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Where Does Stuff Come From? Where Does it Go?

This short film The Story of Stuff has been making the rounds recently and totally worth sharing. If I were an elementary school teacher, I’d s [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Categories: Inspiration, Learning, Sustainability, Websites | No Comments »

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WHERE DOES THE GOOD GO?

Long gone are the days of guilt-free ridonculously extravagant gift-giving. Not that I’d like a return to over spending and under thinking gift [...]

Posted by: Claire Alexander on Friday, December 14th, 2007

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, Sustainability, Tips | No Comments »

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Swagnalysis

Thanks to the swag bag at Graphex 2008 Judges Night I find myself ogling Kwantlen University College’s Graphic Design for Marketing 2007 Degree [...]

Posted by: Claire Alexander on Friday, December 7th, 2007

Categories: Design, Education, Inspiration, Learning | No Comments »

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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 [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, November 12th, 2007

Categories: Interactive, Learning, Reading, Technology | No Comments »

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Bill Moggridge Talks at ECIAD

I don’t know about you, but I will definitely be at ECIAD on November 8th. Last year I completely devoured Bill Moggridge’s book Designin [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Categories: Education, Interactive, Learning | No Comments »

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As it turns out, UI is, occasionally, rocket science.

I am not a designer. I am…well…something else. So everything I know about UI and Human-Computer Interaction has been learned the hard way: spend [...]

Posted by: Andrew Ball on Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Categories: Design, Learning | No Comments »

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WikiPod

You’ve probably secretly fantasized about having Wikipedia on your iPod, right? Just imagine, a friend asks you a perplexing question and with [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Categories: Learning, Pop Culture, Technology | No Comments »

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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 [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Categories: Learning, Reading, Technology, Tips | 1 Comment »

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Can A Building Make You Happy?

I love architecture. Heck, at one point in my life my goal was to become an architect. So when I was invited to attend an installment of CBC’s [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Categories: Architecture, Inspiration, Learning, Reading | No Comments »

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I’d Roadie for Edward Tufte

A recent article in New York Magazine about Edward Tufte begins “Edward Tufte is most likely the world’s only graphic designer with roadies.& [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, We love | No Comments »

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Drupal vs. WordPress: Which is better?

We often implement content management systems (CMS) for our web clients and the topic of Drupal versus WordPress is commonly debated. Linux.com’ [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Categories: Learning, Technology, Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »

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Thinking Rock

After trying a variety of different organizational tools I’m trying out a software tool called Thinking Rock. it uses a very simple interface t [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, May 14th, 2007

Categories: Learning | 2 Comments »

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Design Can Change

Design Can Change conveys exactly why we are all uniquely positioned in this field of creativity to make a difference. “Designers like to chara [...]

Posted by: Amanda Fetterly on Friday, April 13th, 2007

Categories: Learning | 1 Comment »

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Northern Voice 2007

Ben, Haig and I are attending the Northern Voice 2007 blogging and social media conference this weekend at UBC in Vancouver, BC. Basically, we’ [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Categories: Events, Learning, Technology | No Comments »

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Canadians asleep on issue

It’s time to weigh in on the subject of Digital Democracy and Net Neutrality. No, we’re not just talking about clever alliteration, ther [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Categories: Learning, Technology, Tips, Websites | No Comments »

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