Vancouver Creative Wire

News for and about Vancouver’s creative people.

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The Bank of Canada is inviting comment on its banknote design principles

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Ligature.ch interviews industrial designers D. Calen Knauf & Conrad Brown

working together as Knauf and Brown

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Local interaction designer Haig Armen has created the Mineblock, a plug-and-play private Minecraft server for kids

powered by a Raspberry Pi; Armen describes the design process on his blog

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Talalay, an assistant professor in UBC’s Film Production program, has directed the two-part season finale of Doctor Who’s upcoming season

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UBC film professor Rachel Talalay has directed the upcoming two-part season finale of Doctor Who

Talalay, also known as the director of cult classic Tank Girl, is Doctor Who’s first female director in four years; the new season, starring The Thick of It’s Peter Capaldi, premieres Saturday, August 23rd on Space

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The Tyee’s Shannon Rupp exposes conflicts of interest in Vancouver media’s arts and culture coverage

Vancity Buzz arts and culture editor Cecilia Lu wrote a scathing review of a show by the Arts Club Theatre without disclosing her position on the board of directors of the competing Neworld Theatre, while 24 Hours Vancouver’s arts columnist Laura Murray runs a public relations firm for the arts and culture industry

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North Vancouver City council votes in favour of Presentation House Gallery’s Patkau Architects–designed new waterfront building

more information

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their next event, featuring Celeste Martin and Neil Kandalgaonkar, is the evening of Tuesday, June 24th at Mobify HQ

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Hootsuite rebrands

by Vigilantes; more on Brand New

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if built, the new VAG will be the Pritzker Prize–winning firm’s first building in Canada, although ex–H&dM partner Harry Gugger’s Exchange building is rising downtown; previously

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Hadani Ditmars visits architect Michael Green’s 6th & Willow townhouses

“a high-design anomaly in an area characterized by cookie-cutter condos and imitation arts-and-crafts style dwellings”; more about Michael Green

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Canada Line trains’ poor design is contributing to a lack of courtesy on transit, says etiquette expert Margaret Page

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Fred Herzog has been awarded the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts

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by Vancouver-based designers Dennis Boyle & John Ngan; read their presentation (PDF)

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the shortlisted firms are New York’s Diller Scofidio + Renfro (currently planning the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan) and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (whose American Museum of Folk Art building will be demolished as part of DS+R’s MoMA expansion), Tokyo’s SANAA (winner of the 2010 Pritzker Prize), Basel’s Herzog & de Meuron (winner of the 2001 Pritzker Prize), and Toronto’s KPMB Architects; previously