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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 »

An Event Apart

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 »

Branding The Man They Called Jesus

Separating Church and State (of Mind). At some point in our lives, each of us learns the lesson that discussing religion or politics in mixed company can backfire.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 15th, 2010

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Introducting Typekit

Big news in the web world as Typekit was launched last week. For those of you who missed news of the launch, it serves to bridge the copyright issues associated with the CSS3 Property @font-face (hotly debated issue among foundries and deve [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

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M&S celebrate 125th birthday

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 »

Print vs. Pixel

Ever since reading Speak Up’s Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? two years ago, the concept of the differences of print vs. interactive have been simmering on low on my mind. There are obvious differences, between these two mediums t [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, May 4th, 2009

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Big Think

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

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A little thought from each of us. A big difference for everyone.

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

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New Whitehouse.gov

In case you hadn’t heard, a few things changed south of the boarder today (something about a new president I think, not really sure…), and along the way the White House website relaunched (even if it does opt to use ASP in favou [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

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Foodists.ca Launches

Those of you who know a thing or two about us know that we’re very much into our food. You might have perused this blog and noticed a distinct absence of food-related posts. The reason is that some time ago we decided the topic was so [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 28th, 2008

Categories: Food, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »

Blog Design: The Risk-Reward Continuum

Smashing Magazine has posted their latest picks for 50 Beautiful Blog Designs. In their words: In the showcase below we present 50 beautiful blog designs that literally stand out — either through their layout or through their design or th [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 24th, 2008

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UBC SALA Wins W3 Award

The Winners of The 2008 W3 Awards have been announced by the The International Academy of the Visual Arts today and the team at Industrial Brand were awarded a Silver for the UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture website. With [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 17th, 2008

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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 »

Studipos Type Foundry

Buenos Aires isn’t the first place I think of when I consider type foundries, but Studipos has some brilliant fonts. Check em out.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 29th, 2008

Categories: Design, Typography, Websites | 2 Comments »

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

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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

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UBC SALA Site Takes ADCC Award

We recently learned our website for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has been accepted into Directions 2008, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s (ADCC) annual awards show. Thought we should share t [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Categories: Architecture, Awards, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »

Yaaway.com: Jesus without the dogma

UPDATE: We just learned that this brand identity project has been accepted into the upcoming Communication Arts Design Annual. Woot woot! We recently worked on a fascinating branding and interactive design project for an online video sharin [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »

Glocal.ca at VAG’s FUSE

Industrial Brand was honoured to design and produce promotional materials for Surrey Art Gallery‘s newly launched Glocal Project. Glocal is a recent project co-developed by our friend and collaborator Jer Thorp (blprnt.com), who will [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 27th, 2008

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CondoVue Launches

This past Friday marked the launch and public debut (party!) of our client CondoVue’s website, and essentially, their business. For us, it’s terrific to finally be able to show off the identity we did for them earlier this year. [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Categories: Design, Websites | 1 Comment »

Key Skill? Write Goodly

Young designers often ask us what the most important skills or things to know are. And they are invariably surprised when we say the ability to write proficiently in English (with correct grammar and spelling) is critical in the communicati [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 20th, 2008

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280 Slides and counting

While going through my 1000 or so unread RSS feeds this morning I came across something worth sharing, and hopefully of some interest, for some of you out there. I’m not a huge fan of the PowerPoint/Keynote/etc world but it’s so [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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Brand Tags

A few days ago a brand planner in New York named Noah Brier launched a simple new site called Brand Tags that explores public perception of brands by inviting visitors to input whatever pops into their mind when shown various logomarks. The [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

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Making it Fresh

I blogged about controlling websites through video a while back but knew it was only a matter of time until someone used the same technology with a really hot girl (or guy). Mentos KissCam does a pretty decent job. I won’t ruin it for [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, May 5th, 2008

Categories: Technology, Websites | 1 Comment »

Art of the Mix

Because other people’s music always sounds better. Muxtape.com could be the best online music sharing site I’ve found since Pandora announced it was deeply, deeply sorry to all Canadians. Care to share more sites? Comment below.

Posted by: Graham Huber on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Categories: Music, Pop Culture, Websites | 2 Comments »

National Jazz Awards

The Canadian National Jazz Awards (NJA) were handed out last night in Toronto and a bunch of our friends and colleagues received some of the awards! Billed as a celebration of Canadian Jazz the Awards have traditionally been very Toronto-ce [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Categories: Music, Websites | 2 Comments »

Arcade Fire: Neon Bible Interactrive Video

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

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MoMA Design and the Elastic Mind: Seriously Cool

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

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Danish Motion

Thank You Motion Graphics has officially launched their new site. Todd Smith, our guest contributer for IBC blog is working overseas in Denmark, producing pieces for MTV, Visa, Sony Ericsson, and a host of other clients that no-one in North [...]

Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, March 28th, 2008

Categories: Design, Illustration, Websites | No Comments »

Nice Legs, Alta

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

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Reuters in Iraq

Reuters has put up a great new website called Bearing Witness that documents and discusses the role of journalists in Iraq. It’s interesting to see a little bit from the other side of the lens and hear people who put their life in jeo [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Categories: Travel, Websites | No Comments »

DesignTAxi’s 100th issue

If you haven’t visited  TAXI Design Network lately, I suggest you to check their designtaxi.com commemorative 100th issue. It’s pretty good fun actually. You could spend hours clicking away, reading about their history, having a gi [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 21st, 2008

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Stuff White People Like

It’s absolutely terrible (and hilarious) how accurate this website is about the stuff white people like. It appears to be only a couple months old with its oldest post from January, 2008, but its already had over 15 million hits. Whit [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Categories: Fun, Websites | 1 Comment »

HEMA: a retailer who isn’t overly serious

It is so seldom I see a corporate or retailer website that makes me laugh anymore. Everyone seems to take themselves so seriously these days. Not HEMA apparently. HEMA is a Dutch department store first opened in 1926 in Amsterdam (maybe tha [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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Here’s lookin at you…

Interface Design is arguably the primary concern for the interactive world these days. If something isn’t designed well and intuitive to use, it won’t get used. Books like The Design of Everyday Things and Designing Interactions [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, March 14th, 2008

Categories: Interactive, Technology, Websites | No Comments »

Hot Captcha

So I just tried to comment on another post on here and our own Captcha system rejected me. TWICE! Captcha is one of the easiest and best ways to prevent spam on contact forms and blog comments however is often annoying to the user and is so [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, March 7th, 2008

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Weekend nightmares

This is creepy, even for a Friday afternoon. Slick, but creepy.

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 7th, 2008

Categories: Fun, Websites | 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 »

Faceblocking

Much has been made of Facebook Privacy lately. Basically Facebook owns has access to all your personal information and rights to use, sell or otherwise make profit from worldwide, for ever. Is this a problem? Do you care? There are plenty o [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

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Terrific Viral Campaign for Breaking Bad

My friend Colin sent me a link to this website with a post title “Mark Busse is a slacker”. My first thought was, “Busted — someone’s on to me.” until I realized it was a clever online viral campaign to promo [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Interactive, Marketing, Websites | 2 Comments »

Hillary Speaks for Me???

Much has been made already of the websites of Hillary vs. Obama. (spawning countless “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” comparisons) but a new site has sprung up in an effort to save a campaign that, by many accounts, is going do [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, February 21st, 2008

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Paul Rand

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

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Where Does Stuff Come From? Where Does it Go?

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 »

The Best Best of List for 2007

Everybody seems to post “Best of” lists of all sorts, but fimoculous.com has published is a terrific aggregate selection of the Best of lists for 2007 with something for everyone. Happy New Year from Industrial Brand.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

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Clean Please

When our writer friend Dave Delibato came to us and asked for an ultra-clean portfolio website to showcase his advertising work, we went for a totally minimalistic approach. Not much to it, but it works! Check out www.davedelibato.com.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 15th, 2007

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Do Websites Need to Look Exactly the Same in Every Browser?

Do Websites Need to Look Exactly the Same in Every Browser?

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Categories: Websites | 2 Comments »

Lemon Park Jewellery Website Launched by IBC

Another funky website launched by Industrial Brand Creative recently. This time for a custom jewellery company created by sisters Tania and Penny Gleave called Lemon Park. The photos are by our good friend Sven Boecker.

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

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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 »

How to tell if a web page sucks

For you interweb amateurs out there, here’s a handy system to determine if a web page sucks.

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, November 2nd, 2007

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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

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Egg Strategy The Dozen Blog

Egg Strategy‘s new blog, called The Dozen, is an eclectic take on innovation, branding, media, strategy and research. Designed and developed by the  web team at Industrial Brand, this blog is already becoming a “go to” re [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

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The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Serifs, sans serifs, baselines, kerning, leading, rhythm, contrast, readability, hierarchy. These are all concepts that trained graphic designers who specialize in print are well aware of, but seldom applied to the web. Why is that? For a s [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

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Meja Site Launched

We are happy to announce the launch of MEJA.ca, a site that we’ve developed for Marceau Evans Johnson Architects. The site is built on a WordPress content management framework that allows the company to update their online portfolio o [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Categories: Architecture, Branding, Design, Industrial Brand, Vancouver, Websites | 2 Comments »

Japanese Men in Tightie-Whities

Our team is currently hard at work designing and producing an awards show website, so when I came across this link for the 1 Click Awards, I had to post it. I love Japanese men in their tightie-whities.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, July 13th, 2007

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IBC Ain’t No Disco

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 »

Coda. Cool.

I’ll gladly admit that I’m no coder, but Coda is a cool application. Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More all in one window.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Categories: Design, Technology, Tips, We love, Websites | 1 Comment »

Drupal vs. WordPress: Which is better?

We often implement content management systems (CMS) for our web clients and the topic of Drupal versus WordPress is commonly debated. Linux.com’s Bruce Byfield recently compared the two open source platforms, comparing their interface [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Categories: Learning, Technology, Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »

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 »

Design Directory: Made by designers for designers

Here’s an interesting site called Design Directory with the claim it was “made by designers for designers” which looks interesting as a resource centre. It’s primarily a link farm, but it’s got all the expected [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

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Way to Go Heavy Petal

A little recognition goes a long way. A while ago we designed the Heavy Petal blog for our friend Andrea. We like to use her as an example of someone dedicated to regularly posting to her blog and for maintaining a consistent editorial styl [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 30th, 2007

Categories: Design, Websites | 1 Comment »

What’s Wrong With YouTube?

What is wrong with the people at YouTube? It seems every time I’m uploading a video I cannot seem to find a category that fits. Pets? Gadgets? How to? DIY?!? And why is the language always set to French by default? Oh I know, because [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Categories: Industrial Brand, Pop Culture, Websites | 1 Comment »

Not Quite “Beyond Graphic”

Stickers! Invoices! Leaflets! T-shirts! They have it all! I’m not sure these people are clear on our whole “beyond graphic” argument. Neat that they have little kids for designers and let them do their work at the beach th [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 30th, 2007

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Mark Your Space

More and more, it seems that one of the stronger motivational factors of the web is to tag, mark you space, define your borders, or claim your territory. Call it what you will, it seems like a new continent has been discovered and everyone [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

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Got Googe?

I always enjoy seeing what Google comes up with when specializing their logo for holidays and events. They must have been in a hurry to get their Valentine’s Day logo up (what with taking over the world and all) because their designer [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Categories: Pop Culture, Typography, Websites | 1 Comment »

Canadians asleep on issue

It’s time to weigh in on the subject of Digital Democracy and Net Neutrality. No, we’re not just talking about clever alliteration, there’s a lot at stake here. At issue here, as in the United States, is whether telecom co [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, February 1st, 2007

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Logo Trends 2007

Trends in graphic design can really suck, but they exist. Nothing seems new anymore and there’s no way to predict what will become popular. As brand identity designers, it is best to be as aware of them as possible so you don’t [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 19th, 2007

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Morals and Ethics in Design

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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50 Essential Bookmarks

We didn’t make the list, but Communication Arts’ 2006 50 Essential Bookmarks is a great resource for design and advertising fodder.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 31st, 2006

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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

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PaperSpecs Online Paper Swatchbook

For those of you that buy print and spec paper on a regular basis, it can be a daunting tasks to determine what grades are available for your project. And waiting for the paper spec rep to show up or return your call isn’t much help. [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

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The Playground

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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The Laws of Simplicity

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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Kuler…. cooler?

Adobe has released a new website dedicated to exploring colour called Kuler. (get it…. colour…. kuler… colour…. kuler…) You can use it to explore colour combinations online and of course download an app to use [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

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Ikea does it again

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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Code Commenting

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 »

One man’s one-page resource

I just stumbled onto this great reference page put together by a “webmaster and web developer”. On it are links to all the resources he (or she) uses in the course of their work. It’s stuffed full of handy dandy links, too [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 27th, 2006

Categories: Design, Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »

Stationery Movies

I guess Viking is the UK equivalent to our Staples or Office Depot. Anyway, they’re running an inventive online promotion right now called Stationery Movies. There are 20 scenes made entirely of office supplies and you have to guess t [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 20th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Film, Pop Culture, Websites | 2 Comments »

Toss out your TV

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 »

Web 2.0 Validator

Forget drop shadows, neon and the jitterbug, Web 2.0 is the new craze. If your website isn’t 2.0 then you’re behind the times. Wanna see if you’re up to speed? Use the Web 2.0 Validator to see if you’re the hippest c [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Categories: Design, Fun, Technology, Websites | 1 Comment »

Burn Baby Burn!

With increased CCT coverage and greenspace disappearing all over the world, teenage pyros have no place to practice their craft. In addition “grown up” pyros (note the large quotation marks and lack of use of the word reformed) [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

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PLAY.orchestra

The day after finding a bus that had crahsed into a building, I found myself wandering aimlessly around London’s South Bank and found what vaguely resembled an empty orchestra pit. In fact it was a project put on by the Philharmonia O [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, October 6th, 2006

Categories: Music, Pop Culture, Technology, Travel, Websites | No Comments »

Superbad = supergood

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

Categories: Art, Inspiration, Websites | No Comments »

10 Years of Flash

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

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Hillman Curtis Shorts

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

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Langara HUB

With new community sites popping up all over net for a grad project, the students of EMD12 designed and built a site to discuss and critique design work created in the program called The Langara HUB. Start to finish the project was done in [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, August 21st, 2006

Categories: Design, Guest, Technology, Vancouver, Websites | No Comments »

Kindness and Humility

kindnessandhumility.com has possibly the smoothest and simplest navigation around, and not to mention, some great work!

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, August 17th, 2006

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Hey Internet…

Check out these humourous videos created to deliver the message about fighting for Net Neutrality. Great costume ideas for Halloween too.

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

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Iconfactory 2.0

Check out the animations over at Iconfactory while they are preparing to launch their new website tomorrow. Also, definitely check back tomorrow for some new icons and a matching theme from David Lanham.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, July 31st, 2006

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+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

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Best of Craigslist

Who knew there was a Best of Craigslist? You could spend hours reading this stuff. One of the best lines so far: New haircut? Nope, shaved my balls! Did you get that promotion? Nope, silky sack! Who writes this stuff?

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 6th, 2006

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Ego Design

EgoDesign.ca is the first Canadian, bilingual webzine dedicated to global design – urban, architectural, interior, industrial, fashion and art. Egodesign.ca will provide monthly content, with in-depth reports and augmented by weekly r [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 30th, 2006

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Feng Shui Web Design?

According to CNN, web design firms in India are turning to ancient philosophies of vaastu shastra and feng shui to create “balanced” and “harmonious” Web designs. I didn’t realize a website had “chi” [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 30th, 2006

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Joyrider Films

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

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Gypsy Cab Project

Volkswagen brought back the Rabbit, and now Steve from Colorado (who has never driven in New York) has to convince 100 people to let him drive them around in it.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, June 23rd, 2006

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Modern Web Design

Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, June 23rd, 2006

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Briljant Komposition

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

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Cupcake Addiction

We’re all addicted to cupcakes now. Steph has been on a major cupcake bender for months and we’re considering getting her some professional help before she turns into someone like this. If you know have any suggestions how to sa [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

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2Advanced gets blown away

This will obviously not be up for long but check out the current bombed out state of 2Advanced Studios’ site. Rumour has it they are planning a redesign launch on the 1st of June. It will be interesting to see if they stick with their [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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UNIQLO Soho NY

UNIQLO is a teaser site for the japanese casual fashion brand and also the newest work from Yugop.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

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The Last Page

A warning to all those considering starting a blog of their own. Blogging takes a committment. And content. Genuine content. Nobody is really too interested in another site that just recycles other’s work. And over time blogging can w [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

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Canadian Design Resource

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

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You Poached My Pixels!

Super cool software company Panic, of Transmit fame, has both great software and a wicked sense of humor. My close personal friend over at Daring Fireball (I don’t know him) pointed me towards Panic Software’s gallery of poached [...]

Posted by: Brandon Tennant on Thursday, May 4th, 2006

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Music Videos Via Phones

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

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May 1st Reboot

It is May 1st again and that means time for another reboot. Check out the freshly rebooted (or redesigned) sites and vote for your favorite until May 8th.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, May 1st, 2006

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Pixel Fonts RIP

At Industrial Brand Creative we NEVER fall prey to the flighty trends of web design… *cough* Ok, well maybe a little. How can you not? As writer Jon states in his disclaimer before plunging into his Web Design Trend Obituary and Death [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, May 1st, 2006

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jPod + Futura Bold

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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“Official” 2010 Olympics Protest Site

It’s no secret that many designers, including us, have a real problem with the process used to select the Vancouver 2010 Olympics identity. But it’s done and now we have to live with it. However, some people are clearly still ve [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, April 13th, 2006

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Conscientious Innovation

A few years ago people laughed at the idea of sustainability. Now as we experience a cultural shift and consumers redefine the criteria by which they make decisions, companies are begging our friends over at Conscientious Innovation to help [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

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Flash Photo Viewer iPhoto Export

You have iPhoto installed on your Mac and have billions of lovely, organized photos, right? You’d love to quickly and eleantly publish them to the Web like this or this, but PhotoShop’s Web Photo Gallery just isn’t cutting [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 13th, 2006

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Thousands of Design Resources

DesignEducation.ca is a compendium of the best design resources available on the Web based on founder Gustavo Machado’s teaching philosophy: to share everything that he knows with the community. The site contains more resources than I [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

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The Design Encyclopedia

Nearly everybody has used or at least heard of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org, but now there’s a design-focused Wiki encyclopedia called The Design Encyclopedia. Brought to you by Armin Vit and friends at Underconsideratio [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 6th, 2006

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Lynda.com – Learning at Your Own Pace

While planning my upcoming trip to FlashForward in Seattle, I noticed their sponsor Lynda.com and was impressed by what they offer. Often confronted with the challenge of learning new technologies or new staff hires that aren’t famili [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

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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

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Take a BibliOdyssey

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

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Canada.com: Candy-coloured re-brand

I’m sorry. In the interest of not seeming petty I’ve avoided mentioning this, but I can keep quiet no longer. I HATE the new Canada.com identity. It’s the worst example of a re-brand I’ve seen in ages. The new candy- [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

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Behind the Wheel of the Coudal Guest Editor Bus

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

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Across The Sound: The Jaffe Juice has gone sour

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

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Ze Frank Interview: Live Your Life as a potato

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

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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

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Mike Goedecke of Belief

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

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The Future of Marketing

Our friends over at PSFK are hosting the Future Marketing Summit in New York February 23rd. The summit has been developed by people in the brand communication business for people in the brand communication business to address the key issues [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, January 20th, 2006

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Nike ID and design customization

Our friend and fellow designer Chris Gee at ThePreparedMind.com recently found himself sucked in hook, line and sinker by the new Nike iD system of do-it-yourself customization kiosks in his local Nike Town store. He was so excited and move [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 14th, 2006

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Win a Conversation with Coldplay

Skype is our new favourite toy (our Skype name is industrialbrand). And while upgrading our version recently discovered a brilliant little cross promotional marketing campaign they are running called Win a Conversation with Coldplay. Appare [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 14th, 2006

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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

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Time: 50 Coolest Websites 2005

Time has released their picks for the 50 Coolest Websites of 2005.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 6th, 2006

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HOW Top 10 Websites

We’re honoured that HOW Magazine has chosen this site for their Top Ten list. Ah shucks, thanks guys.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

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Top Ten Design Blogs of 2005

We are a design team as well as proud bloggers. As such, we’ve discovered many great blogs that cover issues affecting the design, advertising, marketing, PR, photography and illustration communities. After analyzing numerous blogs, w [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 31st, 2005

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Want A Water Buffalo For Xmas?

In the spirit of extreme consumerism, why not give the gift of livestock? Heifer International is a humanitarian assistance organization who’s mission for the past 60+ years has been to end world hunger and poverty. They believe that [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

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Look Familiar?

This weekend while doing some image research I came across this 1968 Westinghouse ad. It bears a striking resemblance to the brain navigation in the original Industrial Brand website we launched in 2001. The site and the navigation design w [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 5th, 2005

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall…

Recently we became aware of the startling similarity between our blog and that of another local company’s. How’d we find out? Well, they called on us to talk about a business relationship. Hell of an introduction! When confronte [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 25th, 2005

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Van Beater

A deadly ninja assasin rapper? No. A deadly illustrator with a deadly flash site? Yes. Van Beater

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, November 25th, 2005

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New Beck website

Check out Beck’s newly redesigned site.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, November 24th, 2005

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Dear Mr. Barroso

Europe has a drinking problem

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

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ISO50 Relaunched

After 3 years a relaunch of Scott Hansen’s ISO50 portfolio site is now online. It features over 200 new works not yet seen on the web along with new music from Tycho. The design itself isnt too different from the previous, but it look [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

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Keeping Your Projects Organized

The Prepared Mind is one of the best (and only) podcasts dedicated to issues affecting the graphic design industry. Check out the latest podcast as host Chris Gee speaks candidly with Jason Fried of 37signals, the company behind the wildly [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

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Beastie Boys: A Cappella

The Beastie Boys have posted a cappella versions of their songs for free downloading, encouraging their fans to create remixes of their own. Then they invite all comers to share results by sumitting to their Beazley Boys Remix Forum.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 14th, 2005

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Fresh Sites

I am sick of crappy websites. Here are some good ones. http://www.comcastic.com/ http://www.thibaud.be/ http://arcadefire.com/ http://www.troytcoburn.com/ Recycled from Welvetted

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

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How Much Is Your Blog Worth?

My blog is worth $24,275.22.How much is your blog worth?

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

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Typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make the web designer’s life easier. You can select typefaces for Mac, Windows or from a safe list of fonts for both OS& [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

Jakob Nielsen brings us the Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005. They are all pretty obvious, but if you are a designer, you should read this.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

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10×10: The words and pictures of right now

These are interesting times with events around the world being reported and visually told via online news sources at an astonishing pace. 10x10 is an interactive exploration o [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

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New Site for North Kingdom

Swedish Interactive Design Firm extraordinaire, North Kingdom has updated their site. Beautiful.Copyright 2005 Industrial Brand Creative

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

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That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for Google

Backing up my theory of Google’s world domination, they have now made their leap to the moon. In honor of the first manned Moon landing that took place on July 20, 1969, they have added some NASA imagery so you can take your own tour [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

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Complexification

Beautiful, stark, organic and complex algorithmic artwork at complexification.net. Via blprnt.blg.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, July 15th, 2005

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PostSecret

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, July 14th, 2005

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Turn your website into a mobile version

IYHY is an attempt to fix the mobile web today instead of one or five years from now. It is a site that takes any website and converts it to a format mobile devices can view. View our site converted here.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

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Ping Pong Remix

A fun ping pong remix project by Illustrator Gaston Caba.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

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Spell with Flickr

Create ransom letters without the hassle of cutting and pasting. Spell with Flickr searches the database for images tagged as letters, then randomly generates the text.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

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Google Sightseeing

Take a sightseeing tour of the best spots in the world via Google Maps’ satellite imagery. While you are there, check out the giant postage stamp on top of the Vancouver Post office.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, June 17th, 2005

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Google Mobile Search

Google just launced a beta version of a mobile search engine that will deliver search results specifically from websites formatted for mobile phones. That means you will only get results that will be viewable on your phone and not a bunch o [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, June 17th, 2005

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Don’t click it

Experience a button-free world. Can you resist to click?

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

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Happy Birthday PSFK!

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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Subaru Forester

The new Subaru Forester website is a fabulous example of less is more. The horizontal linear format creates a very slick site rather than the more common vertical style.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, June 13th, 2005

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Crew 10

Every year Hyper Island pumps out a new talented crew. To finalize their 90 week program the students have, in their quest for internship, launched their own official website to show the world what they have to offer. Each crew’s webs [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

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Relaunched: WellVetted

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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montage-a-google

On the topic of partly inebriated Friday night entertainment. This handy dandy site lets you search the google image database and will make a special one-of-a-kind mosaic of the top 20 images. Give it a whirl.

Posted by: Brandon Tennant on Friday, May 6th, 2005

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Back in the day

Feeling nostalgic about websites come and gone? Want to catch up on web design from the mid 90′s? Enter the ‘Way Back Machine‘. It’s an archive of as many past websites as possible. Just type the address of the websi [...]

Posted by: Brandon Tennant on Thursday, April 28th, 2005

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Mail Order Chickens

Behind the mild lunacy and absurd notion of adopting a chicken from Ghana is a very focused and serious message by Pressureworks, an extension of Christian Aid, obviously created with the purpose of presenting an edgier side of the global d [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, April 15th, 2005

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Google Local Mobile Search

Google Local. Enter your search term, as well as the location or postal code that you would like to search near, and receive a nice, mobile-sized Google Map with details listed below and access to driving directions. The service is complete [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

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Name Voyager

All my friends seem to be having babies these days and it’s interesting to consider the names they’re choosing, such as Ashley, Marshall, Rory, Nolan and Georgina. I don’t remember any of these names when I was a youngster [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 17th, 2005

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Amazetype

Amazetype is a typographic web services visualizer for Amazon. Basically it turns whatever you search for into words spelled out in pictures related to the topic of search. Lets say I typed in ‘No Doubt’, checked off ‘musi [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

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Kitty Cleaner 1.0 released

I have a pet peeve about people touching my computer monitor. It makes me crazy. However, recently it seemed my monitor was dim or dirty on the INSIDE. Strange. A techie friend Naise told me about a new free utility call Kitty Cleaner 1.0 t [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 11th, 2005

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Eyes of Laura

Laura, a security guard, has hacked a security camera from the Vancouver Art Gallery and embedded it into her blog. I am not sure if it is real, there is pre-recorded footage you can watch, but it looks choreographed. Control the camera for [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

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Last Call

After two and a half years, 105 issues, and some great awards, CBC Radio One is serving up there last call. Their final issue was released on March 4th and will run until March 10th. Make sure you check it out before it is gone for good (Al [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, March 7th, 2005

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Happy Birthday Yahoo!

Yahoo! turns 10 today and to commemorate this benchmark they have launched an “netrospective” that looks back on the 100 most significant online events of the past ten years. Browsing through these, it is amazing to realize how [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

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Drum Machine

Tokyo Plastic A flash site made in Japan. Just keep on clicking until you get to the venus fly trap with the title ‘Drum Machine’. A cute and long animation but well worth the wait.

Posted by: Charlie on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

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Warm up the lava lamp..

If M.C. Escher were around today, he would probably be doing things like this.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

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Google fight

Us vs. Them. War vs. Peace. Yes vs. No. Ernie vs. Bert. All the great battles of the our time find an arena at googlefight.com. A great way to waste 5 hours.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 18th, 2005

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betaplanet.org

Created by Jason Koxvold of bubble & squeak as “a soapbox on which I could stand to voice my lofty ideas for how to make the world a better place”, betaplanet.org is a good place to go if you’ve got an hour or four to [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 24th, 2005

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Zach Braff

I wish i had a dog. And if i had one, I wish it had a strut… like Zach Braff’s dog. Speaking of Zach Braff, check out his Garden State Blog. His new year resolutions are great!

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

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New Diesel Stylebook

Diesel always has really great concepts for there stylebooks, but this one is exceptionally cool! DIESEL

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

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Mercury Filmworks Website Launch

We’ve launched a new website for our client Mercury Filmworks.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 15th, 2002

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