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SALA Launches

We are happy to announce the launch of UBC’s School of Architecture’s new website. The site offers students, faculty and alumni the ability to upload content and comment on other’s work. We think the custom Flash Tag bar [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Categories: Architecture, Design, Interactive | No Comments »

Bill Moggridge Talks at ECIAD

I don’t know about you, but I will definitely be at ECIAD on November 8th. Last year I completely devoured Bill Moggridge’s book Designing Interactions. A comprehensive historic look at the innovators and milestones of interfac [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Categories: Education, Interactive, Learning | No Comments »

U2 Tower in Dublin

Bono and the boys are busy at work on the tallest building in Ireland, a consortium led by the band has been selected as the preferred bidder to design, finance and construct the £140 million project. The tilted triangular 600ft. building [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, October 15th, 2007

Categories: Architecture | 1 Comment »

A Day at the London Design Festival

London was buzzing for the last two weeks of September. Everywhere you looked, on every street corner there seemed to be something about design. The city was filled with museum exhibits, public art and storefronts with interactive installa [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, October 15th, 2007

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Don’t Blame the CMS

Content Management Systems are great. They’ve become more flexible and easier to implement, allowing companies big and small to have the ability to manage the content on their websites without breaking the bank. There’s a proble [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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Marketing Wahaca

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 chil [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Categories: Branding, Inspiration, Marketing, Packaging, Sustainability | No Comments »

Apple Locks Down

During the iDesign conference in London I heard Bill Thompson talk about design’s role in the world of technology and he mentioned the locking down of Apple’s newest portable products. I did some reading and found quite a lot u [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Categories: Articles, Music, Technology | 2 Comments »

Is it time to go Freelance?

In the UK, where I’ve been for the past couple of weeks, pay rates for design freelancers are up in many cases, particularly when it comes to digital disciplines, according to DesignWeek’s second annual survey. Overall, pay incr [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Categories: Articles, Design | 3 Comments »

ActiveCollab Goes Commercial

It’s no surprise that we’re big fans of open source software here at Industrial Brand. After all, we use software like Wordpress and Drupal a lot. I have also been a strong believer in ActiveCollab, an open source project manage [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Categories: Technology | 5 Comments »

The Corley Conspiracy

As part of the London Design Festival I attended a new opera called “The Corley Conspiracy”. The event was cowritten by a friend and collaborator Sean Starke, who is also part of the MIRROR project that I’m involved with. [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Categories: Art, Events, Inspiration, Music | 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)