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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.

Providing the skills you need to design a better world. Check out our array of programs that support creativity and develop your practice.

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.

Assiniboine Community College is committed to being a college that is the first choice of students, that students enjoy attending, that students are proud to graduate from and whose graduates are sought after by employers.

The City of Toronto offers many programs and services to help residents and businesses. These are even more important in times of economic uncertainty. We are improving our services to help Torontonians – especially youth and people looking for work. For business owners and new start-ups we want to provide you with the information and the tools you need to help make sure your business is a success.

GelaSkins are artist-designed, removable skins for protecting and customizing your portable devices.

At the George Brown College School of Design your education takes place in new, state-of-the-art learning facilities in downtown Toronto – home to Canada’s greatest concentration of design businesses. We are pleased to announce our brand new Interaction Design and Development program, where we are committed to train the future designers and developers that will take a leading role in the development of future Interactive Technologies and devices and how people will use them.

Globacore Interactive is a creative technology studio that makes digital experiences for any space. Specializing in game development, custom electronic hardware, motion graphics, video magic, touchscreens, VR, AR, Big-Pressable-Buttons, websites, applications and more. Globacore is an experiential studio with experience to fill a stadium, using physical and digital elements to tell stories for brands, products, people and events. With the combined knowledge of traditionally trained computer scientists and the aesthetic vision of digital artists, Globacore has the key skills and talents to enable them to stay at the cutting edge of interactive design and development. Globacore has deployed activations in cities around the world including New York, Hong Kong, Paris, London, Barcelona, Dubai and all over the US and Canada. They play nice in the sandbox with advertising agencies, marketers, brand strategists, exhibit designers and museum curators, and encourage their customers to come to them with any idea.

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) houses four interdisciplinary undergraduate programs that offer students a range of contexts in which to explore communication, the use and design of traditional and digital media, and technological innovation. Based at the dynamic University of Toronto Mississauga campus, the ICCIT offers students of Canada’s largest university the opportunity to study in an intimate, community-oriented setting while still benefitting from the world-class academics, top-ranked libraries system, comprehensive student services, and the ever-expanding variety of co- and extra- curricular activities for which the University of Toronto is known.

Kobo Inc. is one of the world’s fastest-growing eReading services offering more than 4-million eBooks and magazines to millions of customers in 190 countries. Believing that consumers should have the freedom to read any book on any device, Kobo provides consumers with a choice when reading. Kobo offers an eReader for everyone with a wide variety of E Ink eReaders and Google-Certified Android tablets to suit any Reader’s style including the award-winning Kobo Touch™, Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo, Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura HD, Kobo Arc, Kobo Arc 7, Kobo Arc 7HD, and Kobo Arc 10HD. Along with the company’s free top-ranking eReading apps for Apple®, BlackBerry®, Android®, and Windows®, Kobo ensures the next great read is just a page-turn away. Headquartered in Toronto and owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten, Kobo eReaders can be found in major retail chains around the world.

Established in 2002 by Steve Cober and Kristin Weckworth, Magic Pony is a centre for creative living in Toronto, Canada. Known originally for being the first designer toy shop in Canada, Magic Pony has grown into an multifaceted arts culture hub that strives to add art and creativity into people’s lives through innovative retail spaces, products, education, lectures and exhibitions.

We help cloud developers build applications faster with less code, reduce development costs, and effortlessly scale those apps. Learn about best practices and take advantage of low code tools today to accelerate your web and mobile front-end development.

At Mozilla, we’re a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together so people worldwide can be informed contributors and creators of the Web. Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent.

Beginning May 2, 2014, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) marks 75 years of innovation and leadership in film and interactive media. The NFB is one of the world’s leading digital content hubs, creating groundbreaking interactive documentaries and animation, mobile content, installations and participatory experiences. NFB interactive productions and digital platforms have won 100 awards, including 10 Webbys. To access acclaimed NFB content, visit NFB.ca or download its apps for smartphones, tablets and connected TV.

Fuse is a new approach to app development which bridges the gap between your gorgeous Photoshop design and the app you dream of building. Fast, flexible and intuitive, it is the first and only platform and tool suite to enable the creation of beautiful native apps for both iOS and Android, all from within a single, WYSIWYG environment. Fuse is based in Oslo with an office in Silicon Valley. Find out more about Fuse at fusetools.com and follow them on Twitter @fusetools

At Sheridan, students come for the challenge of being different – and to make a difference – through creative explorations. Our renowned faculty members come from industry, which means students receive a professionally relevant education that also makes them highly employable in their field. Sheridan offers the chance to learn the latest technologies and provides opportunities to collaborate with students from other disciplines and faculties for a balanced education.

With stores in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Mississauga and Ottawa, Vistek has served as Canada’s top camera and photo-equipment retailer for more than 40 years. Meeting the needs of both the professional and consumer markets, Vistek offers a wide selection of the best and latest products, along with expert advice from knowledgeable staff and industry insiders. It remains the first-choice one-stop shop for photo, video and digital-imaging gear among professionals and hobbyists alike.

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.

More than 15 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp’s marketing automation platform to to reach their customers and grow their business. Our features and integrations give e-commerce retailers the power to send beautiful marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted ad campaigns, and our detailed reports help them keep improving over time. Our quickly growing team loves empowering small businesses, so that’s what we focus on every day.

OneMethod Digital + Design is many things. It’s an award-winning anti-agency. An enemy of mediocrity. An occasional nightspot. A specialist on making next come now. A creator of taqerias. And it’s probably the shortest distance between where you are and where you want to be.

Crafted Stories is a Digital Content and Brand Storytelling Company. Our clients hire us to uncover and tell stories about their companies, products, customers and employees – we’re kind of like a creative agency for video… and we like to tell your stories, because your stories are good.

Digiflare is a digital agency at the forefront of creating award-winning connected user experiences. We harness the potential of Web, Mobile, Tablet, Connected TV, Game Consoles, and emerging devices to deliver engaging solutions to our top-tier clients.

Digital Primates is an industry-leading application consultancy focused on delivering large-scale, high-quality enterprise, video and mobile applications for our clients.  Our methodologies enable clients to successfully complete projects, either through guiding their team or by leveraging our own developers and architects in the process.  Our senior consultants are uniquely positioned as trainers, authors, and speakers providing clear communication and leadership to any team.

Immersion is the leading innovator in haptics (aka “touch feedback”) technology.  With Immersion’s Haptic Development Platform, Android game developers can transform the UX by adding realistic vibration effects to their apps. The Haptic SDK includes sample code, tech forum, over 120 predesigned haptic effects complete with an effect preview app for testing, and a conversion layer that ensures that touch effects are optimized across all Android handsets. Since its release in 2011, consumers have installed over 100 million Android games using Immersion’s Haptic SDK.

Leviathan is a different kind of design company, focused on creating the most memorable and advanced brand experiences imaginable. Through the use of engaging content and physical invention, we engage audiences like never before and extend conversations well beyond the moment.

Since forming in 2010, Leviathan’s work has been recognized by Wired, Fast Company, Communication Arts, AICP, HOW, The One Club, FITC, Association of Independent Music, Vimeo, the Themed Entertainment Association and many others.

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!

Metajive is an independently owned interactive studio focused on partnerships to create exceptional experiences.

One Pixel Off specializes in partnering with your team to make technically complex projects easy. Since our humble beginnings in 2007, we’ve had the pleasure of working with our partners to build really cool things for really cool brands.

We like challenges, and we know that the truly great projects happen when great creative is paired with great technical execution. We’re kind of fanatical about the technical execution.

Prospero is a Canadian custom learning solutions company that is dedicated to serving the learning industry. Our mission is to design and build learning solutions that enable organizations and their people to perform at their highest potential and to reach their respective goals. Learn more about what we do and our full-time and freelance opportunities by visiting our web site.

With offices in Toronto and Vancouver, Relish Interactive is an interdisciplinary team of designers, developers, and animators that focus on delivering delicious digital stuff.  Our team is small, senior, talented, and efficient.  We are developers who can code and explain it in non-tech speak.  We are designers who strive to innovate, yet understand the big picture and know how to meet client goals and deadlines.

Shopify helps creators and ambitious entrepreneurs start, run, and grow their businesses. Driven by the mission to make commerce better for everyone, our global UX team of over 500 UXers builds intuitive and delightful experiences that help millions of independent businesses succeed. 

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Workinman has built many games for outstanding clients over the past six years. They include large entertainment companies, virtual worlds, advertisers, start-ups, and ourselves. Our games have been featured on Nick.com, Disney, NBC Universal, Nick Jr, Addicting Games and many more. Collectively our games have been played hundreds of millions of times.

We focus on creating unique gaming experiences using the right technology for the job. Our designers and developers are experts in the field whose primary focus is online casual, social, and mobile gaming. We have the knowledge to put your games to work by leveraging current technologies, such as; HTML5, Native iOS, Native Android, and UNITY.

IAMSTATIC Directs, Designs and Produces award winning content for film, television, VFX, digital, print and more.

Sajak & Farki is not the name of a hit crime show on HBO, but it could be. We’d burn around in a souped-up Camaro, blasting Isaac Hayes, catching bad guys. Known for insight and instinct in solving the toughest cases. Badass geniuses, dedicated to helping people, passionately committed to the work, thinking it through and using a wide arsenal of sophisticated tech to get it done right. Respected by all. Hot. Fun. Cool. Yeah. That’s what we’d be. Sajak & Farki. But only if we weren’t already a stand-out digital agency based in Calgary.

MakeLab is a studio for Makers, and a powerful creative technology partner for advertising agencies and events. We’re coders, engineers, designers, and event planners – with a studio of fabrication toys and a portfolio of top-brand client work.

Big Viking Games was founded in October 2011 by industry veteran Greg Thomson (Chief Product Officer) and serial entrepreneur, Albert Lai (CEO). Starting with just four people, the team has now grown to a company of 45 employees (and growing!). The company focuses its efforts on developing free-to-play social and mobile games using HTML5 technologies. The games are currently accessible on the web, Facebook and iOS, with the plans of incorporating Android and BlackBerry with future titles.

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.

Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts) is one of the world’s most well established and highly respected visual, media and performing arts schools. VanArts has over 18 years of experience in launching graduates’ careers for the animation, games and visual effects industries worldwide, plus careers in photography, acting, broadcasting and web development. A recent survey of the “Top 100 International Animation Schools ” by Animation Career Review ranked VanArts as #6 in the world.

Wacom Europe GmbH is a subsidiary of Wacom Company, Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange 6727). Founded in 1983, Wacom is a global company based in Japan with subsidiaries and affiliate offices around the world to support marketing and distribution in over 150 countries. Wacom’s vision to bring people and technology closer together through natural interface technologies has made it the world’s leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays, and digital interface solutions. The advanced technology of Wacom’s intuitive input devices has been used to create some of the most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashion and designs around the world and provides business and home users with their leading interface technology to express their personality. Millions of customers are using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology.

The company also offers its products as OEM solutions to leading manufacturers serving incremental markets. Wacom’s interface technology, called Wacom Feel IT Technologies, is also offered as an integrated solution to strategic partners. Most Tablet PC manufacturers count on the advanced features and reliability of the brand to deliver a superior user interface experience.

Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) is responsible for stimulating job creation and investment in the province’s cultural media industries including book and magazine publishing, music, film, television, and interactive digital media.

OMDC works to foster an advantageous business environment, facilitates innovation, supports cross-sector collaboration, enhances and leverages investment, and promotes Ontario as an international centre of excellence.

The agency administers a range of programs and funds including tax credits, investment funds, research initiatives, and events.

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Launched in 1986, Applied Arts is Canada’s premier magazine of visual communications offering gorgeous imagery, strong opinion, timely information and essential industry insight to senior and emerging creative professionals in graphic design, interactive design, advertising, photography and illustration. In addition to the magazine, Applied Arts offers a variety of media platforms to deliver relevant content and special industry events, including the annual Creative Futures Expo, which delivers a pipeline for aspiring art students to connect with industry professionals. Whether delivered in print, online or in person, Applied Arts continues to provide unmatched inspiration and relevant information to Canadian creative professionals.

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

IdN is devoted to bringing designers from around the world together to communicate with one another, learn from one another and inspire one another.

N Maxwell Lander (°1987, White Rock, Canada) is a Toronto-based photographer. Straddling the worlds of art and commercialism, Lander drives interest into the traditional and clarity into the conceptual. Max has shot such faces as Eddie Izzard, Divine Brown, The Barenaked Ladies, Serena Ryder, and Gaga. Her work has been featured in publications such as VICE, The Globe and Mail, Xtra!, Be (France), Magpie Darling (London) and Curve, in addition to countless gallery shows. Lander has been referred to as the next Annie Leibovitz – a comparison which, in all things photographic, she aspires to live up to.

Dartmouth Clothing Co. grew from a simple idea. Be proud of where you’re from. Located on the East Coast of Canada, this small clothing company has been selling it’s wares to transplanted Canadians all around the globe who want to show off the neighbourhoods they love so much. Settled in the city of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the Clothing Co. is tirelessly run by Eric Miller & Aimee Semel.

More than 15 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp’s marketing automation platform to to reach their customers and grow their business. Our features and integrations give e-commerce retailers the power to send beautiful marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted ad campaigns, and our detailed reports help them keep improving over time. Our quickly growing team loves empowering small businesses, so that’s what we focus on every day.

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.

At Weyland Industries we apply science, technology and our unparalleled global network of resources to the pursuit of Building Better Worlds.

Every day, Weyland biologists, military scientists, chemical engineers, geologists, mechanics, pilots and more work across our solar system to advance human interests and life. As they labor, new planets, natural resources, industries, modes of transportation and medical advancements emerge and evolve before our eyes.

Fuel™ is a global Youth Engagement company and digital agency. We help Fortune 500 global brands connect with Millennial and iGen audiences with deep, digital brand experiences that include immersive virtual worlds, mobile apps and social gaming, branded entertainment, interactive multi-screen experiences, interactive rich media advertising, and digital loyalty programs. We were one of iMediaconnection’s 25 agencies to watch in 2012, and we’re a hell of a lot of fun to work with.