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Welcome to our new Professional Resources page. We realize this list is far from definitive, so we would like your help to make it better! Come on, make use of all those bookmarks you've been collecting for years, visit our Content Submissions page and submit a few links.
Just a reminder that this page is not meant for ADCC member sites – these can be found by visiting the Our Members page. |
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www.swipe.com
Books on advertising and design. |
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www.magentafoundation.org
Carte Blanche is a groundbreaking collection of the work of Canada’s best photographers, selected by a jury of renowned arts professionals. This unprecedented showcase displays the remarkable-but rarely acknowledged-range of photographic talent in Canada. |
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www.ago.net
As one of Canada’s most distinguished art museums, the AGO organizes and hosts a wide spectrum of major exhibitions. |
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www.dx.org
The Design Exchange is a public cultural attraction located in downtown Toronto. As a design museum, it offers the tourist and general visitor the opportunity to see exhibits of design, from canada and from around the world. |
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www.guggenheim.com
The mission of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is to promote the understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, and other manifestations of modern and contemporary visual culture; to collect, preserve, and research art objects; and to make them accessible to scholars and an increasingly diverse audience through its network of museums, programs, educational initiatives, and publications. |
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www.warhol.org
The Andy Warhol Museum is a vital forum in which diverse audiences of artists, scholars and the general public are galvanized through creative interaction with the art and life of Andy Warhol. |
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www.adobe.com
Adobe helps people and businesses communicate better through its world-leading digital imaging, design, and document technology platforms for consumers, creative professionals, and enterprises. |
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www.dpimac.com
Toronto’s Best Kept Mac Secret. |
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www.macromedia.com
Our software empowers millions of business users, developers, and designers to create and deliver effective, compelling, and memorable experiences—on the Internet, on fixed media, on wireless, and on digital devices. |
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www.quark.com
For more than 20 years, Quark has delivered innovative solutions including industry-leading design, page layout, publishing, workflow, personalization, content management, and e-commerce software. |
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www.loop.ca
Loop is a leading provider of IT support services. Loop’s team of professionals focus on implementing and maintaining hardware/software solutions that increase productivity and minimize downtime and cover all technologies, from networking and server infrastructure to overall workflow. Some of the major services offered include preventative maintenance, technical support (remote and onsite), training, colour management, font management, and many more. |
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www.gdc.net
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada is Canada’s national professional association for designers. The GDC provides national certification (MGDC) to qualified professionals. The website contains a wealth of resources for designers, clients and students. |
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www.editors.ca
The Editors’ Association of Canada promotes professional editing as key in producing effective communications. |
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www.liaawards.com
The London International Advertising Awards, established in 1985 has become an international leader in acknowledging Creative Excellence for Advertising, Design and Interactive Media. |
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www.oneclub.org
The One Club for Art and Copy is a non-profit organization founded in 1975 to recognize and promote creative excellence in advertising. |
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www.gdc.net/graphex
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada presents the biennial Graphex National Design Awards. Celebrating excellence in communication design since 1977, this showcase celebrates the best of cultural, social and business communications in all mediums. |
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www.creativesource.ca
Creative Source showcases some of the best talent in Canada. |
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www.allcanadaphotos.com
All Canada Photos serves demanding image users worldwide, with a comprehensive and diverse collection of high end Canadian photography. Their impeccable high resolution digital image files and scrupulous editing deliver inspiring search results when seeking image solutions from the best of Canada’’s premier professional photographers. Their committed customer service department invites you to search online or call for personalized assistance. |
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www.fotosearch.com
Foto Search Stock Photography allows users to search from more than 90 quality stock photography publishers at one site. They can also find royalty-free clipart pictures, illustrations, motion stock video clips, vector maps, and background clip art imagery.
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www.firstlight.ca
Firstlight is a stock agency that represents a talented group of photographers and digital artists and has been in the stock content business for 20 years. They have a dedicated, experienced staff of 20 based in Toronto. International sales are conducted through a network of 33 agents around the world. |
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www.gettyimages.com
Getty Images creates and distributes the world’s best and broadest imagery collections, making them available in the most accessible and usable way -- 24 hours a day, every day. From contemporary creative imagery to news, sports, entertainment and archival imagery, their products are found each day in the full range of traditional and digital media worldwide. |
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www.veer.com
Veer provides visual elements for use in professional creative work, such as graphic design, motion design, advertising and filmmaking. Their products include stock photography, illustration, maps, and motion clips, as well as typefaces. |
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www.alistapart.com
A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards. |
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www.appliedartsmag.com
APPLIED ARTS is Canada’s leading visual communications magazine, targeting graphic designers, art directors, digital media designers, photographers, illustrators, and corporate communications professionals. |
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www.azuremagazine.com
AZURE is a magazine. AZURE is also the colour of the sky, an afternoon sky of limitless possibilities. AZURE covers design; AZURE defines design. |
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www.cmykmag.com
Inspiring Visual Communication |
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www.creativesource.ca
A professional directory of illustration, photography, digital imaging and design. |
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www.marketingmag.ca
Marketing Magazine is the voice of the marketing, advertising and media industry. |
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www.serifmagazine.com
Serif: The Magazine of Type & Typography |
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www.strategymag.com
Bold Vision/Brand New Ideas |
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www.taschen.com
TASCHEN’s mission is to choose the most interesting, important, and pertinent subjects within a delectable range of disciplines, to make beautiful, unique, high-quality books on these subjects. |
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www.typeright.org
A diverse group of type designers, developers, foundries, and aficionados who are working together to promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal protection as intellectual property. |
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www.will-harris.com/type.htm
Essays, opinions, fonts, and good advice from Daniel Will-Harris. |
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www.designedgecanada.com
Design Edge Canada is the new magazine for graphic designers, covering
industry news, trends, people and issues. The companion website provides
fast-breaking news and a job board, and offers a free e-bulletin. |
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www.magentafoundation.org
The Magenta Foundation is Canada’s only charitable arts-publishing house. Magenta fills the very specific niche of establishing a place for Canadian artists in the international arts community. Magenta joins forces with galleries to promote the work of Canadian artists internationally, through exhibitions as well as through the publication of exceptional books and catalogues. |
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www.creativeniche.ca
Creative Niche Inc. is a full-service staffing agency dedicated to one specific objective - matching the ideal creative talent to company needs. Whether you need freelancers to work on a special project; a scalable temporary workforce to manage unforeseen or seasonal demands; contract or permanent staff, Creative Niche Inc. is uniquely qualified to make the best match for talent and customer.
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www.creativesource.ca
Creative Source showcases some of the best talent in Canada.
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www.blackbagonline.com
Canada’s preferred supplier for finding creative talent for the advertising, direct response, graphic design, interactive and sales promotion communities. |
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www.microsoft.com/typography
Microsoft’s Typography group researches and develops fonts and font technologies, and supports the development of TrueType and OpenType formatted fonts by independent type vendors. |
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www.typeclub.com
We have a very simple Mission Statement: To promote Typography. |
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