Amazing paddy field art in Japan. Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate create works of crop art by carefully planning, arranging and growing different varieties of rice plants. This year they came up with giant pictures of Napoleon [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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DOXA Documentary Film Festival is launching something new at this year’s festival-their first-ever celebrity camera auction. Equipped with single-use cameras, some of our favorite famous people have unleashed their point & shoot [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Categories: Art, Events, Pop Culture, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
Not sure if Bansky has hit Berlin or not really, but now you have a better chance of finding out. Adidas has created an iPhone app that acts as map and guide for locating street art in Berlin. So, if you’re tired of yet another museu [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Categories: Art, Pop Culture, Travel, We love | No Comments »
Clean tagging, or reverse graffiti, follows a very simple principle: clean in order to draw. We’ve all done that on a dirty car (yes, Wash me!!!). So is this environmental activism, art or vandalism? Alexandre Orion’s ‘wall of sk [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, March 27th, 2009
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What do you get when you cross LED technology, sheep and guys with a lot of time on their hands? How about one of the coolest campaigns by Samsung. Check it out here. Thanks to my buddy Steve for the link.
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Art, Fun, Technology | No Comments »
I guess all new story ideas have been used up in literary circles, and writers have to turn to rewrite the classics. And that’s right, Seth Grahame-Smith went there. Read about it here, and order it on amazon.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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On Saturday, January 10th, 2009 nearly 2,500 people took off their pants on subways in 22 cities around the world. In New York’s 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride they had over 1,200 participants, spread out over four subway lines. Watch [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, January 19th, 2009
Categories: Art, Uncategorized | No Comments »
It’s like Communication Design class all over again. Take a peek at these sexy pieces for the Grammy’s “Celebrate the Music That Made Us” campaign. The portraits of select artists (Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Music, Typography | No Comments »
Data Visualization seems to be all the rage these days and there is a great summary of some of the instances of it from 2008 over at Flowing Data. (via MS on Twitter) Some of these were already familiar to me (Wordle and House of Cards) b [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, January 5th, 2009
Categories: Art, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Interactive | No Comments »
I hope that most readers of this blog are familiar with our Stefan G. Bucher and his daily monster drawings. His book—a signed copy with intro by Ze Frank is sitting on my bookshelf right now—contains 100 drawings done over 100 days, m [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Categories: Art, Fun, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | 1 Comment »
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
RT @MarkBusse: How do you define professional success? For me, it has to be working with people that feel more like family than employee ...
