Design Canada

Explore the history of Canadian graphic design and how it shaped a nation and its people, in this feature-length documentary film.

Introduction

• Exploring Canadian designs and designers

Graphic Design: Canada

• What is graphic design?
• Graphic designers immigrate to Canada from Europe post-WWII
• A new flag for Canada: A design challenge
• Expo 67 Montréal designers: Hebért, Fuller, Safdie, Kramer
• Expo 67 and First Nations Pavilion: Clutesi
• Canada’s centennial identity
• Pioneering examples: Ash, Gottschalk, Bank of Canada, SkyDome
• Typography: Kleefeld, Watt, TD Bank, Air Canada, Expos
• Rebranding: Valkus, Perry, Fleming, Donahue, Coupland, Vignelli
• Team Canada hockey jersey: Eagleson, O’Malley, Lloyd
• Montréal Olympic Games 1976: Pelletier, Huel
• Québéc separatism, Trudeau, Federal Identity Program
• The CBC Logo and a lifetime of design: Kramer
• Women in Canadian design: Cooper, the anti-modernist
• Illustration and ornamentation: Dimson, Bantjes
• The Roots logo: Cooper
• Rebranding Royal Bank of Canada and CBC: Kramer, Ash, Vignelli, Coupland
• Good design echoing, Canada Wordmark, Donahue

Conclusion

• The future of Canadian design