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Industrial Brand demo reel music track recording
As we near the final launch of the our new brand identity, we’re putting the final touches on promo items such as a new demo reel. For the music, we asked our good friend and frequent collaborator...
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Chris Davis: An Album Cover Remembered
As a Partner and Design Director at a thriving studio, I tend to spend more time bringing in new business, dealing with clients or taking care of administrative duties more than actual design and...
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Excel Rocks!
Almost a month ago, we launched our new identity: new logo, new website and blog, door sign, nice t-shirts and jackets, a big paaarty….and when you think it’s all over, here it comes: an amazingly...
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Visualizing the Music
It’s like Communication Design class all over again. Take a peek at these sexy pieces for the Grammy’s “Celebrate the Music That Made Us” campaign. The portraits of select artists (Rihanna, Stevie...
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Free Credit Report – lets sing and rejoice
How do you sell a service where you continually check your credit rating? You sing about it. These ads I feels are strong, they have varied musical styles appealing to a wide target audience, are fun...
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The same winning 4 chords
Did you know there is a formula to writing a hit pop song – yes, all you need is 4 chords. I heard this whilst listening to my usual English Radio 1 Scott Mills podcast, it is by an Australian band...
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Prince Opus – 21 nights
It was just a matter of time until I did a blog post about Prince (I am a big fan). Well here goes. When a musician can charge US$2,100 for a book and an ipod they are obviously doing something right....
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Challenging our perceptions
Just watch this video of Susan Boyle on “Britain’s Got Talent”. Let it be a lesson on how quick we are to judge people. Good for her, an everyday person with a dream and giving it her all.
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Vancouver Jazz Fest ’09
Those who know me know I’m a real sucker for live music. I play it, listen to it, live it…hell, I’d eat it is it were possible. The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is just around the corner this...
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Y@H
Young at Heart is by far the best documentary I have seen in a long time. It follows the Young @ Heart Chorus, learning new songs for their upcoming show. The difference with this group is that they...
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Robert Pollard Tears Seattle Apart
Why is it every time I’m in Seattle I find myself in some intimate little venue enjoying an amazing music performance? They get such great acts here and have such a healthy music scene in Seattle....
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Shitty Bum
C-Mon & Kypski is a four man band from the Netherlands that compose original tracks in their home studios from funk, rock to polka and hip hop. They’re sort of the Dutch Beastie Boys. This...
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Music Videos Via Phones
Check out this innovative music video for the Presidents of the United States of America, for their Australian single “Some Postman”. This is the first music video in the world to be shot using mobile...
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Goodinson Pays Homage to Bon Jovi
Our musical friend Clive has been mentioned here before. He’s equal parts code monkey, tortured artist and genius savant. He’s a real inspiration to all who know him actually. Well, this time Clive...
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Would you recognize genius on your way to work?
If you arrived in a transit station as you hurried to work and there was a nondescript young man in jeans, t-shirt and a baseball cap masterfully playing Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D Minor on the violin,...
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New Kuba Video: Brotherman
Our friend Kuba has been on a creative streak lately, releasing a new single and a sexy music video call Brotherman, directed by Noah Davis. Listen carefully to the lyrics, they’re quite moving.
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Stumbling Over An Old Inspiration
This blog was started years ago in part as a repository for our inspirations, yet I think we often drift away from that purpose a bit, so I want to share something that inspired me this weekend:...
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Classic Jazz Rocks
Lots of jazz played ’round these parts recently. The modern stuff is OK, but the classic stuff really moves me. Check out these two collections of online videos of live jazz performances on...
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