if (team == tired) { get_drinks($many, $often); } if (team != tired { work($often, $late); } if(team == drunk) { sleep(); } if(team == notyetdrunk) { drink_more($scotch); }
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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I love when “research” time comes around at the office. It gives me a valid excuse to do what I clandestinely do the rest of the week: Surf the Internet. We’re deep into work on an architectural firm and researching all th [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, June 15th, 2009
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Though a relatively famous short film, I saw C’était un rendez-vous by french director Claude LeLouch for the first time this morning. In short, it’s an 8 minute tour through Paris by way of a camera strapped onto the front of [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
If you’re familiar with ‘Inbox Zero‘ from 43 Folders you’re already aware of how problematic emails can be. How many emails do you have in your inbox? How many have you been putting off because the response is too lo [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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All designers should have learned this so long ago that it’s already been forgotten and therefore in need of a refresher so I offer you The 10 Commandments of Dieter Rams. His design, and design principals, have influenced a generatio [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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Big news in the web world as Typekit was launched last week. For those of you who missed news of the launch, it serves to bridge the copyright issues associated with the CSS3 Property @font-face (hotly debated issue among foundries and deve [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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Those who know me know I’m a real sucker for live music. I play it, listen to it, live it…hell, I’d eat it is it were possible. The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is just around the corner this summer featuring some [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Categories: Events, Fun, Inspiration, Music | No Comments »
Things have been buzzing around the office lately but we found some time to do our once a month, once every few months newsletter. Think one part news, a dash of foodists culture, and one big giant bee plus our usual array of inspiration an [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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Ever since reading Speak Up’s Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? two years ago, the concept of the differences of print vs. interactive have been simmering on low on my mind. There are obvious differences, between these two mediums t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, May 4th, 2009
Categories: Technology, Trends, Uncategorized, Video, Websites | No Comments »
‘Click Here’ is seen everywhere on the net and is often used to indicate where there is a link. As interactive designers we need tools in our tool belt to differentiate links from regular text and reliance on inserting content o [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Categories: Design, Interactive | 2 Comments »
I spent pretty much all day on the internet (save of course the few hours a day I’m sleeping) and one of the thing that never ceases to amaze me is the proliferation of access to information. The rise of popularity of Ted Talks online [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, Interactive, Technology, Video, Websites | No Comments »
Friend of the studio and occasional collaborator Jer Thorp is putting on some Processing Workshops in Vancouver. I’ve had an intro into Processing from Jer while I was in school and enjoyed it, though sadly haven’t spent much ti [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 6th, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, Learning | No Comments »
You’ve gone to school and learned about proper design theory. You can identify fonts from a mile away, know your analogous from your complimentary colours and even your dreams line up to a grid. Now you’ve turned to the web but [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
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Personal Branding is not a new concept (see Tom Peters’ great primer called The Brand Called You). As personal identities move online, managing them becomes increasingly important. As online personal identities evolve they leave a tra [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Categories: Articles | 2 Comments »
Backing up information seems like such a simple thing to do, but stop and consider if your information is actually safely backed up? With the demise of Ma.gnolia last week many are left wondering about the state of their backups particularl [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, February 16th, 2009
Categories: Technology, Tips | No Comments »
If you’ve been to any conference you’ve seen the good and the bad of speakers. Some of the best known designers have left me cold and uninspired due in part to poor presentation skills. Veteran speaker speaker, Cameron Moll, off [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, February 16th, 2009
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Ever used the WhatTheFont website to determine what a font is? You see a picture and just NEED to know what that obscure font is. Well what happens if you’re out and about and see one on a restaurant menu, or an ad on the bus? Well gr [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Categories: Design, Fun, Interactive | 2 Comments »
I guess all new story ideas have been used up in literary circles, and writers have to turn to rewrite the classics. And that’s right, Seth Grahame-Smith went there. Read about it here, and order it on amazon.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Categories: Art, Reading | No Comments »
Mark dropped something on my desk and asked me to answer five questions about my job for a friend of his who was doing a grant application. I find I rarely stop to articulate why I like what I do, and questions like this make me slow down, [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Categories: Articles | 3 Comments »
In case you hadn’t heard, a few things changed south of the boarder today (something about a new president I think, not really sure…), and along the way the White House website relaunched (even if it does opt to use ASP in favou [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Categories: Interactive, Pop Culture, Websites | No Comments »
That’s right, someone has gone there. Star Wars Yoga. Rad!
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Categories: Design, Fun, Pop Culture, We love | 1 Comment »
I guess this isn’t anything new since we’ve seen choreographed dancing en mass (in a Philippines jail), performance in subway stations (Joshua Bell), and flash mob performance in many other forms the advertising side of this is [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, January 16th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
Our old friend Ze Frank has been a little harder to find since The Show went off air (or I guess offline) two years ago. A project he was recently involved with came online, a short 12 minute film called “The Remnants“. Well wor [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, January 16th, 2009
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Movie, We love | No Comments »
I totally dig this movie Poster. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a story of a man who is born as a 70 year old, and grows younger through his life; essentially aging in reverse. The movie posters are, for the most part, generic and a [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, January 12th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
Data Visualization seems to be all the rage these days and there is a great summary of some of the instances of it from 2008 over at Flowing Data. (via MS on Twitter) Some of these were already familiar to me (Wordle and House of Cards) but [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, January 5th, 2009
Categories: Art, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Interactive | No Comments »
It’s that time of the year again; Obligatory “end of year” lists. Best of this, worst of that. Most fly by my eyes in a matter of minutes with little more then an “ohhh” or “ahhh” but The Big Pictur [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, December 29th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Photography | No Comments »
Corporate level Viral marketing has, for the most part, appeared insincere and often completely backfired. Tiger Woods ’08 was released by EA sport and earlier this year a fan posted a video outlining a bug where a player could walk o [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, December 19th, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Pop Culture | No Comments »
During my daily Google search for “Phone Sex” I stumbled upon something slightly unusual given my expectations. Photographer Phillip Toledano, documented a photo essay of phone sex operators in their work environments along with [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, December 19th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Photography, Pop Culture | No Comments »
My day started today by finding out that I had accidentally saved a crop of a website design yesterday. In the perfect storm of backup redundancies not working (including the most important one – my brain) I was left with one of two opti [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Categories: Design, Learning, Software | 1 Comment »
Managing your identity, on and off line, is a tough task and one that everyone needs to be responsible for. With work days being busy, it can be tough to manage ones identity so designer Christopher Doyle made a Brand Standards guide to hel [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Fun | No Comments »
It’s been almost a year since the first and only time I’ve been to La Habana, Cuba and since then the country has moved even further away from the isolationist history (imposed or voluntary) of the last 50 years towards globaliz [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, September 26th, 2008
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Photography, Travel | No Comments »
This comes from vaults of something I thought I shared a few weeks ago, but it must have slipped through the cracks. Check out this piece on ABC news taking a look at the fonts used by the “remaining” US Presidential Candidates [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Categories: Typography, Video | No Comments »
Fill in the blank has never really been that fun for me until I stumbled on “Blank is like Blank” a blog by copywriter Justin Feinstein. You might remember him from his “If Taglines were Honest” post a few years back [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, August 1st, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Fun | No Comments »
We just sent our summer newsletter and all the prime cuts are going fast. Hopefully you have a copy of the newsletter in your inbox but if you don’t you can view it online, or contact us to be added for the next blast.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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UPDATE: So far he’s raised just under $10,000 and has been featured in the National Post, The Huffington Post and The Metro. Throw in some interviews on CBC and CKNW and there’s quite a bit of support behind this initiative. If [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, News, Sustainability | 1 Comment »
Work on the web? Then you’re (hopefully) familiar with A List Apart. (if not, shame on you!) Last year they ran their first survey for Web Professionals (results located here) and it’s back this year. Go take a whopping 10-15 mi [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Categories: Education, Interactive, Learning | No Comments »
I’m far from a techy Server Admin, and this is far from a tech blog, but while checking out Dave Shea’s blog this morning, I caught wind of a potentially crippling security flaw. The low down is that if you go to your banks webs [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, July 28th, 2008
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The finalists for the Canadian New Media Awards have been announced and on the heels of Ben’s post on awards shows, I continue to have mixed feelings about awards shows. This one stands out from others because the awards go to the ind [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, July 25th, 2008
Categories: Awards, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
Confused by Wikis? Rather just use e-mail? Check out this graph and see if your opinion changes. (via Tantek Çelik on Twitter)
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Categories: Technology | 2 Comments »
Clients don’t always realize why the picture they took on their cellphone or old 3.2 MP digital camera can’t be blown up for use on a trade show booth. Even in the hands of a skilled photoshop artist the picture can only be blow [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, July 18th, 2008
Categories: Photography, Software, Technology | No Comments »
Say what you want about User Experience and User Interface, but for the longest time, Captcha has worked. Well this year the tide seems to be turning as spammers crack some of the most secure captcha’s used by Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Ho [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Categories: Interactive, Technology | No Comments »
Radiohead is one of those bands that always seems to innovate and they’ve done it again. For their latest video for House of Cards, they collaborated with James Frost (Of Blip Boutique) to realize a video created entirely using data v [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Categories: Art, Interactive, Interview, Technology | 2 Comments »
For years, British graffiti / guerrilla artist has operated in anonymity. With “art” like spreading doctored versions of Paris Hilton’s album in UK music stores, erecting a life size sculpture of a Guantanamo Bay Prisoner [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, July 14th, 2008
Categories: Learning, News, Pop Culture | No Comments »
We’ve been inundated with messages about how we suck at Photoshop so I was glad to finally find some nice Photoshop Tutorials. But with so many tutorials and so little time in the day, one tip in a 10 minute video simply doesn’t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, July 7th, 2008
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Stuck for colour inspiration? McSweeney has a great list of HEX colours that sound dirty. Sometimes it’s the small things in life but I always get a kick of coding a site with a background colour of #EFF0FF. I’m so mature…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, July 4th, 2008
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First off, congrats to Firefox for a smashingly successful launch of Firefox 3. Almost 30 million downloads worldwide (as displayed on the cool map on SpreadFirefox.com which itself is good overview of a savy web audience worldwide). Apart [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Categories: Interactive, Tips | No Comments »
Hopefully I don’t have to sell anyone ’round these parts on the benefits of using Firefox. Firefox version 3 was released today and Mozilla is trying to make history by setting a Guinness World record for most software downloads [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Categories: Software | 3 Comments »
As much as I love music, I rarely find that it transcends a simple performance to something a little more ethereal. Miles Davis is a musician I absolutely love and adore, but his music has always remained academic for me, always appealing t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Music | No Comments »
While going through my 1000 or so unread RSS feeds this morning I came across something worth sharing, and hopefully of some interest, for some of you out there. I’m not a huge fan of the PowerPoint/Keynote/etc world but it’s so [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Categories: Technology, Websites | No Comments »
I remember seeing Star Wars for the first time (Circa 1992, don’t laugh!) and one of the impressive effects used a few times throughout the original trilogy was the holographic “conference-calling”. I filled this away unde [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, June 9th, 2008
Categories: Technology, Uncategorized | No Comments »
I stumbled on a great piece on ABC news that analyzed the US potential nominees for President (back when there were 3…. ohh wait… Hillary still things that she’s in this thing!) according to the typeface they chose for the [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Categories: News, Typography | No Comments »
Need a video produced? Motion Graphics got you down? I’ve got the company for you. Fred and Sharon’s Movie Productions. Or, check out the video on Youtube.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Categories: Movie | 1 Comment »
One of my good friends recently took the plunge and moved his life to the Cambridge University in the UK to study Sustainable Engineering. Brendan Baker has been researching the eventual environmental impacts made during product design. His [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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What do Nigeria, Algeria, Isreal, India, Brazil, and Russia have in common?
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, May 30th, 2008
Categories: Learning, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Rachael Ray has in recent months been the face of Dunkin Doughnuts promoting the brand in different campaigns. Recently one of her online ads came under fire and has been removed under pressure from conservative bloggers. Why you ask? Becau [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, May 30th, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Pop Culture | No Comments »
We’ve been using Content Managment Sytems (CMS) around the office for virtually every web project for around 4 years now and to date have always gravitated towards perennial favourites WordPress and Drupal. Recently I’ve become [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Categories: Events | 1 Comment »
After leaving my house in Vancouver at 5AM, flying all day to finally check into our hotel in Boston at 6PM, Mark and I were exhausted. Time to check in, take a nap and then find a good meal. Not only did we arrive at a super swank boutique [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Sunday, May 25th, 2008
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Mark and I just got back from the HOW Conference in Boston and far and way the most memorable presentation had NOTHING to do with design at all. Enter Chad Pregracke and his organization Living Land and Water. It was 45 minutes of go go go [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Categories: Sustainability | No Comments »
When you participate in a communication mechanism, do you hold responsibility to check it? For example, I am frequently frustrated by people who have cell phones, give out their number, but never have their cell phone on, leave it at home, [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, May 16th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Interactive, Pop Culture | No Comments »
A good friend of mine, Brendan – originally from Vancouver but now in Cambridge via Australia and Senegal, wrote a great article on the perspective he’s gained from being a Canadian abroad. It’s a great read that I encourage a [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Pop Culture, Sustainability | No Comments »
That’s right, I’m blogging about American Idol. Deal with it. I watch it in passing (never longer then 30 seconds at a time) with the same fascination that I watch my dog lose a fight with a chain saw or my left foot hacked up f [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Categories: Music, We love | No Comments »
I blogged about controlling websites through video a while back but knew it was only a matter of time until someone used the same technology with a really hot girl (or guy). Mentos KissCam does a pretty decent job. I won’t ruin it for [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, May 5th, 2008
Categories: Technology, Websites | 1 Comment »
Did you hear about the corduroy pillows?
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, May 5th, 2008
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
The drive to improve and succeed has increasingly lead to professionals in all trades to specify down to minute processes in projects. A photoshop artist will focus entirely on fashion retouching, or an interactive designer will draw boxes [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Categories: Articles | 2 Comments »
Around the office this week we’ve been feeling more then a little sick. The flu seems to have hit is full time on all fronts and have been popping pills and corking runny noses. So from the vaults of Ze Frank, I offer you one of his e [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Categories: Fun | No Comments »
I have a confession…I just used drop shadow on a project. AND I made the logo bigger. And to make it worse… last week the studio used Comic Sans. And the worst part of all this, there are good solid design rational behind all th [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 21st, 2008
Categories: Design, Fun | 3 Comments »
We were searching an identity project at the office last week and wanted to reference the logo design originally done for the Vancouver Olympic Bid (not the games themselves). So like all good deciples of Google, we turned to Google Images [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 21st, 2008
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I have to admit that the name Pete Turner doesn’t didn’t mean that much to me. Names like Reid Miles and Francis Wolf are rightly given a lot of recognition from their association with the Blue Note style. But what about Impulse [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Categories: Music, Photography | No Comments »
Ever close a tab in firefox too quickly and you wanna get it back? Just use “Apple + Shift + T” and your recently closed tab will reopen! This keyboard shortcut brought to you by “apple + option + control 8″ – [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Categories: Education, Fun | 2 Comments »
So when I think retro music I think maybe a little music from the mid 90′s. Perhaps a little Pearl Jam or Nirvana. Perhaps something a little older, like some Pet Shop Boys or Huey Lewis and the News. Perhaps, to stretch it, retro goe [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 14th, 2008
Categories: Music | No Comments »
Pitchfork Media has released it’s list of the 20 worst album covers of 07 and the list is worth a look if you’re looking for some creative inspiration! ;) Unlike many “worst of” lists, this one includes some big name [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 14th, 2008
Categories: Music, Pop Culture | No Comments »
The Canadian National Jazz Awards (NJA) were handed out last night in Toronto and a bunch of our friends and colleagues received some of the awards! Billed as a celebration of Canadian Jazz the Awards have traditionally been very Toronto-ce [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Categories: Music, Websites | 2 Comments »
For years I’ve been using the div id=”wrapper” function under the impression that wrapper just stood for the wrapping containing element. But ohhhh how wrong I was. Turns out there’s a rapping SEO expert preaching th [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
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A few months back I wandered down to my usual watering hole, The Jazz Cellar, to see singer songwriter Jesse Harris perform. Normally a jazz venue, the Jazz Cellar is a remarkable live music venue of all styles. Harris played a a great set [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 7th, 2008
Categories: Music, Photography, Pop Culture | No Comments »
An Al Gore initiative, called “We Can Solve It” just (re)branded and have an interesting new logo. Outlined in a NY Times article by Steve Heller, the logo looks to link the concept of “we” and “me” in a [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 7th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Sustainability | No Comments »
I don’t know if this would qualify as a mature or informative post but hopefully will provide you with a quick distraction and laugh. It’s a Star Wars Rap. (NSFW) Enough said. (via Geekologie)
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 7th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Pop Culture | No Comments »
I’ve rocked both a Canon A620 and Nikon D70S for about two years now and love them both like children from two different mothers however the Canon is a consumer camera and thus makes significant compromises. (sort of like the slightly [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, April 4th, 2008
Categories: Photography, Technology, We love | No Comments »
You’ve seen all of these photos before, but have you seen them rendered in Lego? Have you? (via Geekology)
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Categories: Art, Design, Fun | No Comments »
I received somewhat bad and disturbing news when I got home tonight. North America’s last remaining Radio Orchestra, Vancouver based CBC Radio Orchestra, has been shut down. The culprit? You guessed it, budget cuts. While symphony orc [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Categories: Music, We love | 1 Comment »
Adobe and the AIGA have teamed up to package 500 commonly used fonts aimed at design students making the transition to professional life. Creating a font library can be daunting and when you’re just starting in a career assembling the [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Categories: Education, Typography | No Comments »
Reuters has put up a great new website called Bearing Witness that documents and discusses the role of journalists in Iraq. It’s interesting to see a little bit from the other side of the lens and hear people who put their life in jeo [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Categories: Travel, Websites | No Comments »
Coming up with creative URL’s seems to be part of a business plan these days. Starting a company? Check the URL. Got a new product? Go get the URL. Going to launch a campaign but not have an online presence? Unless you want someone el [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Technology | No Comments »
It’s not new to the web, but it’s new to me. Check out Rsizr (Resizer if you put the vowels back in). Its promotes itself as an app that “lets you intelligently resize your images” and actually works pretty well. It [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Categories: Photography, Technology | No Comments »
Maybe it’s all the issues of design mags in there, or maybe it’s a new twist on the creative process but early this morning Mark took his laptop and locked himself in our one and only washroom and he’s STILL there! I wonde [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Categories: Fun, News, Tips | 1 Comment »
The importance of Corporate Branding has been extensively discussed but personal branding is a topic that can often fall by the wayside. Jonathon Snook just put up a great short article that sums this up nicely. Most of it seems like common [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, March 17th, 2008
Categories: Learning, Technology | No Comments »
Interface Design is arguably the primary concern for the interactive world these days. If something isn’t designed well and intuitive to use, it won’t get used. Books like The Design of Everyday Things and Designing Interactions [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, March 14th, 2008
Categories: Interactive, Technology, Websites | No Comments »
Ever have one of these days when you get off the rails and things keep on spiraling downhill? Well what happens if it happens on air, and gets passed around the internet and is with a celebrity? Check this interview with Super Dave Osborne [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Learning | 1 Comment »
With cameras in computers, cell phones and who knows where else, we seem to take for granted that cameras can go anywhere. In the early development of the movie camera, they were much more stable and harder to move around. When this new tec [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Categories: Art, Film, Movie | No Comments »
So I just tried to comment on another post on here and our own Captcha system rejected me. TWICE! Captcha is one of the easiest and best ways to prevent spam on contact forms and blog comments however is often annoying to the user and is so [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, March 7th, 2008
Categories: Technology, We love, Websites | No Comments »
 I'm left out of many of the new mobile features because I haven't shelled out $500-$1000 for the newest phone (and again in a year, and another year etc). On top of that, the environmental impact of discarded cell phones is an increasing concern.
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Change in the cell phone industry seems to be speeding up rapidly these days. Seems I can’t hang out with friends these days without everyone pulling out their phones comparing features. I feel a little left behind rocking my ghetto M [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Categories: Design, Sustainability | No Comments »
This past week Jeff Healey passed away after a long battle with cancer. For those of you new to his name he was one of Canada’s top jazz and blues musicians who achieved critical and commercial success both at home and abroad. Do your [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Categories: Art, Music | No Comments »
I’ve blogged about Code commenting before. I like it. It makes me smile. Sometimes people leave jokes, or witty comments their code which brings amusement to an otherwise dry topic. Around the office we’ve been checking out Logo [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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 I've been a big fan of his work before I was a designer and when his titling sequences were just a thing I found cool that kept me engaged at the start a movie. There's a great resource over at <a href=)
Saul Bass is pretty happenin. (and yes that is an academic statement) I’ve been a big fan of his work before I was a designer and when his titling sequences were just a thing I found cool that kept me engaged at the start a movie. The [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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Q: What’s the only kind of music a violin is good for? A: Camp Fire Music OK…. I jest. The world has been inundated with solo violin works ranging from every Suzuki student playing Twinkle Twinkle up to stunning performances at [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Categories: Art, Music | 1 Comment »
Much has been made of Facebook Privacy lately. Basically Facebook owns has access to all your personal information and rights to use, sell or otherwise make profit from worldwide, for ever. Is this a problem? Do you care? There are plenty o [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Fun, Learning, Websites | No Comments »
People using desktops (complete with CRT’s) in Starbucks and zillions of people freezing in Grand Central. Urban Art by Improve Everywhere. Short and sweet this morning! (via Geekologie)
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Pop Culture | No Comments »
For over 10 years, local funk band extraordinaire Soul Stream has been playing every Monday and Tuesday night at Bar None in Vancouver. One of the best house bands in Vancouver, Soul Stream mixes covers of Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fir [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Categories: Music, Vancouver, We love | No Comments »
Much has been made already of the websites of Hillary vs. Obama. (spawning countless “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” comparisons) but a new site has sprung up in an effort to save a campaign that, by many accounts, is going do [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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When I was in Cuba for the Icograda International Congress one of the most moving presentations was about a community building project in Rwanda run by Alan Jacobson. In a week filled with Cuban Festivities and wall to wall design talks, hi [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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Yesterday was a beautiful day here in Vancouver. Blue sky, fresh snow on the mountains, some sun….. it was pretty inspiring, but today it was back to the gray overcast sky that is stereotypically associated with Vancouver. Enter a pre [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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Paul Rand shouldn’t be a new name to anyone and while the internet is a diverse repository of information of all kinds (I know, this is coming as a shock..) a new website collecting the work, and information has been posted. Currently [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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Stumbled on The Playground this morning which is an experimental site presented by Rick Valicenti. (of 3ST among others. Anyways the premise of this site is to “to create an alphabet of 26 characters illuminated not to start a sentenc [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 30th, 2006
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After having a busy week of blogging I was going to try to take today off but ran across John Maeda’s site – The Laws of Simplicity. It has basically the content from his new book, surprisingly called The Laws of Simplicity, in [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, November 24th, 2006
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The office has been hectic all week long and got unusually quiet this afternoon when some of our team was out making a presentation. The remaining team was all deep in thought/work but luckily someone noticed a great sky/sunset/rainbow. We [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
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Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy. I was walking to work today comparing the dichotomy between his dedication to peace and the polar opposite view that we have seen in subsequent US Presidents, particul [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
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Adobe has released a new website dedicated to exploring colour called Kuler. (get it…. colour…. kuler… colour…. kuler…) You can use it to explore colour combinations online and of course download an app to use [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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Stumbled upon a South Park character generator and took a few minutes out of my day to make one of the guys in our office. (There are only 5.) Take a guess at who this is and visit the Generator Page to make your own. When you’re done [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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Frank Wess is a jazz saxophone legend (Basie et al) and once answering machines rolled around he layed this heavy message down on his machine. It’s classic!
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Sunday, November 19th, 2006
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This can just be filed under really freakkin cool! Take one old Russian tank, replace some parts with turbines from a MIG and you have a new fire extinguisher. The one in my kitchen now feels so inadequate.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, November 17th, 2006
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Now I’m not one for burning incense, feng shui or other slightly wacky ideas, but this one I can’t say no to. Global Orgasm Day….. how can this be a bad thing? Well, if you ignore STD’s, unwanted pregnancies, awkward [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 16th, 2006
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I’m sure this is popping up on every other website but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that there is a Simpsons Trailer out. After what was, in my opinion, a pretty weak teaser trailer I wasn’t sure what to expect an [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
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The latest rage for iPod gadgets is the vibrator attachment (or so I’ve heard.) the OhMiBod, the iBuzz and the Audi-Oh iPod Vibrator have all come out with iPod attachments that vibrate in synch with the music you’re listening t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, November 10th, 2006
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Art in nature, urban art, but art at 30,000 feet? This video tracks flight patterns over North America and displays them in a quicktime vid. Pretty cool and completely unexpected results.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 9th, 2006
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I came to the office today with the US Mid Term elections on my mind and wanted to blog something with these events in mind. During my morning website visit I checked a new website to my list and found this video about the new vote counting [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
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I admit it, I check the CSS on about 60% of the websites I visit. (huge props to the Developer Toolbar for Firefox on this one!) And while looking through piles of XHTML, CSS, Javascript and whatever else you encounter is education and usef [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
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After a few days of reacquainting myself with flash (aka banging my head against a timeline 8 hours a day) I stumbled upon this great animation. It’s been around for a while but well worth another visit. I would love to know if any mo [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, November 6th, 2006
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What to do with your left over pumpkin? Make a computer of course. Time to go home and steal candy…
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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I’ve been checking out a lot of advertising pages lately and despite what you see on a day to day basis on TV, there is some wicked stuff out there. This is one of the ones I found today (via I believe in adv).
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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It’s Halloween tomorrow. I don’t like halloween and this time of the year makes me feel ostracized from society simply because I don’t like to dress up. (although a bar in town is having a Dirty Pirate Hooker HalloweenR [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, October 30th, 2006
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With a tip of the hat to Crocodile Dundee (THIS is a knife!) and The Simpsons go to Australia (I see you’ve played knifey spoony before!), I present to you, the ultimate knife! (via Miho @ Mira)
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
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Here’s a new fun game to take on the bus. Someone always gets on or off at your stop. (…… almost always) Therefore Steve’s First Law of Transit says that you never need to pull the stop signal and you’ll always [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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It’s Monday morning and I had a bunch of cool blog postings I thought of over the weekend (stay tuned for a good game of bus chicken) and some cool ones I found this morning, but this one is HELLA-cool! (and I don’t use that wor [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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Mouse, Mice…they’ve been the interface option for computers since the PC started to materialize. (see Scotty in Star Trek). Now some new ones are being developed and it’s easy to see the new possibilities for increased int [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, October 20th, 2006
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The potential pitfall of education about the female body in the media can sometimes fall on deaf ears because overexposure of the message. The kind folks at Ogilvy produced this ad for the Dove Real Beauty Workshop for Girls. Puts things in [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
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Forget drop shadows, neon and the jitterbug, Web 2.0 is the new craze. If your website isn’t 2.0 then you’re behind the times. Wanna see if you’re up to speed? Use the Web 2.0 Validator to see if you’re the hippest c [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, October 12th, 2006
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With increased CCT coverage and greenspace disappearing all over the world, teenage pyros have no place to practice their craft. In addition “grown up” pyros (note the large quotation marks and lack of use of the word reformed) [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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I stumbled upon these ads for Fearfest at Paramount Canada’s Wonderland. One would be hard pressed to argue that they aren’t effective, but are they in good taste?
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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The day after finding a bus that had crahsed into a building, I found myself wandering aimlessly around London’s South Bank and found what vaguely resembled an empty orchestra pit. In fact it was a project put on by the Philharmonia O [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, October 6th, 2006
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Having a creative block? Being bugged by that pesky client? Art Director riding your back? Things could be worse, you could have driven a double decker bus into a London building! During a recent trip, I came out of a tube station and saw t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, October 5th, 2006
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Once again Apple has released a few new toys but it’s time to turn back the clock. Remember those old Apple computers we all had in our elementary schools (well at least I did!). About the only thing they were good for was playing bri [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
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Celebrating 10 years of Flash on the net, FWA (Favourite Website Awards) in conjunction with Adobe is hosting the voting on the most influential flash site online. Not just the best, but the most influential. Each year has had 4 finalists a [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, September 1st, 2006
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All day, every day, the effects of downloading are constantly making news on one wire service or another. Looking to shake things up and give people a reason to buy a CD instead of downloading the single, Beck (also a cool site!) throws a w [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, August 28th, 2006
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Hillman Curtis does a lot of electronic design (web, movies, motion) including some wicked short movies for Rollingstone, Adobe and MTV. Of particiular interest are the shorts on Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, Stefan Sagmeister, David Carson,
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
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With new community sites popping up all over net for a grad project, the students of EMD12 designed and built a site to discuss and critique design work created in the program called The Langara HUB. Start to finish the project was done in [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, August 21st, 2006
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