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Society of Graphic Designers of Canada

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GDC/BC Receives President’s Service Award

The BC Chapter of GDC has been selected among a select few organizations to receive the 2008 Capilano University President’s Service Awards as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. GDC/BC was honoured for its continued support [...]

Posted by: Alex Leynes on Thursday, November 20th, 2008

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Design Conferences: Sustainable?

During the research and planning phase of an upcoming GDC event—Practivism: Practical methods for radical sustainability in design—I came across Alyssa Walker’s article Conventional Wisdom: Eight Ways to Save Design Conferences. [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 26th, 2008

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Graphex Website Awarded Webby Honour

The winners of the 12th annual Webby Awards were just announced and the Graphex 2008 website, designed and developed by Industrial Brand Creative, was chosen as an Honoree out of more than 8,000 entries in 70 categories. To be selected am [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008

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Matt SamyciaWood, MGDC…finally

A hearty congratulations to IBC Brand Director Matt SamyciaWood for being awarded the MGDC certified professional designer designation by The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada [GDC]. Considering Matt has a Masters of Design and has b [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 27th, 2008

Categories: Associations, Design, Industrial Brand, News | 1 Comment »

Applied Arts Winners Announced

Applied Arts Magazine announced its latest list of winners today, and Vacnouver’s Rethink Communications cleaned up. As usual. 44 of their submissions were chosen as winners—including the Graphex 2008 invitations they designed for [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

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Reverand Lorne Ipsum Hosts the 2008 Rock Awards

Recently I attended the Rock Awards hosted by the Vancouver Island Chapter of GDC in Victoria. And what a night to remember. After a delicious locally grown organic meal, the room went dark and was filled with the deep, ominous sounds of [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

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Syd Mead and Blade Runner: The Perfect Combo

If you’re in any field related to art or design, you very likely know who Syd Mead is—the artist primarily responsible for the look and feel of influential movies such as Aliens, Blade Runner, Tron and others. Well, as a volunteer [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Categories: Art, Associations, Events, Inspiration, Vancouver, We love | 3 Comments »

Stefan Sagmeister in Vancouver

Yup. You read that correctly. Rogue graphic design star Stefan Sagmeister will be giving a presentation in Vancouver as part of GDC’s Salazar Student Design Awards at 6 pm on Friday, May 9th at the Roundhouse Arts & Community Ce [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, April 25th, 2008

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New GDC.net website launched!

After much feedback, evaluation, planning—including a healthy dose of debate and discussion—the all new GDC.net website has launched at long last, with a section devoted to the GDC BC Chapter. Having served with a number of my GDC co [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 1st, 2008

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