By Filament

We’re Here to Explain Why You’re Wrong (and Why That’s OK)

When Art isn’t enough.

Design and Strategy need to work together to solve problems. Clients and…

Some things I’ve learned: Building a marketing site with Angular 5 and CSS Grid

Leadership is Discovery, not Invention

Growing up, I was pretty good at most sports. In the 80s, being good at sports and being unafraid to tell people what to do often put you in the captain’s seat. Score a few points, yell at your teammates, and just like that, you’re a born leader.

Toronto’s New Flag

You’re probably thinking “what the…Toronto has a flag?”, and yep, it sure does. Surprised me too. I’ve been living in this city for the better part of 10 years, and I’ve never seen it. Maybe I’ve never noticed it, but we have a flag that we as Torontonians are supposed to rally behind and…

Content is a bottleneck — website redesign update 2

We’re pretty keen on content. We’ve been aiming to be ‘content first’ for about 4 years and we’ve learned the importance of that decision and the impact on project success. Because of that, we often take the hard line with clients when they…

Life as a Filament Intern

Let me start by saying that landing a design internship in this competitive industry is just that—extremely competitive. I left my school, Parsons The New School for Design, and that network in New York City behind to move home to Toronto to start my career without any industry…

Filament Website Progress– Update 1

“Y’know, we should probably update our site”.

We first started talking about redesigning our company website in 2013, after the last redesign had been launched in 2010. We agreed on having full Filament…