Category archives Tools

Our Tools: Large File Transfer via WeTransfer

This post is the first of a series showing the tools we use at Toast Studio—tools that enable a design studio like ours to work in high gear. As an agency (as for many other companies), we very often have … Read more

, André Farhat // Posted in Techno, Toast, Tools | Post a comment

Toast Tools: Project Management with ActiveCollab

This post is the first of a series showing the tools we use at Toast Studio—tools that enable a design studio like ours to work in high gear. At Toast, we usually have to manage around thirty projects at once. … Read more

, Alexandre Gravel // Posted in Toast, Tools | Post a comment

WebP, Google’s New Image Format

Google recently announced the release of its new image compression format, called WebP (pronounced Weppy, or wĕpˈē). Google’s primary objective is to modernise image formats on the Web as to reduce the loading time of web pages. It’s now possible … Read more

, Mathieu Rivest // Posted in Interactive, Techno, Tools | Post a comment

Typekit, First Impressions from an Art Director

TypeKit just came out. It’s a lovely tool, a simpler alternative to sIFR (and others such as Cufon). It aims to make every art director happy, by allowing them to use a font other those dictated by web standards. Everything … Read more

, Lionel Michée // Posted in Interactive, Tools, Type | Post a comment

LetterPress

<p>It is good to know that our trade of communicators isn’t losing its history or its know-how!</p> <p>Ink, metal and wood; arms, a good eye and the love for a job well done!</p> <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/2170116″>Letterpress Poster Printing</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/niceredshorts”>Joshua … Read more

, Lionel Michée // Posted in Art, Tools, Type | Post a comment

Send video email with TokBox

I just made an interesting discovery: TokBox lets you video chat with your web cam and send video email to any address. Go register on their official website: http://www.tokbox.com

, Samuel Paquet Paré // Posted in Interactive, Tools | Post a comment

Sauce Brune playing at Espace Libre

Sauce Brune, a new production by our beloved friends, Simoniaques Théâtre. An on-going project for the past 6 years with a successful fundraiser 3 years back, it is with pride, tackiness and swearing that they will be at Espace Libre … Read more

, Annabelle Fiset // Posted in Art, Design, Portfolio, Tools, Work | Post a comment

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

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