Big news in the web world as Typekit was launched last week. For those of you who missed news of the launch, it serves to bridge the copyright issues associated with the CSS3 Property @font-face (hotly debated issue among foundries and dev [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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‘Click Here’ is seen everywhere on the net and is often used to indicate where there is a link. As interactive designers we need tools in our tool belt to differentiate links from regular text and reliance on inserting content [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
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I spent pretty much all day on the internet (save of course the few hours a day I’m sleeping) and one of the thing that never ceases to amaze me is the proliferation of access to information. The rise of popularity of Ted Talks onlin [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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Ever used the WhatTheFont website to determine what a font is? You see a picture and just NEED to know what that obscure font is. Well what happens if you’re out and about and see one on a restaurant menu, or an ad on the bus? Well g [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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In case you hadn’t heard, a few things changed south of the boarder today (something about a new president I think, not really sure…), and along the way the White House website relaunched (even if it does opt to use ASP in favo [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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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
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Almost a month ago, we launched our new identity: new logo, new website and blog, door sign, nice t-shirts and jackets, a big paaarty….and when you think it’s all over, here it comes: an amazingly long list of financial documen [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, December 12th, 2008
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Work on the web? Then you’re (hopefully) familiar with A List Apart. (if not, shame on you!) Last year they ran their first survey for Web Professionals (results located here) and it’s back this year. Go take a whopping 10-15 m [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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Say what you want about User Experience and User Interface, but for the longest time, Captcha has worked. Well this year the tide seems to be turning as spammers crack some of the most secure captcha’s used by Gmail, Yahoo Mail and H [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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Radiohead is one of those bands that always seems to innovate and they’ve done it again. For their latest video for House of Cards, they collaborated with James Frost (Of Blip Boutique) to realize a video created entirely using data [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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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)
