FITC Toronto 2021
Talks
Building Brand Loyalty & Memorable Experiences
With each new launch, the hysteria around the ‘Johnny Cupcakes’ brand continues to conquer the globe. Reactions range from 10 block queues as anxious fans await for Johnny Cupcakes T-shirts… Read more…
Johnny Cupcakes
Johnny Cupcakes
Coffee Break Chats with TWG + Deloitte Managers
Join us during the extended afternoon break on Monday for an AMA-style coffee chat with managers from TWG and Deloitte. We’ll discuss (remote) job-seeking tips, life at TWG and Deloitte,… Read more…
Cotton Candy Contracts
Recipes for collaboration and creativity
Have you ever seen an amazing project and wondered, “Wow! How did they do that?!” Beyond what we define as “creative process” lies the intangible… Read more…
Emilie Baltz
Emilie Baltz
Creatives and Social Responsibility
Art won’t save the world, or end COVID, inequality or wars.
…But wait!
There is a lot we can do, if we just stop, think, and observe the world around… Read more…
Yuko Shimizu
yukoart.com
FITC Mixer
While we can’t get together in-person, we can still hang online.
Join the FITC speakers and other attendees in this virtual mixer. Grab a drink of your choice, turn on… Read more…
Guided Meditation
Join Emily Thring, founder of The Quiet Company, for a short session to relax, refocus, and get ready for the day ahead. You will leave feeling grounded and energized.
The… Read more…
Hindsight is 20/20: 40 Years of Design
Stefan Sagmeister will look back at the past 40 years of his studio work: What worked and what didn’t, what made sense to do and what he would not touch… Read more…
Stefan Sagmeister
Sagmeister Inc
How to Make Share-Worthy Work
There’s a finite amount of time that you have each day to make creative work… but there is a nearly infinite amount of opportunities for that work to get shared… Read more…
Lauren Hom
Hom Sweet Hom
Interop: Self-Determination vs. Dystopia
Interoperability is both ubiquitous and subtle. Interop is why you can buy your shoes from one company and your shoelaces from another, and no-interop is why you can’t use apps… Read more…
Cory Doctorow
craphound.com
Intersection: Creativity and Co-evolution
Let’s explore the intersections among art, design, and technology, with guests from different backgrounds and perspectives.
Intersection = capability + potential
Technology makes things possible for art and design, extending… Read more…
Intersection: Seeing Our Failures from the Future
Let’s explore the intersections among art, design, and technology, with guests from different backgrounds and perspectives.
Intersection = ambition + insight
We tend to focus on the future – our… Read more…
Intersection: The Importance of Physicality
Let’s explore the intersections among art, design, and technology, with guests from different backgrounds and perspectives.
Intersection = virtual + physical
Artists and makers have long worked with the tangible.… Read more…
Latent Expeditions
What would happen if we had a machine that can create every imaginable and unimaginable image that there ever was, is and will be? Apparently nothing extraordinary, since that machine… Read more…
Mario Klingemann
Quasimondo
Live from New York
25 years of racing to get the SNL titles right and on time.
Designing the titles for an iconic sketch comedy show is a bit like being on the show… Read more…
Emily Oberman
Pentagram
Our Lockdown Saga
Everything came to a screeching halt a year ago. We battened down the hatches, and got to work riding the pandemic out. Things took a couple weird turns though.
In… Read more…
Aaron James Draplin
Draplin Design Co
Playing with Light and Dark
Kate Dawkins Studio is a moving image studio turning pixels and projection into spectacular live experiences that have entranced audiences around the world.
Kate’s work is very much about visual… Read more…
Kate Dawkins
Kate Dawkins Studio
Power-Up
The creative person journeys down a challenging, meandering road, constantly under attack by the outside forces of industry. They don’t have a map or a compass… just some guidelines learned… Read more…
James White
Signalnoise
Reflections: Looking Back to Predict the Future
When charting a course in an ever-evolving industry across art, design, and technology, we’re often asked to embark on the unknown, or we find ourselves in situations we did not… Read more…
The Art of the Everyday: 20 Years of PES
Oscar and Emmy-nominated animation master PES will take you on a tour through his first 20 years in animation, highlighting key works and discussing how he revitalized the stop-motion genre… Read more…
PES
PES Films
The Drop
What is going on with NFTs?
In this discussion, we’ll talk about the impact that NFTs are having on the art market, and the incredible opportunities available to (crypto) artists.… Read more…
Then and Now
Join us for this casual conversation with a few veterans of the interactive media space to discuss their careers over the last twenty years. Our panelists will discuss how they… Read more…
Think & Act Spatially
Spatial computing has arrived.
Yes, the hype arrived first. But the next pattern of computing is now a dev kit you can buy, use, and develop for. This means that… Read more…
Jared Ficklin
Tryin’ to Get Ahead Before We Get a Headstone
A colour-filled enthusiastic presentation of all things creative.
Gavin plots his creative journey through his time in the design and film industry– picking it apart and extracting the lessons and… Read more…
Gavin Strange
Aardman / Jamfactory
Working from Home: The New Norm
COVID-19 struck fast and hard, and all of us had to hit the ground running to accommodate our homes, families, attitudes, and habits as we started ‘working from home’. Weeks… Read more…
