Just got word this morning that I will be taking the wheel of the guest editor bus over at coudal.com for the month of February. Those of you who have been visiting this site for some time will certainly recognize their name as having topped my list of the Top Ten Most Important Websites from a year ago (and again this year on the IBC “Top Ten Blogs of 2005″). Coudal.com is one of the major influencing factors as to why we got messed up in this blogging racket in …

Mike Goedecke, Founder and Executive Creative Director of the California motion graphics company belief was recently in Vancouver for the Canadian premiere of his short film “Embryo” at a SIGGRAPH event. The next day, Mark and I met up with him and his lovely wife Lisa at Cassis for a brilliant lunch and an interview on his process and passion.

In “Touch the Sound” we are challenged to reconsider the way our senses interact with the external world. This relationship is a fundamental component of existence to be sure, and one that few of us take the time to understand. In fact, it is only when one of our senses is lost or damaged that the impact is truly felt.
Evelyn Glennie has mastered the art of listening and also creating sounds. She is a world class percussionist, composer, musician and teacher. She is also almost completely deaf. When people ask …

I saw an illustration by Andrew Zbihlyj (pronounced “ZI-BEE-LEE”) in an old issue of Nuovo magazine while eating lunch the other day and immediately shouted down to my colleague Steph to throw his name into the google search. His work, a mix of “acrylic paint, black ink, various papers, tape, some harmful chemicals and…fire” reminded me very much of gonzo artist Ralph Steadman with a more sombre palette. Beautiful work.

In my attempt to dissuade a client from her preference toward the font Arial, I came across a wonderful account of this homely typeface’s origin and proliferation titled The Scourge of Arial over on Mark Simonson’s site.
In short, Arial is like an invasive species, the English Ivy to the font world’s Stanley Park. We need to rip it out by the roots.

The Adventures in the Blogosphere continue over at Industrial Brand Creative as our blog gets named one of How Magazine’s Top Ten Websites.

Our perspectives on ethnology, consumerism and culture will be spun on their collective heads at the end of this month when Brian Jungen arrives back in Vancouver with his New York exhibition in tow. At first glance, his work seems more fitting in a Museum of Natural History: whale skeletons suspended from the ceiling; glass cases displaying First Nations ceremonial masks. On second look, one realizes that these artifacts have been created entirely out of materials from our present day disposable consumerist culture. The masks are skinned and splayed Nike …