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Of Love and Ideas

I was recently asked—along with a few peers—to provide advice to current design students. I offered that it was best to avoid falling in love with your ideas. I would like to qualify that statement....

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The Culture of Charity

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou. Seven25 focusses on social profit and not for profit clients....

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Five Lessons from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Last night I read this article about the Ice Bucket Challenge and initially had to agree with its argument that donating directly is a lot easier and less wasteful than taking part. Everyone’s social...

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Sagmeister on Happiness & Creativity

Stefan Sagmeister has advice for fresh designers: “Don’t worry about your own voice. It will come by itself. It will be much more difficult to lose your own voice again. (. . .) As a young designer or...

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Policy, Money and Meaning—Why Design Matters

Our principal, Isabelle, recently spoke at Pecha Kucha in Vancouver to explain what drives her vision and our work. Six minutes and twenty seconds to talk about how design thinking and storytelling...

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Don’t Be Lame

Jujitsuing Reality from Chad Mann on Vimeo. Inspiring short for a Sunday morning.

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Design for Social Change

Jonathon Porritt on how it’s time for co-creation to occur between social profit/enterprise and the design/advertising communities. I couldn’t agree more but there are enduring bottlenecks in many...

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This Is Africa

I don’t think there are words for this one. Enjoy. THIS IS AFRICA from Benjamin Dowie on Vimeo.

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I Live for the Applause

This film, Noah Short, is a storytelling feat on multiple levels. Not only do we empathize with the protagonist, follow his emotional journey and the subtle plot points, we are also fully engaged and...

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Silver & Light

I am honoured to be working with Rick Etkin, Steve Pinter and Metropolitan Printers on the forthcoming Vancouver exhibition and talk series with Ian Ruhter. We’re working on shedding light on the...

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