Kevin Broome

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Photoshop for the iPhone

What I love most about Photoshop on the iPhone is the functionality. Adobe has really thought of everything. Designers, prepare to throw your laptops and towers away. The iPhone is really all you need.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, September 17th, 2007

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William Gibson at the CBC Book Club

William Gibson’s stretched stooped figure curls over book and microphone under yellow lights that hang like a field of beauty salon hair dryers before an unlit neon sign tracing out the words Studio One on a wall deep within the bowels o [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 7th, 2007

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The Whole House Off Switch

You will never need to tear your hair out wondering if you left the iron on ever again. Jack Godfrey Wood’s Whole House-Off Switch is a single button that can turn off of the unnecessary power in the house –lights, tv, etc.̵ [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 17th, 2007

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Lights, Camera…Reference Folder

We’re currently working on a brand evolution project for a client that found me spending a couple of hours the other morning rooting through YouTube for title animations of film companies. Ironically the one particular ID that I had i [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 10th, 2007

Categories: Film, Industrial Brand, Inspiration | No Comments »

“Less Like a Story and More Like Poetry”

As noted over at Coudal: “It’s a bad week for heroes.” Michelangelo Antonioni, (September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007) Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

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The Making of Star Guitar

A cool little demonstration of information design in action: a behind-the-genius peek at Michel Gondry mapping out the video for the Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

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When the routine bites hard

From Visual Complexity: “Using information design principles and graphical techniques, the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Sunday, July 15th, 2007

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The Sweet Reel..

.. of Mark Coleran.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 14th, 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

Categories: Art, Illustration | No Comments »

Day Night Day Night

A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision — she has made it already. We don’t know whom she r [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, May 11th, 2007

Categories: Film | No Comments »

SuperPower: Visualising the internet. (Link)

Boys and their toys. (Link)

Beautiful packaging, it's simple and does a great job showcasing the product. (Link)

Have we mentioned that @LikemindVan has a group page on LinkedIn too? (Link)

RT @gdcbc: To honour fallen designer Leo Obstbaum, please contribute to Emily Carr's Memorial Award in his name: (Link)

RT @gdcbc: CBC's tribute to Leo Obstbaum, deceased designer responsible for the 'look' of the #Vancouver2010 #Olympics: (Link)

RT @MarkBusse: People often say I have a big head, but that's hogwash. This photo proves my head is just right: (Link)

Love this diagram of the creative process as a continuum from research (uncertainty) to design (clarity). (Link)

Our newest designer Dana is awesome. You should hear her talk to marketing people when they call. Don't mess with the Dana.

This is the best Olympic training video I have seen to date ;-) (Link)

Missed what it was like to be in Vancouver when Crosby scored the winning goal this weekend? Watch (and listen) to THIS! (Link)

Google acquires Picnik, thus expanding it's dominance in the cloud computing domain. Who needs PhotoShop anymore! (Link)

RT @MarkBusse: @TimeFox is now on Twitter and has released an iPhone app! I just updated some projects hours I forgot to log. #productivity

RT @MarkBusse: How do you define professional success? For me, it has to be working with people that feel more like family than employee ...

Our client Eclipse's brand design is highlighted in an article on page 12 of BIV's 2010 How-To Book: (Link) (PDF available)