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Creative Cultures: Norm Li ignites a spark of greatness

Project: The Broadview Hotel, Toronto Client: Streetcar Developments

In our Creative Cultures series, writer Helen Bullingham spends a day inside companies to learn how hiring, onboarding, and company culture play a role in employee happiness. From start-ups to design firms and all in-between, we’re pulling back the curtain on what it’s like to work in inventive and productive environments. Today, Helen is at Norm Li in Toronto.

Located at Dundas and University in downtown Toronto is the visualization studio Norm Li, a rare and brilliant gem that creates Renderings, Animation and Interactive experiences for the architectural, real estate development and design industries. The studio helps clients to visualize spaces and places prior to being built or occupied. The need varies; in some instances, clients know what they want and need Norm Li’s team to bring it to life. In other instances, they seek out the design studio’s help in figuring out what that space should look like. What Norm Li delivers is a visual narrative of the space that’s so real, you can feel yourself drawn to it. And in the case of their VR applications like the image above, you can actually feel yourself in the space too.
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Toronto’s Coding & Startup Marketing Bootcamps: A Definitive List

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Toronto offers numerous digital education learning opportunities–through leading edge courses, workshops and seminars—all designed to provide you with immediate relevancy and hands on digital skills. 

Today, we’ve been in touch with some of the leading learning providers in the city. With summer just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to get your digital skills into high gear. From sheer beginner to ‘pro’ education, onsite and online, here’s a run-down of the options around the corner from where you live, work and play.

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Creative Cultures: BrainStation is transforming Toronto into a Digital Education Mecca

In our Creative Cultures series, we spend time inside companies to learn how hiring, onboarding, and company culture play a role in employee happiness. From start-ups to design firms and all in-between, we’re pulling back the curtain on what it’s like to work in inventive and productive environments. Today, writer Helen Bullingham is at BrainStation.

BrainStation is already a fixture in the Digital Education scene in Toronto. The company, which began in 2012, provides digital education through both full and part-time courses, workshops, conferences, industry talks and corporate training. Courses and workshops cover the full Digital Product Lifecycle and include subjects like Introductory Digital Marketing, iOS development, User Interface Design, SEO, Google Adwords and Analytics and How to Market on Shopify. You can also participate in activities like Fireside Chats with the Head of Marketing at Google Canada. In 2016, 22,000 individuals soaked up some form of digital learning put on by BrainStation. The majority of this learning took place in Toronto. BrainStation also offers digital education on their Vancouver campus, New York operation, and in San José, Costa Rica through their Latin American division. 

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Creative Cultures: SapientNitro has the DNA for Transformation

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In our Creative Cultures series, writer Helen Bullingham spends a day inside companies to learn how hiring, onboarding, and company culture play a role in employee happiness. From start-ups to design firms and all in-between, we’re pulling back the curtain on what it’s like to work in inventive and productive environments. Today, Helen is at SapientNitro in Toronto.

SapientNitro was everything I thought it was going to be and more. Much more. The ‘new age agency for the always on customer’ is in the business of delivering Digital Transformation for clients. But with the nearly scientific approach they take to every aspect of employee hiring, onboarding and engagement, another kind of metamorphosis is enabled; the personal and professional transformation of staff. Continue reading