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Tap into Talent? I’d say yes!

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 »

Summer Newsletter: It’s that time of year…

We recently sent our summer newsletter which covers topics like how to brew the perfect cup of iced coffee, a quick look at a couple recent success stories, an article about how businesses can select the best design partner, and an announc [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

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Rounding out the team

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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MutliSport Centre finally under construction

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 »

My Internship at Industrial Brand

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 »

We’re Hiring

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 »

What Meets the Eye: Industrial Brand Featured in BIV AdPages Article

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 »

Welcome Joanna Ambrosio, Industrial Brand’s New Designer

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 »

Honouring Jim Rimmer

Jim Rimmer died last week and I really wasn’t sure I wanted to post anything online after writing a tribute post for my recently deceased friend Leo Obstbaum. Losing people takes the wind right out of your sails. Then I found the foll [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Categories: Design, News, Typography, We love | No Comments »

District South Main Campaign Launch

We just finished a new identity and marketing campaign for a development project called District South Main for our client Amacon. The first teaser advertisements just hit the streets and the initial website has launched and is now acceptin [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Categories: Design, Marketing, News, Vancouver | 3 Comments »

Blogs, Mad About Design—already out of date

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 »

Icograda Announces Design Week 2010 Vancouver

Icograda has formally announced Design Week 2010 to be hosted by GDC in Vancouver with official event profile information on their website.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 15th, 2009

Categories: Associations, Design, Events, News, Vancouver | No Comments »

Spring Newsletter

Things have been buzzing around the office lately but we found some time to do our once a month, once every few months newsletter. Think one part news, a dash of foodists culture, and one big giant bee plus our usual array of inspiration an [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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15 Minutes of Fame for Mike Busse, Industrial Designer

There’s an old saying about 15 minutes of fame—that “all publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell your name right.” Well maybe my appearance this week on ESPN’s Jim Rome is Burning was the closest thing t [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Categories: Fun, News, Pop Culture, Vancouver, Video | 1 Comment »

Bringing the Design World to Vancouver

The latest issue of Design Edge just hit the streets and features our own Mark Busse on page 14 in the Newsmakers section! For those of you who don’t know (and that’s not many), Mark has been instrumental in reviving and enliven [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Categories: Design, News | No Comments »

Sustainability Makes for a Happy World Graphic Design Day

April 27th is World Graphic Design Day, and the Canadian design community celebrated with GDC announcing new sustainability definitions and principles for its members at the National AGM in Winnipeg on April 26th. This is a huge leap forwar [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Categories: Associations, Design, News, Sustainability | 1 Comment »

Tourism BC Chooses Industrial Brand

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 »

The impossible project: long life to Polaroid!

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 »

Industrial Brand Identity Featured on Icograda Galeria

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 »

GDC/BC Receives President’s Service Award

The BC Chapter of GDC has been selected among a select few organizations to receive the 2008 Capilano University President’s Service Awards as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. GDC/BC was honoured for its continued support an [...]

Posted by: Alex Leynes on Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Categories: Associations, Awards, Education, Learning, News | No Comments »

Wolda ’08 Logo Design Contest Winners Announced

Wolda ’08 Worldwide Logo Design Annual Winners Announced, though none from Canada or Mexico We’ve kept our eye on this year’s inaugural Wolda ’08 Worldwide Logo Design Competition hosted by Italy’s Eulda Books. [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

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Likemind Vancouver Reborn

Sorry for the short notice, but I immediately thought of you guys when I realized our next Likemind event is tomorrow morning at JJ Bean on Commercial. My friend Piers Fawkes and Noah Brier hosted the original Likemind event in New York, bu [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Categories: Events, News, Vancouver | 1 Comment »

We’re proud to be Canadian—is that enough?

October 14th may be the most discussed election date in recent memory; individuals’ voices—and votes—have never mattered more. Perfectthewayweare.ca, an online resource website and video, was created by a group of young Canadians who [...]

Posted by: Steph Co on Monday, October 6th, 2008

Categories: Education, Events, Learning, News, Video | No Comments »

Scamming the scammers

We all hate junk mail, and it seems like it will never stop jamming up our Inboxes. Whether it’s elixirs for male enlargement, vacations to nowhere, or the infamous Nigerian bank scam, we all wish someone would do something to end the [...]

Posted by: Alex Leynes on Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Categories: News, Pop Culture, Technology, Websites | 1 Comment »

I would like for cell phone companies to…

For those who want an iphone but can’t bring themselves to pay those ridiculous fees. Check out this new Canadian cell company (launching next year) asking for your opinion on ways to make your cellular experience better. I’m ro [...]

Posted by: Steph Co on Thursday, September 4th, 2008

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Graphex Website Awarded Webby Honour

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 »

New Jakes Identity & Website Launched

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 »

Objectified: New Hustuit Design Documentary

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 »

3 Bucks for Brendan

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 »

New Mercury Filmworks Identity Launched

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 »

Banksy revealed?

For years, British graffiti / guerrilla artist has operated in anonymity. With “art” like spreading doctored versions of Paris Hilton’s album in UK music stores, erecting a life size sculpture of a Guantanamo Bay Prisoner [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, July 14th, 2008

Categories: Learning, News, Pop Culture | No Comments »

Matt SamyciaWood, MGDC…finally

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 »

Stewart Butterfield on Tin-smithing?

I met fellow Vancouverite Stewart Butterfield (of Flickr fame) briefly a few years ago and various friends of mine know him well. So for me it wasn’t such a surprise that Butterfield’s recent resignation letter to Yahoo was a li [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Categories: News, Vancouver | 2 Comments »

PicLens v1.7

PicLens have just notified us of the recent additions to their free software. You can now browse, watch videos, and shop online in 3D. Well… sort of. For those who aren’t aware of PicLens we blogged about it here.

Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Categories: News, Tips | 1 Comment »

Applied Arts Winners Announced

Applied Arts Magazine announced its latest list of winners today, and Vacnouver’s Rethink Communications cleaned up. As usual. 44 of their submissions were chosen as winners—including the Graphex 2008 invitations they designed for G [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Categories: Associations, Awards, Design, News, Uncategorized | No Comments »

When I die… Please bury me in a Pringles can.

After reading this article from Times, I went straight to my pantry, opened up a new can of Pringles and saluted Mr. Baur for his accomplishments. Thanks for thinking of others who prefer to have their chips uniformed.

Posted by: Steph Co on Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Categories: Design, Fun, News | 2 Comments »

Gotham for President

I stumbled on a great piece on ABC news that analyzed the US potential nominees for President (back when there were 3…. ohh wait… Hillary still things that she’s in this thing!) according to the typeface they chose for the [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Categories: News, Typography | No Comments »

Wolda Logo Design Contest Announces Judges

Milan, 20.04.2008 – Wolda, the Worldwide Logo Design Annual, announces the distinguished panel of 30 independent judges that will select the winning entries for its ‘08 inaugural edition, see www.wolda.org/judges. This unique three- [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Categories: Awards, Design, News | No Comments »

Welcome Baby Lila Rose

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 »

For those who love Facebook, get ready to fall even more deeply in love or hate it with a passion. This Sunday, members will have to ability to use Facebook Chat. It works exactly like the other online messaging systems (AIM, MSN Messenger, [...]

Posted by: Steph Co on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Categories: Interactive, News, Technology | 2 Comments »

A New Creative Process

Maybe it’s all the issues of design mags in there, or maybe it’s a new twist on the creative process but early this morning Mark took his laptop and locked himself in our one and only washroom and he’s STILL there! I wonde [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Categories: Fun, News, Tips | 1 Comment »

New GDC.net website launched!

After much feedback, evaluation, planning—including a healthy dose of debate and discussion—the all new GDC.net website has launched at long last, with a section devoted to the GDC BC Chapter. Having served with a number of my GDC colle [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Categories: Associations, Design, News, Websites | 1 Comment »

Vancouver Chosen as Host City for SIGGRAPH 2011

Vancouver, BC has been chosen as the official host city for the annual SIGGRAPH conference in 2011. This is a huge win for the city and is the first time the conference will venture outside the United States. The conference should prove a s [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Categories: Associations, Events, News, Technology, Vancouver | 1 Comment »

FSCXpert Program Announced

Championed by Toronto designer Bernard Hellen from Traffic Marketing + Design, the Forestry Stewardship Council of Canada has recently released the FSCXpert™ program. An educational program and designation for individuals that are committ [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Categories: News, Sustainability, Tips | No Comments »

Graphex CFE Poster Wins Lotus Award

Last night, November 21st, 2007, Jeff Harrison and Rethink Communications won a prestigious Lotus Award in the category of Best Design Poster for their design of the GDC Graphex 2008 Call For Entries poster. Well done guys!

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Categories: Awards, Design, News | No Comments »

Cannes Lions Recognize Design. Finally.

From Adweek: After 54 years, the Cannes Lions are finally adding Design. At the 55th International Advertising Festival next June, Design Lions as well as a Grand Prix will be up for grabs, but there are caveats. Product, Web and architectu [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Categories: Awards, Design, News | No Comments »

Kanto AV Brand and Website Launched

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 »

Graphex 2008 Judges Evening, November 30, 2007

He’s worked with Burton Snowboards since 1984. He owns the biggest design firm in Brazil. He’s the current global creative director of Starbucks and formerly of Nike. He created the only comprehensive course on Canadian design h [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Categories: Associations, Awards, Events, News, Vancouver | No Comments »

Metallic Experience Campaign Wins Silver

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 »

Graphex 2008 Call For Entries Announced

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 »

New TWU Spartans Identity Launched

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 »

Sexy New Hardware

Apple announced the new iMacs today. Pretty sleek, although I’ll miss the white. My only gripe is that black frame around the screen. Why not make the entire face of it black, in all its fingerprint-prone glory? I think the brushed al [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

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New FVRL logo launched

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 »

Ion Design Announces Sustainability Contest Winner

Congratulations to Vancouver-based Ion Design for their recent work with sustainability initiatives. Their One Good Idea contest challenged companies and individuals to come up with a good idea that reminds people that even small steps can [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Categories: Design, News, Sustainability, Vancouver | No Comments »

Kevin Broome, MGDC

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 »

Adobe Reel Idea Studio

Our talented friends at VFS have teamed up with Adobe and Intel to create a terrific new website for the Real Idea Studio, an online community that extends the reach of Adobe’s Student Filmmaker program at Cannes. The site, based on the V [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Categories: Design, Film, News, Websites | No Comments »

Next Industrial Revolution

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

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, News, Technology | No Comments »

New Saks Fifth Ave Identity by Pentagram

From Pentagram’s blog: A new identity designed by Pentagram for iconic New York retailer Saks Fifth Avenue launches on January 2, 2007. After the jump, partner Michael Bierut describes the process behind the development of an identity [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, January 7th, 2007

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Guardian Names NowPublic Top News Site

Our good friends at Now Public are enjoying some much deserved success these days. Not only were they recently featured as a new partner by ABC News, they were just named one of the top 5 news sites of the year by the Guardian along with es [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Categories: News, Websites | No Comments »

Nov. 22, 1963

Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy. I was walking to work today comparing the dichotomy between his dedication to peace and the polar opposite view that we have seen in subsequent US Presidents, particul [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Categories: Events, Learning, News | 1 Comment »

We didn’t start the fire

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

Categories: Fun, Inspiration, News | No Comments »

Voting Day

I came to the office today with the US Mid Term elections on my mind and wanted to blog something with these events in mind. During my morning website visit I checked a new website to my list and found this video about the new vote counting [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Categories: Film, News, Pop Culture | No Comments »

Hemlock e-Inklings launched

With a long history of innovation and leadership in the commercial printing industry, Hemlock Printers has just launched an online version of their popular newsletter, Inklings. With news and updates from their plant floor, e-Inklings newsl [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Categories: Learning, News, Printing, Reading, Technology, Tips | No Comments »

Pantone does Paint

Pantone has finally released their much anticipated PANTONE PAINTS + INTERIORS system of over 3,000 paint colours. I want to paint a wall at the studio PMS 130 Orange. Cool.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 9th, 2006

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VANOC makes good on mascot RFP

There’s been plenty of negative press lately surrounding the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee. It’s about time we heard some good news, isn’t it? Well, here’s some great news. VANOC has just released a pub [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Categories: Associations, Design, News, Vancouver | 2 Comments »

Munch Paintings Recovered

I’d heard horrible stories that the two stolen Munch paintings, Madonna and The Scream, had been destroyed, but I’m relieved to learn that they have been recovered and are being restored and returned to the Munch Museum in Oslo, [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Categories: Art, News | No Comments »

Tootin’ our own horn…again

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 »

Barenaked Ladies Exposed

From Robert Wurth of Freshly Squeezed Design: So, what do you do when you’re an internationally recognized, successful band with millions of dollars in CD and concert ticket sales? If you’re the Barenaked Ladies, you slap an ind [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, August 21st, 2006

Categories: Design, News, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »

+DESIGN Launched

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 »

GDC @ 50 Stamp Revealed

Canada Post has revealed the design of a new stamp to be issued August 16th, 2006 commemorating the 50th of the GDC as well as the contributions of Canadian designers to our country’s economy, culture and national identity – 50 [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

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The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation?

Designers don’t have many advocates as enthusiastic and highly-placed as Bruce Nussbaum. An assistant managing editor at Business Week, he’s spearheaded the magazine’s coverage of design and innovation for years, and has b [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Categories: Design, News, Reading | 1 Comment »

Montréal Chosen as UNESCO City of Design

“The Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity has designated Montréal as “UNESCO City of Design” as part of the Creative Cities Network,” announced today Gérald Tremblay, Mayor of Montréal, and Ben [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Categories: Design, News | 2 Comments »

No Logo? No Way.

Once upon a time, logos were no big deal. Consider that Nike founder Phil Knight picked up his company’s legendary swoosh from a graphic-design student for a mere 35 bucks. That was in 1971. And thanks partly to that purchase, sneaker [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 11th, 2006

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Another Open Spec Design Competition

If the Design Exchange in Toronto really is about “Promoting the value of Canadian Design” as it claims, then one has to wonder what the hell they’re doing. In collaboration with the Department of Canadian Heritage, they h [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 17th, 2006

Categories: Design, News | 2 Comments »

Canada’s Most Environmentally Friendly Printer

Hemlock Printers, one of our valued vendors and clients, has been named the Most Environmentally Friendly Printer in Canada at the Environmental Printing Awards presentation held in Toronto. The keynote speaker at the event was Canadian sci [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 16th, 2006

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The First Full Motion Postage Stamp

Solar Initiatives from the Netherlands has created the first full motion postage stamp in commemoration of the Olympics using lenticular technology. This goes way beyond those Cracker Jack prizes that we used to get as kids. Amazing.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Categories: Design, Learning, News, Pop Culture, Technology | No Comments »

GDC/BC Launches Blog

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 »

Just Keep Swimming…Just Keep Swimming…

Disney has agreed to buy the animation firm Pixar for a staggering $7.4 billion US dollars, with Pixar CEO and majority share holder Steve Jobs joining Disney’s board of directors. now maybe Jobs can afford a new Video iPod! Story cou [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

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Subliminal: Harper is a very bad man

Monday, January 23rd is the Canadian Federal election. And what a joke it has become with ridiculous platform promises and seemingly insignificant issues being used as mud by Conservatives and Liberals as both sides engage in silly attack c [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Categories: Events, News, Pop Culture, Websites | No Comments »

Apple’s Intel Processor machines revealed

Apple has finally revealed their new Intel Core Duo Processor computers at this years MacWorld 2006 in San Fancisco. From the new advertisement released today, it seems Steve Jobs thinks THX1138 looks as cool as we do. Check out how similar [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Categories: News, Technology, We love | 4 Comments »

Cringley on Google: TV Advertising?

Yeah, right. Google isn’t doing much these days. Now they’re planning to take over TV advertising.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, News, Reading, Technology, Websites | No Comments »

What’s NXT for Lego? ROBOTS!

I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid I played with Lego and PRETENDED my creations were robots. I’d make “whirrr, buzzz, clang, beep” noises and march them around until Craig Brock’s bigger Lego-bot wou [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Categories: Design, News, Technology | No Comments »

Cascades Paper Sold to PaperlinX

On Thursday, November 17, 2005 it was announced that Cascades Resources was sold to Coast Paper‘s parent company PaperlinX, the world’s largets merchant of fine papers and graphic art products. What this means for those of us th [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 21st, 2005

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