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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

District South Main Campaign Launch

We just finished a new identity and marketing campaign for a development project called District South Main for our client Amacon. The first teaser advertisements just hit the streets and the initial website has launched and is now accepti [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Categories: Design, Marketing, News, Vancouver | 3 Comments »

Blogs, Mad About Design—already out of date

There’s a new book that’s been published by maomao publications called Blogs, Mad about Design, featuring profiles and screenshots from more than 250 blogs about design-related topics—including this blog. Sort of a compendium [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 19th, 2009

Categories: Industrial Brand, News, Reading | No Comments »

Icograda Announces Design Week 2010 Vancouver

Icograda has formally announced Design Week 2010 to be hosted by GDC in Vancouver with official event profile information on their website.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 15th, 2009

Categories: Associations, Design, Events, News, Vancouver | No Comments »

Spring Newsletter

Things have been buzzing around the office lately but we found some time to do our once a month, once every few months newsletter. Think one part news, a dash of foodists culture, and one big giant bee plus our usual array of inspiration a [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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15 Minutes of Fame for Mike Busse, Industrial Designer

There’s an old saying about 15 minutes of fame—that “all publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell your name right.” Well maybe my appearance this week on ESPN’s Jim Rome is Burning was the closest thing [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Categories: Fun, News, Pop Culture, Vancouver, Video | 1 Comment »

Bringing the Design World to Vancouver

The latest issue of Design Edge just hit the streets and features our own Mark Busse on page 14 in the Newsmakers section! For those of you who don’t know (and that’s not many), Mark has been instrumental in reviving and enlive [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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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)