Graphex 2008 [Canada]

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Graphex 2008 is an Icograda-endorsed national design competition that has been celebrating the best of visual communication in Canada since 1977. The primary goals of Graphex are to promote the value of design to the Canadian public and business community - Good Design Is Good Business - and to create an archive of Canadian design for future generations to reflect upon and study.

Graphex thrives on learning from and rewarding those designers who are addressing increasingly complex and diverse creative challenges. As such, the theme for Graphex 2008 positions the winning entry as not only the end result of a tournament style process of elimination but also as the catalyst for a ripple effect of influence upon the world at large. The point of this is to highlight the fact that while many designers do not often look past the moment of winning an award, there are larger issues at stake and greater possibilities for change than whatever was the design's original intention. In doing so, we are reminded of both the importance of design's place in society and the responsibility that designers must assume as a result.

Entries Deadline: 23 November 2007
Judges' Event: 30 November 2007
Finalists Notification: January 2008
Awards Gala: 28 March 2008
Awards Exhibit: 1 - 11 April 2008