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Adobe Creative Cloud gives you all of the Adobe web tools, along with industry-leading design, video and photography apps, so you can create without limits. With ongoing enhancements, a growing library of training resources, sharing and collaboration capabilities, and access to your content from almost anywhere, Creative Cloud is always evolving – just like you.
Forum Nokia is the world’s largest mobile developer community with over 1.5m members and provides SDKs, articles, discussion forums and other resources for mobile developers. Membership is free and allows members to receive monthly newsletters on new news, information about events and webinars and much more.
Founded in 2006, HitGrab is a profitable and award-winning social gaming company based in Oakville, Ontario. Our more than 20 designers have created games with over 500k monthly users and the highest engagement of players in the social gaming space, HitGrab is quickly becoming a known force in the social gaming universe.
With campuses across the Greater Toronto Area, Seneca Polytechnic offers degrees, diplomas and certificates renowned for their quality and respected by employers. Combining the highest academic standards with practical, hands-on learning, expert teaching faculty and the latest technology ensures Seneca graduates are career-ready. The School of Creative Arts and Animation is a recognized global training leader in animation, interactive media, documentary filmmaking, graphic design, music, acting and illustration, and is ranked among Canada’s top training programs for animation and visual effects. Seneca Polytechnic is also the home of the Seneca Film Institute.
Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG) is a segment of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) responsible for the creation and delivery of Disney branded interactive entertainment and informational content across multiple platforms including online, mobile and video game consoles around the globe. DIMG core businesses include Disney Interactive Studios, which self publishes and distributes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games, mobile games and interactive entertainment worldwide; and Disney Online, which produces the No. 1 Community-Family & Parenting Web site and an industry-leading suite of online virtual worlds for kids and families.
Horizon Display has quickly become the preeminent developer of large format interactive display solutions. Horizon Display offers fully embedded touch technologies along with media management devices and custom bezel designs. Combining Horizon’s ability to deliver technology and your power of design makes a formidable proposition for any interactive requirement.
Powerflasher-FDT was founded in 1997 by flash pioneer Carlo Blatz and has since then become one of Europe’s leading multimedia agencies specializing in Adobe Flash. Presently they have almost 40 professional coders, graphic artists and animators who develop outstanding solutions. With FDT 4, Powerflasher released the best version of their home-made IDE yet. FDT 4 is a powerful Flash/Flex development environment for ActionScript 3 and MXML. The only editor built from the ground-up to support the needs of Flash developers, built by Flash developers. With highly efficient and time-saving features, FDT enhances your workflow while increasing your productivity.
The Rich Media Institute provides live workshops and online training courses in rich media technologies at our facilities in Toronto and Los Angeles, as well as around the world, on topics including Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and After Effects, iPhone Development, and business best-practices. We are an Adobe Authorized Training Center, and all of our courses are authored and taught by industry experts including Colin Moock, Grant Skinner, John Grden, Joshua Davis and R Blank. Please check out our upcoming courses, as well as all of our online training courses in Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3.
Aquent is the only global talent agency that specializes in marketing and design. We pair outstanding talent with challenging jobs to create inspired, productive partnerships. Our Interactive Design practice is focused on advancing the careers of the incredible talent we represent and on giving our clients access to the best Interactive talent on the planet.
We’re a world-leading innovator in improving the way companies, and talent, work. From pioneering benefits for project-focused talent, to building a worldwide network of Interactive subject matter experts who truly understand the interactive space, we love what we do, so we work hard every day to do it better.
Critical Mass helps organizations define, build, measure, and expand their Internet strategy and presence. We practice Customer Experience Management. Your customer is our focus. Your brand experience is our palette. Your business success is our reward.
DATA is a Toronto organization that represents the digital media industry, both service and IP, both creative and technical, both individuals and companies. By supporting and working with the people actually working in the industry and the people wanting to work in the industry, we envision a vibrant, fun, open, positive and active organization that supports and nurtures this amazing industry we work in.
Launched in 1998, Netfirms Inc. is a privately owned web hosting company servicing customers worldwide. It currently powers more than 1.2 million websites for a range of customers: small businesses, inventors, innovators, designers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs. Netfirms is committed to developing simple solutions to help them get their ideas online.
CTV, Canada’s Olympic Network, is also Canada’s largest private broadcaster. Featuring a wide range of quality news, sports, information, and entertainment programming, CTV is Canada’s most-watched television network. CTV Inc. also owns radio stations across the country and owns or has interests in leading national specialty channels, featuring news, sports, factual, arts, entertainment, music, youth and fashion programming. Official broadcaster of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and London 2012 Games of the Olympiad, CTV Inc. is owned by CTVglobemedia Inc., Canada’s premier multi-media company. More information about CTV may be found on the network’s website atwww.ctv.ca.
Design Edge Canada is an essential source for graphic design news and trends. The magazine is distributed for free, by request to all professional graphic designers across the country. To subscribe, please visit www.designedgecanada.com
TAXI is the global creative network of today, a meeting place for creative professionals around the world to connect with each other, stay updated with industry movements, and showcase their works towards prospects and opportunities.
GestureTek®, founded in 1986, is the inventor, pioneer and world leader in gesture recognition technologies for presentation, information and entertainment systems. With patented single camera, multiple camera and 3D-vision solutions, GestureTek’s video gesture control technology lets people use hand and body motions to control dynamic computer content on any screen, surface or camera-enabled device – with no need to wear, hold or touch anything. GestureTek also offers immersive and multi-touch interactive solutions.
Launched in 2006, DraftFCB is a modern agency model for clients seeking creative, accountable marketing programs that build business and deliver Return On Ideas™. With more than 130 years of combined expertise, the newly formed company has its roots in both consumer advertising and behavioral, data-driven direct marketing. The agency is the first global, behavior-based, fully inclusive, creative and accountable marketing communications organization to operate against a single P&L. The DraftFCB network spans 110 countries, with more than 9,000 employees worldwide, and is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG).
At Grip Limited we have no preconceived ideas about the form our ideas should take, where they should be placed, how big or small a budget ought to be. Anything goes. It’s a clean slate every time. Interactive is at the hub of everything we do. And the hub of interactive is our Flash Developers. They help us create an array of rich user experiences. And, make our work look cool as well as deliver results. We could have called what we do “Holistic Marketing”, “360º Experiences”, or even “Full-Service Services,” but we chose Intercommunipackastratapromotising™. We think it says it all. And it was easier to spell.
Lunch is a content production network founded by internationally awarded EP & CD Amy Miranda. We’re a group of independent companies and artists who believe that making things should be as easy as ordering lunch. We are collaborative by design and innovative by nature. We believe in working together with a select group of amazingly talented people and our clients to make really great stuff. It’s that simple. We are #bettertogether and we look forward to collaborating with you!
Influxis provides global streaming networks, and an online platform for building and deploying video, WebRTC, and IoT solutions. Use our service to push the creative boundaries of internet technology. Seriously, go ahead, we’re very happy to help.
From its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help people and businesses succeed online. Over 125,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple’s simple tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites.
Created in 1997, the CFC Media Lab provides a unique training, research and production think-tank environment for emerging new media content developers, practitioners and companies. CFC Media Lab has graduated more than 200 professionals through its various programs and services including Interactive Art Entertainment Programme (IAEP), Interactive Project Lab (IPL), Interactive Narrative Feature Program (INFP), and NBC Universal Multiplatform Matchmaking Program (MMP). An internationally acclaimed and award-winning facility, graduates of the CFC Media Lab emerge as leaders in the world of interactive media, produce innovative projects and start up 21st century companies.
Design, Art, and Technology; The interaction, crossover and dialogue between these often-thought unrelated disciplines is constantly advancing, resulting in new aesthetic boundaries. The exciting areas created by these changes are the focus of this unique retail environment. The store features a carefully curated selection of books, tees, DVDs, magazines, electronic music, timepieces, gadgets and other items that represent the most inspiring and exciting work being done in these areas both globally and locally. We aim to bring out the inner design nerd in everyone!
The Hand Eye Society is a not-for-profit coalition of projects and people in support of Toronto’s videogame communities. Current and ongoing projects include the Hand Eye Society Socials, the TORONTRON (The Indie Arcade Cabinet), the Artsy Games Incubator and TOJam.
The Pearson Technology Group is the most respected publisher of computer and technology books available in Canada — offering resources on topics that matter most to application and software developers, designers, programmers, system administrators, hobbyists, and IT professionals.
To learn more about our Corporate Sales or how to set up a corporate library please contact us at contact.pearsonptr@pearsoned.com for help in locating your corporate sales representative.
O’Reilly spreads the knowledge of innovators through its technology books, online services, magazines, research, and tech conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, O’Reilly has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
The Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) is committed to strengthening the cultural labour force, and strives to be at the centre of vision and forward thinking in the area of cultural human resources development. CHRC brings together representatives of arts disciplines and cultural industries in the cultural sector to address the training and career development needs of employers and cultural workers including artists, technical staff and managers. The cultural sector comprises literally hundreds of occupations in eight broad sub-sectors: digital media, film and television, broadcasting, heritage, live performing arts, music and sound recording, visual arts and crafts and writing and publishing. The sector includes employers and workers in several thousand organizations, big and small, not-for-profit and for-profit
Who is Pulp Printing? In a word – substance.
We provide creative substance in all shapes and sizes, forms and formats. We’re printers who can design. We’re designers who know printing. We print and publish as easily as we emboss and varnish a corporate brochure. We apply quality thinking to creative challenges. And come up with innovative, specialized solutions for our clients. We provide substance when it comes to service as well. We believe in offering full service to our clients on a regular basis. We take our clients’ brands and expertly translate their brand image into all types of print.
Let us provide your project with the substance you’re looking for.
Saatchi & Saatchi is a leading global communications and advertising network known for its impactful creative ideas that generate powerful emotional connections between consumers and brands. Present in over 67 countries, Saatchi & Saatchi employs 6,500 professionals over 114 offices.