Mark Busse
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[edit] About
Mark Busse MGDC was born in Winkler, Manitoba on April 26, 1969 and is a Canadian graphic designer and educator.
Busse was educated in fine arts, business management and design at the University of British Columbia and Trinity Western University.
In 1997 Busse co-founded the Canadian design firm Industrial Brand Creative with Ben Garfinkel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. From 1992 - 2000 Busse was a senior member of the production management team at Hemlock Printers.
As IBC’s Design Director, Busse's clients have included Molson Breweries, Telus, UBC, Future Shop, Ledalite, Granville Island Brewery, Fraser Valley Regional Library, Best Buy, Nokia, Toyota, TWU, Hemlock Printers, CMHC and Henriquez Architects.
[edit] Awards and Recognition
Industrial Brand Creative's branding, print and interactive design work has been recognized by How Magazine, Applied Arts, Lotus Awards, Graphics Exchange, Potlatch, Portfolios.com and International Gallery of Superb Printing.
[edit] Leadership
In 2004, Busse was elected to the board of the BC Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada. He was also Co-Chair of the 2008 Graphex Canadian National Design Awards, sat on the GDC National Web Committee and was an active member of ACM SIGGRAPH Vancouver <www.siggraph.ca>, serving as a contributing editor for their magazine.
In 2007, Busse wrote a blog article I Am Not a Graphic Designer, that challenged his industry to re-examine the professional title Graphic Designer, suggesting it was time to adopt a new, broader term Communication Design. After presenting his case to the GDC National AGM in Montreal, a national sub-committee was formed to investigate the issue further.
In 2006 Busse was invited to be on the advisory board of Common Ground - an international initiative merging new media, art and philanthropy to focus attention on environmental projects worldwide.
Busse has been invited to speak and sit on panel discussions at various design and graphic arts conferences, serve as a design judge and external examiner, and was featured in the documentary "Branding and the Human Billboard" by filmmaker Sofie Rousmaniere.
[edit] Recent Career and Personal Life
Busse was invited by the President of Prografica to submit a poster design to be included in an exhibit at Icograda's World Design Congress "Design/Culture 2007" in Havana, Cuba in October, 2007.
He regularly donated his time to lead a team in Canstruction, an international design/build competition benefiting local food banks as well as volunteering design and other services for The Compassion Project, Room To Read, Shalom BC and various other charities.
Busse is a passionate cook and food lover and lives with his wife Andrea and blind dog Charlie in the Commercial Drive area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
[edit] Selected Articles and Interviews
- "CBC Radio interview" (English) with Mark Busse about documentary film Helvetica (2007)
- 2007 Article I Am Not a Graphic Designer that spawned debate over the title "Graphic Designer"
- 2006 New design competition guidelines adopted by VANOC 2010 Olympics planning committee VANOC 2010 Mascot RFP
- 2006 Thoughts on Icograda's Seattle Design Week Between The Lines
- Interview in documentary film Branding and the Human Billboard by filmmaker Sofie Rousmaniere (2005).
- Article about design innovation for I Have An Idea Throwing Design Rules Out the Window (2005)
- In 2002 Industrial Brand Creative launched the design and culture blog We're Not Wired Right.
[edit] External links
- GDC: Mark Busse
- VFS Faculty: Mark Busse
- Industrial Brand Creative Inc. Busse's Vancouver-based design studio
- ACM SIGGRAPH ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics) Vancouver Chapter
- Graphex Graphex 2008 Canadian National Design Awards
- Common Ground Common Ground advisory committee
