Icograda’s World Design Congress “XIN”, being held in Beijing next month is gaining steam and shaping up to be on of the most impressive and memorable design events in our lifetime—and GDC will be there.
Representing designers from across Canada, the winning entries from Graphex 2008: the Best of Visual Communications in Canada will be featured as an official exhibit from October 24–November 4 at the Gallery of the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University in Beijing. Read the rest of this entry »
Winners of Graphex 2008are now online and can be viewed at http://www.gdc.net/graphex/winners/ and catalogues of the winners will be available for sale shortly for $45 (members) or $60 (non-members). If you’d like to pre-order yours today, please send an email to GDC in Ottawa at info@gdc.net.
The exhibit of winners began its tour across Canada with a showing April 1–11th at the HSBC Pendulum Gallery at Georgia and Hornby in Vancouver. The exhibit will also be shown in Vancouver at Roundhouse in Yaletown May 5–11th as part of the coming Salazar Student Awards (featuring keynote speaker Stefan Sagmeister) and mini design conference in conjunction with Kwantlen University College’s GDMA graduation activities.
For more info on the recent gala awards ceremony, please click below:
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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.
The creative tournament ladder-inspired theme exploring the connections and possibilities of good design was thoughtfully developed by Rethink Communications, who are also producing the beautiful catalogue showcasing all the Graphex winners (available at GDC.net soon).
To be named as a honoree in the Webby Awards means being selected from amongst the very best in interactive design, so a hearty congratulations to all the volunteers who worked hard to produce this terrific website, promotional campaign and the entire competition. Great team effort.
What a wild and fantastically inspiring Graphex weekend! We’re all just recovering and starting in on all the follow up work but there are a few bits of news in need of sharing. First and foremost the winners exhibit is starting its national tour starting in Vancouver (seems logical since everyone was just here!). It’s displaying at the Pendulum Gallery in the HSBC Building at 885 W. Georgia until April 11th. This is truly some of the best in current Canadian Design and is well worth the trip down to check out. We’ve also posted the video vignettes at Video.ca (available here, here and here). Photos are also starting to come in and will be archived on the our Flickr Account (and the Graphex Collection) The coveted Graphex Catalogues are being produced now and will be available for sale shortly, stay tuned!
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The Graphex Awards Gala is coming up soon and the ticket cut of is tomorrow (Tuesday) night at midnight. If you’ve been thinking about coming, or putting off getting tickets until the last minute, now’s the time to make up your home and grab some while they’re still available! More details are available at the Graphex Site or in the copy of our latest e-mail blast. If you’re interested I’ll let you read about it there but all I’m going to say is that the guest Emzee is Ze Frank! Can’t wait.
Graphex 2008 Awards Dinner
Friday, March 28th, 2008 6:00pm - midnight at The Vancouver Club
915 West Hastings Street
Note: Formal Attire
Click for Map.
Ticket Sales
$95/GDC Members
$115/non-members
Tables Sales
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Tables of 8 available, $725.00 per table
Contact Graphex Co-Chair Cory Ripley, at events.bc@gdc.net.
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The votes from our judges for the 2008 Graphex Awards have been tallied and we’re almost set to announce the winners! The awards are set for March 28rd at the prestigious Vancouver Club and will be hosted by Ze Frank. Take advantage of the Early Bird Pricing for tickets and remember to save the date!
Revision Note: Save The Dates only work if the date is correct! The Graphex Gala is on March 28th, and not the 23rd as was originally written! Sorry any confusion. Proof readers are being interviewed now!
Graphex 2008 launches with a bang.
November 30th, 2007 saw a festive start to Graphex 2008 with catered food, drinks and mingling with some of the BC design community’s best and brightest at the Graphex Judges Evening hosted by GDC/BC at UBC Robson Square. And the festive atmosphere continued through the center-piece of the Judges Evening: The individual presentations from each of the judges and the opportunity for the assembled audience to pose questions from the floor.
Some stirring remarks by GDC/BC President Mark Busse and a special message from National VP of Communications Rod Roodenburg marked the beginning of the presentations and each of the judges in turn gave their insightful, informed sometimes humorous and always heart-felt perspective on the power of design, delivering what will almost certainly be looked-back upon as one of the richest evenings of design discourse to occur in Vancouver this year.
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Designer, web phenom, teacher and philosopher-comic Ze Frank has agreed to be the official MC presiding over the Graphex 2008 Gala Awards Ceremony and dinner at the prestigious Vancouver Club on March 28, 2008.
If you don’t remember Frank’s rapid rise to Internet fame in 2001 with his viral video “How to Dance Properly,” or his year-long web experiment “The Show With Ze Frank” which drew media praise and thousands of daily viewers, then perhaps a more recent example of his presentation skills at this year’s TED conference will convince you that this is an event not to be missed.
For more information on Ze Frank and an assortment of his web designs, humour and multimedia, visit www.zefrank.com.
Last night, November 21st, 2007, Jeff Harrison and Rethink Communications won a prestigious Lotus Award in the category of Best Design Poster for their design of the GDC Graphex 2008 Call For Entries poster. Well done guys!
For those wondering if you’ve missed your chance to submit work to Graphex, we’re holding submissions open until 5pm Monday, November 26th. Don’t miss your chance to participate and see how your best designs stack up against the best and brightest across Canada!
For information and entry forms, please visit www.gdc.net/graphex
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Graphex 2008 —
“The Best of Visual Communications: Opens a World of Possibilities”
Graphex 2008 is an Icograda-endorsed national design competition that has been celebrating the best of visual communication in Canada since 1977. The primary goals of Graphex are to promote the value of design to the Canadian public and business community – Good Design Is Good Business – and to create an archive of Canadian design for future generations to reflect upon and study. Graphex thrives on learning from and rewarding those designers who are addressing increasingly complex and diverse creative challenges. As such, the theme for Graphex 2008 positions the winning entry as not only the end result of a tournament style process of elimination but also as the catalyst for a ripple effect of influence upon the world at large. The point of this is to highlight the fact that while many designers do not often look past the moment of winning an award, there are larger issues at stake and greater possibilities for change than whatever was the design’s original intention. In doing so, we are reminded of both the importance of design’s place in society and the responsibility that designers must assume as a result.
What effects will your design have?
Information, rules, guidelines and entry forms are available at www.gdc.net/graphex.
Deadline: Entries, forms and fees must be received at Kwantlen University College no later than 5pm Friday, November 23, 2007
Click here for the first edition of the GDC Vancouver Island Chapter on line newsletter: http://www.ideazone.ca/gdc/newsletter.php
We will be sending these out regularly, it will be filled with all sorts off fun and interesting things. Send announcements and anything you would like to include to communications.vibc@gdc.net.
Get ready…Graphex 2008 is coming.
So ya reckon there have been some exciting changes and events at the GDC recently? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. We’re a few weeks away from the national launch of Graphex 2008 with a killer new Call For Entries campaign designed by GDC member firm Rethink Communications Group in Vancouver with a new website launched soon after. Stay tuned for details to come.
In the meantime, browse the list of confirmed judges below and see if you don’t recognize a few names…or seven.
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The Graphex 2006 national awards of excellence in communication design is touring across Canada and is currently showing in Montreal as part of the Mois du Design (Design Month), with thanks to IDM, SDGQ and Icograda. May 1- June 15, 2006 (daily) at Marché Bonsecours, 350 rue St-Paul Est, Vieux-Montréal, Québec. Check out the photographs of the show on DesignTaxi.com.
Photography by TAXI Design Network’s Photography Canada Correspondent, Nico Stinghe.
Don’t forget to RSVP for the March 24th Graphex Gala Awards Dinner at the glamorous Vancouver Club.
So, stop working, and join us at this special event honoring the best in visual communication across Canada. But you better act fast, we only have a limited capacity and the event is filling up fast. So please secure your attendance by RSVP before March 15th.
More details found here. Online tickets can be purchased here.
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Graphex 2006 has so far been a resounding success. The Gala event is scheduled for March 24th at prestigious Vancouver Club. Details can be found here.
