Blue sky

In October of 2009, the Manitoba Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada planned and hosted the Blue Sky 2009 Design Conference. The conference was mainly targeted at graphic designers, and included a distinguished and diverse line-up of speakers (Alex Beim of Tangible Interactive Design, Jane Cox of Cause + Affect, Brian Kuz of Red Bull, Richard Seireeni – author of ‘The Gort Cloud’, and Jeff Swystun of DDB Worldwide),... Read More

Art for angels

Art for Angels is a charity event where each ticket holder attends an elegant cocktail evening and gets to go home with a piece of art. Artists of all types are asked to donate their work, and as a result, there is a wide range of creative work – from paintings to photography to sculptures, etc. During the art ‘auction’, numbers are drawn and the winning number gets the pick of the floor. The evening doesn’t end until every ticket... Read More

Our living history

I have an incredibly large family, all with Belgian roots, and on the 116th anniversary year of the ‘Wittevrongel side’ being in Canada, I was asked to design a family history book along with my husband Rob. My great grandma and grandpa had eight children, and each of those eight children have many descendants, so the book quickly became 160 pages long. Included within it are detailed family trees, individual family photos and stories,... Read More

Love*

My husband Rob is also a graphic designer, and so when it came to designing our wedding invitations, we did it as a team project. We had planned a small, intimate wedding, and wanted the invitations to reflect that. With that in mind, we chose to go with a hand-made, layered approach with several different paper stocks, individualized pictures of the two of us, and selected pages from a used Pride and Prejudice book. To keep our costs down, we went... Read More