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!
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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.
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
Related Links:
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/
Definium Celebrates Chau Kitchen & Bar Grand Opening
Last week Definium Design was pleased to celebrate with one of our clients, Chau Kitchen and Bar as they celebrate their long awaited grand opening.
Media, critics, restaurateurs, and friends were there to help kick off this one of a kind Vietnamese cuisine restaurant. Within the murmur of elbows rubbing and spring roll sampling, the topic of all the buzz was how amazing the food tasted and how people can’t get enough!
Amidst the popular Asian-fusion restaurants springing up on Vancouver’s Robson Street, Chau offers something different. A taste that is truly unique, combining Vietnamese cooking with French inspired fusion — an amazing combination!
You can thank the enterprising and classically trained Maria Huynh, for opening and spear heading the restaurant. To honour her roots and never forgetting what her family has gone through as landed immigrants, she fittingly named the restaurant after mother Chau, who ran a congee cafe in an Indonesian refugee camp.
On your next stroll on Robson Street and you feel like some Asian food, drop by Chau Kitchen and Bar.
Chau Kitchen and Bar
1500 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC
tel. 604.682.8020
Chau Reviewed at Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/food/Chau+Kitchen+Gneration+Next+Vietnamese+food/1203292/story.html
Chau Reviewed at Georgia Straigh
http://www.straight.com/article-175347/chau-shakes-flavours-vietnam
Chau Reviewed at Martiniboys
http://www.martiniboys.com/Vancouver/Chau-review.html
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