation. Here are photos from [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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A couple times a year my calendar gets ridiculously filled with various meetings, coffees, drinks, events, dinners, etc. Sometimes I even show my calendar to design students as part of a lecture about inspiration as a part of balancing work [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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Who needs a screen, ports or even input devices? The new Apple iMac Shuffle ultimate in minimalism.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 30th, 2009
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DOXA Documentary Film Festival Needs Our Help Graphic designers don’t often participate in documentary filmmaking, which is a shame. Just as our craft helps shape culture, documentaries are powerful storytelling vehicles, often reveal [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Categories: Associations, Film, Inspiration, Vancouver, We love | 1 Comment »
Tourism BC, perhaps best known for creating the memorable brand campaign Super, Natural British Columbia, recently concluded its search for creative partners and Industrial Brand was honoured to be selected among the preferred suppliers of [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Categories: Industrial Brand, News, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
We really enjoy working with architects. The simple fact that we speak the same language of design and work in the creative field, often immersed in a similar processes makes it all the more appealing. Last year we were fortunate to be aske [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 20th, 2009
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The Alcuin Society and BC Chapter of GDC are co-producing a FREE EVENT featuring Canadian book designer, illustrator, art director, and publisher Frank Newfeld on April 2nd at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Categories: Associations, Events, Illustration, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »
Most of us have already seen Microsoft’s impressive multi-touch display technology, but I’m not sure how accurate this utopian portrait of the future of computing is, called Microsoft Sustainability. Pretty awesome bit of motion [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, Motion-graphics, Sustainability, Technology | No Comments »
Choosing the right partner to expand your design business can be just the thing you need to survive and grow, especially in these uncertain economic times. Recently we published a short article about partnerships which was well received, le [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 12th, 2009
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Here’s an article about Hemlock Printers on BC Hydro’s website about their hard work to protect our environment. Good work guys! Now, can I UV coat, laminate, foil stamp, hot glue and add thermography to that booklet project? Aw [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Categories: Printing, Sustainability | No Comments »
Today I received an email from an old friend who is a beverage marketing consultant who has been working on a beer brand identity with a design firm in Kelowna. I’d not heard of them, but their online portfolio contains some good work [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Categories: Branding, Design | 7 Comments »
I made a deal with myself, my wife and my business partner when I accepted the nomination for Presidency of GDC/BC back in 2006, promising that I would work hard for one term and hand the reigns to a qualified successor. Well, here we are a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Categories: Articles | 3 Comments »
Come make your voice heard and your vote count at the GDC BC’s Annual General Meeting and holiday social on January 22nd at Stanley Park Pavilion. Our special guest speaker this year is Mark Strassburger from Modern Dog in Seattle, wh [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 19th, 2009
Categories: Associations, Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
I was recently asked to submit an article about partnerships for the Small Business section of Business in Vancouver (BIV) magazine. The article, called Is a partnership the right choice for your business to weather these stormy times?, fou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 12th, 2009
Categories: Articles | 3 Comments »
Industrial Brand’s new identity design was recently honoured by being featured in the Galeria section of International Council of Graphic Design Associations’ website.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 10th, 2009
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Our old friend Gary Hustwit, who brought us the feature-length film Helvetica about typography, graphic design and global visual culture, is putting the final touches on his newest documentary project, Objectified—this time a fascinating [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 5th, 2009
Categories: Design, Film, Inspiration, Movie | No Comments »
The follow review by Mark Busse was originally published on TAXI Design Network: David B. Berman has been demonstrating inspired design leadership for nearly three decades and this book is no exception. After decades of volunteer work as an [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Categories: Articles | 4 Comments »
Not that I feel guilty when I eat rabbit anyway, but clearly bunnies are suicidal and should be put out of their misery, as is evidenced in these funny cartoons from Andy Riley’s Book of Bunny Suicides.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 29th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Reading | 2 Comments »
As President of the BC chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), I recently wrote an article on behalf of GDC called How to Use Communication Design to Weather a Recession for Business in Vancouver (BIV) Magazine. The art [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Categories: Articles | 2 Comments »
Oh boy. It’s back. A few years ago we were amused by the Maya Hee kid and his silly video and our blog post shot to the top of our stats, getting thousands of hits as people Googled the song looking for this silly boy. Well today I he [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Categories: Music, Pop Culture | 3 Comments »
I hope that most readers of this blog are familiar with our Stefan G. Bucher and his daily monster drawings. His book—a signed copy with intro by Ze Frank is sitting on my bookshelf right now—contains 100 drawings done over 100 days, ma [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Categories: Art, Fun, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | 1 Comment »
Likemind Vancouver is gaining momentum with over a dozen cool folks showing up for coffee. Here are photos from the event. The next event will be held on January 16th at Workspace in Gastown, Vancouver, so if you’re interested in star [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Categories: Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
As mentioned previously, Richard and I are co-hosting Likemind Vancouver, which has recently gotten the attention of the New York Times. So, if you’re interested in 45 minutes of coffee and casual conversation with likeminded creative [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, November 28th, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
I was recently honoured to be invited to sit on an expert panel at a CAPIC event for their Portfolio Series called Your Body of Work: Launching a Creative Vision for your Photography. The event was about how image makers such as photographe [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, November 7th, 2008
Categories: Articles | 3 Comments »
As a Partner and Design Director at a thriving studio, I tend to spend more time bringing in new business, dealing with clients or taking care of administrative duties more than actual design and production these days. Par for the course I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 31st, 2008
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Music | 1 Comment »
The Rubitone, by Ignacio Pilotto: A Rubik’s Cube with Pantone colour chips—now why didn’t I think of that? [props to my man Cory for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Categories: Art, Fun, Inspiration | No Comments »
As mentioned previously, Richard and I are co-hosting Likemind Vancouver, which has recently gotten the attention of the New York Times. So, if you’re interested in 45 minutes of coffee and casual conversation with likeminded creative [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »
I consider myself lucky to one of the lucky few able to get a ticket to last night’s sold out inaugural Interesting Vancouver conference with some friends. Oops, I meant to say “unconference.” It was the third local event [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »
Wolda ’08 Worldwide Logo Design Annual Winners Announced, though none from Canada or Mexico We’ve kept our eye on this year’s inaugural Wolda ’08 Worldwide Logo Design Competition hosted by Italy’s Eulda Books. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Categories: Awards, News | No Comments »
As we near the final launch of the our new brand identity, we’re putting the final touches on promo items such as a new demo reel. For the music, we asked our good friend and frequent collaborator Alan Wong-Moon to compose an original [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Categories: Branding, Industrial Brand, Music | 1 Comment »
Another part of relaunching a brand with as many media touchpoints as ours is all the photography required! Beyond the endless portfolio shots of work is the need for headshots of our team. Enter Sven Boecker, longtime friend, client, colla [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Categories: Branding, Industrial Brand, Photography | No Comments »
The Winners of The 2008 W3 Awards have been announced by the The International Academy of the Visual Arts today and the team at Industrial Brand were awarded a Silver for the UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture website. With [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 17th, 2008
Categories: Awards, Industrial Brand, Websites | No Comments »
Sorry for the short notice, but I immediately thought of you guys when I realized our next Likemind event is tomorrow morning at JJ Bean on Commercial. My friend Piers Fawkes and Noah Brier hosted the original Likemind event in New York, bu [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Categories: Events, News, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
Industrial Brand recently welcomed two new members of its growing design team. Mathilde Salvert was born and raised in France and graduated from the École Estienne in Paris, before completing her design studies at the London College of Pri [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Here’s nothing more than geeky fun to inspire you today: singing Tesla coils!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Categories: Fun, Inspiration | No Comments »
Nearly everyone knows we’re partial to small furry critters (which reminds me, we need to have another Hamster Party soon) as well as passionate foodies. But we seldom get to combine our love of food and rodents, though we’ve be [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 26th, 2008
Categories: Food, Fun, Video, We love | 4 Comments »
We love coffee in the studio—it’s a part of our foodie culture at Industrial Brand. In fact, we’re hard at work designing a new brand identity, collateral and packaging for a local gourmet coffee consultancy and retail franchi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 26th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Food, Industrial Brand, Vancouver | No Comments »
During the research and planning phase of an upcoming GDC event—Practivism: Practical methods for radical sustainability in design—I came across Alyssa Walker’s article Conventional Wisdom: Eight Ways to Save Design Conferences. I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 26th, 2008
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Learning, Sustainability, Vancouver | No Comments »
After months of work in secrecy, the design team at VANOC has revealed the new graphic identity system and sport pictograms for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. VANOC’s Design Director, Leo Obstbaum, said “The sport illustra [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Categories: Design, Vancouver | No Comments »
Buenos Aires isn’t the first place I think of when I consider type foundries, but Studipos has some brilliant fonts. Check em out.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 29th, 2008
Categories: Design, Typography, Websites | 2 Comments »
This post is for those of you who need a shot of inspiration. Pour yourself a tea in a quiet place (or put your headphones on), sit back and enjoy this wisdom that comes from a very special place. Randy Pausch was a popular professor of Com [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 29th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration | No Comments »
When you know the germs are out to get you, inspired product and packaging design can make feverish hand-washing a joy. I’ll admit it: I’m a germaphobe. I squirm when in the presence of germs and even talking about bacteria can [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 29th, 2008
Categories: Articles | 4 Comments »
The winners of the 12th annual Webby Awards were just announced and the Graphex 2008 website, designed and developed by Industrial Brand Creative, was chosen as an Honoree out of more than 8,000 entries in 70 categories. To be selected amon [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Categories: Associations, Awards, Design, Industrial Brand, News, Websites | No Comments »
We’re proud to have recently designed the new brand identity and website for Jakes Construction. A contracting company that started fifteen years ago with one man named Jake, this family-owned company grew to be one of the largest con [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Categories: Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, News, Websites | No Comments »
I enjoy performance art as much as the next guy (fact: few people enjoy performance art), but this Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson should be recognized for creating the weirdest bit I’ve seen in a while using a mask of exploding [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Categories: Art, Inspiration | No Comments »
This week our team has been hard at work putting the final touches on a new brand identity for Industrial Brand. After a decade with the same logo and tagline, an update was long overdue. Stay tuned for the reveal in the coming weeks.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Categories: Branding, Industrial Brand | 4 Comments »
Let’s face it: Gary Hustuit’s documentary Helvetica was a runaway hit. I certainly didn’t expect so many designers and non-designers alike to get so goofy about a film about a typeface. Building on his success and reputati [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Categories: Design, Film, Inspiration, Movie, News, We love | No Comments »
Why would ANYONE throw away a perfectly good The Bionic Woman boardgame from the 1970′s? Signed by Jamie Sommers even! Wait, is it just me, or does Jamie Sommers look exactly like Brittney Spears?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 28th, 2008
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
We’ve enjoyed collaborating with our friends at Mercury Filmworks as their design team for many years and were proud to develop and launch their new identity as part of their 10 year anniversary celebrations. Using elements of the pre [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 28th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, News | No Comments »
An unstructured list of experiences, pet peeves, and advice surrounding interactive design and development. Let’s make something clear right now: I’m not a trained web developer. Nor am I any sort of interactive expert in my opi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
UPDATE: We just learned that this brand identity project has been accepted into the upcoming Communication Arts Design Annual. Woot woot! We recently worked on a fascinating branding and interactive design project for an online video sharin [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
I hope one day I am invited back to my high school or university to give a commencement speech like Patton Oswalt. Simply put, he rules.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Categories: Fun, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Today I am in San Francisco at the PSFK Conference, billed as a day of trends, inspiration and creativity. So far I am enjoying the content and discussions so much that I am going to avoid trying to frantically keep up with notes, Twitter a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Learning, Trends | No Comments »
As mentioned previously, Matt and I recently gave a presentation about personal branding to a local professional association. We talked about how some simple brand strategies and tactics often reserved for businesses could be applied to hel [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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Industrial Brand was honoured to design and produce promotional materials for Surrey Art Gallery‘s newly launched Glocal Project. Glocal is a recent project co-developed by our friend and collaborator Jer Thorp (blprnt.com), who will [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 27th, 2008
Categories: Art, Events, Industrial Brand, Vancouver, Websites | No Comments »
A hearty congratulations to IBC Brand Director Matt SamyciaWood for being awarded the MGDC certified professional designer designation by The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada [GDC]. Considering Matt has a Masters of Design and has bee [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 27th, 2008
Categories: Associations, Design, Industrial Brand, News | 1 Comment »
I met fellow Vancouverite Stewart Butterfield (of Flickr fame) briefly a few years ago and various friends of mine know him well. So for me it wasn’t such a surprise that Butterfield’s recent resignation letter to Yahoo was a li [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Categories: News, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
Young designers often ask us what the most important skills or things to know are. And they are invariably surprised when we say the ability to write proficiently in English (with correct grammar and spelling) is critical in the communicati [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 20th, 2008
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Applied Arts Magazine announced its latest list of winners today, and Vacnouver’s Rethink Communications cleaned up. As usual. 44 of their submissions were chosen as winners—including the Graphex 2008 invitations they designed for G [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Categories: Associations, Awards, Design, News, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Recently I attended the Rock Awards hosted by the Vancouver Island Chapter of GDC in Victoria. And what a night to remember. After a delicious locally grown organic meal, the room went dark and was filled with the deep, ominous sounds of a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Categories: Associations, Awards, Design, Events, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
I’d totally wear this t-shirt, if only to dare strangers to start a dialogue and perhaps debate whether design really any more honest than advertising. Would you? Is design really honest?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 16th, 2008
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Does everyone remember Paul Wallace? He’s still around here somewhere… Anyway, these days he spends a lot of times in dank, windowless, rented rooms asking people what they feel about or how much they like or dislike coffee and [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Fun, Marketing | 3 Comments »
Lots of jazz played ’round these parts recently. The modern stuff is OK, but the classic stuff really moves me. Check out these two collections of online videos of live jazz performances on YouTube.com and Dailymotion.com. There goes [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Music | 2 Comments »
Not exactly the best way to end a Saturday night at the beginning of motorcycle season. The rider was barely injured (lucky bastard) and the driver was arrested on the spot. Funny thing is that he thought I was a cop and freely handed me hi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Steve did a good job summing up our experiences with his review of the 2008 HOW Design Conference, which I enjoyed, so I won’t double our efforts describing the event here. But as I hear myself responding to so many questions about ho [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Categories: Design, Events, Tips | 2 Comments »
Having just returned from HOW Design Conference, I have a hundred stories and many photos to share about the last five days in friendly Boston. But before I do that (and to buy me a little bit of time to get organized), let me just post thi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Travel | No Comments »
If you’re in any field related to art or design, you very likely know who Syd Mead is—the artist primarily responsible for the look and feel of influential movies such as Aliens, Blade Runner, Tron and others. Well, as a volunteer o [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Categories: Art, Associations, Events, Inspiration, Vancouver, We love | 3 Comments »
A few days ago a brand planner in New York named Noah Brier launched a simple new site called Brand Tags that explores public perception of brands by inviting visitors to input whatever pops into their mind when shown various logomarks. The [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Websites | No Comments »
Milan, 20.04.2008 – Wolda, the Worldwide Logo Design Annual, announces the distinguished panel of 30 independent judges that will select the winning entries for its ‘08 inaugural edition, see www.wolda.org/judges. This unique three- [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Categories: Awards, Design, News | No Comments »
Our Creative Director, Ben Garfinkel, is a lucky boy indeed. At approximately 11:30 pm on Sunday, April 27th, he and his wife Andrea welcomed their first child to the world: Lila Rose Bellamy Garfinkel. There have already been hundreds of [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Categories: Industrial Brand, Inspiration, News | 3 Comments »
Yup. You read that correctly. Rogue graphic design star Stefan Sagmeister will be giving a presentation in Vancouver as part of GDC’s Salazar Student Design Awards at 6 pm on Friday, May 9th at the Roundhouse Arts & Community Cent [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, April 25th, 2008
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
Arcade Fire is fairly awesome. We play them often at the studio. And their videos are often pretty darned cool, like this version of “Neon Bible” recorded live in an elevator. But nothing tops this interactive video for “N [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Interactive, Pop Culture, We love, Websites | No Comments »
I could easily just post a link to the MoMA’s online exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind” and say COOL! Actually, yeah, let’s do that. This site is as cool as the exhibit it showcases. [kudos KB for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Interactive, We love, Websites | No Comments »
I love weird marketing when it’s clever and relevant. The currently popular trend of weird for weird’s sakes—not so much. The Alta Bikes website is weird, witty and wonderful. Not surprising really, when you consider that the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Marketing, Websites | No Comments »
If you haven’t visited TAXI Design Network lately, I suggest you to check their designtaxi.com commemorative 100th issue. It’s pretty good fun actually. You could spend hours clicking away, reading about their history, having a gi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 21st, 2008
Categories: Design, Fun, Websites | No Comments »
We’ve used FunctionFox‘s TimeFox web-based time and project management tools for years and love it. Their new TimeFox Premier release has added handy functionality such as task management, to-do lists, calendar and scheduling to [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 21st, 2008
Categories: Design, Learning, Reading, Tips, We love | No Comments »
It’s absolutely terrible (and hilarious) how accurate this website is about the stuff white people like. It appears to be only a couple months old with its oldest post from January, 2008, but its already had over 15 million hits. Whit [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Websites | 1 Comment »
It is so seldom I see a corporate or retailer website that makes me laugh anymore. Everyone seems to take themselves so seriously these days. Not HEMA apparently. HEMA is a Dutch department store first opened in 1926 in Amsterdam (maybe tha [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Fun, Interactive, Marketing, Websites | No Comments »
After much feedback, evaluation, planning—including a healthy dose of debate and discussion—the all new GDC.net website has launched at long last, with a section devoted to the GDC BC Chapter. Having served with a number of my GDC colle [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Categories: Associations, Design, News, Websites | 1 Comment »
Have you seen these Garfield comics with Garfield removed, rendering them insane nonesense? I can’t explain why I think this is so funny, but I almost peed when I saw them. [kudos to Kevin for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 29th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
…while doing spring cleaning at the studio you find a box full of floppy disks from the 90s labeled with familiar old names like Aldus, Aladdin Systems and ClarisWorks. I don’t even think we’ve had a computer with a floppy [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
My friend Colin sent me a link to this website with a post title “Mark Busse is a slacker”. My first thought was, “Busted — someone’s on to me.” until I realized it was a clever online viral campaign to promo [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Fun, Interactive, Marketing, Websites | 2 Comments »
IBC was honoured to design and produce the website for GDC’s Graphex National Design Awards this year. The competition has been judged and the winners will be announced on March 28th at a formal awards gala on March 28rd at the pres [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
Is there anything better really than spending a few days with family and friends snowboarding on Sun Peaks Mountain cruising through glades on fresh powder? Even though it was only a few days I came back feeling like I’d had a two wee [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 15th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, We love | 1 Comment »
This blog has sure gone stale, hasn’t it? I wonder if we have any readers left? We sort of suck, you’re right. Anyway, I’m still blogging, which is ironic as I used to be the lame infrequent blogger at IBC. Here’s a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Categories: Design, Film, Fun, Pop Culture, Typography | 1 Comment »
Our clients at Nokia have outfitted our team with some fancy new phones recently and each day I discover some new feature that I love. Today I discovered the power of Google Mobile. Not only is the entire suite of Google services such as Se [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 1st, 2008
Categories: Technology, Tips | No Comments »
Here’s a funny little promo for a print shop in Montreal that is using YouTube as a marketing channel. A little angry perhaps, but so are most printers. I know, I used to be one.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Printing | 1 Comment »
Our recent designer Leigh Peterson (who we miss dearly) and her partner, software developer Jeremy Karlson, recently launched a free Mahjongg Solitaire game called Ivory Mahjongg for Mac and Windows. After hunting for a decent free version [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Technology, We love | No Comments »
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 7th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Pop Culture | No Comments »
This short film The Story of Stuff has been making the rounds recently and totally worth sharing. If I were an elementary school teacher, I’d show this to my class and use it as a starting point for a discussion on consumerism and its [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Learning, Sustainability, Websites | No Comments »
Everybody seems to post “Best of” lists of all sorts, but fimoculous.com has published is a terrific aggregate selection of the Best of lists for 2007 with something for everyone. Happy New Year from Industrial Brand.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Categories: Fun, Pop Culture, Websites | No Comments »
Vancouver, BC has been chosen as the official host city for the annual SIGGRAPH conference in 2011. This is a huge win for the city and is the first time the conference will venture outside the United States. The conference should prove a s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Events, News, Technology, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
When our writer friend Dave Delibato came to us and asked for an ultra-clean portfolio website to showcase his advertising work, we went for a totally minimalistic approach. Not much to it, but it works! Check out www.davedelibato.com.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Websites | No Comments »
Amazing the things you see on the side of the road at night. I grabbed this footage using my Nokia phone of a beautiful Porsche 928 being engulfed by flames in under two minutes. The owner just stood there helpless watching his car (which h [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Vancouver | No Comments »
Do Websites Need to Look Exactly the Same in Every Browser?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Categories: Websites | 2 Comments »
Another funky website launched by Industrial Brand Creative recently. This time for a custom jewellery company created by sisters Tania and Penny Gleave called Lemon Park. The photos are by our good friend Sven Boecker.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Websites | No Comments »
Championed by Toronto designer Bernard Hellen from Traffic Marketing + Design, the Forestry Stewardship Council of Canada has recently released the FSCXpert™ program. An educational program and designation for individuals that are committ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Categories: News, Sustainability, Tips | No Comments »
I was recently honoured to be invited to contribute a poster design to Prografica’s exhibit Design/Culture: Posters for Cultural Diversity as part of the Icograda World Design Congress 2007 held in Havana, Cuba this past October. I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 26th, 2007
Categories: Industrial Brand, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
Last night, November 21st, 2007, Jeff Harrison and Rethink Communications won a prestigious Lotus Award in the category of Best Design Poster for their design of the GDC Graphex 2008 Call For Entries poster. Well done guys!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Categories: Awards, Design, News | No Comments »
From Adweek: After 54 years, the Cannes Lions are finally adding Design. At the 55th International Advertising Festival next June, Design Lions as well as a Grand Prix will be up for grabs, but there are caveats. Product, Web and architectu [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Categories: Awards, Design, News | No Comments »
We worked with the owners of Kanto AV Systems to establish a name and brand platform from which to launch a line of flat screen tv mounts, accessories and iPod speaker systems to a consumer audience. We strove to create a fresh, friendly an [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Categories: Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, News, Packaging, Websites | No Comments »
He’s worked with Burton Snowboards since 1984. He owns the biggest design firm in Brazil. He’s the current global creative director of Starbucks and formerly of Nike. He created the only comprehensive course on Canadian design h [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Awards, Events, News, Vancouver | No Comments »
Here he goes again. Today’s word: gonorrasyphiherpilaids. A disease you do NOT want to catch.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 5th, 2007
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
Cameron has done it again. Today’s word: shiznittlebam
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Categories: Fun | 2 Comments »
IBC recently won a Silver Award in the IAPHC International Gallery Awards for the Metallic Experience campaign we created for Hemlock Printers featuring the art of the legendary Bob Masse. Ha ha, metallic wins silver…ironic.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Categories: Awards, Design, Industrial Brand, News | No Comments »
It’s common knowledge (among those who know me) that I love Cuba. My wife and I were married there. I may not entirely agree with their politics, but the Cuban people are amazing—perhaps the warmest and most enjoyable culture I̵ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Design, Illustration, Reading, Travel | No Comments »
GDC/BC Presents: Design Speaker Series #1 – Logo Savvy Book Launch Thursday October 18th, 2007 @ 7–10pm at Emily Carr Institute Theatre, Granville Island, Vancouver. Ever wonder how some of the world’s top brand identity firms go [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 5th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
GDC’s Graphex 2008 National Design Awards were recently announced with a deadline for entries of November 23rd, 2007. Designed and developed by Industrial Brand Creative, the website features an animated Flash interface with dynamic c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Design, Industrial Brand, News, Websites | No Comments »
Hot on the heels of SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego, the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is coming to Vancouver, September 19 & 20, 2007! You don’t want to miss this extraordinary collection of animated shorts, digital films, comm [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Events, Film, Vancouver, We love | No Comments »
Uh-oh, seems I’m a foodie AND a fontie. The Globe & Mail’s Ivor Tossell says that’s an annoying combo in his recent Globe & Mail rant For The Love of Typography. And yes Ivor, it’s true, Comic Sans sucks like [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Typography | No Comments »
Egg Strategy‘s new blog, called The Dozen, is an eclectic take on innovation, branding, media, strategy and research. Designed and developed by the web team at Industrial Brand, this blog is already becoming a “go to” re [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Websites | No Comments »
Trinity Western University (TWU) launched their contemporary new Spartans Athletics logo today, designed by the team at Industrial Brand. The new logo, meant to symbolize modern day warriors, has been well received by faculty, students, alu [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, News | 4 Comments »
Join the design team from Industrial Brand Creative as we mix and mingle with our friends from New Media BC at the ID & Web 2.0 mixer as part of VIDEST 2007. When: Monday, September 24th, 7–9 p.m. Where: Vibes, 555 Davie Street, Vanco [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Categories: Events | No Comments »
I was somewhere over Northern California headed south when the fear started to take hold. I remember wondering about what lay ahead thinking something to the effect of ‘what am I doing here?’ As a graphic designer only periphera [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Categories: Articles | 1 Comment »
Serifs, sans serifs, baselines, kerning, leading, rhythm, contrast, readability, hierarchy. These are all concepts that trained graphic designers who specialize in print are well aware of, but seldom applied to the web. Why is that? For a s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Categories: Design, Typography, Websites | No Comments »
“If design is a continent and its disciplines tectonic plates, we live in seismic times;” So begins Kevin McCullagh’s article on Core77 titled Riding The Flux: Design is changing in myriad ways. Are you? It’s not eve [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
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It’s certainly no secret that we’re huge fans of William Gibson around here. Well-worn copies of his books Pattern Recoginition, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties and Neuromancer are found on our bookshelves. And we jump on any [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Categories: Inspiration, Reading, Vancouver, We love | No Comments »
You’ve seen the film Helvetica. Now you want to own it for yourself and see all the other stuff said by those designers that didn’t make the cut. Now you can pre-order your own copy of Helvetica on DVD.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Categories: Film, Typography | No Comments »
Check out this Gangsta rap-style video about graphic design by Kyle T. Webster. (
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, August 13th, 2007
Categories: Design, Fun | No Comments »
We’ve had quite a spat of designers falling down and breaking bones lately, but don’t get the wrong idea. Just because Kevin broke his elbow, or Leigh crushed her foot, we’re not going to let them off easy. On the contrary [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
Rumor has it that there will be announcement by GDC of a second screening of Gary Hustwit’s documentary Helvetica in Vancouver on August 7th, but for those who can’t make it you can always watch this celebration of Cooper Black [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Categories: Design, Typography | No Comments »
We’re very proud of our partnership with the Fraser Valley Regional Library (FVRL) and their brand new identity system we launched for them recently. One of the oldest and largest library networks in Canada, FVRL came to Industrial Br [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 20th, 2007
Categories: Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, News | No Comments »
I’ve always appreciated defined methodologies and well documented processes with steps, procedures and documentation. It’s long been an accepted approach to developing design or technology solutions. And nowhere has this been mo [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Categories: Learning, Reading, Technology, Tips | 1 Comment »
This blog was started years ago in part as a repository for our inspirations, yet I think we often drift away from that purpose a bit, so I want to share something that inspired me this weekend: discovering new music. Obviously music plays [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Categories: Articles | 5 Comments »
Our team is currently hard at work designing and producing an awards show website, so when I came across this link for the 1 Click Awards, I had to post it. I love Japanese men in their tightie-whities.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 13th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Websites | No Comments »
We have a pretty cool studio space. It’s perhaps a bit crowded and hot these days, but our team thrives in it and our clients love it, often telling us they like coming here for meetings because they dig the creative energy in our lof [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 13th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Websites | 1 Comment »
I love architecture. Heck, at one point in my life my goal was to become an architect. So when I was invited to attend an installment of CBC’s Studio One Book Club to meet and hear renowned philosopher and historian Alain de Botton di [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Categories: Architecture, Inspiration, Learning, Reading | No Comments »
At last year’s Flashforward conference, I was impressed by the presentation on “sonic branding” given by Dave Schroeder of PilotVibe. The very idea that jingles, start up sounds and sounds effects in ads are carefully cr [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, July 7th, 2007
Categories: Branding, Marketing | No Comments »
A recent article in New York Magazine about Edward Tufte begins “Edward Tufte is most likely the world’s only graphic designer with roadies.” But Tufte is certainly much more than a graphic designer, which is sort of the point [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, We love | No Comments »
An oldie but a goodie we used to tell potential clients about the difference between marketing, PR, advertising, and branding. The only thing I might add to this joke is a line about design, something like: “You look like you’re [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Categories: Advertising, Branding, Fun, Marketing | No Comments »
Congratulations to Vancouver-based Ion Design for their recent work with sustainability initiatives. Their One Good Idea contest challenged companies and individuals to come up with a good idea that reminds people that even small steps can [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Categories: Design, News, Sustainability, Vancouver | No Comments »
Our former design apprentice Steph Tekano, who now works with the talented group at Suburbia Studios in Victoria, recently designed packaging for a brand of flour-free bread called Healthy Way Bread for Dempster’s. Nice one Steph!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 8th, 2007
Categories: Branding, Design, Packaging | 2 Comments »
Our friend Kuba has been on a creative streak lately, releasing a new single and a sexy music video call Brotherman, directed by Noah Davis. Listen carefully to the lyrics, they’re quite moving.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Categories: Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
I’ll gladly admit that I’m no coder, but Coda is a cool application. Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More all in one window.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Categories: Design, Technology, Tips, We love, Websites | 1 Comment »
June 4th marked the launch of the new London 2012 Olympic logo and it didn’t take long for the controversy to begin. I’d already fielded a number calls and emails before lunch from friends, designers and even the media. My inbox [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 4th, 2007
Categories: Articles | 19 Comments »
The GDC BC Chapter is hard at work with the final preparations for the 2007 edition of the Salazar Student Design Awards. Rumour has it that the entry deadline has been extended to June 6th, 2007, so if you’re a design student or rece [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
Quote of the day from our new design intern Matthew Shettler. He thinks he’s all that, but we can see right through him.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
We often implement content management systems (CMS) for our web clients and the topic of Drupal versus WordPress is commonly debated. Linux.com’s Bruce Byfield recently compared the two open source platforms, comparing their interface [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Categories: Learning, Technology, Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »
A hearty congratulations to IBC Senior Designer Kevin Broome for being granted professional designer designation by The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada [GDC]. A finer or more deserving MGDC you’ll likely never meet.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 11th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Design, Industrial Brand, News | 4 Comments »
Our talented friends at VFS have teamed up with Adobe and Intel to create a terrific new website for the Real Idea Studio, an online community that extends the reach of Adobe’s Student Filmmaker program at Cannes. The site, based on the V [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Categories: Design, Film, News, Websites | No Comments »
Having been involved in the Digital Design and Digital Design Programs at VFS for a number of years now, it’s a source of pride when our design students really “get it”. Check out this impressive motion graphics project do [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 4th, 2007
Categories: Design, Education, Film, Typography, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
Here’s an interesting site called Design Directory with the claim it was “made by designers for designers” which looks interesting as a resource centre. It’s primarily a link farm, but it’s got all the expected [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Categories: Design, Tips, Websites | No Comments »
What is wrong with the people at YouTube? It seems every time I’m uploading a video I cannot seem to find a category that fits. Pets? Gadgets? How to? DIY?!? And why is the language always set to French by default? Oh I know, because [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Categories: Industrial Brand, Pop Culture, Websites | 1 Comment »
If you arrived in a transit station as you hurried to work and there was a nondescript young man in jeans, t-shirt and a baseball cap masterfully playing Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D Minor on the violin, would you notice? If you noticed, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Categories: Inspiration, Music | 4 Comments »
The world is filled with knock offs and copies, often called “homages” to a genre, style or designer, but let’s face it: they’re rip offs. But is that so bad? Does it render them irrelevant? Not really. In fact, when [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Categories: Design | No Comments »
Stickers! Invoices! Leaflets! T-shirts! They have it all! I’m not sure these people are clear on our whole “beyond graphic” argument. Neat that they have little kids for designers and let them do their work at the beach th [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 30th, 2007
Categories: Design, Fun, Websites | 1 Comment »
We do a lot of identity and branding design here at IBC, but it never fails to be a rewarding moment when the first bit of mail arrives in a client’s newly designed envelope – especially as it is usually payment for the project! [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Categories: Branding, Design, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
The longer I stay in this industry, the more I realize the difference between producing graphically appealing (pretty) solutions and creating strategic communication designs that produce results. Though I use my training in Graphic Design d [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Categories: Articles | 73 Comments »
A friend is conducting an anonymous survey for his dissertation on sexual arousal regulation and sexuality, which includes a brain imaging study of pedophiles and men seeking treatment for sexual compulsivity.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
As we announced recently, we’re gearing up yet again for this year’s Canstruction competition in support of the Vancouver Food Bank. If you’d like to help, go to the Legends Memorabilia/Stargate Charity Auction and bid on [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, February 25th, 2007
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Ben, Haig and I are attending the Northern Voice 2007 blogging and social media conference this weekend at UBC in Vancouver, BC. Basically, we’ll be listening to a bunch of bloggers talking about blogging to other bloggers. Sounds fas [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 24th, 2007
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Some time last year I began considering about the similarities between branding loyalty and belonging to a church after an interesting conversation with Rick Poyner, the design critic and founder of Eye Magazine, who said “Religion is [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Categories: Articles | 9 Comments »
Wicked new stop motion Sneaux commercial “Human Skateboard” directed by PES. Do NOT try this at home. [props to Steph for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
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If you’ve never had the rare privilege to hear Canadian poet, typographer and author Robert Bringhurst speak in person, here’s your chance. He’s a captivating speaker – sort of like Dr. Hunter S. Thomson mixed with a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Categories: Design, Typography, We love | No Comments »
London College of Printing’s David Dabner claims “Computers make design students sloppy.” Probably true in many ways. Not many of us get the privilege of learning how to set movable type for letterpress anymore. Here’ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Categories: Typography | No Comments »
So I’m walking through the Bay on the weekend and see their new campaign graphics for the Olympics. HBC is a leading supporter of Canadian athletes…with boners? How did this get approved? How did the management at The Bay not no [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Categories: Design | 2 Comments »
Come make your voice heard and your vote count at the GDC BC Chapter’s Annual General Meeting on February 1st as the GDC celebrates its 50th anniversary. As a special bonus, join us for refreshments at the Canadian premiere of Shared [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
Trends in graphic design can really suck, but they exist. Nothing seems new anymore and there’s no way to predict what will become popular. As brand identity designers, it is best to be as aware of them as possible so you don’t [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 19th, 2007
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Here’s a professional development workshop all print designers in Vancouver shouldn’t miss: Ten Things Print Designers Need to Know hosted by GDC and Hemlock Printers. From prepress tips & tricks, to variable digital printi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Interview, Printing, Vancouver | 3 Comments »
This site is about zeitgeist, right? Well, part of zeitgeist is now only when, but WHERE you live. We’re very lucky to have our studio located in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. If y [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Categories: Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »
Steve Jobs like to say “boom” during keynote speeches more times than he slags Windows Vista.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 11th, 2007
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From Pentagram’s blog: A new identity designed by Pentagram for iconic New York retailer Saks Fifth Avenue launches on January 2, 2007. After the jump, partner Michael Bierut describes the process behind the development of an identity [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Categories: Branding, Design, News | No Comments »
I recently came across a pretty good design blog by New York Art Director Troy Finamore with some interesting thoughts on graphic design, branding and advertising such as this nice little post called Morals and Ethics in the Design Communit [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Categories: Design, Reading, Websites | No Comments »
A short while ago I was invited by New Media BC to sit on a panel discussion with some industry colleagues called Work-Life Balance: Empty Promise or Key to Happiness?. If you were, I dunno – say, too busy to attend the event at Vanco [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
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I feel a rather humbled and a little bummed out since attending Rimmerfest at SFU downtown on November 25. It was both an inspiration and an honour to be among Canada’s Graphic Design elite to celebrate and honour one of Canada’ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 1st, 2007
Categories: Articles | 1 Comment »
We didn’t make the list, but Communication Arts’ 2006 50 Essential Bookmarks is a great resource for design and advertising fodder.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Design, Learning, Tips, Websites | No Comments »
Happy holiday wishes from your friends at Industrial Brand Creative In the spirit of the holidays and from the perspective of somewhat disturbed people, we wish you all the best and a happy, free and peaceful new year. Enjoy…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 25th, 2006
Categories: Articles | 32 Comments »
Our good friends at Now Public are enjoying some much deserved success these days. Not only were they recently featured as a new partner by ABC News, they were just named one of the top 5 news sites of the year by the Guardian along with es [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Categories: News, Websites | No Comments »
For those of you that buy print and spec paper on a regular basis, it can be a daunting tasks to determine what grades are available for your project. And waiting for the paper spec rep to show up or return your call isn’t much help. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Categories: Design, Printing, Tips, Websites | No Comments »
You know when your friend does something better than you? You have such respect for them and are so proud of them, yet still have this quiet pang of jealousy. That’s how I feel about my talented friend and GDC colleague Marian Bantjes [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 18th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
Last year’s GDC party was a total riot with its Cuban Fiesta theme – complete with taps, latin band, mojitos and cigars! This year’s party is a Tiki theme and is being held at the Waldorf Hotel‘s amazing Tahitian Twi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
NEW MEDIA BC EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Work/Life Balance: Empty Promise or Key to Happiness? Join New Media BC for a round-table discussion with top-notch service professionals from Vancouver as we dive into what “balance” means, shar [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Categories: Associations, Events, Learning, Tips, Vancouver | No Comments »
A recent visit to my doctor with a complaint of a persistently plugged ear led to a CAT scan for a peek under my lid. The imagery is both fascinating and quite striking. Check out the videos of the CAT scan slices: topview & frontview. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 20th, 2006
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Ikea has done it again. Here’s a wicked site for their closet systems. [kudos Mike for heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, We love, Websites | No Comments »
We used to have quite a fixation with hamsters in the old days. Some people tell us they miss our crazy antics like our hamster party, to which over 500 people attended. Now THAT was a party! [note: while the phone call was real, our claims [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Categories: Fun | 1 Comment »
Vancouver lithographer Metropolitan Fine Printers has a new toy – and I like it. Imagine being able to pick out bad sheets as they are printed and guarantee that your customers only ever receive the highest quality product? asks Man R [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Categories: Design, Printing, Technology, Vancouver | No Comments »
Our friends over at Generation Printing have been buying news toys lately as they expand their high tech pressroom in Vancouver, BC. Check out this time-lapse video which compresses the 26 day installation of a six colour Heidelberg press i [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Categories: Film, Printing, Vancouver | No Comments »
This year’s Design Thinkers conference kick off party featured the Canadian debut of the FIFFteen Exhibit at Resistor Gallery in Toronto’s funky College Street district. Celebrating 15 years of the FontFont type library co-found [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 6th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Typography | 1 Comment »
Two neighbours have built a bridge from one balcony to the other in an East Vancouver neighbourhood. Built as an art sculpture and statement on what it means to be neighbours in a community, the thirty-seven-foot-long bridge spans from the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 30th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Art, Inspiration, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
With a long history of innovation and leadership in the commercial printing industry, Hemlock Printers has just launched an online version of their popular newsletter, Inklings. With news and updates from their plant floor, e-Inklings newsl [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Categories: Learning, News, Printing, Reading, Technology, Tips | No Comments »
An open source mycology site called Shroomr has been launched showing the location of wild “magic” mushrooms using GoogleMap technology. We’re certainly not endorsing hallucinogenic for creative inspiration, but hey, if it [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
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It was only a matter of time I suppose, but this is very cool for an old print designer like me. New Hampshire commercial printer, Concordia Litho has announced new microencapsulated scented varnishes available in 1000 fragrances. Unlike sc [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Categories: Printing | 2 Comments »
Bliss Prema claims her Indian head massage will relieve stress, but it can also inspire.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Categories: Articles | 2 Comments »
A curious interview with Nike’s Tinker Hatfield where he contends that what you draw or design is really the culmination of everything you’ve ever seen or done. In his case an innovative and controversial Georges Pompidou Centre [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 20th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Inspiration, Interview | No Comments »
Just click on this link. Seriously – TV ads are getting weird man. And I like it. [kudos RGE for this one]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
Perrier is trying to refresh the aging brand and increase sales with a non-traditional ad campaign that riffs on its own names with adjectives like “Crazier” and “Sexier” chosen to draw the attention of a younger aud [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Categories: Advertising | No Comments »
Our musical friend Clive has been mentioned here before. He’s equal parts code monkey, tortured artist and genius savant. He’s a real inspiration to all who know him actually. Well, this time Clive has tossed a little home recor [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 13th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Music, We love | No Comments »
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
Pantone has finally released their much anticipated PANTONE PAINTS + INTERIORS system of over 3,000 paint colours. I want to paint a wall at the studio PMS 130 Orange. Cool.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 9th, 2006
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I love happy accidents. Who knows what this incoming fax was really about, but this is what I found on the fax machine. I *wish* women are our most important customers. That’d be great!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Categories: Fun | 1 Comment »
Recently Kevin did a great interview with with Carmen von Richthofen and John Furneaux, Executives with the Association of Registered Graphic Designers about the issue of spec work and the damage that can be wrought by such practices. Calle [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Categories: Design, Interview, Learning | No Comments »
Our good friends at RGD Ontario are hosting what they’re calling “a stimulating, interactive thinkfest” and it looks like an event not to be missed. DesignThinkers 2006 features keynote speeches from industry experts such [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration, Learning | No Comments »
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Categories: Design, Film | 1 Comment »
Here’s a blast from the past. A few years ago we retired our old website, but it’s still there, hiding on our server. Today I was poking around it just for sh!ts and giggles and re-discovered a recipe for preparing squirrel take [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Categories: Design, Food, Industrial Brand | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 15th, 2006
Categories: Design | 2 Comments »
So Germany did not win the World Cup. No, they were ousted by Italy in the semi-finals. But Germany does have Thomas Nagel. And he is coming to Vancouver to talk to us about design inspiration and typography on Thursday September 21 at the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration | No Comments »
I’d heard horrible stories that the two stolen Munch paintings, Madonna and The Scream, had been destroyed, but I’m relieved to learn that they have been recovered and are being restored and returned to the Munch Museum in Oslo, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Categories: Art, News | No Comments »
Fine wine, gourmet southern comfort food and a huge raging fire! What could be better? Whoopemup Hollow Cafe in Waitsburg, Washington, just twenty minutes east of Walla Walla, serves up fabulous homecooked fare that’ll remind you of y [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Categories: Food, Inspiration, Travel | No Comments »
This award-winning site is way old school, but still worth a revisit. Created by San Francisco-based graphic designer Ben Benjamin way back in 2000, www.superbad.com was one of the first website created with no other purpose than being art. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 8th, 2006
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Websites | No Comments »
Well lookie lookie! We done won another couple awards at Portfolios.com – a bronze in the Corporate Web Site category and a merit in the Self-Promotional Web Site category. Toot toot!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, September 7th, 2006
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Amazing Japanese hot dog stand on Burrard street Originally uploaded by Mark Busse. A wonderful day of shopping at the farmers’ market, picnic under a shady tree at Trout Lake followed later by an amazing dinner of Chinese boiled chic [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 1st, 2006
Categories: Food | No Comments »
Last night was the beautiful wedding services for our dear friends Ben Garfinkel and Andrea Bellamy. Everything about the day was thoughtfully planned and meticulously executed – in classic Ben and Andrea style.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, August 28th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration | 1 Comment »
Are you kidding me? A breakdancing baby? Amazing. [kudos to Howie for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
While we may all innately “want” to be good, what we do as designers is most often in the service of our clients who want to sell something. Simple really. But what if that “something” causes harm? Is our design bad [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
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From Robert Wurth of Freshly Squeezed Design: So, what do you do when you’re an internationally recognized, successful band with millions of dollars in CD and concert ticket sales? If you’re the Barenaked Ladies, you slap an ind [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, August 21st, 2006
Categories: Design, News, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »
Yeah, yeah…ethos, zeitgeist and all that rot, but imagine being the graphic designer on some of these hilarious, shocking and creepy vintage ads from the past century?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Design, Fun, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Imagine if Lord Vader was a guy named Chad who worked as the Dayshift Manager at the Food Mart.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 4th, 2006
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
Words and Photos: Mark Busse The buzz of Seattle Design Week is fading and I’ve settled back into my regular work routine. We’ve already expressed some thoughts and opinions on the experience here, while others have expressed th [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Categories: Articles | 3 Comments »
It’s one thing to claim design can change the world, it’s another thing to try to do it. Here’s a powerful collection of posters from around the globe called The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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Check out photos from Icograda’s Design Week in Seattle this week. July 12th Regional Meeting, July 13 Over The Fence Seminar, July 14th Lectures and Studio Tours, and July 15th Lectures. Make sure to check out the photo sets called B [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 21st, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration | No Comments »
While we were down in Seattle last week we had the rare opportunity to to see how well known Seattle design firms such as Methodologie, Girvin, Fitch, Hornall Anderson Design Works create their own inspirational design spaces and even Starb [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
When we were planning our trip down to Seattle Design Week, the event organizers recommended hotels out near the University District close the conference. I’m not sure what they were thinking exactly. Other than the convenience factor [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 17th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Travel, We love | No Comments »
The opening introduction on the Icograda Design Week website says “Design should solve multi-cultural branding challenges, promote peace and stability, balance profits with human rights and create more sustainability.” Lofty goa [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 14th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration | No Comments »
Exciting news from Seattle Design Week as Icocgrada announced the launch of +DESIGN, a program that collects and showcases inspiring design solutions. The concept and design were created by Rob Sweetman and Jeff Harrison at ReThink with dev [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Inspiration, News, Websites | No Comments »
My first day at Icograda’s Seattle Design Week is actually day four for international design students taking part in workshops at the University of Washington led by leading design educators and practitioners on subject matter such as [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events | No Comments »
All this week is Icograda Design Week and IBC will be in Seattle covering the event as part of TAXI Design Network‘s international media coverage. Special emphasis will be on the International Conference July 14 and 15, with presentat [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 10th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Learning | No Comments »
Who knew there was a Best of Craigslist? You could spend hours reading this stuff. One of the best lines so far: New haircut? Nope, shaved my balls! Did you get that promotion? Nope, silky sack! Who writes this stuff?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Websites | 1 Comment »
Canada Post has revealed the design of a new stamp to be issued August 16th, 2006 commemorating the 50th of the GDC as well as the contributions of Canadian designers to our country’s economy, culture and national identity – 50 [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, News | No Comments »
EgoDesign.ca is the first Canadian, bilingual webzine dedicated to global design – urban, architectural, interior, industrial, fashion and art. Egodesign.ca will provide monthly content, with in-depth reports and augmented by weekly r [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 30th, 2006
Categories: Design, Websites | 1 Comment »
According to CNN, web design firms in India are turning to ancient philosophies of vaastu shastra and feng shui to create “balanced” and “harmonious” Web designs. I didn’t realize a website had “chi” [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 30th, 2006
Categories: Design, Learning, Websites | No Comments »
This is Ron Patrick’s street legal jet powered beetle on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. Can you imagine giving some goof [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Categories: Fun | 1 Comment »
A new JupiterResearch report claims corporate blog deployments will double in 2006 with 35 percent of large companies planning to initiate corporate blogs this year. Combined with the existing deployed base of 34 percent, nearly 70 percent [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Categories: Marketing, Technology | No Comments »
Don’t know much about Director Reuben Sutherland or Joyrider Films in London, UK, but check out this innovative music video for New Zealand’s The Phoenix Foundation. Also worth check are Reuben’s Eurostar Da Vinci Code spo [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 26th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, We love, Websites | 1 Comment »
I love travelling. And I love dancing. But this Matt character has danced in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, It [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 26th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Travel | 2 Comments »
David Carson is rude, boring (and perhaps drunk?). Speaking at an event generously coordinated by Lumen Gallery in Vancouver after Carson cancelled the sold out event at AI, Carson made all the regular statements about being a “self-i [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Categories: Design, Events | 2 Comments »
In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20M, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War. This vid [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Categories: Pop Culture | 2 Comments »
Erik Spiekermann, one of Germany’s best-known typographers and respected designers, has been openly critical of the design concept for the 2006 World Cup, from the mascot to the logo. He told DW-WORLD.DE why it hasn’t been succe [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 19th, 2006
Categories: Design | 1 Comment »
Summer’s finally here and we’ve been discussing maybe getting a scooter to share at the office, but this is way cooler! Literally.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Categories: Fun | 1 Comment »
Steph has the first nasty cold of the summer season, her desk covered with tissue paper and an overflowing garbage can snuggled up close like an oversized teddy bear. No doubt we’ll all have our heads wrapped in tissue ourselves soon [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
Now you too can admire the image of Christ while you eat your pancakes or grilled cheese sandwich. Maybe you can sell yours on eBay too!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 12th, 2006
Categories: Food, Fun | No Comments »
From our friends and super design duo The Smith Brothers: I don’t know if you’ve seen these yet, but the new sites for Ikea are amazing (well if you’re totally nuts for video like we are), it takes a combination of the cam [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Websites | No Comments »
Designers don’t have many advocates as enthusiastic and highly-placed as Bruce Nussbaum. An assistant managing editor at Business Week, he’s spearheaded the magazine’s coverage of design and innovation for years, and has b [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Categories: Design, News, Reading | 1 Comment »
You know how much I love good food. I also love a good read. Nobody combines both like Anthony Bourdain. The infamous chef, author and television host – and personal hero of mine – has once again outdone himself, this time servi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Categories: Events, Food, Inspiration, Reading, We love | No Comments »
We’re all addicted to cupcakes now. Steph has been on a major cupcake bender for months and we’re considering getting her some professional help before she turns into someone like this. If you know have any suggestions how to sa [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
Categories: Food, Fun, Websites | No Comments »
Jim Coudal of the advertising, design, and interactive firm Coudal Partners in Chicago will be speaking at the 2006 Salazar Student Design Awards evening on June 1st. He will also present a short, but illuminating movie about what working a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 19th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration | No Comments »
“The Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity has designated Montréal as “UNESCO City of Design” as part of the Creative Cities Network,” announced today Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of Montréal, and Ben [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Categories: Design, News | 2 Comments »
Has anyone else noticed the sudden use of speech bubbles in identities and advertisments everywhere? McDonald’s is doing it, Canada.com is doing it, even Mercedes is using them in recent TV spots. It’s a bizarre design trend I j [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Categories: Design | 4 Comments »
I’m repeating myself a little with this post, but I thought it worth another moment of consideration. One issue at the recent GDC AGM in Edmonton that kind of got my knickers in a knot was a presentation by the legendary Walter Jungki [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 12th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design | 2 Comments »
May 4-7th was the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada‘s Annual General Meeting, graciously hosted by the Alberta North Chapter in Edmonton, Alberta. As the President-Elect of the BC Chapter, I was proud to serve as one of the deleg [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 12th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events | No Comments »
Once upon a time, logos were no big deal. Consider that Nike founder Phil Knight picked up his company’s legendary swoosh from a graphic-design student for a mere 35 bucks. That was in 1971. And thanks partly to that purchase, sneaker [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Categories: Branding, News | No Comments »
A warning to all those considering starting a blog of their own. Blogging takes a committment. And content. Genuine content. Nobody is really too interested in another site that just recycles other’s work. And over time blogging can w [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Categories: Websites | 1 Comment »
Recently launched by Michael Erdmann and Todd Falkowsky of the Toronto-based design collective Motherbrand, Canadian Design Resource is a growing online treasure trove of Canadian design products and solutions from old logos to plastic cont [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Websites | No Comments »
ACM Vancouver SIGGRAPH presents Artifex Studios & The Embassy Visual Effects at the Vancouver International Film Centre May 17th at 7:30pm. Join Marc Roth, Visual Effects Artist at The Embassy, and Adam Stern, President and Visual Effe [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Categories: Events, Technology, We love | 1 Comment »
Check out this innovative music video for the Presidents of the United States of America, for their Australian single “Some Postman”. This is the first music video in the world to be shot using mobile phones. Film Headquarters&# [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture, Technology, Websites | No Comments »
Everything just works better on a Mac. Get a Mac.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Technology, We love | No Comments »
2006 Flashbelt.com is live. Registration is open. 22+ speakers, 22+ sessions, 1 full day video workshop, 3 days (and nights), all things Flash. June 14, 15 & 16 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Spread the word: Tell your co-workers, friends [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Technology | No Comments »
I love discovering communication design that crosses cultural boundaries with multiple layers of meaning. Recently I was walking through Chinatown and noticed the marketing materials for a new condo development called East. The Chinese char [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, April 21st, 2006
Categories: Design | No Comments »
Reminder: April 20th GDC Event in Vancouver. RSVP now to reserve your spot. What’s right and what’s wrong with your profiles in Photoshop? How much does all this have to cost? Can I do contract quality proofs on my Inkjet? Ernst [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Events, Learning, Technology, Vancouver | No Comments »
Oldie but goodie. I dare you not to smile.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
It’s no secret that many designers, including us, have a real problem with the process used to select the Vancouver 2010 Olympics identity. But it’s done and now we have to live with it. However, some people are clearly still ve [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Categories: Pop Culture, Websites | No Comments »
Ever wished you could just pack up your things, move out to the woods far away from the hustle-bustle and build a cozy cabin to live in overlooking a lake? Well our friends Billy & Michelle did just that and they’re loving every [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration | No Comments »
Are you kidding me? Jet boots and skydiving? Could this finally mark the beginning of uninhibited human flying? Now THIS looks like huge fun! Check out the video.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Technology, We love | 1 Comment »
A few years ago people laughed at the idea of sustainability. Now as we experience a cultural shift and consumers redefine the criteria by which they make decisions, companies are begging our friends over at Conscientious Innovation to help [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand, Marketing, Websites | No Comments »
C-Mon & Kypski is a four man band from the Netherlands that compose original tracks in their home studios from funk, rock to polka and hip hop. They’re sort of the Dutch Beastie Boys. This innovative video for their track Shitty [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate good graffiti. I especially groove on intricate stencil art when it’s done well. It can be a beautiful expression of both art and message revealing much about the days and times in which we live. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, April 10th, 2006
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We get unsolicited job applicants daily, but not often as interesting as the recent email that read: My name is Billy Vajono and I am looking for work as a designer at your firm. I have no education and no experience. I’ve attached an [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
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Our buddy Eric over at IdeasOnIdeas.com has put into words what I’ve been trying to communicate to students for years. Effective design of any sort is borne of “messing about”, sketching and thoughtful writing. Being able [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 30th, 2006
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Lead, wood, and laser: 30 years of the book design & typography of Glenn Goluska. The Vancouver Museum and The Alcuin Society are presenting a free event featuring book designer, typographer and sometime letterpress printer Glenn Golus [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
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Remember when all logos had to be swooshes? Those days are behind us (thankfully) but there are still many trends in logo design. Shapes for instances. A very popular shape design for some time now has been the round cornered square or squr [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Categories: Design | 2 Comments »
I love looking a symbolic language and considering the various connotative interpretations that could be applied, but I must admit this one caught me by surprise. Heat waves do look like bacon! Now if they made those handryers smell like ba [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
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Congratulations on your recent acquisition of a Graphic Designer! To maximize your experience with your new designer, there are several guidelines that you should keep in mind when communicating with your new Graphic Designer…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Categories: Design, Fun | 1 Comment »
Easily one of the most informative and unique presentations at this year’s Flashforward 2006 in Seattle was given by designer and digital artist Jeremy Thorp of Blprnt Design. A former geneticist and rock star, Thorp will be presentin [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 20th, 2006
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OMG. Speaking of Microsoft making fun of itself, check out this spoof video with big cheese Bill teaming up with Napolean Dynamite. Who knew Bill had had such a good sense of humour – or could move like that?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 18th, 2006
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Interviewed by Mark Busse If you browse the “Blogroll” list along the left side of this site, you’ll find a number of sites covering serious topics such as marketing, culture, literature and design. Then there’s a li [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Categories: Articles | 16 Comments »
There’s a new design magazine in Canada called Design Edge that just launched in February with up-to-the-minute news, a national job board, events calendar, contests, links and resources. Its companion e-mail bulletin is published eve [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
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Don’t forget to RSVP before March 15th for the Graphex Gala dinner and awards ceremony. This special event honoring the best in visual communication across Canada will be held March 24th at the glamorous Vancouver Club. More details f [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Vancouver | No Comments »
My fashionista friend and design columnist JJ Lee convinced me to have a new black suit custom made by Modernize Tailors. It’s the first tailor-made suit I’ve ever purchased and as I experience the myriad of choices such as fabr [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Categories: Branding, Design | 4 Comments »
You have iPhoto installed on your Mac and have billions of lovely, organized photos, right? You’d love to quickly and eleantly publish them to the Web like this or this, but PhotoShop’s Web Photo Gallery just isn’t cutting [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 13th, 2006
Categories: Photography, Technology, Websites | No Comments »
DesignEducation.ca is a compendium of the best design resources available on the Web based on founder Gustavo Machado’s teaching philosophy: to share everything that he knows with the community. The site contains more resources than I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
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Nearly everybody has used or at least heard of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org, but now there’s a design-focused Wiki encyclopedia called The Design Encyclopedia. Brought to you by Armin Vit and friends at Underconsideratio [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 6th, 2006
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In an incredible repeat performance, the IBC and Legends Memorabilia team took home top hours for the second year in a row at the Canstruction 2006 competition. After tireless hours of scheming, drawing, shopping for “just the right c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, March 5th, 2006
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Interested in studying for a graphic design degree at a university design in Canada, USA or UK? Here’s a pretty comprehensive list of schools offering 3 and 4 year undergraduate programs.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 3rd, 2006
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The highlight of day two at Flashforward for me was a presentation by well known speaker Larry Lessig, a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society, entitled Building the Read/W [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Categories: Events, Learning, Tips | 1 Comment »
Why is it every time I’m in Seattle I find myself in some intimate little venue enjoying an amazing music performance? They get such great acts here and have such a healthy music scene in Seattle. After a long day of seminar presentat [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
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Flashforward 2006 is underway with capacity crowds filling the Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Primary sponsor Lynda.com‘s Lynda Weinman opened the proceedings with a warm welcome, proclaiming “The Web is back” w [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
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CANCELLED BY CARSON The Art Institute of Vancouver is pleased to present a special public seminar with international design icon and typographer David Carson on Thursday, March 2 at 6:30 p.m at the school’s campus in Burnaby, BC. UPDA [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
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As we had our staff Big Mac eating battle today (Paul Wallace won easily) it reminded me of how great it is when you first bite into the lovely bit of sour pickle in your burger. This moment of delight and others are included in IBC’s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Categories: Food, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
Tonight (February 23, 2006) is the GDC BC Chapter‘s “Town Hall” style annual general meeting held from 6:30pm – 10:00pm at Vancouver Film School’s Web Cafe on the corner of Hastings and Homer. All GDC members a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
While planning my upcoming trip to FlashForward in Seattle, I noticed their sponsor Lynda.com and was impressed by what they offer. Often confronted with the challenge of learning new technologies or new staff hires that aren’t famili [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
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How often does a civilian get an invitation to work directly under the wing of the top chef in Vancouver for a day? Not often. West Restaurant’s Executive Chef, David Hawksworth, graciously allowed me to infiltrate his tightly knit te [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Categories: Food, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
If the Design Exchange in Toronto really is about “Promoting the value of Canadian Design” as it claims, then one has to wonder what the hell they’re doing. In collaboration with the Department of Canadian Heritage, they h [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 17th, 2006
Categories: Design, News | 2 Comments »
If you’re a design student graduating in 2006, find out if the judges love you at the Salazar 2006 Design Competition. Call for entries and cool posters by Capilano College design students Christopher Freeman and Aldea Wood will be re [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
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Hemlock Printers, one of our valued vendors and clients, has been named the Most Environmentally Friendly Printer in Canada at the Environmental Printing Awards presentation held in Toronto. The keynote speaker at the event was Canadian sci [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
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IBC are proud members and supporters of the BC Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) and are thrilled to announce the launch of the BC Chapter’s Blog. The blog, developed by IBC, was designed to open a more tangi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, News, Tips, We love, Websites | No Comments »
Tattoos are so common place now, it almost seems cliché to get one. However, if you love body art, they are a great way to express yourself – until you decide you no longer like the image of a naked goddess riding a dragon down [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
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Developed by Jeff Han and his friends at New York University’s Department of Computer Sciences , Multi-Touch Interaction Research, this is prehaps the coolest touch screen monitor ever. I wonder if they’re Mac-compatible? :-) Vi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, February 13th, 2006
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Greetings to our loyal tribe! Seems one of you nominated us as a contender in AdLand‘s 2006 Battle of the Blogs in both the “Best Ad Agency” and the “Best Inspiration” categories. Thank you! We’re humbled [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | 2 Comments »
Sneaky unbranded newspaper advertising disquised as advertorials are becoming more common. This one for McDonald’s was in my local newspaper today carefully formatted to match the page grid, but with Lorem Ipsum for the copy! With gib [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, February 6th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Design, Marketing | No Comments »
We’ve created some pretty daring Direct Mail campaigns for clients in the past, using tricks like unusual envelopes and printing techniques to get the audience to actually open and read the darn things. This is a big challenge with DM [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, February 6th, 2006
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If you’ve ever seen the Japanese film Tampopo, you no doubt recall the scene where the elder character teaches his sidekick the fine art of truly appreciating and devouring a good bowl of ramen. Another favourite Japanese restaurant i [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 4th, 2006
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These days when new friends ofr visitors come to town and I want to show Vancouver off, I take them to Hapa Izakaya. Owned and operated by Justin Ault, it is a traditional izakaya, a sort of action-packed Japanese bistro/pub serving fancy m [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Categories: Food | No Comments »
I’m sorry. In the interest of not seeming petty I’ve avoided mentioning this, but I can keep quiet no longer. I HATE the new Canada.com identity. It’s the worst example of a re-brand I’ve seen in ages. The new candy- [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Categories: Branding, Design, Websites | 1 Comment »
We used to be fans of the Across The Sound podcast with Joseph Jaffe and Steven Rubel. As podcasts go, it was often inciteful and intelligent discourse between two innovative marketing professionals exploring new technologies and schools of [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 30th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Learning, Marketing, Websites | 5 Comments »
The Future of Marketing Summit was on my mind the other night as I was looking for a spot to grab a beer with a friend. Leaning in the shadowy doorway of a new restaurant with a brightly coloured neon sign was a well dressed young man. Dang [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 30th, 2006
Categories: Marketing | 2 Comments »
Created by Unirrelevant, here’s a great fan made video celebrating 30 years of Apple, showing their progression through the ages. [Kudos to Piers at PSFK for the link]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 30th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
Happy Chinese New Year!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, January 29th, 2006
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If you took the time to click on the list of sites in the “Blogroll” on this site, you’ll find serious sites about marketing, culture, literature and design. Then there’s a link to a site named after it’s famou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Interview, Pop Culture, We love, Websites | No Comments »
Interviewed by Mark Busse & Kevin Broome Dream. Create. Share. This is the mantra for Belief Inc, a motion graphics and digital design firm in Santa Monica, California led by Founder and Executive Creative Director, Mike Goedecke, whose [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 27th, 2006
Categories: Articles | 7 Comments »
Happy Robbie Burns Day! Raise a lovely glass of single malt scoth whiskey as you fill yourself on haggis and read his poems tonight. Don’t worry, as much as we love eating sheep’s stomach, you won’t be finding haggis in th [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Categories: Pop Culture | No Comments »
Disney has agreed to buy the animation firm Pixar for a staggering $7.4 billion US dollars, with Pixar CEO and majority share holder Steve Jobs joining Disney’s board of directors. now maybe Jobs can afford a new Video iPod! Story cou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
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In its 16th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted truthiness as the word of the year. Recently popularized on the Colbert Report, a satirical mock news show on the Comedy Central television channel, truthiness re [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Categories: Pop Culture | No Comments »
Monday, January 23rd is the Canadian Federal election. And what a joke it has become with ridiculous platform promises and seemingly insignificant issues being used as mud by Conservatives and Liberals as both sides engage in silly attack c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
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Thanks to our friends at Applied Arts Magazine, who’ve named these pages the best blog in their 2006 Design and Advertising Annual.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
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Regular readers will no doubt recognize the name Mike Goedecke as the Founder and Creative Director of Belief from the past references in these pages. While in Vancouver this week to speak to a sold out crowd at an ACM SIGGRAPH event, Goede [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 20th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Interview, We love, Websites | 1 Comment »
Apple has finally revealed their new Intel Core Duo Processor computers at this years MacWorld 2006 in San Fancisco. From the new advertisement released today, it seems Steve Jobs thinks THX1138 looks as cool as we do. Check out how similar [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Categories: News, Technology, We love | 4 Comments »
While recently visiting my buddy Piers at his office in New York, he ran off excitedly returning with a few small soft-cover books called The Royal Magazine. Holy man is this ever up my power alley. Their website claims the publication is a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 16th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Reading, We love | No Comments »
Our friend and fellow designer Chris Gee at ThePreparedMind.com recently found himself sucked in hook, line and sinker by the new Nike iD system of do-it-yourself customization kiosks in his local Nike Town store. He was so excited and move [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 14th, 2006
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Skype is our new favourite toy (our Skype name is industrialbrand). And while upgrading our version recently discovered a brilliant little cross promotional marketing campaign they are running called Win a Conversation with Coldplay. Appare [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 14th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Marketing, Technology, Websites | No Comments »
Can you imagine if a stranger walked up to you in public and did this? It would really freak me out. Funny stuff.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 13th, 2006
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
Who has time for gaming on a Mac anyway?!? There’s far too much creative work to get done. [kudos to Keith for forwarding this one]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 13th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Technology | 1 Comment »
I can’t believe I’ve never posted about this before. I’m so ashamed. One of my favourite movies and soundtracks ever is the double Grammy nominated film 1 Giant Leap. Everyone should see this film. Amazingly shot by musici [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 13th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Music, We love | No Comments »
Accompanying this year’s Canstruction call for entries has been a recent maelstrom of media coverage, including this article in Blitz Magazine featuring this interview about Industrial Brand’s involvement in the event.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Categories: Canstruction, Industrial Brand, Reading | No Comments »
My wife always rolls her eyes and shudders when advertisements offer “free gifts” to customers. Being a former teacher with proper grammar, she loves to yell at the TV that “gifts, by their very nature, are free!” Fu [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Categories: Branding, Marketing | 1 Comment »
Yeah, right. Google isn’t doing much these days. Now they’re planning to take over TV advertising.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, News, Reading, Technology, Websites | No Comments »
Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to announce its first presentation on motion graphics with Mike Goedecke, writer and director of the short film UNTITLED:003-EMBRYO which will makes it’s Canadian debut at the January 18th event. Follow [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Film, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
Time has released their picks for the 50 Coolest Websites of 2005.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 6th, 2006
Categories: Websites | 1 Comment »
This holiday season I found myself sitting on the couch watching television one afternoon with a designer buddy of mine. It suddenly occurred to us what an uninspiring waste of time it was. So, we grabbed our pocket sketchbooks and pens and [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 6th, 2006
Categories: Art | 3 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid I played with Lego and PRETENDED my creations were robots. I’d make “whirrr, buzzz, clang, beep” noises and march them around until Craig Brock’s bigger Lego-bot wou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Categories: Design, News, Technology | No Comments »
Take a bite of that savoury meat, cheese or tomato…is it yummy? It’s not sweet, right? Not sour? Not bitter? Not salty? None of the four accepted tastes, yet somehow so very delicious. Welcome to the world of umami, the elusive [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
Categories: Food | No Comments »
We’re honoured that HOW Magazine has chosen this site for their Top Ten list. Ah shucks, thanks guys.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand, Websites | 3 Comments »
What if our favourite uncle were perhaps the most famous graphic designer alive today, having given the world such cultural iconography as the famous Dylan poster and wildly popular I Love New York logo and dozens more? What advice would he [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Count down from 60 as you watch the QuickTime movie (11 MB) that Clive Piercy of PhD presented at the opening night of the AIGA Voice Conference in 2002.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Categories: Design, Pop Culture | No Comments »
We are a design team as well as proud bloggers. As such, we’ve discovered many great blogs that cover issues affecting the design, advertising, marketing, PR, photography and illustration communities. After analyzing numerous blogs, w [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 31st, 2005
Categories: Design, Websites | 9 Comments »
We’ve been big fans of what Coudal Partners and Veer have been doing for a long time, so when the two teamed up this summer to make a short feature in their spare time around the studio…wait a second, they have spare time? Who h [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 29th, 2005
Categories: Design, Film, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
The Industrial Brand Team wish you and yours a terrific holiday season and a successful 2006. We’re hoping to enjoy a little break over the holidays – and some BBQ, but if you’re feeling nostalgic, revisit a few of our Wis [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Categories: Articles | 2 Comments »
True, this isn’t the most relevant posting I’ve done, but this Craglist article is a brilliant piece of prose which really made me laugh. Who knew you could make a crack pipe out of an old greasy sparkplug?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 19th, 2005
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
A popular magazine within art and design circles, Applied Arts’ latest issue includes a tongue-in-cheek article by designer Doug Dolan, VP of Viva Dolan in Toronto. Entitled Lost in Translation: What clients say and what they actually [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 18th, 2005
Categories: Design, Reading | No Comments »
In the spirit of extreme consumerism, why not give the gift of livestock? Heifer International is a humanitarian assistance organization who’s mission for the past 60+ years has been to end world hunger and poverty. They believe that [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
Categories: Marketing, Websites | 1 Comment »
I love giving our resident pop culture princess a hard time about the new Madonna album, but the fact remains: Madonna is one of the most successful marketers of the last century. Now she seems to have caught a new wave: social software. He [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
Categories: Music, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
One of our regular reads has long been the quarterly print magazine Graphic Exchange which covers a wide range of topics relating to design and digital media publication. Unlike conventional publications in it’s category, Graphic Exch [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Categories: Design, Reading, Technology | No Comments »
While so much time and energy in a design education is spent on developing “graphic” skills, it is the ability to think BEYOND mere aesthetics that makes a designer successful. It’s unfortunate that clients often don’ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Categories: Design | No Comments »
Coke infused with coffee? Are you kidding me? Designers and nerds around the world rejoice – now we’ll never sleep. (via canada.com)
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Categories: Food, Marketing | No Comments »
A couple years ago I was fortunate to hear the Grammy-winning Béla Fleck and The Flecktones play at the Vancouver Jazz Festival. People had been telling me I had to see the amazing bass player in person to believe it – some cla [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
Categories: Inspiration, Music | No Comments »
Every true Macintosh fanatic has seen, or at least heard about, the famous 1984 television commercial that heralded the introduction of the Macintosh. The spot, with its distinctive Orwellian vision, is indelibly imprinted in the minds of M [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Categories: Advertising | No Comments »
The GDC has done it again. This time hosting a fabulous Cuba-themed holiday party for it’s members called Colours of Cuba featuring a live performance by the sultry Latin sounds of La Candela, the hottest new Afro-Cuban band to play a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Categories: Associations, Events, Fun, Music | 2 Comments »
What happens when you mix a cute gift shop with a raging typography fetish? The Regional Assembly of Text on Main Street in Vancouver, BC. Nearly everything in the store is hand made by the two artist-owners Brandy Fedoruk and Rebecca Dolen [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 28th, 2005
Categories: Art, Design, We love | 1 Comment »
Finally a fresh and strong concept for an under arm deodorant commercial. Figures it’s English.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »
I just found my new favourite online radio show. Design Matters with Debbie Millman of Sterling Brands is an opinionated and provocative Internet talk radio show airing on the Voice America Radio Network. The show combines lively discussion [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Categories: Design | No Comments »
On Thursday, November 17, 2005 it was announced that Cascades Resources was sold to Coast Paper‘s parent company PaperlinX, the world’s largets merchant of fine papers and graphic art products. What this means for those of us th [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 21st, 2005
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by Mark Busse Friday, November 18th marked the launch of the much anticipated Society of Graphic Designers of Canada [GDC] biennial Graphex National Design Competition. The panel of renowned international judges consisted of Rick Poynor, Mi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Categories: Articles | 9 Comments »
While out drinking in Williamsburg, Brooklyn last week I met the infamous and perpetually hilarious Jimbo Matison of ImaginAsianTV fame (among other more dubious things). While we wasted the night away, he regaled me with stories of his new [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Pop Culture | No Comments »
The Prepared Mind is one of the best (and only) podcasts dedicated to issues affecting the graphic design industry. Check out the latest podcast as host Chris Gee speaks candidly with Jason Fried of 37signals, the company behind the wildly [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Categories: Learning, Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »
Last week while in NYC I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Jon Stewart of Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show. He told me he didn’t view his position as a popular comedian and political satirist as signficant, despite my [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Categories: Pop Culture, Reading, We love | No Comments »
The Beastie Boys have posted a cappella versions of their songs for free downloading, encouraging their fans to create remixes of their own. Then they invite all comers to share results by sumitting to their Beazley Boys Remix Forum.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 14th, 2005
Categories: Music, Pop Culture, Websites | No Comments »
I think we all agree that music piracy is wrong, it’s just so much fun to share music you love with friends. But what happens when you get caught? Here’s an interesting situation where an 18 year old student named Delwin Olivan [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 14th, 2005
Categories: Music | No Comments »
As the online world moves towards Web 2.0, the very notion of “identity” is changing. At the recent Oreilly Open Source Convention, or OSCAN 2005, Dick Hardt, founder and CEO of Sxip Identity gave a funny and fascinating inside [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, November 11th, 2005
Categories: Learning, Technology | No Comments »
I didn’t think I’d be a big fan of Broadway musicals, but when a new friend starring in the hit Rent got us 3 tickets, we figured when in New York… Wow. It was incredible! Our kind host, Merle, plays Joanne in this emotion [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 10th, 2005
Categories: Music, Pop Culture, Travel | No Comments »
Tonight we had VIP tickets (thanks Keith) to a taping of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and was thrilled to get a chance to talk with Jon directly about his role as a political satirist affecting an entire generation. After the show we wen [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Categories: Pop Culture, Travel | 2 Comments »
If you are a member of our tribe and follow this blog, the odds are good you know who Blog guru Seth Godin is, or have at least seen his name on this site before. Seth Godin recently coined the phrase “Small is the new big.” whi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Categories: Marketing | No Comments »
First impressions of New York? Well, frankly not as BIG feeling as I imagined, though by any comparison, it is a huge metropolis. The moment we arrived here though, there was an energy in the air that was palpable. It almost crawls on your [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Categories: Travel | No Comments »
Boston is a picturesque blend of very old (like Paul Revere’s house) and very new (such as “The Big Dig” under the city). The historic buildings, ethnic neighbourhoods, friendly pubs, bright fall colours, inviting aromas, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Categories: Travel | No Comments »
Today I just flew to Boston on Air Canada. I was a little perturbed when my meal wasn’t included, though I seem to remember a recent announcement that in-flight meals were no longer going to be complimentary and replaced with a deli-s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Categories: Travel | 2 Comments »
Canadian cigarette packages are now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Designed by Vancouver designer (and close friend of IBC) Rayburn Marasigan, the packages show gruesome images of tobacco-damaged gums, lungs and hearts [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Categories: Art | No Comments »
This is way too good not to post. This guy is a total screamer. Hilarious.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, November 4th, 2005
Categories: Pop Culture | No Comments »
Don’t ya hate it when you receive a great looking invite to a cool event and think “Wow! Now that’s a terrific homage to a great design master.” Only to realize it is actually an exact knock-off of Piet Zwart‘s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Categories: Design | No Comments »
Here, you have definitive proof that Paris Hilton is an android from outer space with deficient artificial intelligence. See, it seems her facial expressions have unfortunately been frozen into one, single, somewhat bland look of pseudo-amu [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Categories: Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
One of our favourite music streaming channels Soma FM has compiled a collection of scary, dark Goth/Industrial music called “Soma Haunt” just in time to set the mood for Halloween. They claim some of the selections are quite rar [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 31st, 2005
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Our good friend and insanely talented Clive Goodinson recently returned from a 3 week trip to India. His pictures say it all.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 21st, 2005
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Bukowski’s, the popular restaurant & live venue on Commercial Drive, has announced it has been sold to a local businessman who plans to revamp the kitchen and rename it Sash. A regular Sunday night hang out of ours, we’re s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
Categories: Music | 1 Comment »
Vonnegut promised he’d never write another book. Thankfully, he lied. The author of such Amercian classics as Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five has brought back his sharp wit and unique perspective for one more look at li [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
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If some movies require a suspension of disbelief to be enjoyed, what I experienced at a recent Vancouver International Film Festival screening is downright unbelievable…
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Categories: Film | 3 Comments »
OK Stop. Back up. What is it about this rapper M.I.A. from London via Sri Lanka? On Friday, October 7th she played to a sold out room at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom. The fierce delivery of her zany, politcal songs – often sou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, October 8th, 2005
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Brand Coach Ted Matthews’ monthly e-newsletter Instincts explores topics relating to the maximizing the potential and power of branding. This week he explains how even the most remarkable products like iPods can fall flat in the criti [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
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Industrial Brand Creative is looking to expand our team in Vancouver and add a senior designer with web experience for a 3 month contract and full-time opportunity if they get al [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 30th, 2005
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I’m not sure how I feel about the issue of Trusted Computing, but this movie, directed, animated and produced by Lutz Vogel and Benjamin Stephan, is one of the slickest motion graphics shorts I’ve seen in a while. Watch Trusted [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, September 26th, 2005
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I wonder what marketing genius came up with the notion of releasing cars named for the following year? We just bought a 2006 Mazda 3 Sport GT, but it’s only September, 2005! We have a car from the future!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 23rd, 2005
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Remember our rock star friend Kuba? He’s just putting the final touches on the music video to accompany his award-winning hit single I Never Meant To Hurt U. I love the Kube-Dog moves.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 23rd, 2005
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Leonard continues his tour through Bucharest describing chocolate, waffles, donuts covered in cream and jam and now Romanian cake…sounds like he’s eating his way through Eastern Europe. Good old Leonard. Yesterday was my second [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
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As he explores Romania, Leonard Brody continues to delight and amuse with his travel stories. Enjoy. I arrived in Bucharest late last night…..it is truly a collage of identities – the city really doesn’t look or feel like [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
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Our dear friend and globetrotter Leonard Brody is once again on one of his crazy adventures – this time touring through Eastern Europe. His stories from the road are just too captivating and funny not to post here. Enjoy. Well, I am j [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, September 19th, 2005
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Our resident Asia junky Kevin Broome is currently enjoying a much deserved break on a whirlwind tour of China and Japan while his lovely wife Mark Busse on Monday, September 19th, 2005
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Bitter rivals Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Canada, who are traditionally each other's biggest competitors, have agreed to jointly build and manage a wireless high-speed Internet network that is expected to reach more than two-thirds [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 16th, 2005
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Wouldn't it be nice to be able to easily and quickly browse your fonts like you do you iTunes music library?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, September 15th, 2005
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These are interesting times with events around the world being reported and visually told via online news sources at an astonishing pace. 10x10 is an interactive exploration o [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
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It's great to consider design coleagues' perspectives about design and life. Sarah Doody is a interactive designer and partner at MessiahMadonna who has put some thought into how [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, September 12th, 2005
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Founded in 2002 by Nicole Steen, Marcus Rogers and Frank Yahr, the two night Indie Music Video Festival premiered at Vancouver's Railway [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 10th, 2005
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As gas prices continue to climb to astronomical rates, the idea of having a car that burns recycled grease from restaurant deep-fryers doesn't seem so crazy anymore.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, September 1st, 2005
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Today is BlogDay2005, so we’d like to introduce the world to IF.PSFK. IF is a fabulous source of daily inspiration for brand planners and creative thinkers with contributors from around the world. What’s your favourite blog?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
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Looking for a fabulous new piece of art to fill that akward empty space above your couch? Look no further - check out Ryan Heshka, whose retro space paintings combine robots, monster [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
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Most of us that provide graphic design and production to our clients can relate to AdLand's Unspoken Rules of Graphic Design, but the one that really stands out to us is R [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 25th, 2005
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This house is not a luxury resort, but rather the private residence of the late Sheikh Zayed, the former president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu-Dhabi. Rather impressive what $1.10 per litre ($2.55 per gallon) for gasoline ca [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Categories: Architecture | 4 Comments »
Marketers, strategists and gurus often preach about the importance of messaging, but often overlook simple and effective opportunities to reinforce focused messaging to an audience. Here's an example of a company with a powerful message usi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, August 20th, 2005
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The FRONTIERSPACE international design competition put on by SPACEAGENCY invited architects, artists, designers and design students to submit innovative [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, August 20th, 2005
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If Christopher Walken really runs for president, I might actually like the US again…well, maybe not. Copyright 2005 Industrial Brand Creative
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
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BC's answer to Burning Man without the risk of burning down their most valuable natural resource is Shambhala Music [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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We all want to grow our businesses and do great work, right? So what happens when your gut tells you to decline work? What guidelines do we have to reference as the potential client dangles the almighty dollar bill in front of us? The GDC, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, August 8th, 2005
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I have two legs and I can’t dance as well as this guy with one leg.Copyright 2005 Industrial Brand Creative
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 5th, 2005
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Now this is a unique and rather creepy way to promote a movie Trailer Crashers
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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Illustrator Sam Brown’s intro on his site ExplodingDog.com simply says “hi my name is sam, i draw pictures, from your titles. send me a title, or any thing else you want to talk to me about”. My favourite has to be i have [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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“Hey! The colour looks different!” Heard that complaint before? It’s utterly heartbreaking when a client receives the final printed brochure, poster or annual report only to tell you they don’t like the colour. It [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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There’s a strange new advertising trend in Vancouver recently. Top echelon celebrity restauranteurs like John Bishop and Iron Chef winner Rob Feenie, who already have to worry about over exposing themselves on television, are now are [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Categories: Advertising, Branding, Food, Marketing | 8 Comments »
Have you ever wondered why the mermaid in Starbucks’ logo has two tails? She’s actually a mythological twin-tailed siren called Mulesine found in a 15th century French fable. The story goes that Mulesine married a mariner (who I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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According to PBS writer Bob Cringley, there is more to the Apple/Intel deal than we first were led to believe. He’s uncovered clues behind the scenes that seem to contradict Steve Job’s claims and rationale surrounding AppleR [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, July 17th, 2005
Categories: Technology | 1 Comment »
Some time ago we posted a link to Belief‘s inspirational presentation Pollinate: Chain Reaction. The Santa Monica based broadcast design and live action studio recently profiled on Apple.com for their use of technology in design, has [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 15th, 2005
Categories: Branding, Film, Fun, Inspiration, Marketing | No Comments »
Inspiration can come from anywhere, but I wonder if an artist ever really feels honoured when their work is copied by another? Last year Belief created a stunning motion graphics promo for the launch of Times India Group’s new ZOOM TV [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 15th, 2005
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As practitioners of communication design, perhaps it is too seldom we consider the consequences of our work. The ever present client pays us for our skill at harnessing visual language to communicate a message and ultimately cause effect, s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
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I’ve never heard of “cinepainting” before, but Quebecer Simon Goulet’s prize-winning short film OIO uses 540 litres of paint, 56 colours, 7,000 metres of film and 33,000 digitized images at 360 frames per second to c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 11th, 2005
Categories: Art, Film | No Comments »
I’ve seen Flash used in some bizarre ways, but this takes the prize for most trippy.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 4th, 2005
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Sometimes rules should be thrown out the window. Often the most valuable lesson in art and design schools is ignored. For a visual communicator to grow and improve, you must be prepared to throw everything you just learned out the window.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 30th, 2005
Categories: Articles | 1 Comment »
An amazing example of innovative communication design, this billboard by New Zealand’s Clemenger BBDO won a Bronze Lion at this year’s Cannes. The billboard uses over 12,000 aluminum pegs on a white background to to create image [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
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For those who miss the zany improvizational sketch comedy of The Kids In The Hall, we found your new favorite comedy show! The new self-titled vehicle stars New York’s comedy troupe Stella. You can get a sneak peek of the new show on [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
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One of the best ways I can think of to spend a relaxing weekend is winding up a coastal BC highway on a stylish ride like a Buell M2 Cyclone. For those who enjoy blasting through city streets, there’s the unique new Buell CityX with i [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 20th, 2005
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The first-ever Commercial Drive Festival will be a full-on grass-roots community carnival on June 19th from 12:00pm celebrating that special funky flavour found nowhere but on East Vancouver, BC’s “The Drive”. Featuring a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, June 18th, 2005
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Join in the fun as Capilano Suspension Bridge celebrates the Year of the Salmon. There will be free admission for the public between 10 and 11 am tomorrow (Saturday, June 18). The official celebration will get under way at 11:00 am with a w [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 17th, 2005
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Today Michael Jackson was acquitted of all 10 child molestation charges laid against him in the most publicized trial so far this century. Whether or not he did it, he certainly BEAT IT.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 13th, 2005
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Well traveled Canadians have long known our women are some of the loveliest specimens of the gentler sex, but now the secret is out. Twenty-three year old blue-eyed brunette Natalie Glebova from Toronto, Ontario was crowned Miss Universe 20 [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
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Only Richard Branson’s buddies at 12foot6 would think of dogs in judo suits trying to show each other their new moves. Awesome.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
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As regular readers know, we’re big fans of the late Mr. Hunter S. Thompson who took his own life on February 20th of this year. Turns out Thompson’s private memorial wil be as gonzo as his life, where his ashes will be shot over [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 27th, 2005
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Industrial Brand Creative is honoured to be the design team and major sponsor of top Western Candian amateur female motorcycle racer Kimberley St. Pierre. This past weekend a bunch of us went out to cheer her on at Mission Raceway and she p [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
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We’ve posted entries about food before, so if you’re a regular visitor it’ll come as no surprise that we’re passionate about gourmet cuisine. As gastronomic hobbyists ourselves, a couple of us decided to start with t [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 20th, 2005
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I had the pleasure of catching my old friend Kevin MacKenzie perform at The Cellar the other night. A few years ago he enjoyed success with his Vancouver-based band Damn The Diva and I was honoured when asked to design the artwork for their [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 19th, 2005
Categories: Music | 2 Comments »
These days the term “branding” is an over-used term virtually bordering on cliche marketing jargon. At IBC we’ve tried to create succinct presentations to help educate our clients about the power of branding, but the conce [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
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Our longtime friend and client Eira Thomas has just been named a recipient of the Top 40 Under 40 award. A prestigious honour indeed, this award means Eira is considered by the Canadian buiness community a “leader of tomorrow” f [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, May 2nd, 2005
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You just never know who’s going to walk in off the street. Especially when your office has a shady, beautiful garden inviting people to walk through your open door on a sunny afternoon. A few days ago a hip looking guy followed his do [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, May 2nd, 2005
Categories: Industrial Brand, Music | No Comments »
Our friend and talented illustrator Terry Wong, affectionately known as Wonger, has an interesting hobby. He’s the only Chinese Elvis impersonator I’ve ever heard of. You can check out his moves at a recent gig. Crazy kid has so [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
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It’s always intersting to me that technical thinkers – often code-named nerds – can be so artistic. An Internet developer friend named Clive is as talented at creating bullet-proof code as he is composing and performing be [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, April 15th, 2005
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While reading a recent interview on ihaveanidea.org I was interested to glean some insights into the twisted minds of director duo The Perlorian Brothers, who’ve brought us some strange advertisements recently. As a part of the Toront [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
Categories: Advertising | No Comments »
The broadcast design and live action studio that brought us the inspirational video Pollinate: Chain Reaction has done it again. This time they’ve launched a new experimental project called Homework with 11 projects designed to spark [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
Categories: Design, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
There’s nothing worse that having to pee so badly but nowhere near a urinal. Peeing against a tree or in a parking garage stairwell is fun, but apparently not appreciated. The guys at UriLift have our needs at heart gentlemen! Remote [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
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We have a terrible, but funny, habit of messing around with the crew when returning from a client presentation. You know…”How’d it go, man? Did they like it?” gets a response like “Ohhh…not good. Mark far [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, April 4th, 2005
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Our wonderfully quirky, longtime friend and IBC photographer Sven Boecker has been kicking ass lately. His beautiful compositions for Hadley + Maxwell’s Décor project have recently been featured in successful exhibitions at Seatt [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 31st, 2005
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Why is it some type faces get lost at certain sizes? Why are some fonts easier to read at night? Introducing ClearviewHwy, the only type system to receive approval by the US Federal Highway Administration for use in road guide signs. With t [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 24th, 2005
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All my friends seem to be having babies these days and it’s interesting to consider the names they’re choosing, such as Ashley, Marshall, Rory, Nolan and Georgina. I don’t remember any of these names when I was a youngster [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 17th, 2005
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I have a pet peeve about people touching my computer monitor. It makes me crazy. However, recently it seemed my monitor was dim or dirty on the INSIDE. Strange. A techie friend Naise told me about a new free utility call Kitty Cleaner 1.0 t [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 11th, 2005
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Why do letterforms only have to be for making words? Why not make art using type?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
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Our buddy Jeremy Thorp is the coolest propeller-head you’ll ever meet. Not ony does he crunch complex Flash ActionScript by hand and teach Flash at VFS, he’s a former geneticist and recovering rock star. He once said to me that [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
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Mimes usually scare me – well, clowns scare me. There’s something quite wrong with someone acting like they are trapped inside an invisible box or walking down imaginary stairs. This mime however, David Armand from the UK fringe [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, February 28th, 2005
Categories: Fun | 1 Comment »
No excuses or fancy stories on this one – it’s barely blog worthy frankly, but this simple piece of animation done by Don Hertzfeldt a few years ago still gives us the giggles.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 25th, 2005
Categories: Fun | 1 Comment »
Our “totally hot” friend and sometimes client Leonard Brody has written a follow up to his 2002 book Innovation Nation. He co-authored the upcoming publication, called Everything I Needed to Know About Business…I Learned f [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 24th, 2005
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Apparently there were some absolutely fantastic entries this year for the National (North American) Canstruction Awards competition held last month in Las Vegas. Top honours went to [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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We’ve always loved lamination. That pause of admiration as people first touch our business cards (delustred polypropylene), or the relief they feel when they easily wipe spilled coffee from a custom presentation folder with gloss lami [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, February 21st, 2005
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Matt SamyciaWood has been named design director at Industrial Brand Creative in Vancouver. SamyciaWood brings over 10 years’ experience in communication design to Industrial Brand. Most recently he was responsible for creative and des [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, February 21st, 2005
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Fine. I’ll admit it. After many years using both Macs and PCs, I’ll acknowledge they both have strengths. For my design needs however, I strongly prefer the Mac – for many reasons. There’s little point arguing with a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 17th, 2005
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We recently discovered a great design and live action studio in CA called Belief that has a fantastic approach and philosophy akin to our own. In fact, their 45 minute presentation given in New York at the 2004 Promax/BDA conference is so s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
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Remember the Maya Hee Maya Hoo kid? Well it gets better boys. That song, called Dragostea Din Tei, was originally sung by a hot Romanian singer named Haiducii. There is a cheesy boyband called O-Zone that remade a club remix. You can see th [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
Categories: Fun | 1 Comment »
While teaching my design course recently I started hearing students using terms to describe each other’s projects I couldn’t believe were for real: blingin’ and mingin’. Blingin’ is apparently a derivative of & [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
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Joe Frank rocks. He’s the darkly distrubed radio host of WFMU‘s bizarre live web broadcasts. He first devloped the show on KCRW in New York, but recently switched teams. We’ve long since enjoyed his surreal performances an [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
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Last Saturday we ate dinner at my favorite Asian restaurant in Seattle: Wild Ginger. While the old location was friendlier and less cavernous, their pan-Asian food and service is delightful – especially the duck and seven flavor beef. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
Categories: Food | 1 Comment »
This weekend a bunch of friends took a road trip to Seattle to explore the new art exhibit at Howard House Gallery. The exhibit features our good friend and frequent collaborator, Sven Boecker, who has been photo documenting installations c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, February 6th, 2005
Categories: Art, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
With both cooking and fiction books to his credit, Anthony Bourdain is somewhat of a hero and inspiration to many of us at IBC. During my recent vacation I finally read A Cook’s Tour which was an addictive read describing his misadven [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 4th, 2005
Categories: Food, Reading | No Comments »
Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez have a new star-studded, comic-book-come-to-life film coming out in April. And let’s face it, we all love Jessica Alba – she can do no wrong. I’d never have guessed that was Mickey Rour [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
Categories: Film | No Comments »
This is well overdue. I was really starting to lose feeling down in my special place. Phew. Custom Condoms
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 31st, 2005
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An interesting Apple brochure from 1989 illustrated by Matt Groening (The Simpsons). Curious to consider how many radical changes and advancements have occurred in the computer industry, but The Simpsons are still going strong – 16 years [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 29th, 2005
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Andrea and I had a fabulous time exploring Cuba. After 8 days in Havana, we connected with a couple friends and our parents in Varadero and were married in a short service on January 19, 2005. Andrea was an absolutely beautiful bride as you [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
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On Saturday, March 5th at 6pm, after weeks of planning and 13 hours of carefully stacking and arranging 13,000 non-perishable food items, our Industrial Brand/Mark Busse on Friday, January 21st, 2005
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Some people shouldn’t let their kids play with webcams – especially when they get into Dad’s special collection of eastern European dance vinyl. What’s he saying? Maya Hee? Maya Hoo?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 6th, 2005
Categories: Fun | 4 Comments »
This poor fella needs our help! I hope he gets his Kung Fu lessons.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 6th, 2005
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With all the talk of cooking and recipes around the office these days, I just had to post this guy’s site. “Spicy Steve” as he likes to call himself has one of those cable access cooking shows that we fully spoofed in our [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 3rd, 2005
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After 13 months, 6 designers, 25,000 different concepts and one “Battle Royale”, our website has been given a major facelift. Take a look around and let us know what you think. Click here to view our old site.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
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I first saw this guys’s silly little site a while ago, but was surprised to recently find he’s still at it posting odd little pieces of media. Worth checking out when you need a giggle. EugeneMirman.com
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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This year’s holiday dinner party consisted of an endless array of meat cooked and served Brazilian style. Things almost got out of hand, but thankfully Ben unbuttoned his shirt and cooled the whole room off. If you dare to go to one o [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 20th, 2004
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I don’t get political correctness. It’s no fun. In fact, we dedicated a holiday greeting site to the idea of a PC holiday we called “That Time Of Year Thing” (TTOYT for short). I think Virgin Mobile calls it Chrismah [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 16th, 2004
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Back by popular demand. We still haven’t gotten this project finished, but it’s worth a giggle. The short story is this: a while ago our neighbour and friend stole some stuff of ours as a practical joke. In retaliation, we stole [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
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This is a special Cambodian dessert dish we were served at Phnom Penh restaurant in Vancouver (they think I’m a famous local chef and always spend extra attention – it’s funny). This chewy, sweet dessert has a beautiful da [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, December 10th, 2004
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This guy is totally mental. He’s as funny a comedian as he is a designer. Nice combo. ZeFrank
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 9th, 2004
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Industrial Brand Creative appoints Matt SamyciaWood Design Director. Yes, his name really does have a capital W in the middle of it. Don’t ask.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 1st, 2004
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This year we teamed up with Legends Memorabilia and MGM to create yet another successful CANSTRUCTION© sculpture. Check out our Cans Film Festival.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 6th, 2004
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Mark was recently interviewed for ZedTV, a CBC show about arts and culture. The interview features Mark and several other residents of our building who share work and living space in their lofts. Though he no longer lives at work, he does l [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 6th, 2004
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As if shaping brands for our clients isn’t enough, recently Mark Busse has taken to molding young minds. He’s now a part time instructor for the Foundation Visual Art & Design program at Vancouver Film School (VFS). This is [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 5th, 2004
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Future Shop had a great Christmas season thanks in part to our gift cards and in-store decorations. View our designs here.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 22nd, 2004
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Rather than giving in to the rampant political correctness of the season we decided to make up our own holiday. Eat, drink, love, live and let live. As John Lennon said, you can celebrate anything you want but above all else, have a Happy T [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 25th, 2003
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Our designer, Kevin Broome, was featured in the UBC Continuing Studies course calendar.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003
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The unique approach to our own business cards earned us a mention in an article in the Globe and Mail.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, August 30th, 2003
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IBC sponsored the Richmond Islanders in their first hard-fought season together. Good work girls!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 4th, 2003
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We’re Bright! Thanks to our client Ledalite we got these fantastic lights, but were forced to clean up the studio. Check out these terrific photos.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 31st, 2003
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IBC teamed up with First Associates in the CANstruction charity event to create a replica of the Royal Hudson… out of cans.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 3rd, 2003
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Our Holiday Wish to you.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 25th, 2002
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We have a new member on the IBC team. Charlie, a one year-old blind Havanese will be in charge of Art Direction and barking at couriers.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 10th, 2002
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Industrialbrand.com wins Bronze at the 2002 Digital Art Awards presented by Graphic Exchange Magazine. Read the full press release.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 7th, 2002
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Mark should really not be allowed outside.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 21st, 2002
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We’ve launched a new website for our client Mercury Filmworks.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 15th, 2002
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Happy Birthday Ben! You’re certainly aging gracefully!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 11th, 2002
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And now, a word from our branding guru, Paul Wallace.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 14th, 2002
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Squirrels, and then some: Scary Squirrel World
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 28th, 2002
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Check out the new digs!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002
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