Explore the history of Canadian graphic design and how it shaped a nation and its people, in this feature-length documentary film.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Exploring Canadian designs and designers
- 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
- The future of Canadian design
Taught by
Greg Durrell
