Microsoft Canada
Established in 1985, Microsoft Canada Co. is the Canadian subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq “MSFT”), the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft Canada works with web designers and developers to create sites and applications that work on a variety of devices. With its products and technologies, Microsoft Canada has promoted HTML5 along with modern techniques like Responsive Web Design. Also, we are very excited about our new Metro Design Language and how it can be used in a variety of apps being built today and in the future.
MailChimp
MailChimp makes it easy to design and send beautiful emails, manage your subscribers and track your campaign’s performance.
Clio
Clio is a web-based practice management for the entrepreneurs of the legal industry: solos and small firms. Clio makes it easy for solos and small firms to manage their projects, do time and billing, and securely collaborate with their clients. We take pride in great design and ease-of-use. If you do as well, think about joining us.
UBC Continuing Studies
UBC Continuing Studies delivers educational programs to audiences both locally and internationally. With more than 100 courses and programs offered each term, including digital media, web programming, social media, and web analytics, we are one of the largest providers of technology-related courses in Western Canada. UBC Continuing Studies proudly supports BC’s digital media industry through innovative and professional programs for entrepreneurs, designers, developers and business leaders.
Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC)
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) is Canada’s national, professional graphic and communication design association. With certified members spanning the country, we provide a network of support and resources to our membership, clients and the general public. Look for a CGD – Certified Graphic Designer when hiring a graphic and communication designer.
Yellow Pencil
At Yellow Pencil we take care of the entire life cycle of your web channel. Maybe you need a mobile app. Maybe a microsite. Maybe a governance or HR plan. Whatever it is, we’ve got you covered, through our patented (not really patented) Yellow Pencil Process. The deliverables for your project might vary, but our approach is holistic – like your elementary school gym teacher, we make sure no one gets left out.
Network Hub
The Network Hub located in downtown Vancouver and downtown New Westminster Canada offers various options to meet different working styles from coworking,private office, hotdesking, meeting room rental and virtual office. We also offer mailbox rental service, phone answering services, faxing services in variety of packages.
Ninesides
Purveyors of finely hand-crafted websites. EST. 1999. Ninesides has been helping our clients reach out to their customers for over 13 years now, and we are just getting started! Websites, mobile sites, web applications, content management, and email marketing are just some of our talents. We love a challenge, and value our commitment to pushing the standard online, to make brands bigger, better, and simply the best they can be. We have worked with Global brands, entrepreneurial start-ups, and just about everything in between. Ideas drive us, strategy and business directs us, and passion for online completes us.
Filament Creative
We’re a full-service digital creative agency in Toronto, Canada. We exist because we love telling stories, spreading ideas and creating amazing, more human online experiences. We do this for tiny start-ups, global, multi-national brands and everything in between. We are strategists, marketers, detectives, odd-balls, thinkers, doers, and creators. We have brilliant ideas with equally brilliant execution that helps our clients reach their audience.
Ugmonk
Ugmonk was founded in 2008 by designer Jeff Sheldon with a mission to produce high-quality products with simple, fresh designs. Jeff launched Ugmonk as a simple side project to marry his passion for typography and tshirt design but quickly grew into much more than that. The Ugmonk collection continues to expand and has been sold to over 55 countries around the world!
LemonStand
LemonStand is an incredibly flexible and easy to use eCommerce software. Build unique online stores that look and function exactly how you need them to. With a range of tasty features, including a CMS, blog, in depth reports, powerful discounting, staff user permissions, guest checkout, digital product selling, 1-click software updates and much more, it can meet all your project requirements. And if you need a custom feature, the modern, flexible architecture gives you the freedom to extend the platform with modules you build yourself or get from the LemonStand Marketplace.
POWERSHiFTER
POWERSHiFTER is a digital agency that uses smart strategy, beautiful design and sophisticated technology to communicate, build brands and engage customers. We are located in Vancouver and work with top tier brands to produce award winning websites, applications, digital and social campaigns.
Grasshopper
The Grasshopper virtual phone system helps entrepreneurs sound more professional and stay connected from anywhere. With a toll free or local number and features including unlimited extensions, professional greeting and dial by name directory, Grasshopper helps your small businesses sound like a Fortune 500 company. For a limited time click here to receive a $50 discount!
Field Notes
Inspired by the vanishing sub-genre of agricultural memo books, ornate pocket ledgers and the simple, unassuming beauty of a well-crafted grocery list, the Draplin Design Company of Portland and Chicago’s Coudal Partners joined forces in 2007 to produce FIELD NOTES.
The Manual
The Manual captures the voices of our profession, both the well-known and the quietly working, as they bring clarity to the why of web design, share their visions, break our hearts, stretch our minds, and move us to deeper, smarter, richer work. Three beautiful, illustrated hardbound books a year, each holding six articles and six personal lessons that use the maturing of the discipline of web design as a starting point for deeper explorations of our work and who we are as designers.
ImageX Media
We’re an award-winning Drupal web design, development and consulting shop. We love helping our clients do what they do – better.
FontFont
Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody launched the FontFont brand in 1990 with the goal of producing innovative digital typefaces by designers for designers. FontFont represents the work of 160 designers worldwide, with 2,500 contemporary typefaces in the collection, making it the world’s largest independent library. FontFont features some of the most popular designs in use today, including FF Meta®, FF DIN®, FF Scala®, FF Dax®, FF Kievit®, and FF Tisa®.
Fast Customer
Never wait on hold for customer service with FastCustomer, a free app that navigates phone trees and then rings your phone once an agent’s on the line. Bingo bango!
Zaarly
Life is better when you do business with real people. Come discover your neighborhood economy with Zaarly.
CoWork
100% independent collaboration, doing great work, making awesome things, forcing everyone to rethink the South.
Authentic Jobs
Authentic Jobs is where companies and creative professionals meet to make a better web. Since 2005, qualified candidates have been applying for great opportunities at Apple, MSNBC.com, The Motley Fool, Estée Lauder, Turner Sports Interactive, ESPN, Phinney Bischoff, Garmin, Sony BMG, Electronic Arts, HP and many other companies large and small.
Insites: The Book
Insites: The Book is a strictly limited edition 200+ page book based on the format of the highly successful Insites: The Tour and inspired by the high production values of 8 Faces. Featuring interviews with 20 of the web and tech industries’ leading figures, it delves into their stories, big wins, and lessons learned, along with the kind of tales you never hear on a conference stage. No code snippets, no design tips; just a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the names and brands forwarding our industry, such as: Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, Kevin Rose, Brendan Dawes, and more. To be the first to hear about the book’s release, sign up to the mailing list at insitesbook.com
Art in My Coffee
Art in My Coffee is a curated collection of foamy awesomeness. Whether you’re a talented barista or just a coffee lover who appreciates the art, send us your coffee art, along with who you are and where you drank it.
