Remembering Don Watt

Donald George Watt 1936-2009:

The brand* designer who changed the way we shop
*Loblaws, No Name, President’s Choice, Nestle, Walmart, Home Depot, Metro.


COMMUNICATION DESIGNERS ASSOCIATION (CDA)
International Branding Association (IBA)
School of Design at George Brown College

CDA Toronto G+A EXHIBITION

The Zurich and Toronto chapters of Communication Designers Association (CDA) jointly honour design pioneers Fritz Gottschalk in Zurich (October 6) and Stuart Ash in Toronto (October 5-7) of Gottschalk+Ash International http://www.gplusa.com/ ... In addition to an exhibit showcasing 45 years of G+A design excellence, a 44-page publication will be launched to mark the occasion.
http://www.communicationdesigners.org/

Siavash Fani Interview with DPI Design Magazine August 2011

Persianissimo + 10

Persianissimo + 10
An Iranian Contemporary Poster Exhibition selected by Majid Abbasi
Harbourfront Centre

Majid Abbasi, Reza Abedini, Farzad Adibi, Pouya Ahmadi, Tahamtan Aminian, Homa Delvarai, Maryam Enayati, Vahid Erfanian, Siavash Fani, Siamak Feilizadeh, Farhad Fozouni, Amirali Ghasemi, Amirhossein Ghoochibeik, Pedram Harby, Behrouz Hariri, Zeynab Izadyar, Damoon Khanjanzadeh, Ali Khorshidpour, Behrad Javanbakht, Aria Kasaei, Morteza Mahallati, Saed Meshki, Alireza Mostafazadeh, Masoud Nejabati, Kourosh Parsanejad, Peyman Pourhossein, Iman Raad, Mehdi Saeedi, Iman Safai, Bijan Sayfouri, Firouz Shafei, Kambiz Shafei, Parisa Tashakori, Mehran Zamani and ten honorary graphic artists: Aydin Aghdashloo, Mostafa Assadollahi, Khosrow Bayat, Mohammad Ehsaei, Ebrahim Haghighi, Abbas Kiarostami, Farshid Mesghali, Morteza Momayez, Mahmoud Ramezani, and Ghobad Shiva.

July 21 – 24, 2011, Tirgan Iranian Summer Festival
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON M5J 2G8, Canada
With the support of The
Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (RGD)
of Art & Design (OCADU)

http://www.persianissimo.ir/

http://tirgan.ca/

New form of advertising

Thursday marked the appearance of a new form of advertising above Toronto – sky writing done with five aircraft. The planes appear to have devices synched to emit smoke, resulting in a dot matrix-style of creating words.
Photo by Chris Tindal/FOR METRO CANADA

Selected entries for the Lahti Poster Biennial 2011

The List of Finalists

18TH INTERNATIONAL POSTER BIENNIAL LAHTI 2011

18th International Poster Biennial to be held in Finland

10 June - 25 September 2011
Lahti Art Museum | Poster Museum

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Manifest Communications

Freelance graphic artist Yana Stepchenko takes part in an issues parade
hosted by Manifest Communications yesterday. Manifest is a social issue
communicator that took the issues it works on every day from its old
office on Peter Street, and walked them down the sidewalks