Design Influences

Your presentations are the best opportunity to tell your story and inspire people to act. Since 1988, Nancy Duarte has built a business on the art and science of creating great presentations.

As a hiring manager, my biggest advice for students is to avoid the long form case study style format. Very rarely is anyone spending the time looking through all of that, and it would be better used in the portfolio presentation portion of the interview process.

Type Brigade is Vancouver’s type meetup. Kenneth Ormandy became the co-organiser with Cody Jones in 2014, relaunching it as speaker series, focusing on typography, type design, and lettering.

Alanna demonstrates the importance of community in building relationships that foster one’s growth and development as a designer.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

One day, my art teacher introduced me to the work of Wassily Kandinsky. From that moment on, Kandinsky’s work has inspired and influenced my own to grow and develop into what it is now.

In other words, we want the same things from design that we want from our fellow human beings. Coincidentally, the ancient Greeks framed this ideal in the context of knowing, making and doing: to know truth, to make beauty and to do good.

Eddit is an online companion tool for creatives designed to replace linear, text-heavy learning management system (LMS) interfaces. Eddit splices together 2D & 3D aspects of studio culture, learning, and sharing within the framework of a digital portfolio.