It feels a little like winning a ‘Golden Ticket’ from Willy Wonka, because yesterday I found out I was one of 100 people invited to attend the first TEDxVacouver on November 21st at the Electronic Arts campus in Burnaby. Selection for the event was based on an online application that took at least an hour [...]

ANOTHER great Society of Graphic Designers of Canada / BC Chapter ‘Design Is Our Business’ breakfast event this morning, this time with business development consultant Blair Enns. Turnout was double from the inaugural September event and the audience continues to be a predominantly senior design group. The content was again valuable, actionable and relevant. More [...]

Tops in design, business, brands, the tops of this and that is endless. I have had a few of these list style links bookmarked to share for a while and with June 2009’s Fast Company cover feature “the 100 Most Creative People in Business” I figured it was a good time to post them.
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Happy World Graphic Design Day, Happy Anniversary ICOGRADA, and congratulations to the GDC - The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada for adopting their first official Sustainability Principles!
After four inspiring days of discussion, debate, innovation and change at the GDC’s National AGM in Winnipeg MB, I’m thrilled to have been a member of the [...]

The honesty of our economic times is hard to avoid. I personally know many businesses and individuals faced with the sad reality of poor leadership decisions by business and government the world over. But I encourage us all to focus on the positives, find opportunity where you least expect it, give back to those around you [...]

BE SURE TO READ Yvon Chouinards business autobiography, ‘Let My People Go Surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman.‘
 
“I’ve never respected the profession. It’s business that has to take the majority of the blame for being the enemy of nature, for destroying native cultures, for taking from the poor and giving to the rich, and [...]

MMMMMMMMMMMM, Cherry Garcia®, Phish Food®, Half Baked…I’m seeing a trend here…and it’s not stoner music. It’s a creative approach to making business fun and it’s not at the expense of ‘wicked cool’ financial returns.
Who would have thought two ‘hippie’ Long Island grade school friends could take a ‘cow to cone’ business plan and help change the world with [...]

Anita Roddick started the Body Shop in 1976 and said, ‘nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.’
Successful activist and successful business woman, Anita Roddick creatively used the Body Shop as a means to promote numerous causes like ending animal testing, protecting rain forests and the [...]