The Future of Design Communications

Stephen Bau
9 min readJun 22, 2021
The Scream by Kent Monkman, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 84” x 126”. Collection of the Denver Art Museum.

The recent announcement of the changes planned for the Graphic Designers of Canada is a welcome evolution in the advocacy for the value of design in Canadian society.

Take part in the journey and express what the future of design communications means to you.

The Journey

I accepted an invitation in May 2020 to join the GDC BC Chapter Executive Board as Chair of Web Communications.

In our Slack channel, I expressed my appreciation for the work that has been done so far on the new strategic direction of the organization.

It was great to hear the presentations on the roll out of the new brand redesign and website as a participatory design project.

I might have preferred that the entire process was participatory, but I can also recognize that it might have been a luxury for a volunteer organization faced with constraints on time, energy, and resources.

Over the past 32 years, I have been working as a professional designer in various capacities, and I am grateful to…

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Stephen Bau

Designer, educator, social architect, founder, Builders Collective. We are exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together. https://bldrs.co