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e-log

I recently learnt about this company whilst watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The e-log has a foam core skinned in real wood. Compared to regular log homes, e-log is cheaper, better for the environment and better insulates your home. [...]

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

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Crazy architecture

Living in Vancouver where the architecture is a little plain I get excited when I see creative and brave architecture elsewhere in the world. That being said Vancouver is listed on this site of unusual architecture, unfortunately the examp [...]

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, April 6th, 2009

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Sliding House

The base of the house is fixed but has a ’second skin’ that slides to expose more sunlight to the glass section of the house or exposes the interior courtroom to the open sky. Simple, elegant and intelligent. Watch the movie th [...]

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, February 27th, 2009

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Future Systems

I have just learnt of the company Future Systems. The founder Jan Kaplický died earlier this month but leaves behind a most impressive portfolio of both architecture and product design. Two pieces of work that are well worth a mention are [...]

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

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SALA Website honoured at Lotus

In addition to ADCC and W3 awards we took home earlier in the year, we were recently very pleased to learn that our website for UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture was honoured with a Lotus Merit in the interactive catego [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, December 22nd, 2008

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Clip/Stamp/Fold

We just received an intriguing promo from the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) for their current exhibit titled, Clip/Stamp/Fold 6 The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X. The exhibition is based around the explosion of [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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UBC SALA Site Takes ADCC Award

We recently learned our website for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has been accepted into Directions 2008, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s (ADCC) annual awards show. Thought we should share [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Categories: Architecture, Awards, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »

Roll into bed

At the Dasparkhotel in Ottensheim, Austria, guests receive a door code before arrival and let them selves in. Click here to see images.

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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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

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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

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Welcome Joanna (@jobotik) to Industrial Brand. We're proud to welcome you to our design team.

Appreciate architecture? Visit the Vancouverism show in the foyer of the new Woodwards bldg. Beautiful & inspiring work. (Link)

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