All tagged Graphic Design

Maria Centola showcases her design and illustration skills in mobile games, websites and apps as a Digital Designer in London

Maria Centola showcases her design and illustration skills in mobile games, websites and apps as a Digital Designer in London

James Neufeld
Grad Spotlight

Maria Centola moved to the UK after graduating from IDEA School of Design in 2016. Her 3-month design internship at Sennep in London became a full-time job. Maria mainly creates user interfaces at Sennep using Sketch, InVision and After Effects including new illustrations for Sennep's mobile game OLO.

Her freelance projects include editorial pieces for Montecristo, street banners for Port Moody, and postcards for the redevelopment of the Canada Post Office in downtown Vancouver.

In June 2020 she will start as a Digital Designer at an agency called SOON_. Check out Maria’s story and podcast!

First Year IDEA School of Design students designed some fabulous international shopping bags for their last big project of the year

First Year IDEA School of Design students designed some fabulous international shopping bags for their last big project of the year

Vida Jurcic
Student Work

This year's crop of First Year students designed some fabulous international shopping bags for their last big project of the year. There were some innovative typographic solutions as well as some very graphic and illustrative takes on countries and cities.

Check out a few of the standout projects from IDEA School of Design Grad 2023 students including ‘New York City’ (shown above) by Marko Jones.

Two IDEA Alumnae at Brandever Strategy Inc. Offer Career Advice to our Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication Students

Two IDEA Alumnae at Brandever Strategy Inc. Offer Career Advice to our Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication Students

James Neufeld
Grad Spotlight, Industry Connections

Two of our grads work at Brandever Strategy Inc. in Vancouver. We asked them to share some advice to IDEA School of Design students as they prepare for summer internships (3rd year) and industry practicums (4th year).

Many thanks to Emily Pedriks, Creative Director at Brandever (IDEA Grad 2014) and Claire Tam, Graphic Designer + Illustrator at Brandever (IDEA Grad 2015) for the stylish photos and for giving our students invaluable career advice!

Sara Nguyen (IDEA21) wins Applied Arts 2019 Student Award and ADCC 2019 Silver Award for Editorial Design with "Type Unwrapped: A Commentary on Candy Bars"

Sara Nguyen (IDEA21) wins Applied Arts 2019 Student Award and ADCC 2019 Silver Award for Editorial Design with "Type Unwrapped: A Commentary on Candy Bars"

James Neufeld
Awards & Scholarships

Congratulations to Sara Nguyen (IDEA Grad 2021) for winning the Applied Arts 2019 Student Award for Editorial Design and 2019 Silver Award – Editorial & Book Design - The Advertising & Design Club of Canada (ADCC) Student Competition with "Type Unwrapped: A Commentary on Candy Bars". Instructor: Heather Jalbout. Course: IDES 247: Survey and Principles of Typography. Check out her multiple award-winning project!

Two IDEA Alumnae at Cossette Creative Marketing and Communications Agency offer Career Advice to our Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication Students

Two IDEA Alumnae at Cossette Creative Marketing and Communications Agency offer Career Advice to our Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication Students

James Neufeld
Grad Spotlight, Industry Connections, Practicums & Internships

Two of our grads work at Vancouver’s Cossette Creative Marketing and Communications Agency in Vancouver. Many thanks to Janice Callangan and Shanene Lau for providing us with some fun photos and for giving our students invaluable career advice!

Shown left to right: Janice Callangan (IDEA Grad 2017), Shanene Lau (IDEA Grad 2018).

Time-travelling First-year Students (IDEA Grad 2023) Make their own Design History Book

Time-travelling First-year Students (IDEA Grad 2023) Make their own Design History Book

Judy Snaydon
Student Work

Every Fall IDEA School of Design at Capilano University welcomes a new crop of first-years. As well as learning about creative thinking techniques, drawing and painting skills, and basic design principles, the students learn about the origins of communication design and illustration. In our four first-year survey classes they learn about how mankind went from verbal storytelling and cave paintings to Tweeting and Snapchat.

Shown above: Grad 2023 celebrating their hard work over the Fall term. Check out this story!

Third year students UI Design Systems Project—Designing a Finance App for Teens

Third year students UI Design Systems Project—Designing a Finance App for Teens

James Neufeld
Student Work

Third-year IDEA students were put to task, over a 3-class UI design sprint. Students from IDEA Grad 2021, were given the challenge to make financial data analysis motivating and easy to understand for a niche user group! Shown above: CoinHub personal finance app UI design by Haluka Yagi (IDEA Grad 2021). Instructor: Christina Lee Kim Koon (IDEA Grad 2010).

Check out some of our favourites from this UI Design project!

IDEA22 Studio Tours to Mobify + MetaLab Vancouver

IDEA22 Studio Tours to Mobify + MetaLab Vancouver

Christina Paone
Field Trips

IDEA22 set out to explore the working environment and day-to-day tasks of two Vancouver based digital design businesses.

This group of second-year students is in the process of studying interaction design foundations. This course focuses on: UX storyboards/user empathy, landing page design, motion design, HTML & CSS, and CMS structures.

Check out some photos from the field trip!

Inspired by Canada’s groundbreaking new ten dollar bill, IDEA20 students focus on other banknotes that could use a design refresh.

Inspired by Canada’s groundbreaking new ten dollar bill, IDEA20 students focus on other banknotes that could use a design refresh.

Heather Jalbout
Student Work

Last November, the Bank of Canada released a new ten dollar bill into circulation, and in doing so, made history.

IDEA Grad 2020 was lucky enough to have the knowledge and experience of two key players in the Bank of Canada’s banknote redesign process, Martine Warren, Bank Note Design Specialist, Boyd Laanstra, Senior Analyst of Visual Content.

Check out some great student work!

Garret Schauteet (IDEA15), Designer at BASIC @ Google HQ in San Diego

Garret Schauteet (IDEA15), Designer at BASIC @ Google HQ in San Diego

James Neufeld
Grad Spotlight, Industry Connections

Garret Schauteet (IDEA Grad 2015) spent 3 years in Vancouver with the incredibly talented team at 123w while collaborating with partner agencies and a vast amount of freelancers from all over the world.

From there, he moved to BASIC® and spent 2018 embedded at Google in San Francisco, where he helped elevate Made by Google’s digital retail and product experiences on a global scale.

He’s recently transferred to BASIC®’s HQ in San Diego, where he continues to work on new Google initiatives and other global brands like Coach and Airbnb. Catch up on Garret!

Valeriya Kim (IDEA21) wins RGD Award for Visual Web Design with Firetold educational website prototype

Valeriya Kim (IDEA21) wins RGD Award for Visual Web Design with Firetold educational website prototype

James Neufeld
Awards & Scholarships

Congratulations to Valeriya Kim (IDEA Grad 2021) for winning the RGD Award for Visual Web Design with her educational website prototype dedicated to Reconciliation and designed with in InVision. Instructor: Judy Snaydon. Course: IDES 244—Design Studio II.

Truth and Reconciliation Week takes place between October 15–18, 2019. This important week at Capilano University demonstrates our commitment to deeper understanding and systemic change.

Interview with freelance artist, illustrator and designer Andrea Armstrong (IDEA 2008, 2018)

Interview with freelance artist, illustrator and designer Andrea Armstrong (IDEA 2008, 2018)

James Neufeld
Grad Spotlight, Industry Connections

Andrea (IDEA Grad 2008) returned to IDEA School of Design to complete her degree in 2017/2018. We recently caught up with her for an interview. Little Andrea started life in a jungle village in Indonesia. Her experience being an outsider for so much of her childhood has planted in her a deep wonder for the different ways people do life, and an appreciation for authentic diversity. She always wanted to be self-employed, so she never put much effort into getting hired by an agency. It’s not always balanced, but she loves the variety of her projects and continues to split her time between graphic design, illustration, commissioned portraiture and fine art. Check out our interview with her!

Nancy Wu shares personal stories and lessons learned on being a graphic designer + educator

Nancy Wu shares personal stories and lessons learned on being a graphic designer + educator

Nancy Wu
Instructor Spotlight

Listen to Nancy Wu say “YOU KNOW” too many times on her first posted (second recorded 😉) podcast interview for @TheQuickiePodcast now on iTunes or Spotify. Lots of interesting personal stories and lessons learned. Also watch her recent video interview with her friend Pete Bella at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) about her thoughts on being a graphic designer + design education.

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