Our Zeitgeist tagged with “Websites”
The concept behind Typekit harnesses @font-face but protects the font files on a separate server. The designer/developer/client would purchase a license (per site? per month?) to use the font. With an expected to launch sometime this summer, the major draw back seems to be the issues surrounding the storage of the font information on a different server from the website. (required to satisfy DRM licenses) The anticipated problem with this surrounds the issues associated with the uptime (and downtime) of this font server. No server is up 100% of the time, it just doesn't happen. But what happens when this server goes down? Potentially all websites linking to this central database will lose their font definitions.
Sharing code snippits on a central server hasn't presented a prohibitive problem in the past as the
jQuery library,
CSS Resets and other snippits are all available hosted on a central server and used on major sites world wide and downtime hasn't presented itself as a problem. Although we might be comparing apples and oranges between Google's servers and Typekits. Time will tell. Certain some exciting developments for sure!
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Big news in the web world as Typekit was launched last week. For those of you who missed news of the launch, it serves to bridge the copyright issues associated with the CSS3 Property @font-face (hotly debated issue among foundries and deve [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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Ever since reading Speak Up’s Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? two years ago, the concept of the differences of print vs. interactive have been simmering on low on my mind. There are obvious differences, between these two mediums t [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, May 4th, 2009
Categories: Technology, Trends, Uncategorized, Video, Websites | No Comments »
Perhaps not surprising, their objectives and audience needs and behaviour seemed best addressed through the creation of a blog. Senior members of the Henriquez team already kept personal journals and they wanted to archive and share their inspirations, opinions, rants, sketches, and even articles written on design and architectural topics. Also functioning as a modern upgrade to the old fax blast newsletters they used to send out,
the blog Archimemo was born.
The next challenge though, was how to tie their less formal, almost sketchbook-like articles, with their corporate website and portfolio. Through some careful analysis and planning, we created an editorial method of promoting certain posts from the text-based blog format to their Flash-based website via what we called "the tunnel" using
RSS.
The project was a challenge with hiccups and pitfalls like any other, but in hindsight I think we did a good job of meeting their creative brief and hope you agree.
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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 aske [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, March 20th, 2009
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Data Visualization seems to be all the rage these days and there is a great summary of some of the instances of it from 2008 over at Flowing Data. (via MS on Twitter) Some of these were already familiar to me (Wordle and House of Cards) but [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, January 5th, 2009
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Over time, all our Foodie friends started to join the fold and post to the site because that was what it was about - sharing our food experiences with our other passionate friends. They techincally weren't a part of Industrial Brand though and that posed some problems moving forward with the project. Thus, we made the decision that
In the Kitchen would morph into an independent online food blog and stand alone from the company. We renamed it
Foodists and have completely re-conceived the site, organizing it in a more graphic and compelling way.
The new site has its own playful identity and simple, colourful layout designed to provide friendly appeal to a broad audience. Instead of opinions, the site will offer "meditations". Rather than recipes or tips, we'll share "guidance". And as opposed to the standard product or restaurant reviews, we celebrate our finds in the "worship" section.
We guarantee you'll be hungry within a few minutes of reading.
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Those of you who know a thing or two about us know that we’re very much into our food. You might have perused this blog and noticed a distinct absence of food-related posts. The reason is that some time ago we decided the topic was so [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 28th, 2008
Categories: Food, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
Smashing Magazine has posted their latest picks for 50 Beautiful Blog Designs. In their words: In the showcase below we present 50 beautiful blog designs that literally stand out — either through their layout or through their design or th [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 24th, 2008
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The Winners of The 2008 W3 Awards have been announced by the The International Academy of the Visual Arts today and the team at Industrial Brand were awarded a Silver for the UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture website. With [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 17th, 2008
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We all hate junk mail, and it seems like it will never stop jamming up our Inboxes. Whether it’s elixirs for male enlargement, vacations to nowhere, or the infamous Nigerian bank scam, we all wish someone would do something to end the [...]
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Categories: News, Pop Culture, Technology, Websites | 1 Comment »
Buenos Aires isn’t the first place I think of when I consider type foundries, but Studipos has some brilliant fonts. Check em out.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 29th, 2008
Categories: Design, Typography, Websites | 2 Comments »
The winners of the 12th annual Webby Awards were just announced and the Graphex 2008 website, designed and developed by Industrial Brand Creative, was chosen as an Honoree out of more than 8,000 entries in 70 categories. To be selected amon [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Categories: Associations, Awards, Design, Industrial Brand, News, Websites | No Comments »
We worked with our client to identify the key qualities of the new Jakes, Capable, Dependable, Resourceful, Down-to-earth, Professional and Progressive, which we used to guide our design process.
The result was a name change from "Jake's", implying one person, to the more inclusive plural "Jakes" and switching from "Contracting", a word that has the perception of a small-operation, to "Construction", which more accurately reflects the level and scale of their operations.
Using our new understanding of their brand, we developed a clean, simple logo as part of a brand identity that reflected the main attributes that underpin everything they do, from how they interact with their clients to the smallest to details of their work.
As part of their new identity, we created a full brand strategy platform, online styleguide resource with templates and brand elements as well as produced a promotional campaign, collateral system and new website to tell their story. Congratulations Jakes on the new look!
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We’re proud to have recently designed the new brand identity and website for Jakes Construction. A contracting company that started fifteen years ago with one man named Jake, this family-owned company grew to be one of the largest con [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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A key to the redesign of the SALA website was to present the UBC School of Architecture as a leader in the education of architecture, as well as to reflect a culture of design, research and community within the four recently merged departments. Additionally, the site required the delivery and management of a vast amount of program and admissions information in diverse graphic and textual forms in an easy to navigate format.
In contrast to the many brochure-style school websites, the SALA site presents the exemplary work that is produced on an ongoing day-to-day basis by its community. The design dynamically features content individually input by staff, faculty and students using a Drupal platform as a content management framework and an HTML and Flash presentation layer. Through the provision of individual blogs/conversations and the areas of the site provided to key groups, the site fosters interaction, exchange and exploration amongst the SALA community.
Congratulations to Mark, Ben, Haig, Amanda, Kevin, Cameron, Matthew, Sarah and everyone else who had a hand in bringing this terrific project to life.
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We recently learned our website for UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture has been accepted into Directions 2008, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s (ADCC) annual awards show. Thought we should share t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Categories: Architecture, Awards, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
With the help of designer Nancy Wu, we developed a logo design that emphasizes an exchange of ideas and communication within a like-minded community using visual language of quotation marks that symbolize talking heads as well as the four books of the Bible chronicling Jesus' life. In a nod to classic Christian iconography, there's even a subtle cross hidden in the negative space between the quote elements implying the underlying focus of this dialogue, while the colour palette progresses from cool blue to warm red suggesting a journey from discovery to acceptance. Can you see the cross? There it is!
After some intense analysis of the goals and content of their website, we developed a a strategic plan and developed a killer interface design using the new brand elements. The development team is hard at work bringing this complex website to life.
We're proud of the final result and feel it nicely tells the story of this unique brand quite well. Though a brand new identity, it has already started to get some attention from the design community, such as this feature on
Icorgada's Galeria.
Congratulations and very good luck to our friends at Yaaway.com as they launch the beta version of the website, begin promotion efforts and start building the community that will drive this unique social network. It's still in a development form and being updated weekly as they integrate new features and design improvements, but we encourage you to check it out at
www.yaaway.com.
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UPDATE: We just learned that this brand identity project has been accepted into the upcoming Communication Arts Design Annual. Woot woot! We recently worked on a fascinating branding and interactive design project for an online video sharin [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Categories: Design, Industrial Brand, Websites | 1 Comment »
Industrial Brand was honoured to design and produce promotional materials for Surrey Art Gallery‘s newly launched Glocal Project. Glocal is a recent project co-developed by our friend and collaborator Jer Thorp (blprnt.com), who will [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 27th, 2008
Categories: Art, Events, Industrial Brand, Vancouver, Websites | No Comments »
So what is it? CondoVue is a web service that connects condo buyers and developers. It gives condo buyers free access to search a database of new condo developments in Western Canada, making the task of finding the perfect place that much easier, and hopefully comparisons more meaningful.
For developers, CondoVue is a marketing tool that provides an unparalleled platform to leverage their brand and showcase their new development online.
There's no shortage of developers and buyers who were practically begging for something like this, and hopefully the market trends here spell success for CondoVue. Keep your eyes on it as more features get added regularly and critical mass develops.
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This past Friday marked the launch and public debut (party!) of our client CondoVue’s website, and essentially, their business. For us, it’s terrific to finally be able to show off the identity we did for them earlier this year. [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Categories: Design, Websites | 1 Comment »
