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

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Lights, Camera…Reference Folder

We’re currently working on a brand evolution project for a client that found me spending a couple of hours the other morning rooting through You [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 10th, 2007

Categories: Film, IBC, Inspiration | No Comments »

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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 »

Naturally 7 Singing ‘In the Air Tonight’ on the Paris Subway

Feelin’ It

As a fitting follow up to Mark’s recent post, watch how this impromtu performance of “In The Air Tonight” by Naturally 7 on a Paris [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Categories: Inspiration, Music | No Comments »

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Would you recognize genius on your way to work?

If you arrived in a transit station as you hurried to work and there was a nondescript young man in jeans, t-shirt and a baseball cap masterfully pla [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Categories: Inspiration, Music | 3 Comments »

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Yet another face

In the spirit of the art and illustration theme we’ve had going on lately, here’s a small but really cool portfolio via Drawn! The Illust [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Categories: Art, Illustration | No Comments »

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The Edge of Chaos

“VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’ [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, February 5th, 2007

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Technology | No Comments »

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Slummin’ It

Working with the residents of the slums of Rio De Janeiro, artists Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koohaas have been painting a giant mural right in the heart [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Categories: Art, Illustration, Inspiration | No Comments »

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Next Industrial Revolution

As we at IBC plan our next Industrial Revolution it seems others have begun their own. Here’s a supreme piece of motion graphics that describes [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Learning, News, Technology | No Comments »

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Inspirational View

This site is about zeitgeist, right? Well, part of zeitgeist is now only when, but WHERE you live. We’re very lucky to have our studio located [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Categories: IBC, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »

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The Challenge is On

Yup, it’s that time of the year again - time to build an 8 foot sculpture out of canned food at Canstruction Vancouver this coming March 4-11th [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Categories: Canstruction, Design, Inspiration, Vancouver | No Comments »

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Marian Bantjes’ Portfolio As a Fox River Promotion

You know when your friend does something better than you? You have such respect for them and are so proud of them, yet still have this quiet pang of [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 18th, 2006

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

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The Playground

Stumbled on The Playground this morning which is an experimental site presented by Rick Valicenti. (of 3ST among others. Anyways the premise of this [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Typography, Websites | No Comments »

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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 »

Malcolm Gladwell's TED talk

Finding the Sweet Spots

Some of us are hooked on the adrenaline high that comes from pushing ourselves hard and living in the fast lane (no, its not an Eagles reference). Li [...]

Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Categories: Inspiration | 1 Comment »