Born the love child of mother Art and father Industry, graphic design is at last beginning to assert itself – reaching beyond its servitude to Marketing, grasping the role that it plays in shaping culture, and taking responsibility for its global impact in an age of information and ideas. The graphic design profession itself is in its infancy, trailing its cousins architecture and engineering, for example, by many generations. Vast distances between cities, significant regional differences, a seeming mistrust of things ‘National,’ and typical characteristics of a frontier nation conspire to make broad communication and collective processes a challenge. Canada is a massive land, covering nearly 10 million km2 and with a sparse human population of less than 32 million. This issue’s focus is the history of Canadian graphic design, an admittedly difficult topic to obtain an overview of. A journal is a record – of information, of formally shared opinions, of words and wisdom – sometimes anecdotal, sometimes proverbial and sometimes historical. ![]() This Journal’s primary goals include: to provide a forum to encourage dialogue regarding graphic design to promote excellence in design and to help record the history and development of the graphic design profession in Canada. Ergo, some of the content of this issue has “matured” in oak cabinets for a period of time, so please savour with that in mind. As 2002 begins more than five years have passed… though in spite of what pessimists might say, late is better than never. ![]() The Journal began in 1993 and the last issue prior to this one saw the light of day in 1996. If you are reading this, then this fifth issue of GDC’s Graphic Design Journal has finally materialized. A problem with optimists is that they rarely find occasion to be pleasantly surprised.
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