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Room to Read

Created as part of the Great Canadian Commercial Contest, we completed this spot in 48 hours from receipt of the brief to produced ad.

Information Architecture Primer

You’ve gone to school and learned about proper design theory. You can identify fonts from a mile away, know your analogous from your complimentary colours and even your dreams line up to a grid. Now you’ve turned to the web b [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

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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

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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

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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 [...]

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

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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

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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 I [...]

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 [...]

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

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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 »

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 »