Illustration

York Canned Meat Ad

Design: Walter Trier
Client: Canada Packers Ltd.
Date: 1960

Add comment March 19th, 2010

Maple Leaf Nippy Cheese Instore Ad

Design: Walter Trier
Client: Canada Packers Ltd.
Date: 1960

1 comment March 12th, 2010

Google Closing Ceremonies Doodle

Design:
Client: Google.ca
Date: 2010

Add comment February 28th, 2010

Stop The Greenwash Flyer

Design: Gord Hill
Client: no2010
Date: 2009

The Blackbird - http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbird_hollow

Add comment February 27th, 2010

Trickle Down Transit Ad

Design: Sonny Assu
Client: Cultural Olympiad, VANOC
Date: 2009

The Blackbird - http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbird_hollow

This bus shelter poster by Sonny Assu is actually part of the Cultural Olympiad, an Olympic sanctioned art festival. By sticking to indirect critique, Assu’s work made it past VANOC’s propaganda clause, which asks artists to “refrain from making any negative or derogatory remarks respecting VANOC, the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Olympic movement generally, Bell and/or other sponsors associated with VANOC.”

-Michael Erdmann

1 comment February 27th, 2010

The Olympians Magazine

Design:
Client:
Date: 1976

Add comment February 24th, 2010

Canada 1976 Olympic Event Buttons (second set)

Design:
Client:
Date: 1976

Add comment February 24th, 2010

Listen to the Rainbow

Design: unknown
Client: CKEY
Date: Unknown

It’s been wall-to-wall Olympics coverage around here lately, so I thought I’d post something a little different. This poster for CKEY radio promises ‘good music, nice people, and solid news’, at least three of which I find sorely lacking from most contemporary radio stations.

(I kind of wish I had a t-shirt with the tagline “LISTEN TO THE RAINBOW” plastered across the front in a Soviet propaganda style typeface.)

(via Popular Sizes)

-John Ryan

2 comments February 19th, 2010

Visit Canada Poster

Design:
Client: Canadian Pacific
Date:

Add comment February 10th, 2010

Holiday Gift – Wine Bags

Design: Paprika, Montreal, QC
Production: Transcontinental Litho Acme
Date: 2009

We’ve featured Paprika’s highly inventive holiday gifts before. Each year, the Montreal creative agency teams up with printers Transcontinental Litho Acme, to create something special for their clients, suppliers and other lucky folks (including us!).

This year’s design was a set of wine gift bags, which seems very appropriate for the gift-giving season. Each of the bags is completely unique, but creative treatment of the handles seems to be a unifying theme. Different handle configurations, lengths and colours are combined with hand drawn illustrations to produce playful compositions and visual puns (I’ve posted only a few examples here). The whole series is loaded with little details that remind us how much thought and fun went into its creation – some bags feature custom punching and hidden graphics, while the box itself has four different die-cut windows and is decorated on the interior with concept sketches of all the designs (including many that either weren’t produced or just weren’t in our set) – truly a pleasure to unwrap.

How can we get ourselves on the list for next year?

-Michael Erdmann

1 comment February 10th, 2010

Themes From Great Motion Pictures

Design: Ross Mendes
Client: Solitaire Records, Toronto, ON
Date: 1950’s

Photo: Allan Collier Collection

1 comment February 5th, 2010

Maclean’s Cover – November 15, 1938

Design: Eric Aldwinkle
Client: Maclean’s  Magazine
Date: 1938

Photo: Allan Collier

The story seems innocent enough (National Motor Show), but there’s a beautifully eerie tension in this cover illustration by Eric Aldwinkle. Even with seventy years of hindsight, this makes a persuasive case for the glamor and allure of the automobile.

-Michael Erdmann

Add comment January 28th, 2010

Glabush “New Year” Illustration

Design: Sky Glabush
Client:
Date: 2009

1 comment January 23rd, 2010

Maclean’s Cover – June 01, 1939

Design: Eric Aldwinkle
Client: Maclean’s  Magazine
Date: 1939

Photo: Allan Collier Collection

Add comment January 15th, 2010

Canadair Canada Air Force Plane Ad

Design:
Client: Canadair CL-28 RCAF Canada Air Force plane ad
Date: 1957

Add comment January 15th, 2010

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