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About Us Industrial Brand Creative is a full service graphic design firm, branding consultancy and advertising agency based in Vancouver, BC, Canada specializing in corporate identity, branding, communication design, advertising campaigns, interactive design and website development.
Awards
Applied Arts - Best Weblog 2006
How Design - Top Ten Web Sites
Lotus Awards - Interactive: Best Interactive Miscellaneous
Portfolios.com - Bronze in Corporate Web Site category + Merit in Self-Promotional Web Site category
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Work Out With Us

In the spririt of clearing our minds and bodies daily in anticipation of creative greatness, we at Industrial Brand follow a strict morning exercise [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 9th, 2007

Categories: Fun, Helpful Tips, IBC | 1 Comment »

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

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Logo Trends 2007

Trends in graphic design can really suck, but they exist. Nothing seems new anymore and there’s no way to predict what will become popular. As [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 19th, 2007

Categories: Branding, Design, Helpful Tips, Websites | No Comments »

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A Better place to work

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 [...]

Posted by: todd smith on Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Categories: Helpful Tips, Learning, Vancouver | 1 Comment »

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Work-Life Balance

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 [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

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50 Essential Bookmarks

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, Helpful Tips, Learning, Websites | No Comments »

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PaperSpecs Online Paper Swatchbook

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 [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Categories: Design, Helpful Tips, Printing, Websites | No Comments »

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Kuler…. cooler?

Adobe has released a new website dedicated to exploring colour called Kuler. (get it…. colour…. kuler… colour…. kuler…) [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Categories: Design, Fun, Helpful Tips, Learning, Websites | No Comments »

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Is your life and work in balance?

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 [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Categories: Design Associations, Events, Helpful Tips, Learning, Vancouver | No Comments »

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Global Orgasm Day

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….. [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Categories: Events, Helpful Tips, Inspiration, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »

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If you’re going to take over the world…

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. Tha [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Categories: Design, Helpful Tips | 1 Comment »

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Quick, quick

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, Helpful Tips, Learning | No Comments »

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If you doubt yourself, wear something else

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 h [...]

Posted by: todd smith on Monday, November 6th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Helpful Tips, Learning, Pop Culture | No Comments »

One man’s one-page resource

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 (o [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 27th, 2006

Categories: Design, Helpful Tips, Websites | 1 Comment »

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