The following 9 designers have been accepted or re-instated as Certified RGDs:

Julie Barge, Manager Visual Design - Digital Customer Experience at Canada Life, London

David Coates, Partner at Ion Brand Design, Vancouver

Bianca DiPietro, Program Coordinator & Professor, Graphic Design Advanced Diploma at Humber College, Toronto

Branden Douglas, VP, Creative Director at Relish New Brand Experience, Winnipeg

Joanna Gee, Senior UX Designer at Critical Mass, San Francisco

Travis Gobeil, Ottawa

Ekaterina Osina, Designer at PrinexMedia, Mississauga

Joshua Speers, Creative Lead at Speers Creative, Schomberg

Colin Turner, Beckenham, UK

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The following 6 Team Members:

Clear Space Design & Communications, Toronto

Entro Communications, Toronto

Glenn Davis Group Inc, Mississauga

Harbinger, Toronto

IPG Mediabrands, Toronto

Subplot Design Inc, Vancouver

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The following 20 new Provisional RGDs:


Athul Alexander, Toronto

Selin Ayman, Toronto

David Brynczka, Toronto

Brittany Buckle, Kincardine (ON)

Annalie Chernin, Toronto

Sabrina Cunha, Mississauga

Kristin DiBello, Brampton

Lyssa Gagne, Waterloo

Paige Guzzell, Thunder Bay

Rayhaneh Haghgoo, Richmond Hill

Stephanie Hrechka, Sudbury

DoHyun Kim, Toronto

Jeremy King, Toronto

Nicolas Korek, Toronto

Isabelle Mate, Vancouver

Alessandra Pisani, Toronto

Matt C Reynolds, Halifax

Karina Rosales, Oakville

Shivanan Silva, Toronto

Grace Stallard, Kitchener

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RGD also welcomes 38 new Affiliate & Junior Affiliate Members from:

Abbotsford, Burnaby, Courtice (ON), Edmonton, Kabul, Kitchener, Mississauga, Ottawa, Renton (WA), Saskatoon, Surrey, Sydney (Australia), Toronto, Vancouver and Whitby

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RGD also welcomes 113 new Student Members from:

Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA), Art Institute of Vancouver, Centennial College (Toronto), Falmouth University, Fanshawe College (London),  George Brown College (Toronto), Humber College (Toronto), Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Vancouver), LaSalle College (Vancouver), New York Institute of Art + Design, Niagara College (Welland), OCADU (Toronto), Pacific Design Academy (Victoria), Red River College (Winnipeg), Ryerson University (Toronto), Seneca College (Toronto), Sheridan College (Oakville), Toronto Film School, Trinity Western University (Langley), Université Laval (Quebec City), University of Regina, University of the Fraser Valley (Abbotsford), University of Toronto, Vancouver Community College, Visual College of Art and Design of Vancouver

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