Scanning Marta Cutler’s LinkedIn profile is a bit like trying to decide what kind of Christmas present to buy someone who has everything. Sharp of mind and warm of heart, this virtuoso copywriter and twenty-five year veteran of the advertising world has been the creative director at DDB Canada, MacLaren McCann and Cossette Communications. But she [...]
Spending six days in New Orleans attending the nerdiest conference in the design world can teach you a couple things. For one, New Orleans in July is freakin’ hot. For another, the food is fantastic. But most importantly, that most people there have forgotten more about the intricacies, nuances and effective uses of type than [...]
From June 19 to 25, creative thinkers from around the world gathered in the south of France for the 58th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, to learn, to interact, and to celebrate some of the world’s best creative work. Canadians came out strong this year, winning eighteen Lions — a solid increase from the [...]
Early this month, my colleague Brian posted some thoughts on Facebook. The one that piqued my attention read: “To my design students: If the firm that wants to hire you has a ‘clean desk’ policy, that’s also a pretty damn good indication to…RUN.” Upon reading that, I choked a little. Before I follow through on this [...]
Zombie image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. You don’t need to Wikipedia zombies to know how to deal with them: Aim for the brain, and a zombie will fall – no matter it’s hunger. Yet one zombie strain, rises again and again, tearing at the sweet young flesh of development teams across the world. Internet Explorer 6 [...]
