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R&M Laminating

"The Science of Lamination" used to convey the purpose and benefits of lamination from a fun, rewarding , science-oriented persective.

Blogs, Mad About Design—already out of date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 compendi [...]

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

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Prince Opus – 21 nights

It was just a matter of time until I did a blog post about Prince (I am a big fan). Well here goes. When a musician can charge US$2,100 for a book and an ipod they are obviously doing something right. Last year Prince released a book o [...]

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Categories: Music, Photography | 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 »

David Berman’s New Book Do Good Design

[/caption] The follow review by Mark Busse was originally published on TAXI Design Network: David B. Berman has been demonstrating inspired design leadership for nearly three decades and this book is no exception. After decades of volun [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Categories: Articles | 4 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 »

Penguin Classics

I love books — beautiful books not the ones with shabby covers. I must admit that sometimes I buy a book for its cover rather than for its content. I don’t  lend my books easily, they look too cool on my shelves. And I love Peng [...]

Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, December 12th, 2008

Categories: Design, Illustration, Inspiration, Printing | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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