The Perfect Recipe.
Stuffed animals. Explosives. Need I say more?
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Categories: Art, Fun, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
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We Feel Fine.
Some lovely Flash work, great infographics and an interesting idea, all mashed up.
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Pop Culture | 2 Comments »
A new typography term.
Keming. I give this about a week before it’s used industry wide. And it’s available as a t-shirt.
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Categories: Pop Culture, Typography | 2 Comments »
You Suck At Photoshop #4.
Here’s this week’s episode of You Suck At Photoshop on Paths and Masks, in which Donny works on an image for an eBay auction. As he says, you need to watch this “because you’ve only been using about $75.00 worth of [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Categories: Education, Fun, Uncategorized, We love | No Comments »
You Suck At Photoshop.
“My name is Donny and you suck at Photoshop…” So begins episode 3 of the tragic and funny tutorial series, You Suck At Photoshop, in which Donny teaches you how to use Photoshop, while focusing on the breakdown of his ma [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Friday, January 18th, 2008
Categories: Education, Fun, We love | No Comments »
Samurai Cinema and you.
My passion for samurai films is really unreasonable. Well, for that and Yakuza films. And the films of Takashi Miike, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, anything Takeshi Kitano was ever in (especially Brother), Japanese serials like Lone Wolf and [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, January 7th, 2008
Categories: Art, Film, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Vancouver | No Comments »
Simple. Not simplistic.
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, [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, November 12th, 2007
Categories: Interactive, Learning, Reading, Technology | No Comments »
Backup isn’t sexy (a short screed).
I work in a world of data. Most of what I do directly involves the manipulation of data or the transfer of data from A to B. Most of what my clients do is manipulate or transfer data from A to B. Indeed, most of my clients are paid by t [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Categories: Technology | 1 Comment »
As it turns out, UI is, occasionally, rocket science.
I am not a designer. I am…well…something else. So everything I know about UI and Human-Computer Interaction has been learned the hard way: spending countless hours using software and websites and wrestling with a UI so bad I wanted to [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Categories: Design, Learning | No Comments »
RT @bengarf: Bit old now so maybe you've seen, but Banksy is brilliant (Link)
RT @COURAGEOUSb: 'Branding is giving an idea not just to the customer but to the company itself, of who they are, a sense of themselves' ...
RT @MarkBusse: Doing design research for nutrition/fitness client looking for examples of brands with gritty/intensity + human/simplicit ...
Congrats to Porte Development for selling over 30% of the @OriginSFU units on Burnaby Mountain in the opening weekend. http://liveorigin.com
Slow motion will always be cool (love the ones using humans) (Link)
We recently launched a new brand identity and website for our client Gramercy Developments. Great job team! (Link)
Beautiful chocolate packaging (Link)
Nice to be recognized by @Icograda for the District South Main identity & campaign we designed for Amacon. (Link)
Industrial Brand is looking for the next senior member of their communication design team. (Link)
RT @interestingvan: Interesting Vancouver website is now live & tickets are now on sale. Buy yours today! http://interestingvancouver.com
Congrats to our client Porte Development for the official launch of Origin, their new project on Burnaby Mountain: http://liveorigin.com
RT @MarkBusse: @GuyKawasaki read article "Welcome to the Era of Creative Meritocracy" by Behance's Scott Belsky called (Link)
@markbusse & @bengarf talk about www.Foodists.ca w/ Randall Mark on CKNW's The World Today Weekend Sunday at 5:30 (Link)
Likemind Vancouver August event to be hosted by Kafka’s Coffee & Tea House at 2525 Main Street (at Broadway) (Link)
Great to see @ElysianCoffee (Broadway) listed on Living Social's website as the best neighbourhood coffeehouse. (Link)
