Design City News

13 NOVEMBER 2012

Returning to Design City this year is Anstey Book Binding, one of Canada’s oldest and most award-winning fine finishing companies. It believes in the hand in “hand crafted” and is proud to use traditional and innovative binding and finishing techniques that stand the test of time.

12 NOVEMBER 2012

On-line ticket registration for Design City 2012 will close midnight (EST) Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Those purchasing tickets online will save 50% off the at-door price of $20 + HST.

Buy your tickets now.

7 NOVEMBER 2012

Web designers looking for coding and conversion help may wish to drop by XHTMLCHOP's booth. Exhibiting for the first time at Design City, XHTMLCHOP is a design conversion service provider, specializing in PSD to HTML, XHTML, HTML5, as well as responsive design conversion. Its expertise also includes PSD to open source conversion, such as Wordpress / Joomla / Magento / Drupal / OpenCart / OsCommerce.

6 NOVEMBER 2012

Depositphotos, new to Design City this year, is one of the fastest growing microstock agencies in the world and a popular resource for premium high-quality stock photos, illustrations, vector images and video.

22 OCTOBER 2012

New to Design City this year is exhibitor Japanese Paper Place, which offers an extensive range of quality Japanese paper types in sheet and metre-wide rolls for printing, binding and packaging. Its stock includes both machine-made and traditional hand-made papers, and is available for shipping worldwide. Come visit its booth and see samples.

25 SEPTEMBER 2012

Universal (accessible) design consultant David Berman RGD, FGDC will bring his expertise to Design City 2012 where he'll be leading a day-long seminar entitled, The New Standard on Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0. The seminar will be held on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012 during Design City at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto. His seminar will cover how to comply with Ontario's new laws on accessibility and the WCAG 2.0 guidelines on access for disabilities.

Attendees to the seminar will have full access to the show floor during Design City's entire three-day run, Nov. 17-19. Design City is organized by Design Edge Canada.

21 SEPTEMBER 2012

Global stock image provider Shutterstock is returning to Design City with new offers and images.

Image purchasers can set up a free browse account to search the collection of more than 20 million images. Customers also have the option of affordable pay-as-you-go image plans, or its most popular subscription plan providing 25 images a day.