Eleven-seventeen

A few spreads from the Thunder Bay Art Gallery catalogue for Cheryl Wilson Smith's exhibition, 21 Pillows. See more of her incredible sculptural glass work here: www.cherylwilsonsmith.com

Thunder Bay success story: Local company, Global Hydration Water Treatment Systems Inc., has become the Master Distributor for Squirrel's Nut Butter products in stores across Canada, and in Canadian online marketplaces. We are proud to have made the bilingual version of the packaging for all 12 of the Canadian products. Based on original label design by Squirrel's Nut Butter Thanks to Steve Coghill for jumping in to help when we needed you!

We were inspired by and excited to work alongside Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund for this project. The Comprehensive Community Planning Ontario website is a online community hub for NADF clients to learn about CCP, find CCP tools and resources, hear success stories, and connect with each other. 11-17 designed and developed a community site that provides member accounts, categorized and filterable CCP resource listings, and a community forum. Over the past year, the site has... grown to connect over 70 members from First Nations communities across Northern Ontario, helping to foster inter-community dialog, learning, and growth on their own terms. Check it out at ccpontario.org Original artworks by Roy Kakegamic. Based on the CCP Toolkit document designed by EcoPlan International. Hope everyone is staying safe.

This is great - Broadly has just launched The Gender Spectrum Collection, a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. "Over the years, as we have published stories focusing on and written by transgender and non-binary people, we have consistently found ourselves limited by the scarcity of available stock imagery that portrays their lives in an authentic way. So we decided to create some." See the photos, and read about access and usage under Creative Commons license below.

North of Superior Counselling Programs is hiring! See them at the LU Career Fair on Feb 7.

Our new side hustle. Kidding. Playing with 2019 Pantone Color of the Year, Living Coral, to see what a couple of 11/17 coffee roasts might look like. Just for fun. Which one would you pick?

Thank you to North of Superior Counselling Programs for the privilege of working on their annual report. Always inspired by their vision as an organization, and how it leads the design direction.

Have you heard of Narrow Gate Foods? Meet Thunder Bay’s newest company making small batch, big love fermented foods. We’ve had the privilege of designing logo, bottle packaging, multiple print materials, and more. Narrow Gate’s Kombucha is on shelves locally, and Kimchi and Sauerkraut are on the way. If you see their product, show some love to this local business!

National Geographic's most significant redesign in decades is set to hit shelves by the end of April. Changes include putting visual storytelling at the forefront, and comes complete with new typefaces and more premium paper stock. Do you subscribe? We don't, but maybe we will...

We'll be keeping our eyes open for this one.

A couple of spreads from the annual report for NOSP (North of Superior Counselling Programs). Really enjoyed designing this piece.

"Design can sell anything. Design can also destroy everything. Design is this double-edged sword." Natasha Jen shares her thoughts on the role of design in the current socio-economic climate, and her experience as a partner at Pentagram, among other thoughts. http://99u.com//pentagrams-natasha-jen-on-pseudo-feminism-

Sending everyone warm and cozy wishes for the holiday season and new year!

The staff of Barcelona-based design studio Casa Carlota includes people with Down's syndrome, autism, and intellectual disabilities, and the outcomes are amazing for everybody. https://t.co/3uang2ioBX

Zach Lieberman, artist, teacher, and co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation, talks about (and demonstrates) the intersection of programming and graphic arts. https://youtu.be/bmztlO9_Wvo

Only a few spots left in our Thunder Bay CEDC workshop "Hard Working Websites", this Thursday at MJLB Library! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/free-workshop-hardworking-websi

FREE WORKSHOP The Thunder Bay CEDC and Eleven-Seventeen are offering a free workshop on website builders, SEO, content strategies, social media and more! Follow the link below for more info and to register.

Okay... but what goes inside? http://www.thisiscolossal.com//08/hieronymus-bosch-pinatas/

Michael Beirut - design legend, and designer of the Hillary Clinton campaign logo - is, like many, having an existential crisis after the election. But his crisis is about corporate branding and authenticity. http://designobserver.com/feature/im-with-her/39523

The NADF Engage Summit is coming up again, February 27th at the Valhalla Inn! Here's a panel session called 'The Importance of Modern Web Design' from last year's conference, featuring our very own Daniel Hansen, Tyler Sklazeski of Shout! Media, and Kevin Andersen of Ninesixty Group. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1r3yHqUcCQ