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Vancouver Chosen as Host City for SIGGRAPH 2011
Vancouver, BC has been chosen as the official host city for the annual SIGGRAPH conference in 2011. This is a huge win for the city and is the first time the conference will venture outside the United...
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Vancouver Joomla! Day
We’ve been using Content Managment Sytems (CMS) around the office for virtually every web project for around 4 years now and to date have always gravitated towards perennial favourites WordPress and...
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Conference Presentations: That’s Not What the Description Said!
Steve did a good job summing up our experiences with his review of the 2008 HOW Design Conference, which I enjoyed, so I won’t double our efforts describing the event here. But as I hear myself...
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PSFK Conference: more than just trends
Today I am in San Francisco at the PSFK Conference, billed as a day of trends, inspiration and creativity. So far I am enjoying the content and discussions so much that I am going to avoid trying to...
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20 Tips for Better Conference Speakers
If you’ve been to any conference you’ve seen the good and the bad of speakers. Some of the best known designers have left me cold and uninspired due in part to poor presentation skills. Veteran...
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An Event Apart
A week into starting my job here at Industrial Brand I found out I was going to a web design conference with our art director, Matt. I hadn’t heard of An Event Apart (AEA) before, so I went to the...
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Interlink Conference: peer-to-peer web design event kicks off
The Interlink Conference started with designers dodging balls The following article was published on DesignEdgeCanada.com on June 2, 2011: Web design veteran Shawn Johnston was frustrated by a lack of...
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Interlink Conference: helping designers help people
Speaker Elliot Jay Stocks at the Interlink Conference. Photo by Steve Mynett An edited version of the following article was published on DesignEdgeCanada.com on June 7, 2011: Walking into the Interlink...
View ArticleAn Exercise in Terror: What I’ve Learned from Narrowing the Focus of My Firm
I was honoured to be asked to present a talk at this year’s IDSA International Conference in Austin, Texas. The room was full of designers, managers, and firm owners, and the theme was “Exchange”, so I...
View ArticleKA Connect 2015 a great option for AEC firms
Last May, we attended KA Connect in San Francisco and felt it was one of the best events we’d attended in recent memory. The event, hosted by KA Architecture (creators of the A/E social intranet...
View ArticleAn Exercise in Terror: What I’ve Learned from Narrowing the Focus of My Firm
I was honoured to be asked to present a talk at this year’s IDSA International Conference in Austin, Texas. The room was full of designers, managers, and firm owners, and the theme was “Exchange”, so I...
View ArticleKA Connect 2015 a great option for AEC firms
Last May, we attended KA Connect in San Francisco and felt it was one of the best events we’d attended in recent memory. The event, hosted by KA Architecture (creators of the A/E social intranet...
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