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I’m fascinated with colour. But it’s a complex subject. Like the game of baseball, the more you understand it, the more you realize how little you know.

I am often asked by designers and colleagues how it is that I love going into first meetings or pitch situations. I find designers experience a massive amount of anxiety on that first face-to-face — they self-impose pressure. I understand why.

Starting this year, and running for the first four months of 2019, Hambly & Woolley initiated an internship program. 

One of the greatest strengths of humanity is our diversity. At the same time, it presents one of the most challenging design problems.

‘Constraint’ is somewhat of a strange word to me. On a superficial level the word seems to connote such negativity – all about limits and restrictions.

The inescapable dilemma of business development through the black hole of procurement.

I don’t think there is a magic formula for keeping your creative team inspired. If it existed, everyone would use it.

In the early years of the Internet, if a person wanted to update content on their website, they would either need to be a programmer or hire one to do the work. Today, it’s almost unheard of to have a website which cannot be easily updated by practically anyone. 

This past spring, I visited the small town of Marfa, Texas to see the work of one of my favourite artists, Donald Judd.

How we partner with in-house teams

When I moved to Toronto 25 years ago, there was a very different belief about in-house designers than exists today.