Brynn Staples, Emily Huynh and Courtney Lamb win Jim Rimmer award for interactive design

The Jim Rimmer Community Scholarship for Design Award is awarded annually to students whose project supports a community program, social cause, non-profit, or an environmental or social cause.

Congratulations to Brynn Staples (IDEA20), Emily Huynh (IDEA20), and Courtney Lamb (IDEA20) for their winning interactive design, Muse app by the Jim Rimmer Community Scholarship for Design Awards.

Congrats also to finalists from IDEA School of Design: Charmaine Cheng (IDEA19), Emily Rose (IDEA19), and Jominca Engelbrecht (IDEA19).

Courtney Lamb, Emily Huynh, and Brynn Staples, interactive design, Muse App

Muse is a concept for an interactive education tool for the Royal BC Museum that aims to take the ‘um’ out of ‘museum,’ bringing learning to life. Muse uses augmented reality and the user’s location data to make the past present, teaching users about BC’s history outside of a traditional museum setting.

Courtney Lamb, Emily Huynh, and Brynn Staples, interactive design, Muse App

We designed the brand and interface to engage a young audience while remaining sophisticated enough for users of any age to enjoy. Friendly typefaces and a refined colour palette drawn from BC’s landscape keeps the initiative approachable, calm, and credible.

Courtney Lamb, Emily Huynh, and Brynn Staples, interactive design, Muse App

In addition, we created a print campaign and website to generate awareness about the app. The print campaign focuses on BC’s Indigenous past – highlighting part of our past and present that we feel is often underrepresented.

Courtney Lamb, Emily Huynh, and Brynn Staples, interactive design, Muse App

Big thanks go to Judy Snaydon for giving us the inspiration and opportunity to develop this project in her second year Sustainable Design class.

Jominca Engelbrecht, Stamp Design, I Am More

According to a report by the Canadian Human Rights Commission half of all the discrimination complaints filed in Canada are related to disability. The objective of this project is to turn the public’s focus away from the disability a person has and rather become aware of their ability to improve the day to day lives of disabled people. By scratching away the coating applied over the people with disabilities. This also allows people to take the first step in seeing past disabilities to seeing people for all that they are.

Charmaine Cheng, Branding, Rosedive

Rosedive is a skateboarding school that focuses on inspiring confidence in young girls and showing that femininity and strength are not mutually exclusive. For the branding itself, I focused on bringing feminine elements and tougher elements together, to prove that this combination (though unlikely) can create something unique and appealing. For the brand's campaign, I created a poster series and an Instagram campaign that spoke to the subtly sexist words we use to describe girls and women. This was a really fun project to work on and I feel really passionate about the topic, so I'm very honoured to have been a finalist!

Charmaine Cheng, Branding, Rosedive

Rosedive is a skateboarding school that focuses on inspiring confidence in young girls and showing that femininity and strength are not mutually exclusive. For the branding itself, I focused on bringing feminine elements and tougher elements together, to prove that this combination (though unlikely) can create something unique and appealing. For the brand's campaign, I created a poster series and an Instagram campaign that spoke to the subtly sexist words we use to describe girls and women. This was a really fun project to work on and I feel really passionate about the topic, so I'm very honoured to have been a finalist!

Charmaine Cheng, Branding, Rosedive

Rosedive is a skateboarding school that focuses on inspiring confidence in young girls and showing that femininity and strength are not mutually exclusive. For the branding itself, I focused on bringing feminine elements and tougher elements together, to prove that this combination (though unlikely) can create something unique and appealing. For the brand's campaign, I created a poster series and an Instagram campaign that spoke to the subtly sexist words we use to describe girls and women. This was a really fun project to work on and I feel really passionate about the topic, so I'm very honoured to have been a finalist!

Emily Rose, Magazine Illustration, An Uncontrolled Experiment

Challenge: To create a magazine illustration that conveyed the environmental threat of genetically engineered salmon escaping from open ocean net pens and mating with wild population, potentially causing mass extinction.

Solution: I represented a DNA gene structure as a net pen and showed the salmon braking free to join the wild population.

““Jim Rimmer is an icon of Canadian design, craftsmanship and ingenuity. This scholarship is a reminder to the new generation of design thinkers that we need to retain the principles of our craft, Jim led by example. His work and passion will always be an inspiration to our members and everyone in the design industry.””

— Marga Lopez, CGD, past-president of GDC/BC

For details see: gdc.design/education/scholarships/jim-rimmer