Community
Co-Working • Directories • Groups • Blogs • Conferences
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ps. Resources with a “diamond” are ones we personally use and highly recommend!
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Co-Working & Communities
MAKE LEMONADE 🇨🇦
Virtual Community & Co-working Space
Canadian-based - Featured in Forbes, Fashion Magazine, Toronto Life, and Canadian Living are some of our highlights, partnering with Bumble, Facebook, and Instagram. In 2020 the in-person community became a virtual community (Get Sh*t Done Club.
THE WORKAROUND 🇨🇦🔸
Toronto Co-working with childcare
Pay as you go co-working space in Toronto for parents. Onsite childcare to help entrepreneurs juggle their busy and changing schedules
CREATIVE CITY
Creative Community
The Creative City Network of Canada (CCNC) is a network of dedicated municipal culture leaders whose work ignites communities and contributes to a vibrant, creative Canada.
CREATIVE MORNINGS🔸
Breakfast Community (Free)
CreativeMornings is the world’s largest face-to-face creative community. Free monthly speaker and breakfast for creatives around the world.
I LOVE CREATIVES 🇨🇦
Creative Directory
Connect with Creatives. Find creative jobs, freelance tools, online courses, and events. (Available in Toronto, Vancouver)
SIX-FIGURE-DESIGN-BIZ🔹🔸
Facebook Group
Facebook group run by Morgran Rapp, all about pricing and running a successful design business.
UPWORK
Freelance Community
world's largest work marketplace. Find great talent. Build your business. Take your career to the next level.
1000 TOWNS OF CANADA 🇨🇦
Blog
Blog and Community with a full list of the best things to do in thousands of cities across Canada
CREATIVE LADY COLLECTIVE
Facebook Group
A collective of skilled creative women in all realms of design. Great for support and asking questions.
CANADIAN FREELANCE UNION 🇨🇦
Freelance Community
Focuses on advancing the rights and working conditions for freelancers in the communications and media industries. Our members benefit from personalized contract mediation, comprehensive health insurance, press cards to eligible union members, and more.
WEWORK 🇨🇦
Co-Working Space
Community and Co-Working space across Canada & the US or a growing startup, discover flexible spaces and solutions to move your business forward.
BARTER & BE
Barter Directory
A curated membership directory that connects female entrepreneurs with each other to exchange creative services.
Meetup
Community
Join a group to meet people in cities all over the world, make friends, find support, grow a business, and explore your interests. Thousands of events are happening every day, both online and in-person!
Bosstalks
Mastermind Community
You’re capable of achieving even more than you ever set your mind to. A mastermind for badass bosses who want to get out of their own way and slay all day.
Design Source Co🔹🔸
Facebook Group
Hosted by Lydia from Telltale Design Co. The Design Source is an online forum to ask anything you want related to design. From tips, tricks, recommendations and resources. Nothing is off the table related to running your creative biz.
RGD Association of REgistered Graphic Designers 🇨🇦🔹
Certification & Community
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers 'RGD or simply RGD; formerly ARGD/ON is a Canadian non-profit, self-regulatory professional design association with over 3,000 members. It serves graphic design professionals, managers, educators and students.
Graphic Designers of Canada 🇨🇦
Certification & Community
Canada's national association for design professionals. Supporting and advancing the design profession through advocacy, education, community building, and CGD™ certification. A design association is a collective of likeminded designers (web, ux, motion, print etc.), educators, students and passionate people from complementary industries who all believe that more can be accomplished for the enrichment and growth of the design profession when we work together.
Conferences
Design Thinkers 🇨🇦🔹
Conference
Canada's premier conference for visual communicators. DesignThinkers is an annual, two-day design conference hosted by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (RGD Ontario). Attracting over 1,000 participants, it’s Canada’s largest, most important graphic design event and provides a forum for professionals from several areas of the marketing and creative mix to listen, learn and interact with peers from across the country.
MindCamp Canada 🇨🇦
Conference
A Canadian retreat where you can take seminars and classes which teach creativity, innovation and leadership skills. It’s a five-day micro-university for personal, professional, and organizational creativity — a feast of concurrent sessions presented by the best creativity leaders in North America and world-wide. And on top of our scheduled programs, there are evening salons, dialog sessions, music, dancing, campfires, and just plain fun.
ALTITUDE SUMMIT
Female Conference & Community
A community of thousands of women influencers and entrepreneurs in creative fields. One week a year, we provide a physical gathering place for that community and then incredible things happen.
CREATIVE SOUTH🔸
Annual Creative Conference
4 Day creative conference and community gathering. Some of the best designers in the industry share their ideas and dreams.
Typographics
Conference
Typographics is organized and run by a dedicated group of typography fans, offering talks and other programming for people who use type. Typographics design festival is an annual forum for presentations about graphic design, web design, publication design, book design, type design, packaging, branding, corporate identity, advertising, motion graphics, and more. Importantly, Typographics focuses on new frontiers in digital typography.
Letterwest
Conference
This intentionally small conference is the only event of its kind in North America that is catered specifically to lettering artists. It’s a place where letterers can take their craft and business skills to the next level and create relationships with like-minded peers and industry leaders who understand them, their work, and their goals. There is a magical quality about being together in the same physical space rather than simply connecting online.
Crop Cons
Conference
We’re proud to share our roster of some of the top artists, designers, letterers, illustrators, authors, and creative entrepreneurs around. Their unique perspectives, tales, experiences, and workshops are sure to inspire, impart new skills & practices, and spark your passion to create. Keynotes & Live Sessions are included in Crop General Admission registration.
Adobe Max
Conference
Being one of the largest creative conferences in North America, Adobe Max hosts 12,000 attendees and offers over 300 sessions, labs, workshops and more. Whether you attend to perfect your skills, meet your favourite designers, or to explore trends in future design. Join your fellow graphic designers, illustrators, videographers, web and UX designers, photographers, and creative directors by registering to attend the conference!