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Selected Adobe Features
Adobe MAX 2025
From Brand to Belonging: Earn Your Community
In this talk, Ottawa Design Club founder Izzy Poirier walks through how the club was built, including a very public misstep that didn’t land the way it was intended. Using that moment as a turning point, she breaks down what actually builds belonging over time, from trust and timing to audience awareness and consistency. The session pulls directly from real decisions made inside Ottawa Design Club and offers a practical look at what it takes to move from having an idea to building a community people genuinely show up for.
Watch It HereAdobe Live - Creating a Typographic Zine with Ariane Bédard - 1 of 2
Tune in with Graphic Designer Ariane Bédard as she creates a zine on Adobe Live! This week, she’ll challenge herself by designing a 20 page type forward layout of an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Design your own zine alongside Ariane as she experiments with composition, fonts and color in InDesign!
Guest: Ariane Bédard is a graphic designer and co-founder of the Ottawa Design Club
Host: Isabelle Poirier is Lead Graphic Design founder of the Ottawa Design Club
Adobe Live - Creating a Typographic Zine with Ariane Bédard - 2 of 2
Tune in with Graphic Designer Ariane Bédard as she creates a zine on Adobe Live! This week, she’ll challenge herself by designing a 20 page type forward layout of an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Design your own zine alongside Ariane as she experiments with composition, fonts and color in InDesign!
Guest: Ariane Bédard is a graphic designer and co-founder of the Ottawa Design Club
Host: Isabelle Poirier is Lead Graphic Design founder of the Ottawa Design Club
Selected Articles
Apt613: Ottawa Design Club’s Off Course guides creatives dealing with uncertainty - by Jane Curtis
Growth is linear and things always go as expected… said literally no one ever.
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Apt613: Ottawa Design Club’s On New Terms creates a space for creatives shifting gears - by Jane Curtis
On Feb. 12, they had their 20th speaker event, On New Terms. A night about shifts that don’t wrap up neatly. Having moved and gone through my own shift, that felt relatable to say the least.
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Ottawa Design Club’s “Building Bridges” exhibit filled up artist centre AXENÉO7 - by Nickie Shobeiry from Apt613
Imagine this: you’re volunteering with Ottawa Design Club ahead of its next zine launch, and co-founders Izzy Poirier and Ariane Bédard pose a challenge for you: of the 228 pages of the newest zine
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Ottawa Design Club launches new zine and art exhibit, ‘Building Bridges’ - by Nickie Shobeiry from Apt613
If you’re an Ottawa Design Club regular, you’ll know that, at every event, the organizers weave in a special Easter egg.
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Hands-On Vibes closes out the summer for Ottawa Design Club - By Vasileios Tselios from Apt613
The Ottawa Design Club (ODC) hosted its end-of-summer party, called “Hands-On Vibes”, at Club SAW on August 22nd. This event ran from 6pm to 11pm and kept the guests entertained with engaging panel speakers, music and activities.
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Ottawa Design Club’s presents end-of-summer ‘Hands-On Vibes’ event 22.08.24 - by Nickie Shobeiry from Apt613
The Ottawa Design Club (ODC) hosted its end-of-summer party, called “Hands-On Vibes”, at Club SAW on August 22nd. This event ran from 6pm to 11pm and kept the guests entertained with engaging panel speakers, music and activities. The co-founder of the ODC, Izzy Poirier, discussed the importance and intent of the event:
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Inspiration, Innovation, and Collaboration: Inside the Ottawa Design Club's Creative Journey - by Amodini Allu at Nosy Mag
With an aim to walk down memory lane with the founders of ODC, I asked Ariane and Izzy about their memories of the early days, and they shared their inspiring journey of how ODC was put into action.
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“Beyond the Mark” with Ottawa Design Club - by Sonya Gankina from Apt613
This was “Beyond the Mark,” organized by Ottawa Design Club (ODC) and held at Club SAW. Highlighting three local artists and designers, the late-February event allowed us to learn how to integrate community into our work beyond our craft, as demonstrated by the event speakers.
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Ottawa Design Club is back! First in-person event and 2022 programming - by Sonya Gankina from Apt613
“If you like creativity, you’re in the club,” declares the Ottawa Design Club‘s (ODC) motto. But it’s one thing to say it, and another to bring it to life with a spectacular event! The first-ever in-person gathering for ODC, Event 0005 – ORIGINS, brought together Ottawa creatives at Club SAW on Thursday, May 26.
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How to: Create a Portfolio Website (Hint.. It's not just about pretty pictures!) - by Isabelle Poirier and Rebel.com
Not sure where to start? We’re here to help—and we’ll make it fun! Below we’ve outlined 7 strategic steps that will help you build your dream portfolio website.
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