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Whose fault is it anyway?

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Mark Busse in Blogs, Design School Didn't Tell you 4 Comments

The day the finished annual reports arrived was one of the worst of my career. Receiving printed samples of a graphic design project is usually an exciting moment. Seeing all the ideas and hard work come together, the images you conceived and photos you art directed, and the colourful graphics brought to life through ink […]

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Sara: A Canadian app that brings search power to the offline world

Posted on December 30, 2014 by David Berman in Blogs, Do Good Design 2 Comments
The Sara app could help bring the power of Web search to those with limited or no Internet access

Right after speaking at RGD’s recent Toronto conference on Web accessibility, I was exposed to a very exciting made-in-Ontario innovation that I want to tell you about. In my talk, I was dwelling on the reality that while in the developed world we tend to think of Web accessibility as “accessibility for people living with […]

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StopGap.ca Community Ramp Project: A step up for accessibility

Posted on November 28, 2014 by David Berman in Blogs, Do Good Design 2 Comments

How can you not love a crowdsourced accessibility project with a fun guerrilla marketing edge, that’s made-in-Canada with brilliant branding? That’s what I thought when I first met Luke Anderson and his large, surprisingly lightweight, triangular wedge, spray-painted with “stopgap.ca.” Luke’s invention is a “stop gap” measure, a ramp for wheelchairs (and other mobility challenges) […]

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Design Diary: DX Intersection 2014

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Nicole Dagenais in Design Diary 2 Comments

For a change of pace from our regular “words-words-words” style of events coverage, we’re sending designer Nicole Dagenais out into the world and asking her to show us what she saw. On November 7, 2014, we sent Nicole to the Design Exchange museum in Toronto for Rise Up: DX Intersection 2014. The event celebrated “the […]

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1,000 stamps: paying graphic design forward

Posted on October 23, 2014 by David Berman in Blogs, Do Good Design 4 Comments
Photo of Sri Lankan stamp seller

My Dad’s 85th birthday passed just a little while ago. I can remember back when he introduced me to stamp collecting. I was just five years old, and I don’t think he realized that he was actually introducing me to a lifelong love of graphic design, typography, printing techniques … not to mention a love […]

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