Our Zeitgeist tagged with “Tips”
I originally found it on one of my daily reads,
matthewgood.org, thinking it a similar community to
Flickr, I clicked. My life changed a little at that point, I called immediately and checked the facility out; everything is totally worth the monthly rate, beautiful view, a vast range of personalities, and the coffee is great. If you can sympathize with my tone and need to get back into overdrive, check it out soon as space is filling up fast.
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The struggle to find a balance between work and life is hard for anyone in creative industry, but even more so for creatives who freelance; for these unlucky individuals, work life and home life often fall into a single space. I’ve st [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Categories: Learning, Tips, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
A short while ago I was invited by New Media BC to sit on a panel discussion with some industry colleagues called Work-Life Balance: Empty Promise or Key to Happiness?. If you were, I dunno – say, too busy to attend the event at Vanco [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
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We didn’t make the list, but Communication Arts’ 2006 50 Essential Bookmarks is a great resource for design and advertising fodder.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Design, Learning, Tips, Websites | No Comments »
Founded by paper specialist Sabine Lenz six years ago, Paper Specs was the first independent online paper database formed as a response to the frustration caused by searching for hours through swatchbooks for the perfect paper coating, colour, texture, weight or finish only to be told by the mill or distributor that it was no longer available.
The site offers a free weekly e-newsletter and varying levels of paid monthly members for full access to the online database and services (the first 30 days are free). [kudos Nancy Wu for the link]
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For those of you that buy print and spec paper on a regular basis, it can be a daunting tasks to determine what grades are available for your project. And waiting for the paper spec rep to show up or return your call isn’t much help. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Categories: Design, Printing, Tips, Websites | No Comments »
Adobe has released a new website dedicated to exploring colour called Kuler. (get it…. colour…. kuler… colour…. kuler…) You can use it to explore colour combinations online and of course download an app to use [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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DATE: November 23rd, 2006
LOCATION: Vancouver Film School (VFS) - 420 Homer Street
WHEN: 5:15 - 7:00PM (registration at 4:30)
COST: NMBC Members & Student: $10 / Non-Members: $20
REGISTER ONLINE: http://www.newmediabc.com/events.asp
Light refreshments will be provided.
Co-moderators
Wil Arndt (
mod7) and
Gordon Ross (Vice President,
OpenRoad) facilitate a cross-industry panel, including
Stephen Beck (Principal,
Engine Digital),
Ron Bignell (
Electronic Arts),
Mark Busse (
Industrial Brand Creative),
Eric Karjaluoto (Principal,
smashLAB),
Robert Ouimet (Partner,
At Large Media),
Lisa Vogt (Managing Partner,
McCarthy Tétrault LLP), and
Jeremy Thorp (Electronic Media Instructor and Designer,
blprnt).
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NEW MEDIA BC EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Work/Life Balance: Empty Promise or Key to Happiness? Join New Media BC for a round-table discussion with top-notch service professionals from Vancouver as we dive into what “balance” means, shar [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Categories: Associations, Events, Learning, Tips, Vancouver | No Comments »
This is an actual day though. The orgasimizers want to make the world a better place and us gettin off on December 22nd is going to help this. (If you wanna know how check out this
explanation.) I'm a little weirded out that it's so close to Christmas but can conveniently ignore that face. I wonder if this is supposed to involve someone else? If so, I may be screwed.
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Now I’m not one for burning incense, feng shui or other slightly wacky ideas, but this one I can’t say no to. Global Orgasm Day….. how can this be a bad thing? Well, if you ignore STD’s, unwanted pregnancies, awkward [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Categories: Events, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Tips | 1 Comment »
If you are planning to take over the world one meeeeleeeon dollars at a time, then you’re going to need this evil chair. Only $4500.00 CDN. Thanks to our good, yet diabolical, friend John M for this one!
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Categories: Design, Tips | 1 Comment »
All I can say is wow, check out what Jacob and Manto have to say.
Posted by: todd smith on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Learning, Tips | No Comments »
A lack of.. uh, hmm… courage, has for many years been keeping men from showcasing their toolbags, it is no secret. Now, the pros at AussieBum have begun using “Wondercup” technology to create “appearance flattering u [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Monday, November 6th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Fun, Learning, Pop Culture, Tips | No Comments »
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I just stumbled onto this great reference page put together by a “webmaster and web developer”. On it are links to all the resources he (or she) uses in the course of their work. It’s stuffed full of handy dandy links, too [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 27th, 2006
Categories: Design, Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »
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 newsl [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Categories: Learning, News, Printing, Reading, Technology, Tips | No Comments »
Every once in a while I visit my bookmarks and look at random things that at some point in the past I must have felt would come in handy one day or that I didn’t want to loose. Looking through these I see that indeed, I’ve becom [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 22nd, 2006
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Ever felt the need to take self help classes from Mr. T? Well, wait no longer, because apparently he’s using tough love as he “Teaches fools some basic rules,” since “there’s no shortage of fools that needs his [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Categories: Fun, Pop Culture, Tips | 1 Comment »
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“Recognizing the importance of design is a corporation’s first step to creating great design. The second step is talking to good designers immediately.”
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
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