O Canada! Our Home and Well-Designed Land.
This was a terrific find over at the equally terrific Industrial Brand Creative. It’s the Canadian Design Resource site, which is all about creating awareness and interest in things made by our neighbors to the North (not our actual, physical neighbors who live across the hall — though, we’ve only met them once and they did kinda seem like they could maybe be from Canada. Wouldn’t that be a weird coincidence?). There’s some great info in there, everything from simple student-made projects to road signs, to this bit about where the nation’s identity came from:
Design: McLaren Advertising – Ralph Tibbles
Client: Federal Identity Program, Government of Canada
Date: 1965The “Canada” wordmark has been defined as the dominant symbol for the federal government and is the second most recognized reference to Canadians after the flag.
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