Date: Friday April 26
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
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Zahra Ebrahim
Zahra Ebrahim is the Founder and Principal of the design think tank and creative agency, archiTEXT. Born in Kenya, raised in Vancouver, and educated at McGill University in Montreal, she started archiTEXT at 22 years old as a place to bring together diverse groups to tackle the intersections of architecture and design with social change, to explore the impact of design and creativity on systems change, and to engage the public in a discourse of design and design thinking as a mechanism for creative problem solving.
At 24, Zahra was invited to teach at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in the Think Tank program, getting the next generation of designers asking complex questions of themselves and the world around them. Zahra spent two years serving as Innovator in Residence at Canada’s National Design Museum, the Design Exchange. In recent years she has become increasingly committed to exploring the space where design, creativity, and play engage with systems change, sparking initiatives that create conversation and activate innovation.
Her work has been featured in Luminato, Come Up To My Room, Nuit Blanche, Toronto Design Offsite, TEDxTalks, as well as on CBC, The Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. She has been the recipient of several innovation and entrepreneurship awards internationally, most recently as one of the Global Knowledge Partnership’s Top 100 Young Global Social Entrepreneurs.
Venue
More than a hotel,The Gladstone is a social and cultural incubator facilitating sustainable and accessible ways of experiencing art, culture, community, and local cuisine. We host over 100 arts-related events each and every month!
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Date: Friday March 15
Time: Doors open + Coffee 8:30am / Lecture 9:00am / Event ends 10:00am
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
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Spencer Wynn
Spencer Wynn is currently the Deputy Art Director for the Toronto Star newspaper and has more than 28 years of editorial and corporate design experience.
He has been recognized nationally and internationally with awards of excellence in news, corporate and magazine design. He is called upon to lecture and evaluate graduating student work for colleges and high schools. In addition to design, Spencer has traveled extensively on assignment to shoot and write for the Star and a variety of freelance clients. He has been published in the Toronto Star, various travel sites and blogs, and the New York Times.
Spencer’s many visual interests and skill-sets contribute seamlessly into his design work and his sensibility as one of Canada’s leading designers.
Venue
More than a hotel,The Gladstone is a social and cultural incubator facilitating sustainable and accessible ways of experiencing art, culture, community, and local cuisine. We host over 100 arts-related events each and every month!
Sponsors
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. We’re photographers, designers, and book-lovers too – obsessed with quality and sticklers about top-notch binding, gorgeous paper, and professional printing.
In a nutshell, Vitamin T was created to exclusively meet the unique needs of ad agencies, mid-sized companies and digital creatives. We spend our time connecting the best creatives in the industry and we’d love to connect with you at the Creative Mornings event!
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About the speakers
Steve Frykholm
Steve was Herman Miller’s first internal graphic designer. An employee for 42 years, he has been largely responsible for Herman Miller’s image and graphic identity, posters, annual reports and other collateral literature. Steve received Herman Miller’s highest recognition for an employee in 1986, The Carl F. Frost Award. In 2007, he received an AIGA Fellow, and in 2010 he received the AIGA Medal, the highest recognition from AIGA. He’s recognized as an annual report legend in Graphis and an American design icon in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Communication Arts.
Clark Malcolm
Clark has worked for Herman Miller since 1983 on almost every kind of communication project. He is author, co–author or editor of 16 books on leadership, management, design and architecture. The most memorable are five books with Max De Pree and one with Bill Stumpf. Clark has served on teams in marketing, R&D, HR, and corporate communications.
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Attendees will have the opportunity to explore HermanMiller’s elegant space and flip through books, magazine and other publications.
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Speaker: Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
Date: Friday January 25thThis event is free. Register Online.
A community activist and technology executive of 20+ years, Mark currently serves as the Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, makers of Firefox and one of the largest social enterprises in the world. At Mozilla, he is focused on using the open technology and ethos of the web to transform fields such as education, journalism and filmmaking. Mark has overseen the development of Popcorn.js, which Wired has called the future of online video; the Open Badges initiative, launched by the US Secretary of Education; and the Knight Mozilla News Technology partnership, which seeks to reinvent the future of digital journalism.
Excerpt from Mozilla Press Center. Read more.
Read Mark’s opinions, findings and learning on his personal blog.
Venue
More than a hotel,The Gladstone is a social and cultural incubator facilitating sustainable and accessible ways of experiencing art, culture, community, and local cuisine. We host over 100 arts-related events each and every month!
John Ross Bowie talking about political campaign design and messaging (hilarious and insightful).
Fredrik Härén, hands down the most entertaining talk about creativity from the Author of The Idea Book.
And one for all you typography nuts out there. Nadine Roßa’s lecture on a letter that only exists in German, “The Letter ß”. She does that with fun and typographic enthusiasm without being too nerdy.
Speaker: Dave Meslin, a Toronto-based artist and organizer, with a focus on public space issues, cycling infrastructure, & voting reform.
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Dave Meslin is a Toronto-based artist and organiser, with a focus on public space issues, cycling infrastructure, voting reform, transpartisan advocacy and democratic renewal.
Due to his fear of commitment, Dave has skipped around from project to project. He organised Reclaim the Streets (’98-’00), coordinated Toronto’s Car Free Day programming (’00, ’01), founded the Toronto Public Space Committee(2001), co-founded Spacing Magazine (’03), created the WhoRunsThisTownproject (’06), produced City Idol (’06), founded the Toronto Cyclists Union(’08), started Dandyhorse Magazine (’08) launched Better Ballots (’08), organised WindFest (’10) created the Ranked Ballot Initiative (’11) and recently curated the Fourth Wall exhibit about transforming local politics in Toronto.
In November 2010, Coach House books published Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Torontot co-edited by Dave, Alana Wilcox and Christina Palassio. Swipe Design | books + objects will have it for sale at the event, and Dave will be available afterwards to sign your copy!
Multi-partisan, fiercely optimistic and delusionally utopian, Dave embraces ideas and projects that cut across traditional boundaries between grassroots politics, electoral politics and the arts community. In his work, he attempts to weave elements of these communities together.
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Venue
More than a hotel,The Gladstone is a social and cultural incubator facilitating sustainable and accessible ways of experiencing art, culture, community, and local cuisine. We host over 100 arts-related events each and every month!