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New Font Collection
Adobe and the AIGA have teamed up to package 500 commonly used fonts aimed at design students making the transition to professional life. Creating a font library can be daunting and when you’re just...
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Coolest Shortcut ever
Ever close a tab in firefox too quickly and you wanna get it back? Just use “Apple + Shift + T” and your recently closed tab will reopen! This keyboard shortcut brought to you by “apple + option +...
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The Ginkgo Project
One of my good friends recently took the plunge and moved his life to the Cambridge University in the UK to study Sustainable Engineering. Brendan Baker has been researching the eventual environmental...
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A List Apart: Web Survey 08
Work on the web? Then you’re (hopefully) familiar with A List Apart. (if not, shame on you!) Last year they ran their first survey for Web Professionals (results located here) and it’s back this year....
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We’re proud to be Canadian—is that enough?
October 14th may be the most discussed election date in recent memory; individuals’ voices—and votes—have never mattered more. Perfectthewayweare.ca, an online resource website and video, was created...
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GDC/BC Receives President’s Service Award
The BC Chapter of GDC has been selected among a select few organizations to receive the 2008 Capilano University President’s Service Awards as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. GDC/BC was...
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Design School Delirium
Over the years as a design director, design association executive, and design instructor, I’ve been asked by innumerable potential students about the merits or shortcomings of the various local design...
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Don’t be a ‘div head’
Have you ever hung out with people who all belong to a different professional circle than you and they crack ‘industry specific’ jokes? You can feel clueless and a total ‘div head’ (English slang for...
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An Event Apart
A week into starting my job here at Industrial Brand I found out I was going to a web design conference with our art director, Matt. I hadn’t heard of An Event Apart (AEA) before, so I went to the...
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11 Lessons I Learned the Hard Way Managing a Design Firm
Mark Busse has learned many things managing a design firm. Here are 11 of them for you. Pretty Isn’t Always the Best Choice It took years of running a design business to realize that making the right...
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Type Tastes Good
Having been involved in the Digital Design and Digital Design Programs at VFS for a number of years now, it’s a source of pride when our design students really “get it”. Check out this impressive...
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The following article by Mark Busse was published in March 2013 on www.designedgecanada.com. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on...
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