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Student members featured: Mariah Barnaby-Norris

Student members featured: Mariah Barnaby-Norris

Student members featured: Mariah Barnaby-Norris, a graphic design student in her last year at the University of Alberta!

GDC Pro Webinar: Design for Climate Change

When we think about the outcomes of our work, we think about the client end result. This discussion considers bringing new thinking to the results we produce as designers that reflect our responsibility to the planet.

Graphic Design: A Guide For Buyers

Connecting with the right creative professional is more about partnership than consulting.

How to become CGD Certified

The CGD certification mark is Canada’s first, and only, certification mark for graphic and communication designers.

Speculative Work

Professional designers should be compensated fairly for their work.
Community

Get your 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Letterpress Poster Today

2016 marks GDC's 60th year. To commemorate that milestone we crafted a limited edition hand letterpress poster for sale, but time (and posters) is running out to get one!

Why GDC?

GDC National Executive Team 2016-2018

Designedge Packaging Awards: Nothing is ready until it's packaged properly.
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Education

Student members featured: Amanda Ozga

Student members featured: Amanda Ozga is a graphic design student at MacEwan University in Edmonton.

Student members featured: Mariah Barnaby-Norris

GDC Members Receive a $700 Discount On Tickets To C2MTL

2015 National Scholarship Winners

Sustainability

4 Ways to Give Sustainable Client Gifts

Have you started thinking about how to show your clients you love them with holiday gifts? If you haven’t, get on it soon! But before you do, we have a humble ask: use your gifts as an opportunity to demonstrate that you care about the planet and people.

You Win Some

Part 2: The Body Politic

Part 2: The Body Politic
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Events

LAUNCH! (formerly POGO)

GDC BC’s annual development conference for design students, graduates, educators, and employers.

Application for CGD Certification

Portfolio Workshop

Design Disruptors Screening in Winnipeg
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Opinion + Editorial

Speculative Work

Professional designers should be compensated fairly for their work.

History Repeating Itself: Recollections of the 1967 Centennial Logo Contest

The duplication dangers and downsides of the new DIY culture

Unpaid internships are harming the design industry - and they’re illegal
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Around the Web

How IKEA Designs Its (In)famous Instruction Manuals

CN logo evolution

FontShop Joins Monotype

Atypical – Painting Typography

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@GDCNational, an infrequent mailing of news, ideas, tips, and offers that are always relevant to designers — is a great way to connect with Canada's national creative community. Subscribe and choose your closest GDC chapter to receive even more local offers and invitations for events near you.

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