Wednesday, January 12, 2011

GDES440 Create a blog & post link here

Due by 11:45am, Wednesday, January 19, 2011.

1. Create your own blog in Blogger or the blog interface of your choice. This blog will be your design journal for the GDES440 Contemporary Design Theory course, Winter 2011.

2. Write a brief introduction about yourself as your first posting.

3. Paste a working url for your blog to the comments area here. This is the only time you'll have to paste in this link. I will then create a list of our class blogs.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

D&AD Awards, October 28 -- tickets on sale


Click here for information on the upcoming screening of the D&AD award reel here in Toronto.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

ADCC Featured Student: Nik Firka

Congratulations to Nik Firka in our Graphic Design advanced diploma program -- the the ADCC's featured student.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Text for Haiku




Fun idea. It will be interesting to see whether it takes off. The "29 minutes ago" entry was in response to my text. http://n8rtxt.org/

Friday, July 18, 2008

TypeCon 2008 -- NLXL


Dawn Lambert and I are currently in Buffalo at this year's SoTA conference. About 450 people are in town from all over the world to enjoy lectures, panels and workshops with a focus on typography and education.

Last night's opening presentation featured three energetic designers from NLXL in the Netherlands -- Bob van Dijk, Oscar Smeulders, and Joost Roozecrans. NLXL is a small office of eight creatives who work in one room and enjoy the process of creating visual communication as a team of close collaborators. Take a look at their innovative graphic design, interactive design and advertising work.

ADCC Student Competition -- Humber Finalists


I am happy to announce that two of our Advertising & Graphic Design students have been selected as one of the final five teams for this year's Advertising & Design Club of Canada national student award competition.

Congratulations go out to Michael Siegers and Trevor Laporte! Well done!


The final results will be announced in November.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Maggie Ziemirska -- Applied Arts Winner


Congratulations to Advertising & Graphic Design diploma student (now grad) Maggie Ziemirska for her winning entry in this year's nation-wide Applied Arts magazine awards competition.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

ADCC Portfolio Night Feedback

Click here for the follow up with reviewer and student feedback.

Monday, April 28, 2008

TypeCon Buffalo -- July 15 to 20

Follow this link to information about this summer's ultra-affordable and proximal type conference. If you can swing the $125 student fee and the cheap hotel ($109 a night for a double), I highly, highly recommend this event.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008


"Me and the CBC, up in a tree. The show airs tomorrow and Saturday." -- Patrick Griffin, Canada Type principle, type designer, and Humber instructor has an interview about typography airing on the CBC today and Friday. Click here for the link. I assume there will be a podcast to download after the fact. Congratulations, Patrick!