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Applied Arts - Best Weblog 2006
How Design - Top Ten Web Sites
Lotus Awards - Interactive: Best Interactive Miscellaneous
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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 »

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I’d Eat Tony’s Nasty Bits

You know how much I love good food. I also love a good read. Nobody combines both like Anthony Bourdain. The infamous chef, author and television ho [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Categories: Events, Food, Inspiration, Reading, We love | No Comments »

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Why You’re Not Getting Any

I like to read the “I saw you” section of the paper. Not because I’m hoping to be some stranger’s muse, but it feeds an aspec [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Categories: Inspiration, Pop Culture, Reading | No Comments »

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jPod + Futura Bold

I would have thought Douglas Coupland to be a Mac user… Check out the website for his new book jPod, to be released May 15th. Also, If you are [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Categories: Art, Reading, Websites | No Comments »

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Designers Must Write

Our buddy Eric over at IdeasOnIdeas.com has put into words what I’ve been trying to communicate to students for years. Effective design of any [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Categories: Design, Reading, Tips | No Comments »

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Design Edge Canada

There’s a new design magazine in Canada called Design Edge that just launched in February with up-to-the-minute news, a national job board, eve [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Categories: Design, Learning, Reading | No Comments »

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Shortlist Posted for the Illustrated Life of Pi

Since October, The Times and Canongate Books have been running an international call for submissions to illustrate Yann Martel’s brilliant Boo [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Categories: Art, Reading | 2 Comments »

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Palahniuk & Coupland
@ UBC

Two of our favourite writers, Chuck Palahniuk and Douglas Coupland are performing a rare joint reading at UBC at 7:30 on February 27th. It is an inte [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 10th, 2006

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The Royal: Collision / Culture / Capitalism

While recently visiting my buddy Piers at his office in New York, he ran off excitedly returning with a few small soft-cover books called The Royal M [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 16th, 2006

Categories: Design, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Reading, We love | No Comments »

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IBC Featured in Blitz

Accompanying this year’s Canstruction call for entries has been a recent maelstrom of media coverage, including this article in Blitz Magazine [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Categories: Canstruction, IBC, Reading | No Comments »

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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

Categories: Advertising, News, Reading, Technology, Websites | No Comments »

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Lost in Translation: What Clients Actually Mean

A popular magazine within art and design circles, Applied Arts’ latest issue includes a tongue-in-cheek article by designer Doug Dolan, VP of V [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 18th, 2005

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Graphic Exchange: Resources For Creative Minds

One of our regular reads has long been the quarterly print magazine Graphic Exchange which covers a wide range of topics relating to design and digit [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

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Jon Stewart Wins Thurber

Last week while in NYC I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. He told me he didn’ [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

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Vonnegut is a liar

Vonnegut promised he’d never write another book. Thankfully, he lied. The author of such Amercian classics as Breakfast of Champions and Slaugh [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

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