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The Replenishing Body

While in London for their design festival I visited an interesting interactive installation at the Beyond the Valley showroom. The installation was put on by SHOWstudios, who’s Head of Interactive Ross Phillips I met at the iDesign co [...]

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

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London Called, They want Design Back

I have to say it’s great to be in London. This city is hopping! It’s a interesting contrast to the laid-back Vancouver vibe I’m trying to get accustomed to. Maybe it’s the jetlag talking, I’m sure it will wear [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Sunday, September 16th, 2007

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Look in the MIRROR

For the past 3 years I’ve been working on a project called MIRROR with my good friend Thomas Anselmi. Our collaboration began with a breakfast meeting about a website and quickly evolved into us writing music and visually refining th [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Sunday, September 16th, 2007

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WikiPod

You’ve probably secretly fantasized about having Wikipedia on your iPod, right? Just imagine, a friend asks you a perplexing question and with a flick of a thumbwheel you’ve got an answer. Well, wait no longer. You can now take [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Categories: Learning, Pop Culture, Technology | No Comments »

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 [...]

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

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

Tufte’s Sparklines

Lately there’s been a lot of talk about Edward Tufte. Who is he? Is he the only designer with a roadie. If you have yet to read any of his books you will find depth and clarity in his explanations of information design that simplifie [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, July 12th, 2007

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Analogue Miniatures

How cool is that? I want one.

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Categories: Art, Inspiration | No Comments »

MadTV racks

This skit cleverly makes fun of both Apple’s Steve Jobs and GW.Bush. Is MadTV now part of the Axis of Evil?

Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, May 28th, 2007

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Thinking Rock

After trying a variety of different organizational tools I’m trying out a software tool called Thinking Rock. it uses a very simple interface that follows a ‘Get Things Done‘ philosophy of time management. The general app [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, May 14th, 2007

Categories: Learning | 2 Comments »

Add some YUI to your GUI

The title of this posting sounds like some twisted thing Ben would say. Let me explain, what I mean is, it is getting really easy for a web developer to sprinkle a little magic on their websites with some help from the open source AJAX li [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Categories: Typography | 1 Comment »

Great to see @ElysianCoffee (Broadway) listed on Living Social's website as the best neighbourhood coffeehouse. (Link)

Did you know that the moment you add a FireWire 400 HD to a daisy-chained stack of FW800 drives, you render the whole bunch FW400? #nerdfact

You coming to Likemind Vancouver tomorrow am? (Link)

RT @MarkBusse: Just enjoyed coffee at @ElysianCoffee with our IT partner @AndrewBall. Both give me a mild buzz & I'm grateful to know each.

@Memo_F Nothing compared to a catastrophic failure and loss of 13 years of client and resource files! #backup

Join creative professionals for coffee/conversation at Likemind Vancouver @ Starbucks (Mainland & Nelson) this Fri@ 8am. (Link)

@Drobo Just formatted & configured our spankin' new DroboPro 16TB storage array with BeyondRAID technology. Feeling backed up & secure!

July's Likemind event is being hosted by Starbucks at 977 Mainland St (at Nelson), this Friday, July 16th, at 8am. See you there.

July's Likemind event is being hosted by Starbucks at 977 Mainland St (at Nelson), this Friday, July 16th, at 8am. (Link)

So nice to welcome Mathilde back to the IB design team from our European Headquarters (Mathilde's house!) in Lyon, France!

RT @MarkBusse: End of day thought: Websites are more than tools. Want good rankings? Then care for your site, otherwise instead of growi ...

Pls join creative professionals for coffee & conversation for Likemind at Bean Around the World (175 West Hastings St) tomorrow at 8am.

Our hard work, tossed aside like yesterday's trash. (Link)

@tylerwilman @SteveMynett @danabirdie It's drinking time now. Where are we going?

Congrats to VFS grad @themichellelam on her 2010 Applied Arts Student Awards win for her Graphos Playing Cards! Way to go. /bg