York Canned Meat Ad
Design: Walter Trier
Client: Canada Packers Ltd.
Date: 1960
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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
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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
Canada 1976 Olympic Event Buttons (second set)
Design:
Client:
Date: 1976
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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
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
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Maclean’s Cover – June 01, 1939
Design: Eric Aldwinkle
Client: Maclean’s Magazine
Date: 1939
Photo: Allan Collier Collection
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Canadair Canada Air Force Plane Ad
Design:
Client: Canadair CL-28 RCAF Canada Air Force plane ad
Date: 1957
Add comment January 15th, 2010