Robert Labossiere

Current

Executive Director at Canadian Art Museum Directors' Organization (CAMDO)

Past

Managing Editor at YYZBOOKS / YYZ Artists' Outlet
Founder and Principal at www.klooj.net
Panel Coordinator at FITC Design and Technology Events

Production Manager at Bruce Mau Design

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Education

Canadian Film Centre
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Robert Labossiere’s Summary

Arts Administration
Association management (6 years with smaller organizations)
Publications development and production management (4 years)

Background/related experience:
Degree in law (Osgoode Hall), experience with contracts in the creative industries and intellectual property, digital rights management (5 years)

Communications/media
- web design and project development (10 years freelance);
- print, from conception, design, production to distribution (14 years cumulative);

Extracurricular:
- FITC Design and Technology Events - panels coordinator (3 years).

Beliefs: Good design needs to be "in" everything we do, whether it's the architecture of a website or the shape of a book. Good designs follows from great research, transparent process, and strategic use of imagination.

Inspiration: Bruce Mau - for his unrelenting optimism and belief in the pervasiveness of design.

Personal interests:
Self-starter
Strong conceptual skills
Likes working with people
Avid about the arts
Wedded to my bike
CSIA Level 1 ski instructor
Badminton

Robert Labossiere’s Specialties:

Management for small and large budget, local, national and international creative projects; finding the talent, pooling resources, organizing, managing, driving to the finish line.

Robert Labossiere’s Experience

Executive Director

Canadian Art Museum Directors' Organization (CAMDO)

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Managing Editor

YYZBOOKS / YYZ Artists' Outlet

(Fine Art industry)

2004 — October 2008 (4 years )

Managing all aspects of this small art-book publisher, including financing, budgets, contracting, design and production, manuscript development, co-publishing partnerships.

I produced fourteen books during my tenure at YYZ, including Decentre - On Artist-run Culture, which I initiated, gathering together the editorial group and over 100 contributors on four continents.
Founder and Principal

www.klooj.net

(Internet industry)

1996 — 2008 (12 years )

Specializing in interface design and information visualization, I did website development on a freelance basis for many years, working primarily for people in the creative sector: architects, filmmakers, journalists, writers and artists, and also some larger projects for associations and businesses. I work with hand-coded HTML, CSS, MIVA Merchant eCommerce software, social (web 2.0) media, and provided site hosting using the excellent company Pair. A lot of my web work is done in Flash and if I had any time would be developing my skills with the Flash communications system Flex.
Panel Coordinator

FITC Design and Technology Events

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

2003 — April 2006 (3 years )

topic development, panelists liaison, authoring descriptions, event coordination, panel moderation, follow-up and event evaluation
Production Manager

Bruce Mau Design

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )

Bruce Mau Design is internationally recognized for sophisticated design solutions across the broadest possible range of projects, from creating identity profiles for entire countries to local retail interior design, book and product design.

As Project Manager, I coordinated the efforts of a design team of seven, three senior and four junior designers. My work included creating pitch documents, budgeting, scheduling, site inspections and quality control. In some cases, I also contributed creatively, for example, authoring a brand bible for the Canadian clothing company ROOTS, and producing a multimedia presentation for Indigo Books.

Robert Labossiere’s Education

Canadian Film Centre

Media Lab 1999 — 2000

Activities and Societies:

An intensive residency in interactive media development, from conception to prototyping. My company klooj.net was born there.

Visit their website for information about the program: http://www.cfccreates.com/what_we_do/cfc_media_lab/index.php
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

LL.B. , 1985 — 1989

Activities and Societies:

Obiter Dicta student newspaper co-editor, Osgoode Hall Law Journal volunteer, Benchmark magazine student quarterly co-founder, C.L.A.S.P. free legal clinic student lawyer.
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

MFA , Studio Fine Art , 1980 — 1982

Activities and Societies:

Publicover student newspaper founder and editor, Thesis exhibition "Mirror of the World" at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Bookwork "Mirror of the World" published in 1984.