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
Categories: Industrial Brand, Sustainability | No Comments »
Recently the Government of British Columbia presented one of our valued clients with its 2011 WelcomeBC Day Award, in recognition of their innovative website developed by Yours Truly, the talented team here at Industrial Brand. But never mi [...]
Posted by: Keltie Munro on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Categories: Awards, Design, Industrial Brand, News, Vancouver, Websites | 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
Categories: Industrial Brand, News | No Comments »
Sometimes it is convenient that our food world and our design world cross paths. Recently Foodtree asked us to help rebrand in the time leading up to the launch of their new iPhone app and City of Vancouver collaboration. Rolled out simulta [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Categories: Branding, Industrial Brand, Sustainability | 1 Comment »
The ligature: music to your eyes or an outdated typographic nuisance?
Posted by: Dana Deschene on Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Categories: Design, Fun, Industrial Brand, Learning, Pop Culture, Technology, Typography, Uncategorized, We love | 2 Comments »
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 »
Have you ever hung out with people who all belong to a different professional circle than you and they crack ‘industry specific’ jokes? You can feel clueless and a total ‘div head’ (English slang for a rather slow st [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, April 1st, 2011
Categories: Education, Industrial Brand, Learning | 3 Comments »
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
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, News, Vancouver | No Comments »
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 »
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
Categories: Articles, Branding, Industrial Brand, Websites | No Comments »
For the past three and a half months I have been an intern at Industrial Brand, and what a journey it has been. I have learnt a lot about the business of design and every step in between from how to write an RFP response to preparing produc [...]
Posted by: Nikole Japuncic on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Categories: Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Learning, News | 2 Comments »
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 »
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
Categories: Articles, Design, Industrial Brand, News, Reading, Tips | No Comments »
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 »
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
Categories: Industrial Brand, News, Reading | 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 »
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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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 »
Some projects can really be both exhausting and very rewarding. After weeks and weeks of hard work, numerous revisions, and a couple of late nights putting the finishing touches (while eating bad delivery food)….we are very proud to h [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Categories: Branding, Featured Project, Industrial Brand | No 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
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, News | 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 »
In addition to ADCC and W3 awards we took home earlier in the year, we were recently very pleased to learn that our website for UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture was honoured with a Lotus Merit in the interactive categor [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Categories: Architecture, Awards, Industrial Brand | No 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 »
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 »
After months of work and anticipation, today is the day. The day we launch our new identity with a new website, blog and an unimaginable list of collateral and promotional item including a new logo, new tagline, new stationery, new promo it [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 14th, 2008
Categories: Events, Industrial Brand | No 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 »
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 »
Just a little teaser: we took down the old logo on the front door the other day. Hint: if the suspense is killing you and you can’t wait for the new website, or to get handed a new business card, do a drive by.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Inspiration | No 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 »
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 »
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 »
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
Categories: Advertising, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
We recently learned our website for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has been accepted into Directions 2008, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s (ADCC) annual awards show. Thought we should share t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Categories: Architecture, Awards, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
…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 »
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 »
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 »
Word has it that the Graphex 2008 commemorative binder is totally WOW! The binder was given out as a welcome kit to the judges and so far it’s been very well received. Don’t you just love the laser etched bamboo cover? We do. Th [...]
Posted by: Claire Alexander on Friday, November 30th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Awards, Design, Events, Industrial Brand | 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 »
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 »
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 »
Here’s an interesting fucking article. Turns out swearing at work isn’t a bad thing! Phew.
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand | 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 »
I don’t want to harp on my pathetic luck, but last week I rebroke my foot doing too much too soon. It’s highly disappointing discovering that you are not, in fact, invincible, and that stubbornness is your own worst enemy. IR [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, September 14th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand, Tips | 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 »
We are happy to announce the launch of MEJA.ca, a site that we’ve developed for Marceau Evans Johnson Architects. The site is built on a WordPress content management framework that allows the company to update their online portfolio o [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Categories: Architecture, Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, Vancouver, Websites | 2 Comments »
We’re currently working on a brand evolution project for a client that found me spending a couple of hours the other morning rooting through YouTube for title animations of film companies. Ironically the one particular ID that I had i [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 10th, 2007
Categories: Film, Industrial Brand, Inspiration | 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 »
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 »
Some of you wouldn’t believe the things that come out of our mouths here at IBC, and I think it would be a good idea to start posting some of these random sound bites without the benefit of any sort of context. After all, if we don [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Categories: Industrial Brand | 2 Comments »
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 »
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 »
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 »
It started as a joke during the research phase of a current project, but we were just informed that our t-shirt design Puma Vs. Unicorn has passed the Threadless submission phase and is now up for voting in the public sphere. Help us make t [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
In the spririt of clearing our minds and bodies daily in anticipation of creative greatness, we at Industrial Brand follow a strict morning exercise regime. Now you can follow along too.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 9th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand, Tips | 1 Comment »
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 »
Just over 2 years to the day of launching this blog, we find ourselves at our 1000th entry. On this momentous occasion we look back warmly on the journey thus far, the strange corners of the internet that we have explored, the friends we ha [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | No Comments »
We were just informed that we have made it to the second round of voting for the Canadian Blog Awards in the category of Best Business Blog. It is a strange category to find ourselves in. First round competitors included Canadian Entreprene [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | 1 Comment »
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
Categories: Art, Fun, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Last night Vancouver’s Advertising and Design community gathered at the Westin Bayshore for the AAABC‘s 2006 Lotus Awards, which showcases some of the best advertising, design and interactive work done in British Columbia. Our o [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Events, Industrial Brand, Vancouver | 3 Comments »
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 »
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
Categories: Industrial Brand, News | No Comments »
The discovery of Fritz Kahn’s work over at the always brilliant Bibliodyssey, immediately reminded me of some of the imagery that we were using way back in the day for the IBC brand. Really cool stuff.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Categories: Art, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Technology | No Comments »
Here’s a sure sign of the end of the consumer customization trend (or at the very least, a new low). At MyHeinz.com you can “Say it with Heinz” by placing a personalized message on your next bottle of mustard or ketchup. N [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | 3 Comments »
Uh…oh yeah. About that last post… Before you start writing to inform us that our blog has been hijacked, we’d like to introduce Todd Smith, designer, playboy, madman and gentleman. He’ll be guest contributing for the [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | No Comments »
Community Centre Website Course: $75.00 Domain Name Registration: $19.00 Webspace: $115.00 Leaving the branding agency’s name in your title after stealing their metatags: PRICELESS
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, June 19th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | No Comments »
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 »
The Field-Tested Books project is our version of the Heisenberg principle: reading a certain book in a certain place uniquely affects a person’s experience with both. The writing you’ll find here is grounded in that idea. You wo [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 9th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand, Reading, Travel | No Comments »
Yesterday we had an awesome birthday party with the guys from Bryght for Mark’s 37th birthday. Check out all the fun we had here.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | 7 Comments »
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 »
As we already noted a couple of weeks ago, the Applied Arts article got it somewhat wrong when it suggested that most of our blog posts “give an informal perspective on projects that Industrial Brand has undertaken”. Those of yo [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand | No Comments »
This morning we were browsing the latest issue of Applied Arts Magazine and were pleasantly surprised when we saw ourselves mentioned in Frank Lenk’s Tech Talk column. He talks about “rapidly proliferating designer blogs”, [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 24th, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand, Marketing | 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 »
Within minutes of the arrival of my new iMac G5 Power PC this morning, the IBC team discovered the Photo Booth feature.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 17th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Industrial Brand | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 »
So as of tomorrow morning, I will be starting my guest editing gig with the fine and talented folk over at Coudal.com. Should be a wild show. When it comes down to it, Coudal is one of the fundamental reasons that we got messed up in this b [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Categories: Industrial Brand, Inspiration, We love, Websites | No Comments »
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
Categories: Industrial Brand | 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 »
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 »
In commemoration of this, our 500th blog entry, we are doing another batch of our infamous Hamster T-shirt. Get yours now while supplies last.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
Categories: Industrial Brand | No Comments »
This weekend while doing some image research I came across this 1968 Westinghouse ad. It bears a striking resemblance to the brain navigation in the original Industrial Brand website we launched in 2001. The site and the navigation design w [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 5th, 2005
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
At this year’s Canstruction Vancouver where we took top honours, a reporter from Attaché Magazine was wandering around talking to people and making copious notes. The result of his efforts was recently published as The Architec [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 18th, 2005
Categories: Canstruction, Fun, Industrial Brand, Inspiration | No Comments »
The lead time for entering award shows often creates a huge gap in time between the date you enter and the date of the actual awards. Thus, when we found out earlier this week that our blog (this blog!) received a Merit in the Interactive M [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Categories: Advertising, Industrial Brand, Marketing | No Comments »
In what has become a tradition of sorts at the IBC studio, Halloween was celebrated with a broadcast of the Orson Welles’ radio classic “The War of the Worlds”. Some great background info including police reports of public [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 31st, 2005
Categories: Industrial Brand | No Comments »
Ever since launching our new website back in December, there has been a general feeling that something was missing; that we had left something behind in the move to a kinder, gentler corporate message. With that in mind, we are pleased to a [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
Categories: Industrial Brand | No Comments »
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
Categories: Industrial Brand | No Comments »
The first dispatch from our Senior Asia Correspondant – Kevin Broome has just arrived. “There are people wandering along the side of the freeway. This is my first impression upon our arrival in Beijing. It strikes a deep set hor [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Categories: Industrial Brand, Travel | No Comments »
Happy 4th (28 in dog years) Birthday Charlie! You are older than me now!
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, September 16th, 2005
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Thank you for the eight months of amazing blogging. Unfortunately we have outgrown you and must move on. Don’t take this the wrong way, you definately performed to your maximum potential, but we feel that we just need more flexibility [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, September 8th, 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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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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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
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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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Starting Friday evening we had exactly 48 hours to concept, write, shoot, edit and deliver a 30 second commercial spot for Room to Read as part of The Great Canadian Commercial Contest. Fourty four teams competed, each producing a spot for [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 18th, 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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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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When friends go missing it is really hard on everyone. Ray has been missing getting action for over a year. If anyone sees him please tell him his friends and family miss him. Ray is Missing
Posted by: Charlie on Thursday, March 31st, 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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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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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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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
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I’ve just recently finished posting the “Top Ten Most Important Websites (to me) of 2004″ at my personal site. Coudal Partners earned top honours and then reciprocated by posting my site (and IBC’s) on their Fresh Si [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
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We are in the process of creating the soundscape for our new website. As inspiration for our sound designer Alan Wong Moon, we sent over these incredible photos of the Tokyo underground.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
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Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, January 28th, 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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Once again Industrial Brand, together with Legends Memorabilia, is participating in Canstruction, a fundraiser for the Vancouver Food Bank. Every year teams create sculptures made of non-perishable food. At the end of the event, all food is [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
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Following a brief affair with our own test kitchen wizard Betty Fuller, Industrial Brand partner Mark Busse married the real love of his life, Andrea Munro, in a private beach-side ceremony attended only by family. Spotted by helicopter was [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
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First Day of snow in Vancouver today! I think 1 inch is enough to call it a snow day.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, January 6th, 2005
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After 13 months, 6 designers, 25,000 different concepts and one Battle Royale our site has been given a major facelift. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, January 4th, 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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Look what we’ve cooked up for the holidays! Wishing you a warm (at 350 degrees F for 35 minutes) and beefy holiday season. From Betty Fuller and the crazy cooks at Industrial Brand Creative. Get Beefin’ Up The Holidays now while [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
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It is always a pleasant way to start the morning with a remix of your latest song waiting in your InBox. firstChild is a project that Alan Wong Moon and I have been working on for the last six months or so. This is song number three, curren [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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Every morning, about a half hour after I arrive this guy shows up and starts cleaning our kitchen, makes coffee and then leaves. We call him the Kitchen Bitch.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
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At Industrial Brand we count down to the holidays using empty boxes of chocolates. Last night we were working late and one of our guys asked me to hide the latest, a nice quantity of mint Frangos imported from Chicago (you can’t get t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel 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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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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Happy Birthday Ben! You’re certainly aging gracefully!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 11th, 2002
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Check out the new digs!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002
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