The Interviews

Elizabeth Olwen is a Canadian print and pattern designer living in sunny Portugal. Her gorgeous floral and geometric designs are infused with heart and soul.

Quick with a sketchbook and conceptual thinking, Lyndsay has crafted a multidisciplinary portfolio over the last decade that demonstrates her ability to wear many hats: from award-winning brand, web, and packaging design to multi-channel ad campaigns and more illustrative work such as video game concept art, children's book illustration, and museum installations.

Lianne Charlene Creative is a small branding and graphic design studio based in Edmonton, Alberta. We’ve been helping businesses grow and improve their visibility since 2015.

Brnesh Berhe is an Eritrean-Canadian art director, graphic designer, illustrator (and sometimes writer) from Edmonton, Alberta.

Mariah Barnaby-Norris is illustrator and designer based in Portland, Oregon but from Canada originally (with a bit of Australia mixed in there too).

Maylee Keo creates illustrations that are lively, colourful and playful, just like her! She is based out of Montréal.

Ravy Puth is an illustrator and a scholar based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She uses illustration as both a lens and a practice in research-creation to seize the agency of representation and visual narrative.

Corine Bond is a communication designer with experience in design research, branding, packaging and illustration.

Janet King works as a Product Manager and fills out the rest of her schedule with hobbies, freelance design, pizza, and "just trying to take it easy."

Kelly Small (they/them) is a performance-driven, Award-winning ECD, designer, and writer with deep roots in communication design, digital marketing, and advertising, as well as a special focus on ethical and inclusive practice.

As the Founder and Creative Director of the award-nominated Feisty Creative, Bronwin pairs her comprehensive skills in design and marketing with a passion for creativity to develop an authentic, unique brand that matches the vision of her clients

Rachel Beyer is an Edmonton-based graphic designer, illustrator, animator, and woodworker.She has a love for working with her hands, and in her spare time, she draws, carves wooden spoons, and experiments with a variety of new media.

Art Director and graphic designer, Elizabeth Laferrière creates still and moving images that encompass her poetic, sensitive, and spontaneous vision.

Welcome to a special WICD interview featuring the team at Outcrop Communications! With over 37 years of combined experience, these creative women of the North inspire.

Based in Toronto, founder and principle designer, Daej Hamilton started Daej Designs company at 22 years old. Luxuriating in her 11th year of woodworking, her pieces reflect the timeless, mid-century, modern aesthetic.

Jessica Oddi is a disabled graphic designer in Canada with versatility to spare. She specializes in crafting pieces that exceed the desires of her clients.

As seen in the ‘failing New York Times,’ Yazmin Butcher is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Toronto.

Andrea Tétrault is a partner at Tétro Design, a creative agency in Winnipeg co-founded in 1998 with her husband Paul.

Eliane is Cofounder & Creative Director at BESIDE, a biannual print magazine in French and English.

Gillian is an Assistant Professor in Design Studies, Department of Art & Design at the University of Alberta, where she teaches design theory, practice, and research in the area of Visual Communication Design.

Vanessa is known for her passion for taking on initiatives that blend cultural awareness, humanity and a love of art to advance society and business alike.

Rhea Leibel is a graphic designer and art director living in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Caribou Creative is a comprehensive design studio based in Courtenay, British Columbia.

Sydney Johnson collaborates with movers and shakers who care as deeply about other people. She uses service design as a lens to make change happen.

The Royal Alberta Museum is the largest museum in western Canada and one of the top museums in Canada. Meet the designers behind every aspect of the exhibitions and brand for RAM.

Clair Dawson is a principal at Underline Studio.

Emily Chu is a Chinese illustrator and visual artist based on Treaty 6/Edmonton.

Born in Warsaw Poland, and based in Toronto, Karolina has been a designer for over two decades.

Kylie Henry is a proud immigrant to Canada, having moving here from New Zealand in 2005.

Nicola is a Toronto-based art director and graphic designer, whose work has been internationally recognized by the D&AD, the Society of Publication Designers, the Society for News Design, and the Canadian National Magazine Awards.

Skye Oleson-Cormack is a multi-disciplinary designer based in Montreal, QC. She currently runs Fingers Crossed Press and is available for freelance opportunities.

Vikki is a multi-disciplinary designer who's made the first 12 years of her career all about experimentation and entreneurship.

Esra Tasdemir is a graphic designer and art director based in Toronto. A graduate of the Graphic Design program at OCAD University, her focus is on bringing innovative and bold design solutions to branding and advertising.

Valéry Goulet is a French-Canadian multidisciplinary graphic designer and design educator.

Inspired at an early age by her granny’s 1970’s toile de jouy curtains and the cushions in the family caravan, Kate Golding became obsessed with pattern design, interior design, and the people who encompassed these design choices.

Melanie Lambrick loves to make big and bold graphic illustrations that elevate text and help readers to understand complex narratives in a variety of print and digital collateral.

Jag Nagra is a queer Punjabi Visual Artist and community advocate with a number of artworks in the Museum of Vancouver's permanent collection. She is a co-Founder of the Punjabi Market Collective—a non-profit working to revitalize Vancouver’s historic Punjabi Market commercial district.

Kelly Hartman is the Principal and Creative Director of Hartman Design Studio, based in Calgary, Alberta.