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01/30/12Terry Lee Stone: On Design Critiques
Learn about getting the most out of your Design Critiques.
01/11/12Top 10 TFSA Tips
Resource provided by Investors Group, RGD Silver Sponsor.
12/16/11Managing Your Digital Footprint
Resource provided by The Creative Group, RGD Silver Sponsor.
11/29/11My.ca - Social Media
What can social media do for my organization? Resource provided by CIRA, RGD Gold Sponsor.
11/09/11Why co-employment is a major concern for businesses of all sizes
By Stephen Hodges, President Creative Niche
10/14/11We Are the Sum of Our Choices
Excerpt from Blair Enns’ book The Win Without Pitching Manifesto.
09/26/11Top 5 Tax Tips for Business Owners
Francesca Rea and Marla Rosen, from the Investors Group Financial Services, present five tax tips for business owners.
09/23/11Letter to 99designs.ca
09/14/11Protect Your Brand As The Internet Goes X-Rated
Ashlee Froese, Lawyer and Trade-mark Agent at Keyser Mason Ball, LLP explains how to protect your brand on the Internet with the launch of the new .xxx top-level domain.
09/02/11Accessibl-IT
At Accessibil-IT we believe good progress is being made towards ensuring all communications can be accessed by everyone, regardless of visual abilities. The Ontario legislation addressing accessible communications is now law. Starting Jan 1, 2012, all new documents posted on Ontario organizations' websites must be accessible.
08/10/11These Brands Allow Users to Design Them. How'd They Pull it Off?
Excerpt by by Shonquis Moreno. Logos, to be sure, are inching towards interactivity and mutability: There's Bruce Mau’s frame logo for an art school, which is filled with student works like a gallery wall; the MIT Media Lab's morphing logo; and Google’s web signage, which was recently made into a pluckable guitar.
07/14/11Closing the Deal
There’s more to submitting a proposal to a client than putting pen to paper. Learn when to talk money, how to present your proposal, when to follow up and what to do if you don’t get the gig. By Ilise Benun, Marketing Mentor.
06/28/11The Internet and Canada's Future: Opportunities and Challenges
Report released by CIRA, RGD Gold Sponsor.
06/14/11Hot Off the Press: Supreme Court of Canada Issues Trade-marks Case Decision
For the first time since 2006, the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") has issued a decision on trade-marks law (Masterpiece Inc v Alavida Lifestyles Inc. 2011 SCC 27). In a nutshell, this case deals with a company’s right to obtain a trade-mark registration in Canada where a similar trade-mark (albeit unregistered) is already in use in...
05/30/11Life, Death and Graphic Design: The Critical Role of Information Design in Emergencies
We don’t often think about how graphic design helps us deal with our everyday decisions. We don’t realize how valuable it becomes in a real emergency because in that situation, generally, the only thing we are thinking about is survival. We look for warning signs and symbols: the skull and crossbones for lethal danger, ...
05/12/11Free Pitch? Say No
Article provided by Australia's professional body for designers. Free pitching (AKA Spec work) describes the supply of design services without payment. RGD's members are not permitted to participate in this practice. This article offers reasons why and ideas for how to respond when a request for spec is made.
03/03/11Books Help Tell My Stories by By Daniel Milnor
Several weeks ago I started the annual winter cleaning of my office. I know most people do this in spring, but I dread the process so much I try to tackle it early. In the midst of making tough decisions about what to keep or not to keep, I found something interesting—the artifacts of my photographic life, many of which related to the same body of work.
02/24/11Webinar with Jeff Harrison
Download Jeff Harrison's Webinar presentation. Jeff is Creative Director and Partner at Rethink in Vancouver. He joined Rethink Communications in 2004, successfully establishing the design division as one of the leading studios in Vancouver. Jeff has led clients both large and small to their business objectives through brand communications and creative solutions.
02/15/11Be In The Know With Your Interns
If you missed RGD’s recent legal issues webinar, hosted by Valerie Fox of Keyser Mason Ball LLP, learn all the important points in this summary. Valerie focused on employer obligations and human resources best practices with respect to intern entitlements in Ontario.
11/03/10Troubling Typesetting Mysteries, part 2
Supplementary resource for Ilene Strizver's webinar of the same name.
11/03/10Troubling Typesetting Mysteries, part 1
Supplementary resource for Ilene Strizver's webinar of the same name.
09/13/10RGD Word, Issue No.24
08/23/10Comments on the law from KMB
RGD's Legal Partner, Keyser Mason Ball's monthly email newsletter with articles on a series of legal and business topics and information on upcoming workshops and seminars.
08/11/10Top Ten Type Crimes
Article by Ilene Strizver.
07/30/10Comments on the law from KMB
July 20, 2010