Pan’s Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth

I’ve heard quite a bit of buzz surrounding this movie, which is getting glowing reviews from every direction. I’ve never fallen in love with any of Guillermo del Toro’s earlier work (Blade II, Hellboy), but the visual style of these movies has always hit my pleasure center, at least on some level. Pan’s Labyrinth looks to be an absolute visual feast, with style coming out its ears…

Fairytales aren’t supposed to be nice: The wolf ATE Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother, the witch was trying to put Hansel and Gretle into her OVEN. Pan’s Labyrinth seems to take this to heart, placing itself squarely as a fairytale for adults: part horror, part fantasy.

Unforunately it doesn’t hit North America until December 29th…
Check out the trailer here.

Posted by Mike Withers on October 13, 2006

Chatwin Engineering Website Launches

One great thing about what we do as brand and interactive designers is the variety of clients and projects we get to work on, each very different needs, goals, and audiences. One day it’s a brand and collateral aimed at investors or a website for a Japanese bistro, the next it’s a complicated website for a large engineering firm. Enter Chatwin Engineering.

With over 25 years as a leading engineering and planning firm in BC, Chatwin hired Industrial Brand to completely revamp its online presence to more accurately reflect who they are as a company. Their old website had become dated, cluttered, and ineffective. The outdated technology was cumbersome and the content wan’t easily updatable. It was time for a fresh start.

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Posted by Mark Busse on May 26, 2009. | No Comment

From Caveman to Spaceman: Canstruction 2009

After an absence in last year’s competition, Industrial Brand teamed with Best Buy Canada Ltd. for Canstruction 09. After months of designing, planning and visiting to grocery stores, the design was finally executed over the two day build on April 25th and 26th. Based on this year’s theme: “From Caveman to Spaceman: Throughout History”, we decided to build a honeybee because of it’s importance to man and role in food chain. Integral to the world’s food production through pollination, honeybees have made their way into the news due to their recent decline in population. With this in mind we concluded that the honeybee best represented the event’s theme while communicating the message of hunger as a global problem.
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Posted by Alex Leynes on April 28, 2009. | 1 Comment

Henriquez Partners Architects Blog and Website Launched

We really enjoy working with architects. The simple fact that we speak the same language of design and work in the creative field, often immersed in a similar processes makes it all the more appealing. Last year we were fortunate to be asked by Vancouver-based Henriquez Partners Architects to recreate their online presence. Their goal was to showcase their studio, some of their recent projects, and the ideas behind them via a clean, modern web interface.

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Posted by Mark Busse on March 20, 2009. | No Comment