I was recently asked to be a presenter at PechaKucha Toronto. Of course it was an honour and, telling myself that these sort of challenges lead to discovery and reward, I happily agreed. As the day grew near I started to fret—OK, I was [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 4th, 2011
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CreativeMornings is being brought to Vancouver, by our very own Mark Busse. CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series started in New York by Tina Roth Eisenberg (@SwissMiss) for creative types happening the first Friday of each month. [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
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An edited version of the following article was published on DesignEdgeCanada.com on June 7, 2011: Walking into the Interlink Conference felt a bit like witnessing two worlds collide. Half the audience was the hardcore designer set, with th [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
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An overview of An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites.
Posted by: Sylvia Rigakis on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Categories: Design, Education, Events, Inspiration, Interaction, Interactive, Learning, Social Media, Technology, Websites | 1 Comment »
The next Likemind Vancouver event will be held at 8am on Friday, April 15th, and hosted by Ethical Bean Café 91315 Kootenay Street (near Boundary & 1st Ave) (Click here for directions).
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 31st, 2011
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The next Likemind Vancouver event will be held at 8am on Friday, January 21st, and hosted by Prophouse Café at 1636 Venables St. (one block west of Commercial Dr) (Click here for directions).
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
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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 »
The next Likemind Vancouver event will be held at 8am on Friday, August 20th and hosted by Kafka’s Coffee & Tea House at 2525 Main Street (at Broadway) (Click here for directions).
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, July 31st, 2010
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“The 1000 Journals Project is an ongoing collaborative experiment attempting to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels. The goal is to provide a method for interaction and shared creativity among friends and strangers.” (1000jour [...]
Posted by: Nikole Japuncic on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
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Matt recently wrote a great article about why he was excited about the upcoming Icograda Design Week Vancouver 2010 conference. This week Icograda released this animated promo video about the theme of Design Currency created by Rethink, Gia [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration, Vancouver, Video, We love, animation | 1 Comment »
Happy New Year! The first Likemind event of 2010 is scheduled for 8am, January 15th and will be hosted by W2 Community Arts at the W2 Culture + Media House at 112 West Hastings Street (the Perel building across the street from the fancy new [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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Likemind has come a long way since its inception and profile in the New York Times. With about 250 members in Vancouver, our “chapter” has become one of the most active, with a lively Facebook Group, Flickr page and Twitter feed [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
Amazing paddy field art in Japan. Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate create works of crop art by carefully planning, arranging and growing different varieties of rice plants. This year they came up with giant pictures of Napoleon a [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, July 9th, 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
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Video | No Comments »
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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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 »
M&S (Marks & Spencer) turns 125 tomorrow. My mum who lives in Leeds (where M&S started as a single market stall) is off to a special event tomorrow at M&S, so I thought I would check out the corporate site for more info. I u [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Categories: Branding, Design, Inspiration, Marketing, Websites | 1 Comment »
I am so excited, one of my favorite programs of all time is coming to Vancouver, well Richmond actually. For those that don’t know, This American Life hosted by Ira Glass, is a one hour radio program (and also 30 minute tv show) on NP [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Categories: Events, Film, Inspiration, Uncategorized, We love | No Comments »
Bill Buxton is so cool. He’s Canadian, a massively talented designer, and arguably the world authority on interaction and usability design. What’s not to like? Oh, Buxton does work at Microsoft as their Principal Researcher, but [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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It’s certainly no secret that we’re huge fans of GDC, the national design association in Canada, and the various events they produce. So, I’d like to encourage any and all creative professionals that work within the commun [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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Last night I visited the the brand new Vancouver Convention Centre for the first time. While there I took special notice of the convention centre’s new identity and its applications. At first I must admit the logo baffled me a bit as [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Categories: Branding, Design, Inspiration, Vancouver | 6 Comments »
It’s time again for Likemind Vancouver, this time on Friday, April 17th at the Starbucks at Nelson and Mainland. Come join this growing group of very cool people for a cup of coffee and some terrific conversation. Here are photos from [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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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 »
Fun, playful and creative. Love the Sumo, I’m off to buy one for my wee girl. Check out the site (LINK)
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, April 6th, 2009
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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
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Clean tagging, or reverse graffiti, follows a very simple principle: clean in order to draw. We’ve all done that on a dirty car (yes, Wash me!!!). So is this environmental activism, art or vandalism? Alexandre Orion’s ‘wall of sku [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, March 27th, 2009
Categories: Art, Inspiration | No Comments »
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Needs Our Help Graphic designers don’t often participate in documentary filmmaking, which is a shame. Just as our craft helps shape culture, documentaries are powerful storytelling vehicles, often reveal [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Categories: Associations, Film, Inspiration, Vancouver, We love | 1 Comment »
The Alcuin Society and BC Chapter of GDC are co-producing a FREE EVENT featuring Canadian book designer, illustrator, art director, and publisher Frank Newfeld on April 2nd at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
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Most of us have already seen Microsoft’s impressive multi-touch display technology, but I’m not sure how accurate this utopian portrait of the future of computing is, called Microsoft Sustainability. Pretty awesome bit of motion [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, Motion-graphics, Sustainability, Technology | No Comments »
The upper portion of these shoes are old bus and train seats of London. Having gone to college in London, these shoe patterns bring back good memories of fun times on the tube and the buses. Even though some patterns are not everyone’ [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, March 6th, 2009
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Polaroid stopped production of its analogue instant film a year ago, but a bunch of fans and former Polaroid employees in the Netherlands have decided they won’t take “no” for an answer. ‘The impossible project’ [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, News, Photography | No Comments »
Wandering a friend’s blog I discovered this great site in London. ‘Together for London’ is a website in the UK whose message is ‘A little thought from each of us. A big difference for everyone’. The site is an [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, Learning, Trends, Uncategorized, Websites | No Comments »
A great article about corporate giving, long but well worth the read. Has there ever been more urgency for corporations to ditch the greed and embrace generosity? It’s something that countless individuals have already started doing, o [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, January 26th, 2009
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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 »
It’s like Communication Design class all over again. Take a peek at these sexy pieces for the Grammy’s “Celebrate the Music That Made Us” campaign. The portraits of select artists (Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Music, Typography | 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 »
Our old friend Gary Hustwit, who brought us the feature-length film Helvetica about typography, graphic design and global visual culture, is putting the final touches on his newest documentary project, Objectified—this time a fascinating [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 5th, 2009
Categories: Design, Film, Inspiration, Movie | No Comments »
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 »
Not that I feel guilty when I eat rabbit anyway, but clearly bunnies are suicidal and should be put out of their misery, as is evidenced in these funny cartoons from Andy Riley’s Book of Bunny Suicides.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 29th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Reading | 2 Comments »
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 »
I love books — beautiful books not the ones with shabby covers. I must admit that sometimes I buy a book for its cover rather than for its content. I don’t lend my books easily, they look too cool on my shelves. And I love Penguin [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, December 12th, 2008
Categories: Design, Illustration, Inspiration, Printing | 1 Comment »
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 »
As mentioned previously, Richard and I are co-hosting Likemind Vancouver, which has recently gotten the attention of the New York Times. So, if you’re interested in 45 minutes of coffee and casual conversation with likeminded creative [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, November 28th, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
Readers who watch Friends, you might know what my title means. For the past few weeks Todd and I have been working on furnishing his new place. Not only has this move given me an opportunity to fuel my interest in interior design, but also [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Tips | No Comments »
The Rubitone, by Ignacio Pilotto: A Rubik’s Cube with Pantone colour chips—now why didn’t I think of that? [props to my man Cory for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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Dubai. I have a strange fascination with Dubai, I would love to visit the city that seems to change substantially every few years. You live in a hot climate but like to ski – build ‘Ski Dubai’ If you like to go to Disney l [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
As mentioned previously, Richard and I are co-hosting Likemind Vancouver, which has recently gotten the attention of the New York Times. So, if you’re interested in 45 minutes of coffee and casual conversation with likeminded creative [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »
I consider myself lucky to one of the lucky few able to get a ticket to last night’s sold out inaugural Interesting Vancouver conference with some friends. Oops, I meant to say “unconference.” It was the third local event [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »
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 »
Here’s nothing more than geeky fun to inspire you today: singing Tesla coils!
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Categories: Fun, Inspiration | No Comments »
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 post is for those of you who need a shot of inspiration. Pour yourself a tea in a quiet place (or put your headphones on), sit back and enjoy this wisdom that comes from a very special place. Randy Pausch was a popular professor of Com [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 29th, 2008
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I enjoy performance art as much as the next guy (fact: few people enjoy performance art), but this Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson should be recognized for creating the weirdest bit I’ve seen in a while using a mask of exploding [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Categories: Art, Inspiration | No Comments »
Let’s face it: Gary Hustuit’s documentary Helvetica was a runaway hit. I certainly didn’t expect so many designers and non-designers alike to get so goofy about a film about a typeface. Building on his success and reputati [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Categories: Design, Film, Inspiration, Movie, News, We love | No Comments »
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 »
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 »
Today I am in San Francisco at the PSFK Conference, billed as a day of trends, inspiration and creativity. So far I am enjoying the content and discussions so much that I am going to avoid trying to frantically keep up with notes, Twitter a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Learning, Trends | No Comments »
Apparently this has been going around for a little while, but the sheer effort, not to mention volume of paint, of this street art (I hesitate to call it grafitti) is impressive. Muto is “an ambiguous animation painted on public walls [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Pop Culture | No 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 »
There is one thing I know all designers love; freaking sexy business cards. Here’s a site that will definitely get you thinking about redesigning your own card or at least get you itching to do something.
Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, June 6th, 2008
Categories: Art, Branding, Design, Inspiration, We love | 1 Comment »
Lots of jazz played ’round these parts recently. The modern stuff is OK, but the classic stuff really moves me. Check out these two collections of online videos of live jazz performances on YouTube.com and Dailymotion.com. There goes [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Music | 2 Comments »
Having just returned from HOW Design Conference, I have a hundred stories and many photos to share about the last five days in friendly Boston. But before I do that (and to buy me a little bit of time to get organized), let me just post thi [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Travel | No Comments »
If I was asked who Stefan Sagmeister was a week ago, I could’ve given a handful of knee-jerk descriptions; he’s a designer, he’s provocative, he’s influential. I could’ve said many things to describe the icon h [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Categories: Art, Articles, Events, Guest, Inspiration, Learning, We love | No Comments »
If you’re in any field related to art or design, you very likely know who Syd Mead is—the artist primarily responsible for the look and feel of influential movies such as Aliens, Blade Runner, Tron and others. Well, as a volunteer o [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Categories: Art, Associations, Events, Inspiration, Vancouver, We love | 3 Comments »
A 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 »
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 »
I own one, you probably own one… Here’s a site that makes me want to seriously doodle in my moleskine. Thanks JK Chan for forwarding this along.
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Categories: Art, Fun, Illustration, Inspiration | No Comments »
Stuffed animals. Explosives. Need I say more?
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Categories: Art, Fun, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
Arcade Fire is fairly awesome. We play them often at the studio. And their videos are often pretty darned cool, like this version of “Neon Bible” recorded live in an elevator. But nothing tops this interactive video for “N [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Interactive, Pop Culture, We love, Websites | No Comments »
I could easily just post a link to the MoMA’s online exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind” and say COOL! Actually, yeah, let’s do that. This site is as cool as the exhibit it showcases. [kudos KB for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Interactive, We love, Websites | No Comments »
I love weird marketing when it’s clever and relevant. The currently popular trend of weird for weird’s sakes—not so much. The Alta Bikes website is weird, witty and wonderful. Not surprising really, when you consider that the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Marketing, Websites | No Comments »
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 »
Some lovely Flash work, great infographics and an interesting idea, all mashed up.
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »
The first time I watched the title sequence for Showtime's "Dexter" I liked it, after I started watching the show, I fell in love with it.
Posted by: Ivan Cruz on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Categories: Design, Film, Inspiration | No Comments »
With some time to spare and a little bit of curiosity I found “New Vintage Type” a book that I am now in need of getting my paws on. So how did I find this gem of a book?
Posted by: Claire Alexander on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Categories: Branding, Design, Fun, Inspiration, Typography, Uncategorized | No Comments »
So it has taken quite some time to make my first post but here’s just a small rant from my passing observations. Ben has been itching for that gun metal MackBook Pro that will likely never see the light of day, so for those of you [...]
Posted by: Simon Cranwell on Friday, February 15th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Technology | No Comments »
Is there anything better really than spending a few days with family and friends snowboarding on Sun Peaks Mountain cruising through glades on fresh powder? Even though it was only a few days I came back feeling like I’d had a two wee [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 15th, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, We love | 1 Comment »
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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
Categories: Inspiration, We love, Websites | No Comments »
Our recent designer Leigh Peterson (who we miss dearly) and her partner, software developer Jeremy Karlson, recently launched a free Mahjongg Solitaire game called Ivory Mahjongg for Mac and Windows. After hunting for a decent free version [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Technology, We love | No Comments »
My passion for samurai films is really unreasonable. Well, for that and Yakuza films. And the films of Takashi Miike, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, anything Takeshi Kitano was ever in (especially Brother), Japanese serials like Lone Wolf and [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, January 7th, 2008
Categories: Art, Film, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Vancouver | No Comments »
This short film The Story of Stuff has been making the rounds recently and totally worth sharing. If I were an elementary school teacher, I’d show this to my class and use it as a starting point for a discussion on consumerism and its [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Categories: Inspiration, Learning, Sustainability, Websites | No Comments »
Long gone are the days of guilt-free ridonculously extravagant gift-giving. Not that I’d like a return to over spending and under thinking gift giving, but it seems that the pendulum has swung too far the other way. We’ve become [...]
Posted by: Claire Alexander on Friday, December 14th, 2007
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, Sustainability, Tips | No Comments »
I’ve always wanted to make a roast turkey costume for my cat. A combination of my own laziness and the cat’s reluctance to wear costumes (go figure) has sidelined those plans. Yet, today I was confronted by a project we can both [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
Thanks to the swag bag at Graphex 2008 Judges Night I find myself ogling Kwantlen University College’s Graphic Design for Marketing 2007 Degree Show Catalogue (what a mouthful). Being that the show happened over six months ago, I gues [...]
Posted by: Claire Alexander on Friday, December 7th, 2007
Categories: Design, Education, Inspiration, Learning | 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 »
While cruising the streets of London I was approached by a smart looking guy offering me the chance to grow my own jalapeno peppers at home. He handed me a small pink package, that looked a bit like a book of matches. Inside were five chill [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Categories: Branding, Inspiration, Marketing, Packaging, Sustainability | No Comments »
As part of the London Design Festival I attended a new opera called “The Corley Conspiracy”. The event was cowritten by a friend and collaborator Sean Starke, who is also part of the MIRROR project that I’m involved with. [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Categories: Art, Events, Inspiration, Music | No Comments »
Uh-oh, seems I’m a foodie AND a fontie. The Globe & Mail’s Ivor Tossell says that’s an annoying combo in his recent Globe & Mail rant For The Love of Typography. And yes Ivor, it’s true, Comic Sans sucks like [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Typography | No Comments »
It’s certainly no secret that we’re huge fans of William Gibson around here. Well-worn copies of his books Pattern Recoginition, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties and Neuromancer are found on our bookshelves. And we jump on any [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Categories: Inspiration, Reading, Vancouver, We love | No Comments »
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 have a pretty cool studio space. It’s perhaps a bit crowded and hot these days, but our team thrives in it and our clients love it, often telling us they like coming here for meetings because they dig the creative energy in our lof [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 13th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Websites | 1 Comment »
I love architecture. Heck, at one point in my life my goal was to become an architect. So when I was invited to attend an installment of CBC’s Studio One Book Club to meet and hear renowned philosopher and historian Alain de Botton di [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Categories: Architecture, Inspiration, Learning, Reading | No Comments »
A recent article in New York Magazine about Edward Tufte begins “Edward Tufte is most likely the world’s only graphic designer with roadies.” But Tufte is certainly much more than a graphic designer, which is sort of the point [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, June 16th, 2007
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Our friend Kuba has been on a creative streak lately, releasing a new single and a sexy music video call Brotherman, directed by Noah Davis. Listen carefully to the lyrics, they’re quite moving.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 7th, 2007
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How cool is that? I want one.
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, May 31st, 2007
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As a fitting follow up to Mark’s recent post, watch how this impromtu performance of “In The Air Tonight” by Naturally 7 on a Paris subway gradually wins over their fellow passengers. Except for the one guy who is right up [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
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If you arrived in a transit station as you hurried to work and there was a nondescript young man in jeans, t-shirt and a baseball cap masterfully playing Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D Minor on the violin, would you notice? If you noticed, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Categories: Inspiration, Music | 4 Comments »
Shorpy isn’t just any photo blog, it showcases photos from the turn of the last century up to the early 1940s. Some of the images are fantastic, especially the ones from the 1940s. For some reason I never imagined photography that was [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, March 30th, 2007
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Brilliant as always, Marian Bantjes’ Limited Edition Cover for Wallpaper Magazine.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, March 19th, 2007
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I’ve discovered a quirky voyeuristic website aptly titled Found Magazine. Its a playground for the curious. Users simply upload their original finds. The beauty is, with little context, you are left to wonder why someone took the pict [...]
Posted by: Amanda Fetterly on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Categories: Fun, Inspiration | No Comments »
“VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, acr [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, February 5th, 2007
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Working with the residents of the slums of Rio De Janeiro, artists Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koohaas have been painting a giant mural right in the heart of the community with the goal of instilling a sense of pride among the people and to impro [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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As we at IBC plan our next Industrial Revolution it seems others have begun their own. Here’s a supreme piece of motion graphics that describes a paradigm shift .
Posted by: Haig Armen on Saturday, January 20th, 2007
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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
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Yup, it’s that time of the year again – time to build an 8 foot sculpture out of canned food at Canstruction Vancouver this coming March 4-11th, 2007! Hot off taking top honours two years running we’re throwing out a chall [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
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You know when your friend does something better than you? You have such respect for them and are so proud of them, yet still have this quiet pang of jealousy. That’s how I feel about my talented friend and GDC colleague Marian Bantjes [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 18th, 2006
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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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Some of us are hooked on the adrenaline high that comes from pushing ourselves hard and living in the fast lane (no, its not an Eagles reference). Life seems to be getting busier and busier every week, which has got me thinking about the li [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Categories: Inspiration | 1 Comment »
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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And he called VFS out. Let me start by saying that the youtube generation is for the most part lazy and uneducated, but here comes a young man with a little more thought than the average internet troll. Charlie Winter, when finding a VFS fi [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »
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 »
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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Astronauts, geographers, and typographers alike can all find joy in the impressive world of Geogreetings. Geogreetings are in my definition, “The combining of a sattellite’s view of landmarks, algorithmic(seemingly, but not real [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Friday, November 17th, 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
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Tips | 1 Comment »
Ikea has done it again. Here’s a wicked site for their closet systems. [kudos Mike for heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
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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
Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Music, Technology | 1 Comment »
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
Categories: Art, Fun, Inspiration, Travel | 1 Comment »
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
Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Technology, Websites | 3 Comments »
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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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
Categories: Branding, Fun, Inspiration | No Comments »
Two neighbours have built a bridge from one balcony to the other in an East Vancouver neighbourhood. Built as an art sculpture and statement on what it means to be neighbours in a community, the thirty-seven-foot-long bridge spans from the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 30th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Art, Inspiration, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
An open source mycology site called Shroomr has been launched showing the location of wild “magic” mushrooms using GoogleMap technology. We’re certainly not endorsing hallucinogenic for creative inspiration, but hey, if it [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
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Stephen Wiltshire is autistic and possesses an uncanny ability to recall the most minute details of a landscape. In these videos, Stephen draws aerial views of Tokyo and Rome from memory.
Posted by: Kevin Broome 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
Categories: Design, Film, Fun, Inspiration, Learning, Photography, Technology | No Comments »
Sometimes I never think to turn to places like Adobe for resources other than things related to the software of theirs we use, but I just came across their Design Center Think Tank filled with intelligent and thought provoking articles on t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Reading, Technology | 1 Comment »
A curious interview with Nike’s Tinker Hatfield where he contends that what you draw or design is really the culmination of everything you’ve ever seen or done. In his case an innovative and controversial Georges Pompidou Centre [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 20th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Inspiration, Interview | No Comments »
Just click on this link. Seriously – TV ads are getting weird man. And I like it. [kudos RGE for this one]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
In a recent visit to the massive archive known as CSS Remix, I found a great site called “Invisible Man“; soon thereafter my eyes were lit up by some amazing illustrations. This community of artists has pieces that will expand t [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
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When it comes to today’s television offerings, even 300 channels can’t deliver very much good programming. After a recent move to our new home we decided not to get cable. Yes, I miss a few good shows and of course the Food Netw [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, October 16th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Websites | 2 Comments »
Our musical friend Clive has been mentioned here before. He’s equal parts code monkey, tortured artist and genius savant. He’s a real inspiration to all who know him actually. Well, this time Clive has tossed a little home recor [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 13th, 2006
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Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 12th, 2006
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The London Design Festival just wrapped up. With a mandate to “celebrate and promote all things design”, and from the looks of the website, must have been an amazing event. I came across this installation called Bridge by artist [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 6th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Art, Design, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
By no means a definitive list, check out these ten “seeeeeriously cool workplaces“. I often wonder if any of these high concept, really modern and cool looking places are just really cool to look at in photos and not such great [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Inspiration | No Comments »
Check out the AIGA’s recently released 50 Books/50 Covers winners. Some fantastic design singled out from the 900 entries submitted this year. We’ve blogged about the AIGA Design Archives before – it’s a great resour [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 29th, 2006
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If you haven’t seen them already, check out these amazing examples of communication design. Icaro Doria is the Brazilian artist behind these world flags that feature various statistics related to each colour in the country’s fla [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Art, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
Our good friends at RGD Ontario are hosting what they’re calling “a stimulating, interactive thinkfest” and it looks like an event not to be missed. DesignThinkers 2006 features keynote speeches from industry experts such [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
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Photoshop and photo manipulation at this point have very few limits; luckily, many people know this and continually produce amazing work. One of such organizations doing so is Brazil’s Platinum, FMD, who not only pushes composite phot [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Art, Inspiration, Marketing, Photography, Pop Culture | No Comments »
So Germany did not win the World Cup. No, they were ousted by Italy in the semi-finals. But Germany does have Thomas Nagel. And he is coming to Vancouver to talk to us about design inspiration and typography on Thursday September 21 at the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
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Get some scented massage oil, light a few candles, sit back, and check out this link; in a strange yet fascinating way, you will see what can only be described as alluring. In only four minutes you too can discover how sensual and massively [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Learning | No Comments »
Fine wine, gourmet southern comfort food and a huge raging fire! What could be better? Whoopemup Hollow Cafe in Waitsburg, Washington, just twenty minutes east of Walla Walla, serves up fabulous homecooked fare that’ll remind you of y [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Categories: Food, Inspiration, Travel | No Comments »
This award-winning site is way old school, but still worth a revisit. Created by San Francisco-based graphic designer Ben Benjamin way back in 2000, www.superbad.com was one of the first website created with no other purpose than being art. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 8th, 2006
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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
Categories: Guest, Inspiration, Websites | No Comments »
Last night was the beautiful wedding services for our dear friends Ben Garfinkel and Andrea Bellamy. Everything about the day was thoughtfully planned and meticulously executed – in classic Ben and Andrea style.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, August 28th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration | 1 Comment »
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
Categories: Design, Film, Guest, Inspiration, Websites | 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 »
Check out photos from Icograda’s Design Week in Seattle this week. July 12th Regional Meeting, July 13 Over The Fence Seminar, July 14th Lectures and Studio Tours, and July 15th Lectures. Make sure to check out the photo sets called B [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 21st, 2006
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While we were down in Seattle last week we had the rare opportunity to to see how well known Seattle design firms such as Methodologie, Girvin, Fitch, Hornall Anderson Design Works create their own inspirational design spaces and even Starb [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
The opening introduction on the Icograda Design Week website says “Design should solve multi-cultural branding challenges, promote peace and stability, balance profits with human rights and create more sustainability.” Lofty goa [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 14th, 2006
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Exciting news from Seattle Design Week as Icocgrada announced the launch of +DESIGN, a program that collects and showcases inspiring design solutions. The concept and design were created by Rob Sweetman and Jeff Harrison at ReThink with dev [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Inspiration, News, Websites | No Comments »
Don’t know much about Director Reuben Sutherland or Joyrider Films in London, UK, but check out this innovative music video for New Zealand’s The Phoenix Foundation. Also worth check are Reuben’s Eurostar Da Vinci Code spo [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 26th, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, We love, Websites | 1 Comment »
I love travelling. And I love dancing. But this Matt character has danced in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, It [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 26th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Travel | 2 Comments »
Around the same time Mark and I started Industrial Brand I discovered Joe Frank. We’ve mentioned him before, but today I got their infrequent newsletter. Joe’s been battling serious illness for some time and though on the road t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, We love | No Comments »
From our friends and super design duo The Smith Brothers: I don’t know if you’ve seen these yet, but the new sites for Ikea are amazing (well if you’re totally nuts for video like we are), it takes a combination of the cam [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Websites | No Comments »
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 »
“I mean even these ceremonies are too safe. I mean this mortarboard…look, it’s padded. It’s padded everywhere. When I graduated from college, we had the edges sharpened. When we threw ours up in the air, we knew some [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration | No Comments »
I like to read the “I saw you” section of the paper. Not because I’m hoping to be some stranger’s muse, but it feeds an aspect of the voyeur in me that also loves the interesting snippits gleaned from overheard conve [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Pop Culture, Reading | No Comments »
Jim Coudal of the advertising, design, and interactive firm Coudal Partners in Chicago will be speaking at the 2006 Salazar Student Design Awards evening on June 1st. He will also present a short, but illuminating movie about what working a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 19th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration | No Comments »
Recently launched by Michael Erdmann and Todd Falkowsky of the Toronto-based design collective Motherbrand, Canadian Design Resource is a growing online treasure trove of Canadian design products and solutions from old logos to plastic cont [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Categories: Design, Fun, Inspiration, Websites | No Comments »
Check out this innovative music video for the Presidents of the United States of America, for their Australian single “Some Postman”. This is the first music video in the world to be shot using mobile phones. Film Headquarters&# [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Categories: Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture, Technology, Websites | No Comments »
We recently blogged about the art installation Vancouver School by artists Douglas Coupland, Graham Gillmore, Angela Grossmann, Attila Richard Lukacs and Derek Root. So this weekend I made my way to North Vancouver and checked it out. Wow, [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 24th, 2006
Categories: Art, Events, Inspiration, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Ever wished you could just pack up your things, move out to the woods far away from the hustle-bustle and build a cozy cabin to live in overlooking a lake? Well our friends Billy & Michelle did just that and they’re loving every [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
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C-Mon & Kypski is a four man band from the Netherlands that compose original tracks in their home studios from funk, rock to polka and hip hop. They’re sort of the Dutch Beastie Boys. This innovative video for their track Shitty [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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In January 2000, Woods was featured in Maclean magazine’s “Faces of the Future” issue as one of 100 Canadians to watch. In February of the same year, he appeared alongside Generation X author Douglas Coupland on the CPAC c [...]
Posted by: rae paziuk on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Vancouver | No Comments »
I’ve recently stumbled across a television series which originated out of Vancouver and has made it’s way to broadcasting in 44 countries. Oasis International (televsion and film distribution company) says “fat blue sky [...]
Posted by: rae paziuk on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Categories: Art, Film, Fun, Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture, Travel | 3 Comments »
dear, home decor + gifts on South Granville brings you a unique selection of high quality, funky and often quirky home decor items and gifts. When I need a gift, I know there is plenty of expressive and offbeat stuff to inspire me, and the [...]
Posted by: rae paziuk on Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design, Fun, Inspiration, Vancouver, We love | 1 Comment »
If you’re a designer it’s unlikely your aesthetic sensibilities cease when you go home. Apartment Therapy, whose tag line is “Changing the world, one apartment at a time.”, is currently running their 2nd Annual Small [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
A few months ago, we blogged about an urban marketing campaign by Sony Playstation that was met with a very hostile response from the street artist community. The lesson learned from that experience might be summed up as “don’t [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Marketing, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
Easily one of the most informative and unique presentations at this year’s Flashforward 2006 in Seattle was given by designer and digital artist Jeremy Thorp of Blprnt Design. A former geneticist and rock star, Thorp will be presentin [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 20th, 2006
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You know that you are a true design geek when you are listening to Doyald Young recount the moment in 50′s Paris when Adrian Frutiger showed him the early drafts of a font called Univers, and you have goosebumps on your arm.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, March 10th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning | 2 Comments »
Why is it every time I’m in Seattle I find myself in some intimate little venue enjoying an amazing music performance? They get such great acts here and have such a healthy music scene in Seattle. After a long day of seminar presentat [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Flashforward 2006 is underway with capacity crowds filling the Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Primary sponsor Lynda.com‘s Lynda Weinman opened the proceedings with a warm welcome, proclaiming “The Web is back” w [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Categories: Design, Events, Inspiration, Technology | No Comments »
CANCELLED BY CARSON The Art Institute of Vancouver is pleased to present a special public seminar with international design icon and typographer David Carson on Thursday, March 2 at 6:30 p.m at the school’s campus in Burnaby, BC. UPDA [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
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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 »
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 »
Stumbled upon this manifesto by architect Michael McDonough while researching illustrators for a design project. From Number 7: The power to create things and impose them on the world is a privilege. Do not abuse it, do not underestimate it [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
My latest source of visual caffeine in the morning has been coming from bibliOdyssey, a blog that essentially posts etchings and illustrations from old books. Images range from the fantastical to the scientific to this rather bizarre entry [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Websites | No 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 »
We used to be fans of the Across The Sound podcast with Joseph Jaffe and Steven Rubel. As podcasts go, it was often inciteful and intelligent discourse between two innovative marketing professionals exploring new technologies and schools of [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 30th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Learning, Marketing, Websites | 5 Comments »
Created by Unirrelevant, here’s a great fan made video celebrating 30 years of Apple, showing their progression through the ages. [Kudos to Piers at PSFK for the link]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 30th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
If you took the time to click on the list of sites in the “Blogroll” on this site, you’ll find serious sites about marketing, culture, literature and design. Then there’s a link to a site named after it’s famou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Interview, Pop Culture, We love, Websites | No Comments »
Israeli typographer and artist Obed Ezer thinks the English language is boring; that there is a freshness in other languages that we need to keep alive in our shared culture. One look at the way in which Ezer manipulates the Hebrew text, an [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Interview | No Comments »
Touch the Sound is a documentary about Evelyn Glennie, a world class international solo percussionist, composer, and teacher. She is also almost completely deaf. The film is centred around an improvised recording session with her and Fred F [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Categories: Film, Inspiration, Music | No Comments »
Regular readers will no doubt recognize the name Mike Goedecke as the Founder and Creative Director of Belief from the past references in these pages. While in Vancouver this week to speak to a sold out crowd at an ACM SIGGRAPH event, Goede [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 20th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Interview, We love, Websites | 1 Comment »
While recently visiting my buddy Piers at his office in New York, he ran off excitedly returning with a few small soft-cover books called The Royal Magazine. Holy man is this ever up my power alley. Their website claims the publication is a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 16th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Reading, We love | No Comments »
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 »
I can’t believe I’ve never posted about this before. I’m so ashamed. One of my favourite movies and soundtracks ever is the double Grammy nominated film 1 Giant Leap. Everyone should see this film. Amazingly shot by musici [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 13th, 2006
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Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to announce its first presentation on motion graphics with Mike Goedecke, writer and director of the short film UNTITLED:003-EMBRYO which will makes it’s Canadian debut at the January 18th event. Follow [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
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What if our favourite uncle were perhaps the most famous graphic designer alive today, having given the world such cultural iconography as the famous Dylan poster and wildly popular I Love New York logo and dozens more? What advice would he [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
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We’ve been big fans of what Coudal Partners and Veer have been doing for a long time, so when the two teamed up this summer to make a short feature in their spare time around the studio…wait a second, they have spare time? Who h [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 29th, 2005
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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
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A couple years ago I was fortunate to hear the Grammy-winning Béla Fleck and The Flecktones play at the Vancouver Jazz Festival. People had been telling me I had to see the amazing bass player in person to believe it – some cla [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
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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
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Those little moleskin notebooks are cool. You get one and use it for sketches and phone numbers and all that sort of stuff. Humus is an online collaboration produced by two Italian designers, Luca and Mirko of Zerouno Design based on the id [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 18th, 2005
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While out drinking in Williamsburg, Brooklyn last week I met the infamous and perpetually hilarious Jimbo Matison of ImaginAsianTV fame (among other more dubious things). While we wasted the night away, he regaled me with stories of his new [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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Recently we met up with Sarah Doody whom we blogged about back in September. She was in town supporting her client Michelle Kaufmann who was here to show Vancouver her fantastic Glide House. So, we got to combine two of our favourite things [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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Today is BlogDay2005, so we’d like to introduce the world to IF.PSFK. IF is a fabulous source of daily inspiration for brand planners and creative thinkers with contributors from around the world. What’s your favourite blog?
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
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Some time ago we posted a link to Belief‘s inspirational presentation Pollinate: Chain Reaction. The Santa Monica based broadcast design and live action studio recently profiled on Apple.com for their use of technology in design, has [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 15th, 2005
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Inspiration can come from anywhere, but I wonder if an artist ever really feels honoured when their work is copied by another? Last year Belief created a stunning motion graphics promo for the launch of Times India Group’s new ZOOM TV [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 15th, 2005
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In his Commencement address, Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs urged Stanford graduates to follow their hearts. A pancreatic cancer survivor, he told the Class of ’05, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone e [...]
Posted by: Charlie on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
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Industrial Brand Creative congratulates PSFK on a successful first year. Your keen observations on where the cultural winds blow are always a compelling read. We look forward to what you have in store in the years ahead at psfk.com and in c [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
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After much anticipation, Group94 has just launched the new version of WellVetted. Using their flash94 CMS system, it turns the site from a monthly post to a daily dynamic source of inspiration.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
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Well traveled Canadians have long known our women are some of the loveliest specimens of the gentler sex, but now the secret is out. Twenty-three year old blue-eyed brunette Natalie Glebova from Toronto, Ontario was crowned Miss Universe 20 [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
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It would seem these days that if you aren’t using Flickr for some reason or another then you are truly out of the loop. To that regard, PSFK, a trend spotting blog and a regular on my daily visits list, have introduced the PSFK Global [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
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The broadcast design and live action studio that brought us the inspirational video Pollinate: Chain Reaction has done it again. This time they’ve launched a new experimental project called Homework with 11 projects designed to spark [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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We recently discovered a great design and live action studio in CA called Belief that has a fantastic approach and philosophy akin to our own. In fact, their 45 minute presentation given in New York at the 2004 Promax/BDA conference is so s [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
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