We are concerned about our impact on the environment and strive to create business practices that support sustainability. In our business we strive to reduce our use of paper and take other steps to control our impact environmentally. In ou [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 29th, 2011
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Sometimes it is convenient that our food world and our design world cross paths. Recently Foodtree asked us to help rebrand in the time leading up to the launch of their new iPhone app and City of Vancouver collaboration. Rolled out simulta [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Categories: Branding, Industrial Brand, Sustainability | 1 Comment »
A few months ago, Mac Donald’s launched a new TV campaign in France ‘come as you are’. The campaign itself, created by EuroRSCG, is pretty nice but what really caught my attention was the logo: it has turned green!! Just l [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Branding, Food, Marketing, Sustainability | No Comments »
I recently learnt about this company whilst watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The e-log has a foam core skinned in real wood. Compared to regular log homes, e-log is cheaper, better for the environment and better insulates your home. [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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I noticed a sign by a new development today for the company “Trees Matter” who come and relocate trees rather than chopping them down. Make sure you watch the “tree moving in action” video, the small boy inside me is [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, May 14th, 2009
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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 »
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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The base of the house is fixed but has a ‘second skin’ that slides to expose more sunlight to the glass section of the house or exposes the interior courtroom to the open sky. Simple, elegant and intelligent. Watch the movie tha [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, February 27th, 2009
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Here’s an article about Hemlock Printers on BC Hydro’s website about their hard work to protect our environment. Good work guys! Now, can I UV coat, laminate, foil stamp, hot glue and add thermography to that booklet project? Aw [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Categories: Printing, Sustainability | No Comments »
Dutch design firm SPRANQ has developed a new typeface that incorporates their concern for the environment. Ecofont is a typeface similar in look to Vera Sans, but resembles Swiss cheese in its makeup. The aerated font uses 20% less ink to p [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Categories: Design, Pop Culture, Sustainability, Typography | No Comments »
As the “Big 3″ automakers scramble to stay a float, one company is rethinking the electric automobile. XP Vehicles Inc. have developed an electric car based on the Mars Lander technology that would make it the first inflatable c [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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The LA Auto Show is home to the largest west coast display of cutting edge vehicular design and engineering. Every year the show opens its design challenge to any automaker that feels like they are up for flexing their creative muscle. This [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Categories: Design, Events, Illustration, Sustainability, Technology | No Comments »
During the research and planning phase of an upcoming GDC event—Practivism: Practical methods for radical sustainability in design—I came across Alyssa Walker’s article Conventional Wisdom: Eight Ways to Save Design Conferences. I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 26th, 2008
Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Learning, Sustainability, Vancouver | 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 »
Mark and I just got back from the HOW Conference in Boston and far and way the most memorable presentation had NOTHING to do with design at all. Enter Chad Pregracke and his organization Living Land and Water. It was 45 minutes of go go go [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
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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
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An Al Gore initiative, called “We Can Solve It” just (re)branded and have an interesting new logo. Outlined in a NY Times article by Steve Heller, the logo looks to link the concept of “we” and “me” in a [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 7th, 2008
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 I'm left out of many of the new mobile features because I haven't shelled out $500-$1000 for the newest phone (and again in a year, and another year etc). On top of that, the environmental impact of discarded cell phones is an increasing concern.
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Change in the cell phone industry seems to be speeding up rapidly these days. Seems I can’t hang out with friends these days without everyone pulling out their phones comparing features. I feel a little left behind rocking my ghetto M [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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I am a big believe in alternative energy, wind, solar but this story caught my eye. Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California’s most alternative new energy. On a dai [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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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
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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
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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 »
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
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Apple INC clearly has a strong brand. The first word that comes to mind when I think of their products and designs is “clean.” Its powerful the values a brand can project without actually embodying them in their actions. I have [...]
Posted by: Amanda Fetterly on Friday, March 30th, 2007
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