Blogs, Mad About Design—already out of date –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,… Read More
The Economy Sucks. So Now What? –
I sense a long article coming on. This happens with me sometimes as things rattle around in my brain, and if I… Read More
A couple times a year my calendar gets ridiculously filled with various meetings, coffees, drinks, events,… Read More
Tourism BC Chooses Industrial Brand –
Tourism BC, perhaps best known for creating the memorable brand campaign Super, Natural British Columbia,… Read More
Light at the end of the tunnel –
Some projects can really be both exhausting and very rewarding. After weeks and weeks of hard work, numerous… Read More
Join the design team from Industrial Brand Creative as we mix and mingle with our friends from New Media BC at the ID & Web 2.0 mixer as part of VIDEST 2007.
When: Monday, September 24th, 7–9 p.m.
Where: Vibes, 555 Davie Street, Vancouver
Cost: Free with your VIDFEST pass, $20 at the door. One drink included.
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 The outdated technology was cumbersome and the content wan’t easily updatable.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.
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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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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