A few months ago, Mac Donald’s launched a new TV campaign in France ‘come as you are’. The campaign itself, created by EuroRSCG, is pretty nice but what really caught my attention was the logo: it has turned green!! Just l [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Branding, Food, Marketing, Sustainability | No Comments »
I had the opportunity a few years ago to design juice labels for Happy Planet. Yesterday on a hot sunny day I enjoyed a chilled ‘Extreme Purple’ (it was so good). On review of their website I discovered they have grown as a comp [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, June 1st, 2009
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Have you ever wanted to eat at a fancy restaurant but afraid to spend a huge chunk of your paycheck? Well, stop spending money on strippers! Just kidding… Dine Out Vancouver is back again. With over 180 restaurants, starting on Januar [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Categories: Events, Food, Fun, Vancouver | 3 Comments »
Those of you who know a thing or two about us know that we’re very much into our food. You might have perused this blog and noticed a distinct absence of food-related posts. The reason is that some time ago we decided the topic was so [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 28th, 2008
Categories: Food, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
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 »
Fame and fortune oftentimes brings trouble for those not grounded enough to handle it. Hell, even then the most innocent and well-intentioned have fallen into the dark side. Probably tough enough for a human to stay on the straight and narr [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, September 15th, 2008
Categories: Food, Fun, Photography, We love | No Comments »
This is NSFW (unless you have headphones). Anyway, thanks to Nathan for the heads up on this. Bo Selecta screwing with Jamie Oliver. I mean, what could be better than a foul-mouthed bear beating up Jamie Oliver for letting his sidekick Stev [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 11th, 2008
Categories: Food, Fun | 1 Comment »
My wife, who doesn’t even eat lamb, sent me a link to a company called Edible. Divided into sections: Insectivore, Herbs & Spices, Aphrodesiac, Carnivore, Herbivore, and Apothecary, the company scours the earth for the rare, the e [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Categories: Design, Food, Marketing | 1 Comment »
How does one improve their vocabulary AND help end world hunger? FreeRice.com is a site I came across a few months ago from a friend and I’ve always regretted not posting this sooner. The concept is simple: For each multiple-choice vo [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, March 21st, 2008
Categories: Food, Inspiration, Learning | No Comments »
One of the many perks working for IBC has definitely been around people who has a passion for great well-cooked authentic food. A while back, I had mentioned to both Mark and Ben that I have an aunt who creates magic in the kitchen. Finally [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, March 14th, 2008
Categories: Food, Industrial Brand, We love | No Comments »
Personally, when I see a little cow out in the field I don’t immediately think of veal, but now maybe I might. Today, I came across a site devoted to “depiction of animals that act as though they wish to be consumed” calle [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Categories: Design, Food | 1 Comment »
Modern Toilet Diner, a Taipei-based, washroom-themed restaurant—that has been open since 2004—lets you realize the secret dream of eating fecal-like ice cream out of a toilet bowl. Adding on top of the cleverly posed dish ware, the deco [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Friday, November 16th, 2007
Categories: Food, Fun | No Comments »
While it’s easy to love the “cuteness” factor of many new foods that come out of Japan, this is certainly not one of those instances. Canned Bread comes in a vending machine and is, well, bread in a can. There are many dif [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
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In the event you need/wish to eat human flesh you may want to consult the handy guide Thirty Illnesses Sorted According to Whether or Not You Can Eat the Victims kindly provided courtesy of McSweeney’s. Of course, it’s not all t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Categories: Food, Tips | No Comments »
Delectable mochi and ice cream for bringing joy and with happiness. Its taste soft like winter. We can watch snow together. Let’s enjoy! This summertime treat has been brought to you by Lotte of Japan. These melt-in-your mouth chewy m [...]
Posted by: Matthew Shettler on Friday, July 27th, 2007
Categories: Food, Fun, We love | No Comments »
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 »
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 »
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
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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 »
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 »
We have a fondness for all things abattoir related, like these cool plates from Sprout Home. Imagine a nice arrangement of lamp chops, potatoes and some fresh peas, or maybe some bbq pork? Yes, learn from your place settings, then make a st [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Categories: Design, Food, We love | No Comments »
With Canstruction looming on the weekend’s horizon, it is interesting to check out what other food-based sculpture competitions exist out there. Without a doubt, there are few people who can turn a block of parmesan into a masterpiece [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Categories: Canstruction, Food, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
Every now and again at IBC we award The Great Boo Award to our favourite drink. It is in honour of Mark’s Great Uncle Boo, who was a narcoleptic. He slept long and late, sometimes for days so when he finally woke up, there was much ce [...]
Posted by: Paul Wallace on Friday, February 24th, 2006
Categories: Food, Industrial Brand, We love | No Comments »
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 »
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 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
Categories: Food, We love | No Comments »
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 »
You’ve heard us talk about Canstruction before, but now’s your chance to get involved. If you are in the Vancouver area and are on a team or interested in entering a team in this year’s (or even next year’s!) competi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Categories: Canstruction, Food, Fun, Inspiration, Pop Culture | No Comments »
In addition to the Matcha addiction we all have seem to acquired, you can now eat your green tea, thanks to Green Tea Kit Kat. There is only one drawback to this, they are only available in Japan. So if we have any Japanese readers, feel fr [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, January 13th, 2006
Categories: Food | 1 Comment »
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
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It’s over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it – holiday eating that is. Just before New Year’s we had the opportunity to meet our clients from Singapore for the first time over dinner at Kerrisdale la [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
Categories: Food | No Comments »
If you’ve seen our entries from past Canstruction Vancouver events, you might have wondered how we did it or maybe even how to get involved. If you’re the competitive type, you were probably thinking how you might unseat us from [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 19th, 2005
Categories: Canstruction, Design, Food, Inspiration | No Comments »
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 »
“TeaChef is a community of people who are passionate about two things: cooking and tea. Or, more specifically, cooking with tea.” Personally, I’m holding out for the Lapsang Suchong month. In the meantime, if anyone has a [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Categories: Food | No Comments »
That’s right, it’s December and it’s now okay to talk about the holiday ‘season’. Speaking of which, this is the official invitation for you to drop in and ‘season’ us with a nice box of chocolatey [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Categories: Food | No Comments »
BlogDay2005 is upon us and that means we get to blog about another blog. At Industrial Brand we’re rather into cooking. Recently I came across a cool site called Cooking For Engineers. Engineers aren’t always known for being gre [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
Categories: Food, We love | No Comments »
As far as powdered addicting substances go, green is the new white. Lately we’ve become hooked on the buzz we get drinking iced matcha lattes. Matcha is a powdered green tea first discoverd over 900 years ago. It provides energy and a [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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From a branding perspective, serving the food your restaurant pushes out of the kitchen in miniture toilet bowls is questionable, but that’s exactly what this toilet restaurant does. In fact, the entire place is decorated with them. I [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, August 8th, 2005
Categories: Food | 1 Comment »
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 »
In clicking through links for my last post, I revisited Timothy McSweeney’s and came across this gem: Reviews of New Food is just that, short, well-written and quirky essays on various authors’ first encounters with different fo [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Categories: Food | No Comments »
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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The only thing better than sushi… chocolate sushi. via Veer.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
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Mike Industries recently held a competition in which contestants sent in photos of iPod Shuffles they had built out of food. A slide show of the honour roll entries including the winner by Davin Risk can be viewed here. The spam (of the can [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
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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 »
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
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A Canadian scientist claims to have proven that the world’s most expensive coffee really does taste better because the beans it is produced from have been eaten and defecated by a wild cat. PUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Posted by: Charlie on Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
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A very useful link for something very dear to all of us at Industrial Brand. After picking up a few pointers, check out the recipe page in the B-sides of our website.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
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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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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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