One of the largest street performance festivals in the world, The Edmonton International Street Performers Festival happens every summer downtown in the city’s Churchill Square. With this year’s event coinciding with Canada’s 150th anniversary, we thought it would be appropriate to capture the breadth of Canadian culture, and the fun of the Street Performers Festival, with lively, varied illustrations…
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For the last fifteen years, Theatre Six Pack has been featuring shows from numerous Edmonton theatre groups. With six shows for the price of one, it’s a great deal and an equally great opportunity to see a variety of what the city’s theatre culture has to offer. Tickets sell out fast! For the last few years, the design…
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The Edmonton International Jazz Festival takes place during July every year, featuring artists from Edmonton, Canada and all over the world. Each year, we’re challenged with including unique imagery from many different musicians who have provided their own photography into a common creative. It’s important for us to tie everything together in a way that…
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The ASEBP day planner is a project we’ve worked on for seven years now, and with each planner it’s interesting to look at how we can bring something new to the project and build upon the brand. The day planner has tips, resources and activities for teachers on how to stay healthy throughout the year,…
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Curio recently has been working on some initial drafts of the 2017 Harvest Celebration Materials, and the illustrations from 2016 worked so we’ll we are using them once again! We created a series of botanical inspired illustration in simple pencil drawing style to work into the event creative. For those of you who are not familiar…
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We featured some of our favourite projects throughout December, and the Belmont Mural was such a fun one for our team to work on last summer. We spent a week climbing all over scaffolding to complete this large mural in Little Italy, which is a community within the heart of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Between many days…
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It’s been over two years since we launched our project Adsotively; a blog dedicated to showcasing vintage ads from Edmonton. We dug up old ads from old Royal Alexandra Hospital yearbook archives dating all the way back to the 1930s! We even wrote a couple articles about our process. Read them on the Edmonton City as…
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Happy New Year to our clients, friends and collaborators! This is a nice time of year to appreciate you and each other. We love our studio culture here and we hope that translated through our #24daysofCurio advent calendar. The project was featured a day at a time on our @whatiscurio instagram page, featuring all sorts of visuals and…
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The team at Curio likes to share inspiring links throughout the week with each other. We want to share some of the favourites with you! Our favourite books, tools, videos, illustrators, etc. from November 2016. Amanda In the Company of Women by Grace Bonney Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It Documentary on botanical…
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We All Believe in You is a community of mental health survivors & supporters coming together to destigmatize mental illness. This project puts a face to what is typically a faceless struggle as many live in the shame and anonymity of their disease. It is this group’s goal to use art, honesty, education, and community to…
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We were very excited to contribute to The Edmonton International Jazz Festival creative again this year. They had an exciting lineup, as always. Soil & Pimp Sessions, Joe Lovano, Gregory Porter, and so many more were featured on stage, and in the pieces we created for the festival. Expanding upon last year’s design, we utilised a new…
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The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute is a branch of the University of Alberta specializing in innovation in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. They focus on developing algorithms and technologies that enhance the competitiveness of Alberta and Alberta-based businesses. Curio worked with Amii to create a new identity to go with their new name. Taking…
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