Let your creativity cover your tuition. Langara College and Rethink are giving away a full $18,000 scholarship to Langara’s two-year Communication and Ideation Design program. The winner will also get a 3-month internship at Rethink.

For more details visit the website: www.rethinkscholarship.com

or watch the video: The Rethink Scholarship

To all those green minded guests at Practivism 2008, who signed up for pre-release copies of Brian Dougherty’s ‘Green Graphic Design’, Sophia Books has announced your copies have arrived! And Brian has generously sign ‘em all—so please get down to Sophia and pick up your copy today. Apparently there are also a few extra unclaimed copies for those of you asleep at the wheel…or rather the handle bars…because we don’t drive cars anymore right?!
Special thanks to Sophia Books, Brian Dougherty and Celery Design for adding further value to being a part of the GDC!

Sophia Books
450 West Hastings St. Vancouver
call 604 684 0484
Hours:
Mon to Fri. 9am - 7pm
Sat. 10am - 7pm
Sun & Holidays 12pm - 6pm

For Immediate Release
September 2007

The Little Printer That Could

About eight years ago, Metropolitan Fine Printers President/Founder George Kallas and his staff made a decision to take the company to the highest quality level possible.

We, at Metropolitan, are extremely proud to announce that at last week’s PIA Awards Banquet in Chicago, our goal was realized: Metropolitan Fine Printers was recognized as the third most awarded printer in the world, and the only Canadian Printer to place in the top ranks.

To quantify this remarkable distinction, there were more than 5,100 entries from printers all over the world, many of them 10 times Metropolitan’s size. We were able to achieve this honour with the help of our superb production team and our proprietary 10 micron stochastic UV technology, giving new meaning to astonishing colour and clarity.
Not bad for the little printer that could…

Bob Faulkner
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
DIR (604) 216 1702
TEL (604) 254 4201
TOLL FREE (866) 254 4201
bob@metprinters.com
www.metprinters.com

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.

UPCOMING EVENT: MAKING COMICS
Book signing and informal meeting
with author Scott McCloud

Thursday May 31, 2007 - 7 to 9 PM
Sophia Books - 450 West Hastings St., Vancouver
FREE

Scott McCloud is probably in the Top 5 Most Important and Influential People in Comics working today. He’s recognized as the leading authority on how comics function and the principles that he delivers in his 3 books - Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and his most recent book, Making Comics - would help any animator or film maker to create better storyboards and better tell their stories.

Here’s what Will Wright, creator of the video game Sims and the forthcoming game Spore, has to say about Scott McCloud, “Anyone involved in interactive entertainment (games, web, etc…) should read Reinventing Comics. Scott McCloud has once again transcended the world of comics and tapped into much deeper issues of creativity, entertainment and economics. This time he’s looking into the future rather than the past.”

On Tuesday, May 15, 2007, Adobe came to Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre to officially raise the curtain on the stunning new version of Creative Suite - and GDC/BC was there.

Various GDC/BC Executives enjoyed conversations with members, non-members, educators and students. Attendees who visited the GDC both entered their business cards for a prize draw for a t-shirt and copies of the 2003 and 2006 Graphex Design Awards.

The all day seminar series was sold out with nearly 500 attendees and was jam packed with information, inspiration and insights that we designers can put to work in our studios immediately. Fully optimized for the new Intel-based Apple computers, the all new CS3 features a new array of innovative tools, features and techniques designed to change the way we work and create. I literally ordered two upgrades the very next morning and you probably should too - especially if you’ve migrated to a new Mac recently. If you’ve been thinking of upgrading, now is the time.

Thanks to Adobe for the opportunity and continuing support.

We’ve had some fabulous new sponsors come on board this year, but can always use more. If you have any ideas regarding sponsors, please contact Riley or Byron with your suggestions.