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Our goal for the Practivism event is to host an enlightening, rhetoric-free evening of wisdom and discussion as our sustainability experts share their experiences and insights, attempt to demystify green speak and provide attendees with practical answers and strategies they can apply in their lives and design practices. But as we discussed the event logistics, such as printing invites, posters, flying the speakers from New York and California, etc, it was a harsh reminder of the impact we have on the environment even when putting on relatively small industry events such as these.
We're making every effort possible to make effective choices to promote and host our event within realistic parameters, such as reducing our print requirements and ensuring we use production techniques with the smallest environmental input. We even considered remote web video technologies and web streaming as an alternative to needed the speakers to be on-site. Hopefully as we move forward we can make innovations to how events and conferences are organized an produced.
GDC's Designer Speaker Series event
Practivism: Practical methods for radical sustainability in design will be held on November 13th at Science World in Vancouver. Speakers include,
Innovation and Sustainabilty Expert Marc Alt,
Green Graphic Design author Brian Dougherty and
Design Can Change Founder Eric Karjaluoto. Information and tickets are available at
www.practivism.ca.
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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. I [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 26th, 2008
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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 amon [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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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 bee [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 27th, 2008
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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 a [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
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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 Cent [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, April 25th, 2008
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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 colle [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 1st, 2008
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He’s worked with Burton Snowboards since 1984. He owns the biggest design firm in Brazil. He’s the current global creative director of Starbucks and formerly of Nike. He created the only comprehensive course on Canadian design h [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
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GDC/BC Presents: Design Speaker Series #1 – Logo Savvy Book Launch Thursday October 18th, 2007 @ 7–10pm at Emily Carr Institute Theatre, Granville Island, Vancouver. Ever wonder how some of the world’s top brand identity firms go [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, October 5th, 2007
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The theme for this year's competition, “
The Best of Visual Communications: Opens a World of Possibilities”, uses the visual language of a tournament ladder structure to reveal the various influences and inputs that go into a design solution, as well as serving as a representation of the fierce competition to win a prestigious Graphex Award. As well, the tournament ladder is flipped to explore the various possible influences and effect a particular design project can have far beyond the creative brief or client, such as on the community, economy, environment and society. And what effects will winning an award such as Graphex have on our own lives, reputations and careers?
Graphex 2008 asks the question "
What effect will your design have?"
Enter now to find out.
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GDC’s Graphex 2008 National Design Awards were recently announced with a deadline for entries of November 23rd, 2007. Designed and developed by Industrial Brand Creative, the website features an animated Flash interface with dynamic c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, September 27th, 2007
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The GDC BC Chapter is hard at work with the final preparations for the 2007 edition of the Salazar Student Design Awards. Rumour has it that the entry deadline has been extended to June 6th, 2007, so if you’re a design student or rece [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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A hearty congratulations to IBC Senior Designer Kevin Broome for being granted professional designer designation by The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada [GDC]. A finer or more deserving MGDC you’ll likely never meet.
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, May 11th, 2007
Categories: Associations, Design, Industrial Brand, News | 4 Comments »
