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Blogs, Mad About Design—already out of date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 »

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Jane Austen battles the undead

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

Categories: Art, Reading | No Comments »

Suicidal Bunnies

Not that I feel guilty when I eat rabbit anyway, but clearly bunnies are suicidal and should be put out of their misery, as is evidenced in these funny cartoons from Andy Riley’s Book of Bunny Suicides.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 29th, 2008

Categories: Fun, Inspiration, Reading | 2 Comments »

We all need to balance our businesses

We’ve used FunctionFox’s TimeFox web-based time and project management tools for years and love it. Their new TimeFox Premier release has added handy functionality such as task management, to-do lists, calendar and scheduling t [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 21st, 2008

Categories: Design, Learning, Reading, Tips, We love | No Comments »

Simple. Not simplistic.

Sometimes ideas come together in a collision, creating sparks. And for one, brief moment, you can see something in a new light, something you may not have seen before. This afternoon, I read David Pogue’s review of a new phone offering, [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, November 12th, 2007

Categories: Interactive, Learning, Reading, Technology | No Comments »

Cuba: Design on the Embargoed Archipelago

It’s common knowledge (among those who know me) that I love Cuba. My wife and I were married there. I may not entirely agree with their politics, but the Cuban people are amazing—perhaps the warmest and most enjoyable culture IR [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Categories: Associations, Design, Illustration, Reading, Travel | No Comments »

William Gibson at the CBC Book Club

William Gibson’s stretched stooped figure curls over book and microphone under yellow lights that hang like a field of beauty salon hair dryers before an unlit neon sign tracing out the words Studio One on a wall deep within the bowels o [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 7th, 2007

Categories: Reading, We love | No Comments »

William Gibson Live Reading

  It’s certainly no secret that we’re huge fans of William Gibson around here. Well-worn copies of his books Pattern Recoginition, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties and Neuromancer are found on our bookshe [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Categories: Inspiration, Reading, Vancouver, We love | No Comments »

Getting Real: 37signals on Web App Development

I’ve always appreciated defined methodologies and well documented processes with steps, procedures and documentation. It’s long been an accepted approach to developing design or technology solutions. And nowhere has this been [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Categories: Learning, Reading, Technology, Tips | 1 Comment »

Can A Building Make You Happy?

I love architecture. Heck, at one point in my life my goal was to become an architect. So when I was invited to attend an installment of CBC’s Studio One Book Club to meet and hear renowned philosopher and historian Alain de Botton d [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Categories: Architecture, Inspiration, Learning, Reading | No Comments »

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 ...

Our client Eclipse's brand design is highlighted in an article on page 12 of BIV's 2010 How-To Book: (Link) (PDF available)

BLOG POST: "Using Twitter For Business" can powerful, but can also be a risky proposition if not done well. (Link)

RT @MarkBusse: Yikes! Just found out that the firm who recently beat us on a web project was C&G Partners in NYC! Punching above our weight!

Want one of these spiral clocks. Maybe I will wait until the more economical version is released. (Link)

A fantastic stop motion animation: (Link)

A geeky fun way to express an apology! (Link)

The Winter Olympics, Matt Style. (Link)