An article titled Substance over Style by our Design Director Mark Busse was recently featured in the latest issue of Business In Vancouver’s Adpages Magazine about how businesses can more effectively attract, evaluate and select a de [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
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Article in BIV's How-To 2011 publication argues that businesses who invest in hiring experienced designers have advantage and reap rewards.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, February 13th, 2011
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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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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
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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
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I guess all new story ideas have been used up in literary circles, and writers have to turn to rewrite the classics. And that’s right, Seth Grahame-Smith went there. Read about it here, and order it on amazon.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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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
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We’ve used FunctionFox‘s TimeFox web-based time and project management tools for years and love it. Their new TimeFox Premier release has added handy functionality such as task management, to-do lists, calendar and scheduling to [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 21st, 2008
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Sometimes ideas come together in a collision, creating sparks. And for one, brief moment, you can see something in a new light, something you may not have seen before. This afternoon, I read David Pogue’s review of a new phone offering, t [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, November 12th, 2007
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It’s common knowledge (among those who know me) that I love Cuba. My wife and I were married there. I may not entirely agree with their politics, but the Cuban people are amazing—perhaps the warmest and most enjoyable culture I̵ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 11th, 2007
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William Gibson’s stretched stooped figure curls over book and microphone under yellow lights that hang like a field of beauty salon hair dryers before an unlit neon sign tracing out the words Studio One on a wall deep within the bowels of [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 7th, 2007
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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
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I’ve always appreciated defined methodologies and well documented processes with steps, procedures and documentation. It’s long been an accepted approach to developing design or technology solutions. And nowhere has this been mo [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 19th, 2007
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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
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I recently came across a pretty good design blog by New York Art Director Troy Finamore with some interesting thoughts on graphic design, branding and advertising such as this nice little post called Morals and Ethics in the Design Communit [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 4th, 2007
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There’s nothing quite like starting off the new year with a little post-apocalyptic anarchy care of Brian Wood‘s beautifully rendered graphic series DMZ, in which the U.S. has plunged back into civil war, and Manhattan serves as [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
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Is Chris Ware the Norman Rockwell of our generation? Browsing through his Thanksgiving-themed cover series for The New Yorker magazine, it seems an appropriate comparison. Happy Thanksgiving to our friends south of the border. (Via The Skin [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 24th, 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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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
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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
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September 23 – 30 is Banned Books Week which recognizes those great works of literature that society for one reason or another has taken issue with. Catcher in the Rye, Ulysses, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, all of these works at [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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The inimitable McSweeneys pitches a few Mac Ad Ideas of their own. (via Coudal)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 8th, 2006
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Answering an email has become much like taking a breath for many people, in the process of firing them off, they end up losing a lot of coherency in spelling/punctuation/grammar regardless of spell check (especially if you’re Mark). S [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Friday, July 7th, 2006
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After a decade of reading online that he collects meteorites Douglas Coupland, thought about it and realized, ‘that’s not actually a bad idea.’ So now he really does collect meteorites, going so far as to include them in a [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
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Douglas Coupland doesn’t want to end the Book Club meeting on a positive note. They always end upbeat he explains. For once, he wants things to end darkly. “Doomed. We are all doomed.” He throws this out there as his final [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
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The Field-Tested Books project is our version of the Heisenberg principle: reading a certain book in a certain place uniquely affects a person’s experience with both. The writing you’ll find here is grounded in that idea. You wo [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 9th, 2006
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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
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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
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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
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I would have thought Douglas Coupland to be a Mac user… Check out the website for his new book jPod, to be released May 15th. Also, If you are in Vancouver check out The Futura Bold Collective’s exhibit The Vancouver Show at 810 [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
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Our buddy Eric over at IdeasOnIdeas.com has put into words what I’ve been trying to communicate to students for years. Effective design of any sort is borne of “messing about”, sketching and thoughtful writing. Being able [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 30th, 2006
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There’s a new design magazine in Canada called Design Edge that just launched in February with up-to-the-minute news, a national job board, events calendar, contests, links and resources. Its companion e-mail bulletin is published eve [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
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Since October, The Times and Canongate Books have been running an international call for submissions to illustrate Yann Martel’s brilliant Booker-prizewinning novel, Life of Pi. The entries have now been narrowed down to 15 shortliste [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
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Two of our favourite writers, Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland are performing a rare joint reading at UBC at 7:30 on February 27th. It is an interesting combo. Both writers make their subject matter out of the more absurd fragments of o [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 10th, 2006
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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
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Accompanying this year’s Canstruction call for entries has been a recent maelstrom of media coverage, including this article in Blitz Magazine featuring this interview about Industrial Brand’s involvement in the event.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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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
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A popular magazine within art and design circles, Applied Arts’ latest issue includes a tongue-in-cheek article by designer Doug Dolan, VP of Viva Dolan in Toronto. Entitled Lost in Translation: What clients say and what they actually [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 18th, 2005
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One of our regular reads has long been the quarterly print magazine Graphic Exchange which covers a wide range of topics relating to design and digital media publication. Unlike conventional publications in it’s category, Graphic Exch [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
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Last week while in NYC I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Jon Stewart of Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show. He told me he didn’t view his position as a popular comedian and political satirist as signficant, despite my [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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Vonnegut promised he’d never write another book. Thankfully, he lied. The author of such Amercian classics as Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five has brought back his sharp wit and unique perspective for one more look at li [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
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Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
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“‘William Gibson is in the house,’ Bono observes through the Vertigo sound system. The ghostly red Scalectrix of the Ellipse whips past us. We wave to him.” William Gibson writes about the U2 Vertigo tour in this mon [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 5th, 2005
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Author Dave Eggers’s is responsible for some really cool stuff. My first brush with all of this was years ago when I stumbled upon an compendium of literary works called Timothy McSweeney’s. With submissions by numerous writers, [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, July 22nd, 2005
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Back in April we blogged our good friends’ Leonard Brody and David Raffa’s new book titled, “Everything I Needed to Know About Business…I Learned From a Canadian”. Now that the book is on the shelves (and selli [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
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One of our favourite writers here at IBC, William Gibson has poked his head back into cyberspace after an extended sabbatical from his blog with an article in Wired magazine that compares beat writer William Burroughs’ ‘cut up m [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
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As regular readers know, we’re big fans of the late Mr. Hunter S. Thompson who took his own life on February 20th of this year. Turns out Thompson’s private memorial wil be as gonzo as his life, where his ashes will be shot over [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 27th, 2005
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We’re getting to that age when our friends are all having babies, or they’re writing books. Our good friend, Leonard Brody (a childless lawyer), has teamed up with our corporate lawyer, David Raffa, and given birth to a brand sp [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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These days we’re programmed to hit delete at the first whiff of SPAM, but have you ever thought about turning the tables on these annoying bastards? Rich Siegel, an advertising copywriter did, and then crafted the escapades into a boo [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
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The self proclaimed creator of gonzo journalism and long time hero of mine, Hunter S. Thompson shot himself yesterday afternoon at his home in Woody Creek, Colo. A nasty way to go, to be sure. One might argue that the myth had no more use f [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, February 21st, 2005
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With both cooking and fiction books to his credit, Anthony Bourdain is somewhat of a hero and inspiration to many of us at IBC. During my recent vacation I finally read A Cook’s Tour which was an addictive read describing his misadven [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 4th, 2005
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In September 2002, A 29-year old Iraqi living in Baghdad and calling himself ‘Salam-Pax’ started posting descriptions of daily life on the internet. Incisive and recklessly irreverent, Salam’s weblog described his passion [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, February 4th, 2005
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