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Archive for the ‘Reading’ Category

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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 [...]

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

Categories: Design, Learning, Reading, Tips, We love | 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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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 politic [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Categories: Associations, Design, Illustration, Reading, Travel | No Comments »

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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 bef [...]

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

Categories: Reading, We love | No Comments »

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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, [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Categories: Inspiration, Reading, Vancouver, We love | 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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Morals and Ethics in Design

I recently came across a pretty good design blog by New York Art Director Troy Finamore with some interesting thoughts on graphic design, branding a [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Categories: Design, Reading, Websites | No Comments »

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DMZ

There’s nothing quite like starting off the new year with a little post-apocalyptic anarchy care of Brian Wood’s beautifully rendered gra [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Categories: Design, Illustration, Reading | 1 Comment »

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Thankful for Chris Ware

Is Chris Ware the Norman Rockwell of our generation? Browsing through his Thanksgiving-themed cover series for The New Yorker magazine, it seems an a [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 24th, 2006

Categories: Art, Pop Culture, Reading | 1 Comment »

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The Laws of Simplicity

After having a busy week of blogging I was going to try to take today off but ran across John Maeda’s site - The Laws of Simplicity. It has bas [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, November 24th, 2006

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, Reading, Websites | No Comments »

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Hemlock e-Inklings launched

With a long history of innovation and leadership in the commercial printing industry, Hemlock Printers has just launched an online version of their p [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Categories: Learning, News, Printing, Reading, Technology, Tips | No Comments »

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THINK (NOT PINK) TANK

Sometimes I never think to turn to places like Adobe for resources other than things related to the software of theirs we use, but I just came across [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Reading, Technology | 1 Comment »

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I read banned books

September 23 - 30 is Banned Books Week which recognizes those great works of literature that society for one reason or another has taken issue with. [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Categories: Reading | No Comments »

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MAC-Sweeney

The inimitable McSweeneys pitches a few Mac Ad Ideas of their own. (via Coudal)

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 8th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Pop Culture, Reading | No Comments »