It's that time of year again when HandyMan and I put together a Pecha Kucha Night. What's a Pecha Kucha you ask? It's a high-energy presentation format. Think of it like the Twitter of presentations - each presenter shows a slideshow of 20 images, each slide shown for 20 seconds. Oh, and its tons of fun for the audience to watch (especially when a presenter looks over their shoulder and realizes they're talking way too long and are 6 slides behind!).

As we did last year, we are organizing the Pecha Kucha for Trade Day at the Interior Design Show, Canada's largest contemporary design event. IDS is the must-attend show for design fanatics and we are thrilled to be involved.

We've managed to line up a diverse and interesting roster of speakers from the fields of fashion, design, media and the arts:

• Allan Guinan - Partner of figure3
• Arriz Hassam - Principal of 3rd Uncle Design
• Cobi Ladner - Former Editor of Canadian House & Home magazine and creator of cobistyle.com
• David Dixon - Leading Canadian women's fashion designer
• Gord Peteran - Canadian contemporary furniture designer and artist
• Nigel Smith - CEO and Creative Director of graphic design firm Hahn Smith Design Inc.
• Shinan Govani - National Post columnist, resident snoop, town-crier and people-watcher
• Sara Diamond - President of Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)

and Arren Williams, stylist, editor, and regular guest expert on CityLine, will once again be our moderator. Come check us out in Toronto on January 22nd!

And bonus: Trade Day registration to IDS is free until Dec.15th! Sign up now.