Archiving against erasure
There are many decisions to be made when building an archive. These decisions have often been made by individuals in…
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Disrupting the myth of the archive
An archive becomes such because individuals decide that certain pieces of knowledge and data should be collected and retained following…
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Drucker and humanistic design
At the University of California, LA, Johanna Drucker works as a professor of Bibliographical Studies. She is also the author…
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Ologies podcast can teach us heaps about interviews and story telling
Ooh, nerds. The best. Also, amazing interviewer. I wonder if she was ever a theatre or improve nerd. Alie Ward…
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Historiated initials and the medieval selfie
Thoughtful, systematic page design is nothing new. Humans are meaning-making machines with an impulse to organize. Today we code paragraph…
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Ologies podcast and the art of interviewing
You know that phenomenon where a documentary is about mushrooms, or air guitar, or tightrope walking, but by the end…
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Brand, marketing, and press guidelines in one spot
Mount Allison University is going through a website redesign at the moment so lots of these guidelines are going to…
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Amy Sherald: In the Studio
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Establish a presence for certain kinds of images
Every sentence of this is so powerful. There’s profound truth in what he’s saying. “So there’s a difference between making…
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On Twitter, blocking someone is not enough: remember to hide replies
When we interact with bad actors and hate accounts on Twitter it’s a good idea to block them. However, if…
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Katharina Grosse: when I started painting I stopped reading
Painting is less linear than writing and reading. More synchronous. I love these explorations by Katharina Grosse. Colour is a…
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Is This For Real? is a journalistic podcast about being Black in Edmonton
Hosted by Oumar Salifou and Hannan Mohamud. Is This For Real? Edmonton is home to a large and established Black…
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Guides and learning resources from the NPR communications team
These NPR style guides and learning tools are excellent. NPR Style guide A guide to style guides NPR Training https://nprillustration.tumblr.com/…
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Rebecca Watson’s Youtube channel is fantastic
Rebecca Watson is a great science communicator and she also does a fantastic job parsing ethical issues.
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After Effects and video editing tips and tricks
These videos by Valentina Vee area amazing.
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Black Metaphors
How imbedded is racism in visual & written language? Where do the past & present “touch” when it comes to…
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Reflections on the digital film screening Lesbian Liberation Across Media
In June I had the opportunity to attend “Lesbian Liberation Across Media.” It was a film screening put on collaboratively…
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Looking at Lyme podcast is live
You can now find Looking at Lyme on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify and more. Check it out and enjoy the…
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Seven new media projects worth following
As a young freelance writer, the Canadian media landscape has long filled me with dread, but recently I’ve been starting…
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You are the expert on your content
Content is supreme, be it text or image. An image can be riveting, but a contextualized image can capture more…
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Web first publishing
Web first publishing means publishing your carefully crafted content to your website first. We recommend it nine times out of…
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Quick update from a new board member!
Happy Autumn! As the season changes so is our core organizing group. I will be taking over as the communications…
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The value of short and simple blog posts
I value the practice of publishing short and very short dispatches. It’s a kind of microblogging. Early bloggers never differentiated…
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We love being involved in this amazing community of ours, and we’re excited about keeping in touch with you regarding…
