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
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I believe there is always room for every person to grow, personally and professionally. But as an Art Director (and father of a two year old) my ‘spare’ time for a conference is very limited. I have been in this industry for 15 years a [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Categories: Associations, Awards, Design, Education, Events, Learning, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
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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We are getting close to adding the one millionth word to the English language. And that word is more than likely going to be, wait for it “Noob”. See definitions at wiktionary.org and Urban Dictionary. “The widespread pop [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Categories: Learning, Trends | 1 Comment »
Bill Buxton is so cool. He’s Canadian, a massively talented designer, and arguably the world authority on interaction and usability design. What’s not to like? Oh, Buxton does work at Microsoft as their Principal Researcher, bu [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Interaction, Learning, Technology, Video, We love | No Comments »
Friend of the studio and occasional collaborator Jer Thorp is putting on some Processing Workshops in Vancouver. I’ve had an intro into Processing from Jer while I was in school and enjoyed it, though sadly haven’t spent much t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 6th, 2009
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You’ve gone to school and learned about proper design theory. You can identify fonts from a mile away, know your analogous from your complimentary colours and even your dreams line up to a grid. Now you’ve turned to the web but [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
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Wandering a friend’s blog I discovered this great site in London. ‘Together for London’ is a website in the UK whose message is ‘A little thought from each of us. A big difference for everyone’. The site is an [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Categories: Inspiration, Learning, Trends, Uncategorized, Websites | No Comments »
The BC Chapter of GDC has been selected among a select few organizations to receive the 2008 Capilano University President’s Service Awards as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. GDC/BC was honoured for its continued support a [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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My day started today by finding out that I had accidentally saved a crop of a website design yesterday. In the perfect storm of backup redundancies not working (including the most important one – my brain) I was left with one of two opt [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Categories: Design, Learning, Software | 1 Comment »
Great to see @ElysianCoffee (Broadway) listed on Living Social's website as the best neighbourhood coffeehouse. (Link)
Did you know that the moment you add a FireWire 400 HD to a daisy-chained stack of FW800 drives, you render the whole bunch FW400? #nerdfact
You coming to Likemind Vancouver tomorrow am? (Link)
RT @MarkBusse: Just enjoyed coffee at @ElysianCoffee with our IT partner @AndrewBall. Both give me a mild buzz & I'm grateful to know each.
@Memo_F Nothing compared to a catastrophic failure and loss of 13 years of client and resource files! #backup
Join creative professionals for coffee/conversation at Likemind Vancouver @ Starbucks (Mainland & Nelson) this Fri@ 8am. (Link)
@Drobo Just formatted & configured our spankin' new DroboPro 16TB storage array with BeyondRAID technology. Feeling backed up & secure!
July's Likemind event is being hosted by Starbucks at 977 Mainland St (at Nelson), this Friday, July 16th, at 8am. See you there.
July's Likemind event is being hosted by Starbucks at 977 Mainland St (at Nelson), this Friday, July 16th, at 8am. (Link)
So nice to welcome Mathilde back to the IB design team from our European Headquarters (Mathilde's house!) in Lyon, France!
RT @MarkBusse: End of day thought: Websites are more than tools. Want good rankings? Then care for your site, otherwise instead of growi ...
Pls join creative professionals for coffee & conversation for Likemind at Bean Around the World (175 West Hastings St) tomorrow at 8am.
Our hard work, tossed aside like yesterday's trash. (Link)
@tylerwilman @SteveMynett @danabirdie It's drinking time now. Where are we going?
Congrats to VFS grad @themichellelam on her 2010 Applied Arts Student Awards win for her Graphos Playing Cards! Way to go. /bg
