Everyday I Think Of
Call out for applications officially started for the 11th Annual Vancouver Chinatown Festival – Youth Talent Showdown (YTS) 2010. This year’s YTS, same as last, will primarily be a dance competition. So If you’re a dancer, solo or a group, old skool, new skool, and between the ages of 15 to 25, call the VCBIA to register and get ready to kick it!
Working closely with the Vancouver Chinatown BIA, this year’s design will mark our fifth consecutive design in helping this summer community event. For this year’s theme, we’ve based the design off a tag line, “Everyday I think of…” with the audience to fill in the rest.
Registration ends June 30,2010 with the finales at the 11th Annual Vancouver Chinatown Festival, August 15th, 2010.
Spread the word and we’ll see you in August!
For more information visit Youth Talent Showdown’s Website.
That’s it for now!
Definium Design Vancouver
Chinatown Mascot
Earlier this year, the Vancouver Chinatown BIA Society (VCBIA) proposed an idea to develop a mascot that would provide a recognizable identity for Vancouver’s Chinatown. The design of this mascot has been an exciting opportunity for us and we’re ecstatic to share this design with you! The final two mascot concepts are temporarily nicknamed “Punkie” and “Muse” and are currently up for display. This showcase reaches out to the community for a vote on which design should be Vancouver Chinatown’s very own mascot!
Voting runs between June 1 to June 30th with the winning selection being revealed at the 11th Vancouver Chinatown Festival Press Conference. As the final design is selected, we’ll be sure to share with you the design details of this challenging and engaging project.
Make sure to vote at Vancouver Chinatown.
Read local and national news coverage on Punkie and Muse!
National Post
Vancouver Sun
Metro News
Over and out.
Definium Design Vancouver
Chinatown Festival 2010
Once again, working closely with the Vancouver Chinatown Business Improvement Association (VBCIA), we have officially started the design process for this year’s annual Vancouver Chinatown Festival. 2010 will mark the 11th birthday of this community event and it will be our 5th consecutive year in collaborating with the Chinatown Festival Committee.
The Chinatown Festival is a two day weekend of food, festivities and free entertainment with over 40,000 attendees. Included is a day and night market with youth targeted events such as Street Fest and the Youth Talent Showdown.
This year’s design collateral will be taking on a very different approach and while we can’t give away too much, the visual language we’re currently developing will coincide with a much larger branding effort.
Each year, over 150 volunteers and delegates will receive a themed T-shirt. In supporting the VCBIA and its efforts, selected shirts are often available for sale. In the past, the T-shirts have been signature to display the previous year’s design but unfortunately this year’s would-be design will only remain a concept.
Having said that, we are very excited for August 2010 as that is when this year’s Festival design will be revealed!
View Last Years Design here.
Stay Tuned.
Definium Design Vancouver
Definium and Pride Celebrate 2009 Pride Parade
Over the BC Day long weekend, Definium Design is proud to “Educate, Liberate and Celebrate” with one of our longtime clients, Vancouver Pride Society (VPS), while they host Vancouver’s largest yearly event, Pride Parade 2009.
We have been involved and working closely with the VPS to develop and design the graphics and identity system for their 2008 – 2011 season, a relationship and a client we are thrilled to work with over the years. Stay tuned over the next two years as Definium Design and Vancouver Pride Society reveal the graphics for VPS’s “Educate, Liberate, Celebrate” campaign.
“Educate, Liberate, Celebrate”
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Right on w/Gotham and Pride!
IDSN’s design blog is hot on Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ Gotham!
Spotted in many campaigns world wide from Obama’s Presidential Campaign, Nike, Saturday Night Live, and Coca-Cola, Definium Design found it an appropriate use for 2009’s Vancouver Pride Society’s campaign: Educate, Liberate, Celebrate.
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Definium does Dragon Pedicab
If you’ve seen them around Vancouver’s Downtown streets picking up tourists during the day or delivering party goers at night, Dragon Pedicab Adventures will take you on a relaxing city ride. Definium Design is proud to work closely with the Vancouver Chinatown Business Improvement Association on another project, this time on the design of the identity of Dragon Pedicab Adventures, tailored to indulge passengers on a modern day rickshaw tour through Vancouver’s heritage rich neighbourhoods, Coal Harbour, Downtown Vancouver, Gastown, and Chinatown.
Definium Launches The Cellar
Its cool, its hip, its causal its fun!
Walk into The Cellar on Wednesday night and discover something different from the week before. Tumble in on Thursday, which is just as fun as a Friday or Saturday. The hip crowd, t-shirt crowd and beatnik crowd can party together to hip-hop, rock or mix-mash. In short The Cellar is full of unexpected surprises.
Definium Design would like to wish everyone a Happy April Fools’ DayChris and Kevin's interview on Extrawest
www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Vancouver_Pride_Society_unveils_new_theme-6480.aspx
http://definium.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/educate-liberate-celebrate-with-vancouver-pride-society/
Educate, Liberate, Celebrate with Vancouver Pride Society
On Friday March 20, Definium Design was proud to be a part of Vancouver Pride Society’s (VPS) Spring into Pride media launch at Vancouver’s Edgewater Casino. The event was to announce Pride’s new three year theme: Educate, Celebrate and Liberate, and to publish their new theme logo which our studio has helped them develop.
As the VPS push into their 30’s, Educate, Liberate and Celebrate is a concept created by the Vancouver Pride Society as a homage to the past, present and future. The VPS and many Pride’s alike did not get to where we are today easily. The GLBT movement has spawned many years. By mobilizing events, talking to individuals and inspiring communities, the VPS is an organization whom at its core is a community educator. Liberating is the GLBT community’s perpetual challenge. Liberating themselves, individuals, communities and the wolrd from discrimination and unequal treatment to all. Celebrate is what the VPS is known for. Parties, loud music, dancing and smiles that memorializes the past while paying tribute to the future and current milestones.
Working with the VPS is always a treat. We hope to personify the things that had long standing value while being a point of remembrance. With a text that resembles a flag standing proud and a mark that has nostalgic point of three decades of reference, we hope newer GLBT generations and current ones can find a point of reference for Pride while they continue the fight from the past, be active in their present and never loosing hope for days ahead.
Educate, Liberate, Celebrate
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View our interview on Extra West
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Vancouver_Pride_Society_unveils_new_theme-6480.aspx
http://definium.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/chris-and-kevins-interview-on-extrawest/
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