Check out this site and watch for a big pink logo on the back of Grand River Transit Buses in the year to come to encourage awareness of the visual arts within the Waterloo Region and invite the community to visit their local public art galleries.

An amazing woman, self described as ” User Experience Librarian, LIS instructor, blogger & tech-geek” has alerted me to the Wordle application and the fun you can have with it. Check out her comments  in her blog about what you can do to create a tag cloud of, say, your del.ic.ious tags or, as she shows, text from a James Joyce novel taken from  Project Gutenberg. Your life in a cloud or a text analysis tool - and it looks design-y, too!

Check out the winner of the Why do you love the library? 1st Prize from the School of Architecture: Ray Wang.

There is still time to take in some of the 21st Images Festival 2008 Apr 3-13 in Toronto, showcasing contemporary moving image culture.

We want to hear from you!

This blog is for those that not only want to find resources but want to collaborate and connect with other artists and practitioners in the art and design field. Many work independently. We’re designing a discussion forum and we need your input: Is this something you want? What are your pressing interests, challenges? Do you have any experience, good or bad, of other discussion formats that can help us shape a compelling space where you can share information, seek feedback and connect with others of shared interest?  Visual arts, performing arts, architecture and design, film, writing, museum and archives, art organizations - what, in your discipline, is worth talking about? Love to hear your comments!

Welcome to intersections in architecture, art and design at

This blog is an initiative of the Cambridge libraries and galleries to provide links to resources, ideas, news, and research  for the creative community of our region and beyond. We want to encourage a dynamic exchange between educators, architects, designers, artists, curators, computer technologists and anyone within the design world and to foster ways in which they can create, collaborate, share and be informed.

Physically, we are situated in a public square that intersects with a school of architecture, art centres and galleries, school art programs and surrounded by rich evidence of a strong cultural heritage. Online we intersect within a global context and can provide access and tools to resources that will meet the needs of this unique community and partner with other institutions by sharing what we have.

Take a look around, check out links, make comments and watch this blog evolve!