Breaking News! According to Global BC’s Sunday newscast:
The City of Trail is getting buzz, not because it’s home to the largest zinc smelter in the world and prices are up, but because of a new ski movie that’s going viral.
JP Auclair’s urban skiing segment was posted 2 weeks ago on several ski mag forums, and [...]
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Ali Milner and Son Real: another sweet creative juxtaposition
We’re long-term advocates of the school of creativity that seeks beauty in unexpected juxtapositions -after all, we’re an agency with one leg in Whistler and the other in Montreal. Following the theme we kicked off with yesterday, sharing HEAD’s Skiers United concept, here’s another fresh juxtaposition that we’re loving right now.
Whistler’s home town [...]
Wanted: Business Development & Marketing Coordinator
Origin Design + Communications is seeking an experienced BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING COORDINATOR to support and initiate Origin’s business development efforts, manage its marketing projects, and manage its social channels and online presence. The ideal candidate will have sales experience in outdoor sports or tourism, and is a mountain lover who’s positive, out-going, energetic, a [...]
Three Deep Summer Bike Photographers Share the Secrets of Creative Collaboration. / Trois photographes de vélo de montagne qui ont participé au concours Deep Summer nous font part de leurs secrets sur la collaboration créative.
The secret to a successful creative collaboration?
+Good Chemistry
Dan Barham, (www.danbarham.com) whose 3rd place winning light-hearted “5 Stages of a Bummer Summer” riffed on the season’s disappointing weather, brainstormed his show’s “big idea” with his crew around a large table with two bottles of scotch and a pad of paper. “I’d had the idea for the [...]
Lessons on the creative process, gleaned from Sherpas Cinema
In the studio across the way from us, Sherpas Cinema have been holed up all summer, editing the feature film All.I.Can in time for its world premiere in Whistler on September 23 at the 2000–seat Conference Centre.
All.I.Can. Official Teaser from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.
The scale of the project is mammoth – the feature was shot over [...]
How to be Creative – the Wisdom Project Chronicles of Andrew Zuckerman
The story, in a nutshell: a guy who has never shot a portrait or conducted an interview, excavates the life wisdom from 60 of the world’s highest–profile elders.
The result: The Wisdom Project.
Here’s what he learned.
Andrew Zuckerman from 99% on Vimeo.
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us show up and get to work. ( [...]
Passionate about mountain culture? Prove it.
Do not be surprised at a job interview for Origin Design if we ask you to take off your coat. We just want to see if you really mean it when you say you love the mountains. (Half as much as our Montreal office’s Account Manager does.)
Monday Moodboard – A literal guide to Monday mornings
We decided to take a literal approach to today’s moodboard, borrowing these awesome portraits from James Mollison.
So is this a
or a
kinda day?
DIY – our favourite creative projects of the week
Creative expression most widely manifests as tailwhips and tattoos in Whistler in the summertime, but we’ve rounded up a few alternatives for the crafty set, inspired by our friend Zoe Martin, who has been baking up a storm of cupcakes every Tuesday to support a colleague running to end kids’ cancer next weekend.
So, in honour [...]
