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+DESIGN Launched
Exciting news from Seattle Design Week as Icocgrada announced the launch of +DESIGN, a program that collects and showcases inspiring design solutions [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
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GDC @ 50 Stamp Revealed
Canada Post has revealed the design of a new stamp to be issued August 16th, 2006 commemorating the 50th of the GDC as well as the contributions of C [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
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The Road to Hell: Now
Paved with Innovation?
Designers don’t have many advocates as enthusiastic and highly-placed as Bruce Nussbaum. An assistant managing editor at Business Week, he’ [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Categories: Design, News, Reading | 1 Comment »
Montréal Chosen as
UNESCO City of Design
“The Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity has designated Montréal as “UNESCO City of Design” as part of the Creative Citie [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Categories: Design, News | 2 Comments »
No Logo? No Way.
Once upon a time, logos were no big deal. Consider that Nike founder Phil Knight picked up his company’s legendary swoosh from a graphic-design [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, May 11th, 2006
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Another Open Spec
Design Competition
If the Design Exchange in Toronto really is about “Promoting the value of Canadian Design” as it claims, then one has to wonder what the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 17th, 2006
Categories: Design, News | 2 Comments »
Canada’s Most Environmentally
Friendly Printer
Hemlock Printers, one of our valued vendors and clients, has been named the Most Environmentally Friendly Printer in Canada at the Environmental Prin [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
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The First Full Motion Postage Stamp
Solar Initiatives from the Netherlands has created the first full motion postage stamp in commemoration of the Olympics using lenticular technology. [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Categories: Design, Learning, News, Pop Culture, Technology | No Comments »
GDC/BC Launches Blog
IBC are proud members and supporters of the BC Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) and are thrilled to announce the launch of [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Categories: Associations, Design, IBC, Inspiration, News, Tips, We love, Websites | No Comments »
Just Keep Swimming…
Just Keep Swimming…
Disney has agreed to buy the animation firm Pixar for a staggering $7.4 billion US dollars, with Pixar CEO and majority share holder Steve Jobs joini [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
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Subliminal: Harper
is a very bad man
Monday, January 23rd is the Canadian Federal election. And what a joke it has become with ridiculous platform promises and seemingly insignificant is [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
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Apple’s Intel Processor
machines revealed
Apple has finally revealed their new Intel Core Duo Processor computers at this years MacWorld 2006 in San Fancisco. From the new advertisement relea [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Categories: News, Technology, We love | 4 Comments »
Cringley on Google: TV Advertising?
Yeah, right. Google isn’t doing much these days. Now they’re planning to take over TV advertising.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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What’s NXT for
Lego? ROBOTS!
I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid I played with Lego and PRETENDED my creations were robots. I’d make “whirrr, buzzz, cl [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 5th, 2006
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Cascades Paper Sold to PaperlinX
On Thursday, November 17, 2005 it was announced that Cascades Resources was sold to Coast Paper’s parent company PaperlinX, the world’s l [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 21st, 2005
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