Nov. 2 – ART & COPY Movie Screening
Nov. 2 – Marketing Your Skillz
Nov. 3 & 4 – DesignThinkers Lunches
Nov. 3 & 4 – 2009 Design at Work Exhibit
Nov. 3 – DT 10th Birthday Party
Nov. 4 – Closing Dinner
Nov. 5 – Zag Workshop

Bloor Cinema
506 Bloor Street West, Toronto
(Closest intersection: Bathurst and Bloor)

ART & COPY reveals the stories behind and the personal odysseys of some of the most influential advertising visionaries of our time and their campaigns, including Lee Clow (Apple Computer 1984, and today’s iPod); Dan Wieden (“Just Do It”); Phyllis K. Robinson (who invented the “me generation” with Clairol); Hal Riney (who helped President Reagan get re-elected); and George Lois (who saved MTV and launched Tommy Hilfiger overnight).

For more info on ART & COPY, click here.

Pricing:
$10 in advance
$15 at the door

MENU
All main dishes below (except pasta) are served with one of the following choices:

Mashed or Baked potato, Steamed Vegetables or choice of two: French Fries, creamy Coleslaw, Skillet-Baked Beans or Hot Cinnamon Apples.

All Grilled Meats are cooked over Live Wood to ensure the highest quality available


MAINS
Barbecue Baby Back Ribs
10 oz. of moist tender and meaty B.B.Q Baby Back Pork Ribs based with B.B.Q sauce

Atlantic Salmon
8 oz Fresh Atlantic salmon grilled to perfection

Santa Fe Plater
10 oz marinated chicken breast grilled to perfection topped with red bell pepper & zucchini and goat cheese

Linguini Primavera
Fresh Vegetables sautéed with Alfredo sauce


DESSERTS
Bâton Rouge Layer Cake
and
Coffee or Tea

2009 Design at Work Exhibit
Tuesday, Nov. 3 – Wednesday, Nov. 4

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of DesignThinkers with your creative colleagues! The DesignThinkers Opening Party is your chance to meet new people and experience those inevitable “smallworld” moments that happen only at an event like this. Hors d’oeuvres will be served, and the first drink is on us. This event is free for all delegates!

A shuttle bus will pick up registrants after the last session on the first day of the conference at the MTCC and transport them to the Drake Hotel. Delegates must RSVP on the online registration form.

Pricing:
• Free for DesignThinkers delegates
• RGD Members not attending DesignThinkers: $25 + GST
• Non-Members not attending DesignThinkers: $35 + GST

Spaces are limited, please click here to RSVP.

Closing Dinner
Wednesday, Nov. 4
7:30pm

ZAG Workshop
A one-day learning event conducted by Marty Neumeier
Thursday, Nov. 5
10:00am - 5:00pm

In a time of constrained budgets and lowered expectations, keeping up with the competition is not a winning strategy. To succeed in a crowded marketplace you have to out-position, out-maneuver, and out-design the competition. The new rule? When everybody zigs, zag.
 
Here’s your chance to deepen your knowledge of brand strategy, learn how to zag, and get a jump on the economic upturn in this idea-packed workshop led by renowned brand coach and author Marty Neumeier.
 
WHO SHOULD COME
The workshop is designed for all professionals engaged in building brands, including marketing directors, designers, strategists, communications directors, account planners, web designers, product designers, creative directors, PR specialists, copywriters, marketing and design instructors, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and others.
 
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Over the course of the day you’ll drill down into the number-one strategy of high-performance brands—radical differentiation. In today’s cluttered marketplace, it’s not enough to be different. You need perpetual innovation to keep up with the speed of change. During a lively day of content and exercises, learn how to design a radically differentiated brand by working through 17 checkpoints, from discovering the shared passion that drives your brand, to protecting your brand portfolio against the dangers of contagion, confusion, contradiction, and complexity. By the end of the workshop you’ll know how to build and sustain a profitable brand.

Pricing:
Early Bird rate (until Sept 18)
Member: $425 + GST
Non-Member: $475 + GST
Group: $450 + GST

After Sept 18
Member: $525
Non-Member: $575 + GST
Group: $550 + GST

Click here to register
If you register for Marty’s workshop before June 30, you can receive a special rate for DesignThinkers.

Member - Full Conference: $340.00 + GST
Member – One day only: $240.00 + GST
Provisional RGD - Full Conference: $220.00 + GST
Provisional RGD –One day only: $170.00 + GST
Non-Member - Full Conference: $450.00 + GST
Non-Member – One day only: $330.00 + GST

If you would like to take advantage of this great deal, please email Sandra at events@rgdontario.com, or call
416-367-8819 x 24 or toll free at 1-888-274-3668.

This collection was produced with financial assistance from Canada's Digital Collections Initiative, Industry Canada.