Image: Cicada Design/Diamond + Schmitt Architects If you seem to be noticing Ryerson everywhere these days, you're not imagining it. Though it's been around since 1948 and been granting degrees since 1971, it's only during the last few years that the university has embarked on a massive expansion plan and branding campaign, drastically raising its physical and academic profile. Devoid of any real charm for decades (save for the 1852 partial façade of the......

Remember Makeout!? You can see what happened with the roomful of 200 people smooching at the Ryerson University Film Festival. This weekend RUFF will showcase films by about 40 graduating Image Arts students from May 10-12 at Royal Cinema. Eat popcorn to Billy Bites People, in which, well, Billy bites people, claymation in Happy Endings Sanatorium, and Jesus’ second coming in Zombie Jesus!. A man steals sounds from existence and catalogues them in Even With......

After finishing a year of schooling, there can't be anything better than plastering the walls of your collegiate institution with anything you want. Each year the photography, film and new media programs at Ryerson University culminate in an exhibit of over 250 student artists' work titled Maximum Exposure. Going into its 12th year, the event amasses pieces from all years of study and creates a three-storey gallery by using the entire School of Image......

Happy Groundhog Day! Wiarton Willie, Shubenacadie Sam and Punxsutawney Phil did not see their shadow this morning and thus we should expect an early spring. Should we trust our weather report to the groundhogs? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seems to agree with our furry friends, also predicting hotter climates and sea level rise. The countdown to Deal or No Deal continues. I don't know what is worse: Howie Mandel, the show's constant......

Some cram for exams and stay up all night drinking Red Bull writing essays. Art school kids have to get their stuff together and do thesis shows. Like Memoranda, the U of T Fine Arts thesis show opening tommorow night 8 pm at 30 St. Clair West (running until the 15th). There's also Descry, the Ryerson Image Arts student show at the Steamwhistle gallery until the end of the month. We'll keep our ear to......

"Hey hey. Ho ho. Ashlee Simpson is a no-talent goat." That sort of taunt, made up this very second, could very well be included in the grass-roots movement to embarrass Ashlee Simpson today at Much Music. The group making the noise, headed up by some Ry-High students, has put forth the following message: We are meeting in front of Ryerson’s School of Image Arts building (122 Bond Street, close to Sam The Record Man)......

Ryerson University has got to find some more space for their artists. Take the more than 40 artists showing at the School of Image Arts 3rd Year Show which runs until Feb. 3rd at the Ryerson Gallery. The 100+ works are crammed into every imaginable space. Photos are hung on top of one another, on pillars, behind desks. Travel photos are squeezed right next to portraits, intimate still-lifes compete for your attention with expansive landscapes.......