We are very proud to announce that Design Lab has won an IAC Award for Best Advertising Email message, Best of Show Email message for our 2008 holiday e-card!
Produced by the Web Marketing Association the IAC Awards are presented annually in recognition of individuals and companies that further online advertising. Design Lab was fortunate [...]

These are all ideas we’ve tried at Design Lab and found that 60% of the time they work 100% of the time. Just kidding these are tried and true low budget solutions to improve company moral and add some fun into your work. We all do our jobs cause we love it, why not have [...]

So I’ve come across this great new lecture series hosted by sLab (Strategic Innovation Lab) at OCAD (The Ontario College of Art & Design). Being an avid follower of the Obama campaign, the recent lecture on Innovation within the Obama Campaign was both eye-opening and inspirational (what do you expect from a man that made [...]

 
Happy Holidays from your friends at Design Lab!
To help you celebrate the upcoming holidays we’ve taken it upon ourselves to create a holiday ecard to send to your friends and family. But as we all know you have nice and naughty people on your list, never fear we’ve thought of that as well.
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On Dec. 15th, Design Lab held our annual Gingerbread House Build Off!  As always, our pre-assembled kits were purchased in support of Habitat for Humanity Toronto; however, this year we supplemented the candy supply from our local Dollarama… leftovers from which are still being enjoyed. Chad Davidson, our VP Client Services and All Things Sweater Vested, [...]

Do you hate me? Is that why you continue to use an out dated antique of a browser conceived by the most evil minds Microsoft had at their disposal 7 years ago. That’s right 7 YEARS AGO. Internet Explorer 6 has been a blight upon the internet and programmers everywhere for almost 10 years.
Now don’t [...]

Smashing Magazine
If you aren’t using this site then you should be. Updated almost daily this site provides an abundance of great tools for designing. Free wallpaper, free fonts, free icons, free word press themes, etc. It even gives amazing examples of everyday over looked website items like different forms of naviagtion and how to layout [...]

In 2007, we launched The Bata Shoe Museum’s All About Shoes website with 7 exhibits in English and French, in 2008, we added 4 more exhibits in English, French and Inuktitut. On Thursday, October 2, to announce the launch of the new sections, Mrs. Bata together with an incredible team at the Bata Shoe Museum, [...]

I have finally stopped being stubborn and have given in to OOP (Object Oriented Programming).  I am going to learn Actionscript 3.  You may be able to understand my bitterness.  Almost immediately after completing a one year post-grad course learning Actionscript 2, I went to volunteer at Flash in the Can (2007) only to learn [...]

When I think of chrome I think of those old school spinning animated gifs or the overused Photoshop F-X, mainly by me.
Now Google wants you to think beyond that (and it’s search engine) with its new Chrome browser. Only in beta for PC, Chrome was released to little fan fare on September 2nd. As a [...]