Profiles « Alison Garwood-Jones

The year of living dyingly

Originally published in December 2011 in Blog, Uncategorized

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) ©AGJ on Sketches

Rise and shine

Originally published in July 2011 in AppliedArtsMag.com

Change for change’s sake is hard to resist, especially when mastering a split focus has become such a badge of honour in today’s digitally driven world. Still, some endeavours bear a sweeter tasting fruit with a long-term approach. Wine making is one. Branding is another, or so say the principals at Up Inc., an award-winning [...]

In conversation with Evan Jones

Originally published in May 2011 in Blog

We’re living in an era of merging gadgets. Now you can connect your smart phone to your tablet to your laptop and television and stream a movie, a music video, a web series, family photos or a radio podcast right down the conga line of equipment until it hits your TV screen. And let’s face [...]

The nearness of you

Originally published in May 2011 in Blog

One of the things I like best about journalism is how it shrinks the phenomenon of Six Degrees of Separation — the idea that we’re all six steps away from any other person on earth — right down to zero so that one day you find yourself standing face-to-face with Kevin Bacon and asking him [...]

Originally published in March 2011 in Blog

The details

Originally published in March 2011 in Blog

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The Reel Deal

Originally published in January 2011 in AppliedArtsMag.com

Faking it is not an option for Calgary’s Roth & Ramberg, a photography duo who prides themselves on authenticity in their work In the 20 years since the switchover to digital, photography has morphed into a highly manipulative exercise in post-production. So when you meet a pair of photographers who put a premium on hanging [...]

Failure is not for the faint of heart (a holiday replay)

Originally published in December 2010 in Blog

I got quite a few emails about this post when I first published it last August. Some people said it made them feel hopeful — even brave. For better or for worse, this time of year makes us take stock of our lives. I hope these portraits provide you with some extra courage to take [...]

Promise keepers

Originally published in December 2010 in AppliedArtsMag.com

Zync, the Toronto-based branding and communication agency, has rebranded everything from multinational corporations to mom-and-pop stores, and why not? Variety is the spice of life. If Marko Zonta and Brad Breininger, the design and strategic duo heading up the Zync agency, can make our minds race, our palms sweat and our hearts jump, they’ve done [...]

Hot off the press

Originally published in September 2010 in Blog

I contributed some profiles to Fashion Television’s 25th anniversary magazine. If you’d like to read them, click here.

Newspapers of yore had "Society Pages." By women and for women, they tackled everything from recipes and hemline lengths to royal weddings and Hollywood gossip. True to my predecessors, I've lunched with the Lauders, interviewed the Kennedys and deconstructed deviled eggs (as as one would expect of a "pearly girl" and a former editor at Elle). Still, trailing A-listers with my flip cam and filing stories about their new fragrance launches or house swaps between Muskoka and the Hamptons isn't really my thing (although, I'll happily do it when food is at stake). I'd much rather use this real estate to muddle over the things that really get me going: like how our view of human nature has evolved over time. I avidly follow all the latest theories we constantly cook up — some based on science, others not — that try and explain the puzzle of being human. "Society Pages" lifestreams the most provocative research on human behavior using social media's finest tools. It asks and tries to answer the questions we're all thinking when we're not in polite company. And on slow news days, this site is my playground for, like, whatever.

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