Toronto
Nov 02-03
He’s a two-time Grammys winner and has also earned practically every important international design award. Stefan talks about the large subjects of our lives, such as happiness and beauty, how they connect to design and what that actually means to our everyday lives. He spoke five times at the official TED, making him one of…
Over the past 17 years, Tina has started numerous side projects that have organically turned into businesses: an intentionally small creative co-working community called Friends Work Here, the world’s largest creative face-to-face CreativeMornings, a simple to-do app called TeuxDeux and Tattly, a high-end temporary tattoo shop. She lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with her two…
He also founded The Futur, an online education platform that teaches the business of design to creatives. He serves as chairman of the board for the SPJA and as an advisor to Saleshood. Chris has taught Sequential design for over a decade at the Art Center College of Design and has lectured all over the…
By leveraging both creative and operational expertise, teams under Andy’s leadership have consistently exceeded established KPIs and outperformed peer groups in the industry. He even cofounded InSource, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting in-house creative teams. It should come as no surprise, then, that Andy has published The Corporate Creative, one of the few books specifically…
Such is Catalina Estrada, a Colombian illustrator based in Barcelona since 1999 who reinterprets Latin American folklore, preserving its original strength to make it bloom in deep harmony and simplicity. Her impressive and cheerful visual language is infectiously optimistic, and with thousands of colours and all the power of nature, it goes beyond borders. Flora…
He also founded The Futur, an online education platform that teaches the business of design to creatives. He serves as chairman of the board for the SPJA and as an advisor to Saleshood. Chris has taught Sequential design for over a decade at the Art Center College of Design and has lectured all over the…
He uses traditional hand-lettering, calligraphy and sign painting for clients (logos, restaurants displays, commissions, etc.) as well as for his own personal art practice. His clients have included Body Shop, Miele, Muji Canada, La Maison Simons, Sid Lee and the University of Toronto. His work has been featured in Spacing, Uppercase and Flare. He attended the Alberta College…
Her work lives at the heart of editorial, research, ideation and prototyping, and she believes in design as a vehicle for helping people understand and navigate complexities. In her current role, she leads a team that focuses on Trust and Credibility, interfacing with multiple desks and teams across the newsroom and working closely with the…
Having arrived in the world of design via an undergrad in anthropology followed by a detour through science communication, he works together with a multitalented team to craft solutions that centre and celebrate the diversity of real people.
She teaches within the School of Graphic Communications Management (GCM), as well as the Master of Digital Media (MDM) program at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Bachelor of Brand Design program at George Brown College where she helps students connect their technical left brains, creative right brains and entrepreneurial hearts for fulfilling careers in creative…
He graduated from The Bournemouth & Poole College in the UK and has worked in Toronto as a designer for more than 25 years. At H&W, Dominic focuses on high-level strategic initiatives with clients such as York University, CaseWare, University of Toronto, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, RTO/ERO and Quadrangle Architects. Currently on faculty at George…
As a social media and interactive marketing strategist and a thought leader in her field, Dorothéa is regularly engaged by groups such as Altamont (Social Media Intelligence Summit 2012), Mashable, iStrategy and Digital Atlanta. She has appeared as a subject-matter expert on CNN Newsroom with Ali Velshi, and serves a long list of notable clients.…
While working toward her MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, she developed an interest in the science of reading for the partially sighted. Her research and findings were published in Digital Fonts and Reading by World Scientific. At Dalton Maag, Eleni has worked on projects with brands such as Airbnb, Oracle and…
Emily and her partner offer customized business solutions to creative businesses so they are able to envision and plan for their future; position themselves to stay competitive; attract and qualify new business prospects and talent; refine, evolve and elevate their organizational structure and reimagine existing processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Emily has spoken at…
From the creative process to the final output, she believes design can bring people together, create sustainable choices and foster wellbeing. She set up Studio Emmi in 2005 to partner with clients and creatives who want to make a positive contribution to society and planet. Emmi is a graphic designer, creative director and accredited Happiness…
