Jillian Ditner: TIFF 2012 Walking Map for Timberland

A little while back marketing agency trevor peter communications contacted us about a walking map for Timberland, an official sponsor of TIFF (The Toronto International Film Festival).  When Jillian Ditner was chosen, we were pretty excited about this great opportunity!  Creative Director, Alexandra MacDonald and Jillian, along with Josh McKellar, Marketing Manager for Timberland, began the collaborative process of creating the first ever eco friendly tool for navigating TIFF. The initial direction was for Jillian to create her own artistic interpretation of Toronto, the TIFF ‘playground’ and the area venues downtown that host the Festival.  One of the key objectives for this user-friendly map was to inspire TIFF-goers to ‘get outside’, walk the festival, and connect with the community.  The finished map below is available as a downloadable pdf at the Timberland online Community here.  Enjoy the Festival!

Here is a glimpse into Jillian's process.

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Survival Guide for RIM

Peter Zaver, art director for Marketing Magazine asked Jillian Ditner to illustrate conceptually, in a how-to instructional guide format, an article on RIM and a marketing strategy for Blackberry:  How Blackberry can stay alive—and thrive—in the hearts and minds of a jilted market.

Jillian Illustrates for Canadian Underwriter

Jillian lends her conceptual hand to demonstrate catastrophic insurance circumstances for Canadian Underwriter.

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Jillian Ditner an Applied Arts Illustration Award Winner

Jillian's piece "Sunrise", created for the Globe and Mail Facts and Arguments Section, won in the Young Bloods category of the 2011 Applied Arts Awards. All winning work will be showcased in the May/June issue of Applied Arts.  

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Family Flavour served up by Jillian Ditner

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Jillian recently spiced up her palette to create these beautiful images for an article in the August 2010 issue of Latina Magazine on similar values and traditions between the Hispanic and the East Indian cultures.

"My son's 'troubling'behaviours"- Thursday, May 6, 2010 Globe and Mail

Jillian Ditner has created a beautiful and quietly powerful image to accompany Rae Blackburn's story about her son, her own intuition and the attempts by various professionals to diagnose her son with a learning disability where none existed - just a different tempo to his development. For the full story, check out Facts and Arguments in Thursday, May 6, 2010 issue of the Globe and Mail. On the subject of "square pegs in a world of round holes" there is also an inspiring, funny  talk on Ted - Sir Ken Robinson on the role of creativity in schools - it was posted back in 2006 and is still very relevant.