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Vancouver vs. Melbourne, Australia – graphic identity

LB — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:58:55 +0000

Compare Vancouver’s graphics and logo with Melbourne, Australia’s graphic identity. Any contest?

I am consistently mortified by Vancouver’s recent graphics, especially considering they were launched just before the Olympics and the whole world saw them.

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Nothing happens in good weather

LB — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:23:33 +0000

Great Vancouver public art work titled “Nothing Happens in Good Weather” by the Instant Coffee collective, curated by Barbara Cole of Other Sights. Photos by Kate Armstrong and Kelly Lycan via the Goethe Institut’s Goethe Satellite.

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Never ending…. Tasty chatting

LB — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:34:28 +0000

That pretty much sums up much of my recent trip to India. Never ending tasty chatting.

Gajali or gajalee (also the name of a famous fish restaurant further up the Maharashtra coast in Mumbai) means “an informal gathering” in the Malvani & Konkani languages.

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GIVE US YOUR BOAT

LB — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:31:26 +0000

While at art school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, my American friends Paul and Eugene and I lived in a rented seaside house in a nearby fishing village. The day we moved in to our house in Shad Bay we found a framed map of our cove, and it showed a little island across the water from us marked ‘Treasure Island.’ For the next year we tried to get hold of a boat to get over there.

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Mexico Olympics, 1968 – graphics and design

LB — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:14:09 +0000

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Superb design, a rival to both Montreal and Munich, if not superior to both. Thanks to the Canadian Design Resource for pointing this out.

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2010 Olympics anti-graphics

LB — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:16:06 +0000

Graphic design isn’t usually my focus, but when you’re interested in design and are living amidst the deluge of an impending Olympics in your hometown, the tide of graphics is impossible to ignore.

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Dazzle painting

LB — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:59:57 +0000

“Dazzle painting,” devised in Britain during WWI, was based on the theory that complex optical patterns would confuse enemy naval rangefinders by disguising a ship’s speed and direction. It employed a number of visual tricks including the painting of false bow waves on rear portions of the ship rather than the prow.

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