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The Student Awards deadline has been EXTENDED until May 24! Do you have work that you think will jump-start your career? This is the place to show it off! |
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The May/June 2013 issue of Applied Arts Magazine features the winners of our Photography & Illustration Awards, as judged by our senior panel of creative directors, designers and art directors from across Canada and the United States. Boasting one of the strongest paricipations yet, the issue is a stunning record of some of the most compelling imagery created in Canada and internationally. A true keepsake.
Our main fearture, "Making the Best Quest List," looks at what it takes to get a paying gig in the rapidly expanding video-game industry. We profile Jam3, a Toronto digital agency relying on experimentation with new technologies and R&D to become a rising creative force. The Split Run portfolio, Montreal photographer and video maker John Londono has made a name for himself by following his passions instead of a well-mapped career path. In Career Shift we offer Rick Buceta, who left his job as a successful advertising art director to open his own brewery in Queens, New York. . . . Read more.
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"Beat Up Kidz" is the new Music Video for Toronto-based band The oOohh Baby Gimme Mores, directed by Ryan Enn Hughes. The video was shot using a variety of DSLR cameras. Footage was rotoscoped and animated in postproduction frame by frame. Director + Camera + Animation: Ryan Enn Hughes Editor + Additional Camera: Micha Pichlkastner ... Read the full article. |
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New ArtPrints Gallery Launches
Applied Arts is proud to announce the launch of its final ArtWorks Gallery — ArtPrints. This is an online marketplace featuring unique art created by a wide variety of talents. It provides a secure online shopping destination for all kinds of prints of photography, illustration and painting that is simple to use and fun. . . . Read more. |
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Mr. Rogers Meets Mao Zedong
by Will Novosedlik
When brands appropriate art, the decontextualized result is generally meaningless. But when art eats brands for lunch, the result is almost always sublime. For example, while surfing the web recently for some heavy-duty cleaning products (don’t ask), I came across an ad for Downy Unstopables “in-wash scent boosters,” I was immediately struck by a highly recognizable dot pattern in the background . . . Read more.
The Rebranding Blues
by Will Novosedlik
While driving across town this week I caught some snippets from Question Period on CBC radio. One was a challenge from the NDP that demanded to know why the government was spending several millions turning all government websites blue, the colour of the Conservative party. . . . Read more. |
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In Social Media, Silence is Definitely Not Golden
by Suzanne Pope
What would happen if a bank president disregarded almost every social media lesson learned the hard way by other brands? He might end up like Gord Nixon, who has finally felt compelled to apologize for RBC’s outsourcing of 45 Canadian IT jobs to India. . . . Read more. |
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