GDC/BC is sponsoring the Canadian premiere of The Sign Painter Movie with Faythe Levine and Sam Macon on Friday, June 7th and Saturday, June 8th at the Rio Theatre.

Limited seating available. Tickets are $20 in advance / $25 at the door.  If you love handmade, typography, and the art of hand painted signs; you will not want to miss this event!

June 7th & June 8th
doors 6:30pm | screening 7:30pm | Q+A to follow
Rio Theatre: 1660 E Broadway

Find more info here: http://gotcraft.com/signpainters

Thursday May 03, 2012 at 7:30pm at The Ironworks.

Using scientific proof and state-of-the-art multimedia techniques, Aaron James Draplin of the Draplin Design Co. delivers a suckerpunch of a talk that aims to provide bonafide proof of work, the highs and lows of a ferociously independent existence and a couple tall tales from his so-called career in the cutthroat world of contemporary graphic design. Just a regular guy with a trajectory a little dirtier than yours, his talk is open to all oncomers brave enough to show up. If you are a youngster, you may find yourself inspired to attack your design future in a different way. If you are established, you may just leave feeling grateful you don't have anything to do with him. Hard to say. One night only, Vancouver!

Shawn Johnston, a GDC Members has graciously given us some of his time to do an interview. He is the founder and organizer of the Interlink Conference. What is the Interlink Conference you ask? Their website explains it better then I ever could : "This Interlink Conference is a small hand-crafted event created for web professionals of all types. Explore the intersection of web design, code, and content during 2 empowering days of curated talks and workshops in Vancouver. (Plus, there’s dodgeball.)”

This is Shawn, his design specialities and practices, his work with the Interlink Conference and a moment that changed his life.