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Website Design

New web accessibility requirements on the way

On April 22, 2022, the Manitoba government published a new regulation under the Accessibility for Manitobans Act, or AMA. Known as the Accessible Information and Communication Standard Regulation, it requires Manitoba businesses and organizations’ websites meet web accessibility standards. As a business owner or someone responsible for your organization’s web presence, it’s important to understand …

Claudine Gervais

"Six Weeks of New Starts" on image with traditional medicines and smudge bowl

Marketing

How to start something new

It’s Groundhog Day today, and while the tradition of consulting a rodent for a sign of an early spring or a late winter is unscientific and a little bit strange, there is something to be said for planning for what’s next. Earlier on our social media channels Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, we kicked off Six …

Claudine Gervais

Pink textile art in Boreal forest

Vincent Design Scholarship

Open mind, open heart

We’re profiling another Vincent Design Scholarship award-winner who proves that as long as you have a mind open to new possibilities and an open heart, you can continue to learn and grow. At 60, Denise Prefontaine is leaning into a new chapter as a fine arts student.  As a French-Métis woman who has lived most …

Claudine Gervais

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Staff Highlight

A Countdown to The Longest Night

This December, we’ve been thinking about the coming Winter Solstice, also known as The Longest Night. Celebrated in cultures around the globe for thousands of years, Winter Solstice arrives in Winnipeg on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 9:59 a.m.   As the days get shorter and shorter until then, we’re bundling up.  What does it mean …

Claudine Gervais

Vincent Design staff with Vern Dano

Team Building

Circling the fire

On a sunny fall day ahead of a storm that would blanket the city in snow, the Vincent Design team gathered around a fire in Michaelle Jean Park. Geese flew low overhead, casting moving shadows on the grass, as Elder and Knowledge Keeper Vern Dano shared stories and songs to nourish spirits ahead of a …

Claudine Gervais

Swan Song painting by Bre

Vincent Design Scholarship

Building Connections with Bre

We are thrilled to announce that Bre Quirion has been awarded a scholarship via our Vincent Design Indigenous Scholarship Fund. The scholarship provides educational funding to Indigenous youth pursuing college or university studies in graphic design and related programs in Canada. Bre is part of a loud, boisterous family here in Winnipeg and that same …

Claudine Gervais

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VDI Events

We did it for the boos

Knock-knock Who’s there? Canoe Canoe who? Canoe please give me a Halloween treat? We could have filled the Vincent Design canoe a few times with the treats we had here in October. It’s been great to have everyone in the office again, and we’re making the most of it.  Every member of the staff —and …

Claudine Gervais

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Community Events

In pursuit of Truth and Reconciliation

September 30 will mark the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. The new federal statutory holiday coincides with Orange Shirt Day, a day to honour children who were sent away to residential schools. September was referred to as “the crying month” by many, as it was the month that children were taken from their …

Claudine Gervais

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Design

There’s a palette for that

How do designers decide what colours to use in their designs? When a client comes to us, we begin by asking a lot of questions. (You can learn more about our process here.) This helps us learn more about our clients and what they’re looking for — and also what they’re looking at. What inspires …

Claudine Gervais

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Community Support

Never Letter Go: The Evolution of 765 Main Street

No building is ever completely finished.  Our work here is only beginning. Vincent Design is for connection and communication, just like the mail that crossed the country when the first transcontinental railway was completed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885.  Winnipeg, as the Western Canadian rail hub, was an important part of Canada’s mail …

Claudine Gervais