Archives by month: November 2008

A Privacy Policy Generator

In several projects, the legal aspect takes a lot of space while in others it is sometimes (wrongfully) ignored. Be it in terms of rights of use, privacy policies or terms of use (to name a few), mentioning them in … Read more →

November 29, 2008 , Alexandre Gravel // Posted in Interactive, Tools | Post a comment

Lovesong (Rome, Italy) and Personal Projects

Here at Toast, we always encourage our team members to pursue personal projects. Whether directly related to their expertise or something entirely different, each person has personal interests that extend the work base. We like to grant time and resources … Read more →

November 26, 2008 , Alexandre Gravel // Posted in Art, Design, Toast | Post a comment

Tzine

Tzine the quarterly Toast fanzine distributed to collaborators, clients, friends and anyone else. They are small publications filled with a wealth of information, updates about our projects, our troops and our talents. Printed b&w with a touch of screenprinting to … Read more →

November 25, 2008 , Annabelle Fiset // Posted in Art, Portfolio, Toast | Post a comment

Bell, not as transparent as they seem.

Admit it. The title really had you hooked… but it’s Friday! One discovers things often without looking. During a discussion with Annabelle, our artistic director, we discovered a graphic designer who uses the ‘Magic Wand’ Photoshop tool a little bit … Read more →

November 21, 2008 , Alexandre Gravel // Posted in Interactive, Voyeur | Post a comment

Today But Not Tomorrow

Earlier I found something I might as well post about today, seeing as I’m already a little bit late and tomorrow it will be even later. Take a few minutes to check out Today is the Day. It’s fun, well … Read more →

November 17, 2008 , Annabelle Fiset // Posted in Art | Post a comment

We Want More!

We want more displays like this. Coloured, decorated bikes decorating forlorn over-expensive parking meters; bikes that are locked up there to tell us something, something like, “Sign up”… I’ve seen two clown-bicycles on St-Denis. I would gladly see them all … Read more →

November 12, 2008 , Annabelle Fiset // Posted in Advertising, Art, Urban | Post a comment

3 projects finished in the recent weeks

We’ve been terribly busy in the past few months and have recently launched 3 online projects. Take You Butt Outside www.takeyourbuttoutside.ca Website for the 2008 Smoke-Free Family project campaign; the online part of the campaign we developed over the summer … Read more →

November 11, 2008 , Alexandre Gravel // Posted in Portfolio, Toast, Work | Post a comment

TOAST STUDIO, OR WHY WE HAVE CHANGED OUR NAME

Since July, Infivia Solutions is no more. We have become Toast Studio. Over nearly 10 years, our service offering has greatly evolved; what started as a web development firm has become a design studio that integrates a variety of platforms. … Read more →

November 7, 2008 , Alexandre Gravel // Posted in Toast | Post a comment

There’s nothing quite like automatic translation

Keeping with yesterday’s Canada Post theme, earlier this morning I received my Rogers bill. I’ll keep it short… how many mistakes do you count in that sentence? Pretty impressive… Thank you, Rogers.

November 6, 2008 , Alexandre Gravel // Posted in Voyeur | Post a comment

We love our clients… and their children!

This morning, with the mail came a cheque, which is always pleasant. More importantly, with the cheque was a children’s drawing. It really made my day. Our clients like us and we like them; apparently it’s contagious and children have … Read more →

November 5, 2008 , Alexandre Gravel // Posted in Art, Life, Toast | Post a comment