This episode has been three conversations in the making. It started in episode #273, when I spoke with Amanda Breeze of TRIPPER Magazine, who mentioned being inspired by George Wylesol’s grown-up choose-your-own-adventure book, 2120 . In episode #276, George joined me to talk about the book and how Internet culture and GeoCities websites shape his work. Then, in episode #280, I spoke with Jill Blackmore Evans, creator of GeoCities Memory , a personal and scholarly project arc

Welcome back - I’m so glad you’re here. This is the second episode in a 3-part guest lecture series, speaking with a diverse range of design and typography pros from across North America!  This episode features a Creative Director dedicated to social change and inclusive city building, Jay Wall.  With over 15 years of experience at the intersection of graphic design and social change, Jay was the founder of design studio RallyRally. Now at O2 Planning and Design , Jay leads t

Welcome back everybody!  We’re 6+ weeks into the fall semester and I have the great pleasure of teaching my first podcasting course at Toronto Metropolitan University! The course is called MDM Podcast Lab: Design, Develop Distribute  with around 20 students actively working to create their own podcasts. It’s been so much fun to imagine what a more linear path to podcasting than my own experience would look like, and build a workshop-style course to help guide digital media st

Happy Friday and welcome to a thought-provoking and potentially paradigm-shifting conversation with James McCrae , author, poet, and...

Welcome back to this 3 part mini-series features 3 designers who bring different kinds of magazines to life. Last but not least we have...

Magazine love is in the air!  This 3 part mini-series features 3 designers who bring different kinds of magazines to life. First up we...

Welcome back!  This is a 3-part mini series about new ways of thinking about education, assessments, grading and ungrading with 3...

Welcome back - I’m so glad you’re here. This is the third episode in a 5-part guest lecture series, speaking with a diverse range of...

This is the first episode in a 5-part guest lecture series, speaking with a diverse range of design and typography pros from across North...

Have you ever found yourself straddling the world of art and the world of design, not sure if you should commit fully to one or the...

Let’s talk portfolios!  I’m often asked about portfolio creation, so joining us today to help us navigate building and maintaining a...

Who doesn’t love delightful, interesting and clever, packaging, especially when it contains beautiful cosmetic goodies? In today’s...

If you were anything like me as a teen, cutting and pasting and collaging my walls with 90’s boy bands, colourful products of the day and...

Welcome to the fifth of six episodes in this year’s magazine miniseries! If you want to learn more about the magazine industry through...

Welcome to the second of six episodes in this year’s magazine miniseries! If you want to learn more about the magazine industry through...

Here we are, dear listeners, at episode 200, entitled ’The End II’. I felt it really important to extend past episode 199 in this series...

In their incredible book, Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living, authors Elisabeth...

Success is an interesting concept. I’ve found that so much of what we think of as success relates to easy-to-identify, external...

On May 17, 2020, in a post to his Humans of New York Instagram community, founder, Brandon Stanton had this to share about storytelling...

Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic in so many fields and disciplines, particularly those that involve creative thinking and creative...