I recently came across a pretty good design blog by New York Art Director Troy Finamore with some interesting thoughts on graphic design, branding and advertising such as this nice little post called Morals and Ethics in the Design Commun [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Categories: Design, Reading, Websites | No Comments »
There’s nothing quite like starting off the new year with a little post-apocalyptic anarchy care of Brian Wood’s beautifully rendered graphic series DMZ, in which the U.S. has plunged back into civil war, and Manhattan serves a [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Categories: Design, Illustration, Reading | 1 Comment »
Is Chris Ware the Norman Rockwell of our generation? Browsing through his Thanksgiving-themed cover series for The New Yorker magazine, it seems an appropriate comparison. Happy Thanksgiving to our friends south of the border. (Via The Ski [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 24th, 2006
Categories: Art, Pop Culture, Reading | 1 Comment »
After having a busy week of blogging I was going to try to take today off but ran across John Maeda’s site – The Laws of Simplicity. It has basically the content from his new book, surprisingly called The Laws of Simplicity, in [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, November 24th, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, Reading, Websites | No Comments »
With a long history of innovation and leadership in the commercial printing industry, Hemlock Printers has just launched an online version of their popular newsletter, Inklings. With news and updates from their plant floor, e-Inklings news [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Categories: Learning, News, Printing, Reading, Technology, Tips | No Comments »
Sometimes I never think to turn to places like Adobe for resources other than things related to the software of theirs we use, but I just came across their Design Center Think Tank filled with intelligent and thought provoking articles on [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Categories: Design, Inspiration, Reading, Technology | 1 Comment »
September 23 – 30 is Banned Books Week which recognizes those great works of literature that society for one reason or another has taken issue with. Catcher in the Rye, Ulysses, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, all of these works [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Categories: Reading | No Comments »
The inimitable McSweeneys pitches a few Mac Ad Ideas of their own. (via Coudal)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 8th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Fun, Pop Culture, Reading | No Comments »
Answering an email has become much like taking a breath for many people, in the process of firing them off, they end up losing a lot of coherency in spelling/punctuation/grammar regardless of spell check (especially if you’re Mark). [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Friday, July 7th, 2006
Categories: Reading | No Comments »
After a decade of reading online that he collects meteorites Douglas Coupland, thought about it and realized, ‘that’s not actually a bad idea.’ So now he really does collect meteorites, going so far as to include them in [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Categories: Reading | No Comments »
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 ...
