HAMILTON, ONT—Television station CHCH's new identity harkens back to designs from its former years.


Created by CHCH's in-house design team, the station’s new insignia had to be compelling to new viewers and familiar to exisiting ones, says CHCH graphic artist Juan Bonilla. The logo, which consists of circles of colour intersecting eachother, was originally used when the channel switched to a full-colour station.

P22 Type Foundry has introduced Flora Mambo, a set of fonts based on the style of 20th century illustrator Jim Flora.

VANCOUVER—When longtime Blue Sky Creative client, the BC Museum of Mining, rebranded as the Britannia Mine Museum, the design company jumped at the chance to work with the museum again.


Blue Sky Creative’s campaign for the renamed museum calls attention to the enhanced visitor experience of the attraction, says Blue Sky Creative principal Katherine Flett. The campaign includes newspaper and flyer advertisements, billboards and interpretive signs and banners. “We tried to create a campaign that would leap off the page or the side of the road; something consumers would notice out of the thousands of ads they see everyday.”

MONTREAL—Mookai recently designed an oversized brochure for one of Canada's leading promotional products suppliers, Spector & Co. with the intention of doing something out of the ordinary to stand out from the average product catalogue, says designer and illustrator Stefanie Sosiak.

CHICAGO—SamataMason recently renamed itself Smbolic, exactly 15 years to the day Greg and Pat Samata and Dave Mason began the company, whose clients include Whirlpool, Telus and Petro-Canada. 



Mason says the new name stems from the fact that the agency, which has offices in Vancouver, Atlanta and is headquartered in Chicago, has changed considerably since it launched in 1995. “Over time the company has become more involved in many ‘design’ things that were of the non-graphic variety — events, web, video, film, naming, processes, experiences,” says Mason. For example, SamataMason launched the annual Chicago-based design event Cusp Conference in 2008. This year's conference will be held September 22 to 23.