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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 »
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: Helpful Tips, Learning, Reading, Technology | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Are you Literate?
Answering an email has become much like taking a breath for many people, in the process of firing them off, they end up losing a lot of coherency in [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Friday, July 7th, 2006
Categories: Reading | No Comments »
Google Shadow
After a decade of reading online that he collects meteorites Douglas Coupland, thought about it and realized, ‘that’s not actually a bad [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Categories: Reading | No Comments »
The Dark Side of Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland doesn’t want to end the Book Club meeting on a positive note. They always end upbeat he explains. For once, he wants things to [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Categories: Events, Pop Culture, Reading, Vancouver, We love | 1 Comment »
Coudal’s Field Tested Books
The Field-Tested Books project is our version of the Heisenberg principle: reading a certain book in a certain place uniquely affects a person’ [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 9th, 2006
Categories: IBC, Reading, Travel | No Comments »