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We’re Hiring

Industrial Brand is looking for the next member of their communication design team. If you think that’s you, visit this job posting on GDC.net and convince us you’re the right choice. Before you send us that cover letter and re [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Categories: Industrial Brand, News | 1 Comment »

Likemind Vancouver: August 2010

The next Likemind Vancouver event will be held at 8am on Friday, August 20th and hosted by Kafka’s Coffee & Tea House at 2525 Main Street (at Broadway) (Click here for directions). Free coffee and snacks will be generously prov [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Categories: Events, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »

What Meets the Eye: Industrial Brand Featured in BIV AdPages Article

Last year our brand identity project for Yaaway was featured in BIV’s special AdPages issue in an article called Logos Stick written by Jill Lambert. This year we are proud to have some of our work and opinions featured by BIV again, [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Categories: Articles, Design, Industrial Brand, News, Reading, Tips | No Comments »

What’s Design Currency?

Matt recently wrote a great article about why he was excited about the upcoming Icograda Design Week Vancouver 2010 conference. This week Icograda released this animated promo video about the theme of Design Currency created by Rethink, Gi [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Categories: Associations, Design, Events, Inspiration, Vancouver, Video, We love, animation | 1 Comment »

Welcome Joanna Ambrosio, Industrial Brand’s New Designer

After a lengthy search resulting in dozens of portfolio reviews and interviews, Industrial Brand is proud to announce the newest member of its growing communication design team. Joanna Ambrosio was born in Mexico City and raised in Guadala [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Categories: Industrial Brand, News | 7 Comments »

Using Twitter For Business Requires Focus

“We need a Facebook page and a Twitter account, right?” ask many of our clients these days. Much like clients who want news sections or blogs as part of their websites, our answer is always “It really depends.” If s [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Categories: Articles, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Tips | 2 Comments »

A Home Business is Still a Business

Our very own Matt SamyciaWood was featured in a recent issue of Business in Vancouver with his article A Home Business is Still a Business. Addressing some of the more common mistakes with branding a business, Matt shares insights into how [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Categories: Articles, Branding, Learning, Tips | No Comments »

Honouring Jim Rimmer

Jim Rimmer died last week and I really wasn’t sure I wanted to post anything online after writing a tribute post for my recently deceased friend Leo Obstbaum. Losing people takes the wind right out of your sails. Then I found the fol [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Categories: Design, News, Typography, We love | No Comments »

Likemind Vancouver: January 2010

Happy New Year! The first Likemind event of 2010 is scheduled for 8am, January 15th and will be hosted by W2 Community Arts at the W2 Culture + Media House at 112 West Hastings Street (the Perel building across the street from the fancy ne [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 7th, 2010

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Graphex 2010 = A Reflection Of Me!

We just received the Call For Entries for Graphex 2010—GDC’s biennial national design awards. The concept is “A Reflection Of The Best Designers In Canada”, so I photographed myself reflected in the shiny mirror postcar [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Categories: Articles | 2 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)