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Under the canoe, stories come alive. These stories explore the rich tapestry of culture, tradition, and human connection. Stories Under the Canoe is a space where the timeless art of storytelling thrives, inviting you to journey through tales that inspire and unite.

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Marketing

Insatiable appetites and graphic grids

One of the smallest mammals on the planet, pygmy shrews are equal in weight to approximately two paperclips. Pygmy shrews need to eat constantly, not even stopping to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time. Do you ever feel like social media is the pygmy shrew of your business? Social media seems …

Shaun and Vern Dano

Stories Under the Canoe

A Winter’s Break

This is Creator’s fire, this match that flares. This is Creator’s medicine that curls, plumes and rises with the touch of flame. This is Creator’s world, this pure and perfect Creation. And as the smoke rises, my mind empties, my heart opens, my spirit soars, and the prayer I offer allows this energy to enter …

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Team Building

Advertising in the spotlight

Every year, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity awards the best in commercial work. A few members of our team went to see the winners at WAG-Qaumajuq for inspiration from the hilarious, hypnotic, heartfelt, haunting and heartbreaking offerings, and to learn what we can from the ones that truly hit the mark.  Enjoy this …

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Staff Highlight

Reaching new heights with Kali MacDonald

Living in-between two worlds is not new for Kali MacDonald, but she sure knows how to explore different paths and seize opportunities to gain new perspectives. Her dual citizenship (she was born in Winnipeg but her mom is American) gave her the opportunity to spend her childhood between Manitoba and North Dakota, experiencing two countries …

VDI Winter Solstice greetings

Community Events

Celebrating the Season

Today, many of us will be attending a sacred fire and joining in community with friends and family to share stories, music, and good food. Solstice connects us to the land, its rhythms and cycles. We celebrate the season by decorating with cedar and other greenery. I’ll burn sage to smudge today, and also add it as an ingredient in my homemade tourtière. …

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Indigenous Graphic Design

Reconciliation stories

Tell me a story.It’s one of the first things we ask when we’re helping clients who come to us with their projects. This project was a bit different. TELUS came to Vincent Design with a collection of stories of how technology creates transformation in Indigenous communities. It was our job to help bring them to …

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Indigenous Graphic Design

Revolutionary revealed

November 16 marks the anniversary of Louis Riel’s execution in 1885. In that year, Riel led Métis people in the Northwest Resistance, standing up for Métis rights and way of life. The Resistance was defeated at the siege of Batoche, and the Canadian government captured Riel. He was put on trial, convicted of treason and …

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VDI Events

Forgotten: The Métis Residential School Experience

This post and the exhibit discussed contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some visitors, especially to Survivors of the Residential School System. The National Indian Residential School Crisis Line for former Residential School students is available at 1-866-925-4419. Immediate emotional support is available 24/7 to all Indigenous people across Canada. Call the Hope …

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Staff Highlight

The A-team: All She Creates

Anja Pearson knew from a young age that she was meant to be an artist, a passing thought that became a concrete inevitability, her first a-ha moment, when she received an easel for one of her childhood birthdays.  “It just kind of stuck,” said Anja. While appreciative and curious about a variety of artistic mediums, …

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Staff Highlight

The A-Team: Following’s No really His Style

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when it comes to Aarish Gilani, Vincent Design’s newest programmer. For as long as he can remember, Aarish has always been fascinated by technology and the complexity of its composition. Breaking something down to its core and learning from the simplicity of its basics to then create …