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This weekend, labour groups across North America will gather to honour workers injured and killed on the job -- and to renew their commitment to making work safer.
Monday’s tragic sawmill explosion in Prince George, BC has taken the life of two workers and More...
June 4th is Access Awareness Day. Working Design is pleased to have played a role in developing materials for the annual Access Awareness Day sponsored by our client SPARC BC – The Social Planning and Research Council of BC.
Celebrated on the first Saturday in June, the event promotes the rights of people with disabilities, and raises awareness about accessibility and social inclusion. More...
“My business is now bursting at the seams. Very exciting. You were right when you pushed me to set up a blog. It is having an impact!” That's our client, Cheryl Woolstone, a Kitsilano-based psychotherapist. Working Design developed her website a couple of years ago using the WordPress CMS (Content Management System) that was initially developed as blogging software. An experienced counsellor, Woolstone was just setting up her own business when we started working together. We recommended blogging as a key part of her site and valuable strand of her marketing communications. More...
Our client, the Pender Harbour Summer Garlic Festival, drew hundreds of people on the Sunshine Coast to their first annual event this past weekend. More...
We launched our latest site for the Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health last week to coincide with the Centre’s launch at Simon Fraser University. For the next five years, the Centre will be doing global research on how its three main areas of concern overlap to shape our lives and health. One overall aim is to inform the development of policy for governments everywhere to target populations in need with appropriate services. More...
Today CRAB Park in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is a rare patch of quiet waterfront greenspace. 75 years ago, it was the launching site of the famous Depression-era protest, the On to Ottawa Trek. Twelve hundred unemployed workers clambered on to boxcars to travel to Ottawa demanding “work and wages.” They made it to Regina, where attacks by police ended the rolling protest, though not the struggle. Many historians consider the Trek and the "Regina Riot" a turning point in the fight for social justice in Canada. More...
Each year, CALM (the Canadian Association of Labour Media) recognizes and celebrates Canadian union publications, ads and campaigns as well as websites in their annual awards. Working Design projects have consistently been winning CALM prizes for almost 20 years. This year's kudos include "Best Overall Publication" for the Hospital Employees' Union "Guardian", a magazine that Working Design has been involved with since 1990 when we did the first of two overall redesigns. More...
One of our clients, Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture, has kicked off an amazing festival comprising an art exhibit, dance, comedy, fado singing and more. We had the pleasure and honour of working with the Kickstart team on their general brochure, festival poster and programme book. The Kickstart Festival started on March 8 and its first public event was last night with the launch of the Heroes art exhibit at the Pendulum Gallery in downtown Vancouver. Twenty Canadian visual artists explore what it means to be a hero from the perspective of working with a disability. We were especially impressed with the collage sculptures by Persimmon Blackbridge and Cat L'Hirondelle. Lose Weight Exercise-weight-Lose Weight Exercise/">Lose Weight Exercise: normal;">For information about the Festival visit their website: www.kickstart-arts.ca More...
Proposed changes to the way BC Courts operate could make trials cost more and take longer. Working Design is proud to have helped develop a campaign launched today to oppose those changes. Sponsored by the Trial Lawyers Association of BC and the Consumers Association of Canada, the campaign has a website at http://www.protectingjusticeforbc.com and print ads appearing in a variety of newspapers starting this morning. We worked on this effort in collaboration with our colleague Bill Tieleman of West Star Communications. In addition to designing the website, Working Design developed the overall identity for the campaign materials. We’re proud about our work on this important initiative and pleased to play a role in spreading the word to all of you through our e.newsletter! More...
The 31st Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival is this weekend! I look forward to seeing many of you there. In the meantime check out the interview I did with the Georgia Straight's Alex Varty in my role as a board director for the Festival. http://www.straight.com/article-153727/folk-festival-looks-future? More...
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