TORONTO—Near the exit of most grocery stores sits a small, wood-paneled wine store. Never noticed it? Retailer Andrew Peller Limited doesn’t blame you. As a result, the quiet little wine stores are about to get a lot more conspicuous. Local design firm Perennial Inc. recently rebranded the stores, now named Aisle43, dropping the traditional staid […]
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VANCOUVER—Sure Subplot has branded a city aquarium, craft brewery and provincial tennis association but there is one specific job the local design firm has always wanted to lick: designing stamps. “There’s something wonderfully challenging about something that’s only an inch and a half square,” explained Subplot principal and creative director Matthew Clark, who, along with […]
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The pictograms (right), based on jingwen (left), represent the different Olympic sports (Photo credit: China Daily) BEIJING—While amateur athletes from around the globe have worked intensely for years to prepare for the summer Olympics in Beijing, so too have the graphic designers responsible for the look of the Games. A recent article in China Daily […]
View PostNEW YORK—While Team Canada may not be fairing well at this summer’s Beijing Olympic Games – it currently sits in 15th place with 9 metals – team Ryan Uhrich and Marco Ceravalo of the Vancouver Film School certainly did. The pair won top honours in the Motion Graphics category at the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, […]
View PostTORONTO—The Walrus has a new art director in Brian Morgan. A graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and the Rhode Island School of Design, Morgan is the former deputy AD of Maclean’s. He has also worked for the Globe and Mail, CanWest Media and in The Walrus art department […]
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