Design: Douglas Coupland
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Date: 2011
Honouring early Canadian painting, this collection brings the past forward. Coupland fragments and slices these early pieces, and this hacking and remixing gives us a fresh perspective on the Group of 7, Emily Carr and others. The process celebrates the incoming 100 years of the Group of 7 but ultimately reminds us all to look backwards, as much as forwards, for our creative inspiration.
2 comments January 10th, 2011
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This is the button that commemorates the fourteen women murdered at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on this day in 1989, by a gunman who entered a class and let the men go, then lined up the women and shot them.
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Date: 1986
The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.
1 comment November 24th, 2010
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Client: Royal Canadian Mint
Date: 1999
Issued as part of a special set of twelve Canadian quarters, this piece featured one of Canada’s most regarded artists, Kenojuak Ashevak. The design entitled “Our Northern Heritage” has an owl and a polar bear, two of the most common animals found among the Canadian Arctic wildlife but also two of the most symbolic of the North.
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Client: City of Vancouver
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The Royal United Services Institute of Vancouver (RUSI) and the City of Vancouver initiated a program to place the Legion Poppy on every street sign in Vancouver that is named after a Canadian Military Battle or person.
New street signs have been installed on the streets surrounding Victory Square in downtown Vancouver bearing the image of the familiar Royal Canadian Legion poppy, immortalized by the World War One poem “In Flanders Fields,” by Lt. Col. John McCrae. The poppy has become the sign of remembrance in Canada and around the world.
Vancouver is one of the few cities in Canada to have such a recognition program. This is another example of the support the City of Vancouver provides to heritage-minded groups like RUSI and the Legion. Victory Square is the site of Vancouver’s iconic Cenotaph, around which the annual Remembrance Day Ceremony takes place on November 11. Hastings Street, West Pender Street, Cambie Street and Hamilton Street border it.
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3 comments November 11th, 2010
Design: Laura Chau, www.cosmicpluto.com
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Date: 2008
Click to download Laura’s free poppy pattern to make your own.
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Client: Canadian Navy
Date: 1998
Yellowknife is a Kingston-class coastal defence vessel that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1998.
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Design: Moriyama & Teshima Architects and Griffiths Rankin Cook Architects
Client: Government of Canada
Date: 2005
1 comment October 25th, 2010
Design: Douglas Coupland
Client: Roots
Date: 2010
2 comments October 20th, 2010
Design: Lawrie McIntosh and Greg Ball
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Date: 2010
The Canadian Animal Series began in 1960 when the province of Manitoba sponsored a Canadian souvenir competition in anticipation of the national centennial in 1967. Industrial designer Lawrie McIntosh entered and won the competition with a series of animal figures that were created by folded sheets of vinyl. Larger copper versions of the award-winning animals were sold across Canada throughout the 1970s, selling over 1000 units.
Four decades later, a third series of animals is now available. This series can be purchased as a PDF file that is printed at home on card stock and then folded and glued by the user. Series 3 celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this award-winning design.
To download the order form click here.
9 comments October 18th, 2010
Design: Greg Durrell, Ben Hulse and James Lee
Client: VANOC
Date: 2010
“Given to an athlete who embodied Terry’s characteristics of determination and humility in the face of adversity. The brief called for two awards, one to be given to the winning athlete and the second to the Terry Fox Museum in Vancouver, BC.
On the back of the museum award, the route Terry ran was stained into the wood, while on back of the athlete award, the remainder of the planned route (Thunder Bay, ON to Stanley Park in Vancouver, BC). When the two awards are combined they complete Fox’s journey.
The award was made out of a combination of Western Yew wood and nickle. The award was designed in collaboration with Ben Hulse and James Lee.
Photo: Ben Hulse
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Design: Ernest Cormier
Client: Government of Canada
Date: 1939
Photo: Peregrine981
1 comment September 6th, 2010
