Last week was Toronto’s Creative Places + Spaces conference – a very dynamic gathering of speakers from not-for-profit and educational sectors, with some CBC talent and Toronto City Hall employees thrown in for good measure.

The theme of the day was collaboration. Presenters explored the unconventional ways that individuals, communities, and institutions can work together to [...]

One of my favorite online celebrities Ze Frank recently pointed out a collaborative design event happening in the next couple of weeks: Layer Tennis.

What is it? Participating designers take turns editing one file back and forth in 15 minute intervals using Adobe Creative Suite 4. After each edit, the file is published (with [...]

Not to be completely obsessed with tiny bites of deliciousness or anything (right), but do you think this could possibly be the greatest unconference of all time?
I love the unconference movement. I love how it brings people together. I love the creativity and innovation inherent to the lack of boundaries.

And I flipping love cupcakes. (Yeah, [...]

After listening to this great Ted talk by Tim Brown from Ideo, I quickly got thinking about the environment that extremely creative people work in. Tim Brown outlined that the space that people work in is very important in enabling them to be able to think openly and creatively when trying to think of innovative [...]

In its third year of turning the city of Toronto into a free all-night contemporary art thing, Nuit Blanche left me wondering one thing: How could advertisers benefit from this in a way that didn’t invade the consumers’ space?
This issue is two-fold, and we’ll begin with the obvious first. The event draws over a million [...]