Illustration

Heavy Petal

Turning over a new leaf for a popular garden blog and author.

Kid Pivot

The visuals we created for this innovative contemporary dance company are based on the actual movement of the lead dancer, Crystal Pite.

LA Auto Show: Where ‘Green’ Means “Go, Go, Go”

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

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Once upon a time…

Finally! Someone who illustrates and writes bedtime stories for adults. Check out – The Museum of Modern Fiction, a blog site created by Josef Lee. It’s dark humour for others, but just right for IBC. Sweet dreams! Thanks JK Cha [...]

Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

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‘skine art

I own one, you probably own one… Here’s a site that makes me want to seriously doodle in my moleskine. Thanks JK Chan for forwarding this along.

Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

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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

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In the past few years, my role with GDC has happily collided with my love of Cuba, first with the sold out Colours of Cuba holiday fiesta party we hosted in 2005, then the Shared Dreams Cuban design exhibit we were able to bring to Vancouver in 2006. Now, I am again fortunate to be able to travel back to Cuba as part of a small delegation of GDC designers to the Icograda World Design Congress being hosted in Havana October 20–26, 2007. We're also bringing with us two deserving young GDC student members selected from an impressive field of entries to expose these young designers not only to the diverse Cuban design scene, but to the international design landscape early in their career. A GDC colleague of mine, Robert Peters of Winnipeg's Circle Design, is also a fan of Cuba and has made numerous trips there, studying their culture and design community. He recently published a wonderful and well-researched article in Communication Arts called Cuba Si! about life, history and politics on the embargoed archipelago and their impact on the design community. Peters himself is an inspirational Canadian design leader—there's a great interview with Robert Peters on NetDiver if you'd like to learn more about his personal history and perspectives. [post_title] => Cuba: Design on the Embargoed Archipelago [post_category] => 0 [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => cuba_design [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2007-10-11 08:39:29 [post_modified_gmt] => 2007-10-11 16:39:29 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://industrialbrand.com/blog/cuba_design [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) -->

Cuba: Design on the Embargoed Archipelago

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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Dirty Car Art

Next time you see a dirty car and write the ever-so-clever “Wash Me” on the rear windshield, think again. By the way, Sean Wade must know of some great dusty roads.

Posted by: Amanda Fetterly on Friday, July 27th, 2007

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Floating on their canvases

The awesome, isometrically inclined work of Josh Keyes.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, May 24th, 2007

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Yet another face

In the spirit of the art and illustration theme we’ve had going on lately, here’s a small but really cool portfolio via Drawn! The Illustration Blog. They’re 3D computer generated pieces based on automatic drawings. The re [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

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Wishing you all the best in the future

Brilliant as always, Marian Bantjes’ Limited Edition Cover for Wallpaper Magazine.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, March 19th, 2007

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Mosh pits never looked so good

I stumbled upon fantastic street artist Dan Witz via Wooster Collective last night. His street art is amazing and beautiful, but I particularly like his mosh pit series of paintings. The style of these really reminds me of Norman Rockwell, [...]

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

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Ryan Graber

Ryan Graber is doing some really nice work…

Posted by: Mike Withers on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

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Slummin’ It

Working with the residents of the slums of Rio De Janeiro, artists Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koohaas have been painting a giant mural right in the heart of the community with the goal of instilling a sense of pride among the people and to impro [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 2nd, 2007

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DMZ

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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