As a wrap party for Icograda Design Week in Vancouver, last April, the GDC announced the award winners of Graphex 2010. Presented every two years, Graphex invites the community of graphic designers, web designers, typographers, photographers, illustrators, art directors, ad agencies, printers, writers and clients from across Canada to submit their best published, cultural, social and business communications—in all media.

This year’s panel of judges included Julia Hoffmann, creative director of advertising and graphic design at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York; Louise Fili, principal of Louise Fili Ltd., New York; Mark Randall, principal of Worldstudio, New York; Matt Warburton FGDC, founder of Emdoubleyu Design, in Vancouver; and Rolando Diep, creative director of Landor Associates Latin America, in Mexico City. In assessing entries, the panel considered “the challenges, limitations and creativity expressed in the submissions,” ensuring “that Graphex is far more than a mere beauty contest.”

After exhibiting the 62 winning entries at the HSBC Pendulum Gallery, in Vancouver, the cross-Canada tour of Graphex 2010 show starts in Edmonton in September. Contacted just before the Icograda announcement of winners, Marga Lopez MGDC, president of GDC/BC, said: “We are so excited to host the world and show off the talent of Canadian designers. This is our opportunity to show the world what Canadian design is all about.”

A gallery of some of the winning projects from Graphex 2010 can be seen in the June/July 2010 issue of Applied Arts magazine. All the winners can be seen online at Graphex 2010 and a print-on-demand catalogue will be available as well.