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

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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)