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3 May 2010
Paprika cleans up at Graphex
VANCOUVER—Design Currency, Icograda’s Design Week in Vancouver, ended on a high note last Thursday at the GDC’s awards gala, Graphex 2010. Graphex is a biennial national design awards program that has been celebrating the best of visual communications in Canada for 33 years. 

Paprika won first place for this Cascades annual report
Paprika won first place for this Cascades annual report

The clear winner in this year’s competition was Montreal’s Paprika. Paprika won six first-place finishes, out of 16 categories – in Annual Reports, Corporate Identity, Editorial/Magazine, Packaging, Self-promotion, and Signage and Environmental Design. It also took home two second places, three third places and six honorable mentions. And it swept the Signage and Environmental Design category, with projects finishing first, second, third, and winning an honorable mention.

A complete list winners is posted here. The winning entries will be displayed at the Pendulum Gallery in Vancouver from May 2 to 12 before it begins a cross-country tour. The first stop is Edmonton from June 19 to July 1. Contact: http://graphex.gdc.net

 
1. André Simard
5 May 2010 at 9:34 AM
Congratulations to Paprika!
2. Sammy
14 May 2010 at 5:40 PM
i guess there were not a lot of entries
3. davis
20 May 2010 at 3:49 PM
Paprika is BY FAR canada's greatest graphic design ambassador. I'm embarrassed for 'sammy' for such a poor lack of judgment.
4. Martin
22 May 2010 at 1:53 PM
if Paprika was Canada's greatest graphic design ambassador (which it is NOT), they would not have to rely on awards -- which help trivialize graphic design and basically make it a beauty contest
5. davis
8 June 2010 at 7:02 PM
Martin, who said anything about paprika relying on awards?

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