{"id":312,"date":"2020-04-21T20:33:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T20:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/?p=312"},"modified":"2020-04-21T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T20:33:38","slug":"canadian-design-today-allan-fleming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/2020\/04\/21\/canadian-design-today-allan-fleming\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Design Today &#8211;  Allan Fleming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allan Fleming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Born May 7, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Alan Fleming would shape many of the early influences in Canadian graphic design. He attended the Western Technical Collegiate in 1943 to study commercial art. After his graduation, he would work as an illustrator for the T.Eaton Company, as a layout artist for the Art Associates Studio and as Art director for ad agency Aikin McCracken.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdc.design\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/gdc-square-large\/public\/images\/feature-designers\/907\/907-allanflemming-banner.png?itok=7QbWYmPk\" alt=\"GDC (Graphic Designers of Canada) | Allan Fleming, FGDC\" \/><figcaption>Allan Fleming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleming would move to England for two years to study letterforms and type under a multitude of different mentors.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5573\/30718135936_e4fb07a18f.jpg\" alt=\"AF_03\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon his return to Canada, Fleming began working as a freelance designer and became Head of Typography at the Ontario College of Art.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"279\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9738\/2020\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"CN Logo Designed by Allan Fleming &amp; CN Brand Guidelines &amp; History\" class=\"wp-image-313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9738\/2020\/04\/image.png 279w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9738\/2020\/04\/image-148x96.png 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><figcaption>CN Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1960, Fleming would launch his most famous work. The new and current logo for the Canadian National Railways.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Selected Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c5\/Ontario_Hydro_logo.svg\/1920px-Ontario_Hydro_logo.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e3\/Ontario_Science_Centre_Logo.svg\/2880px-Ontario_Science_Centre_Logo.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/59\/St_Thomas%27s_Church%2C_Huron_Street_logo.svg\/1920px-St_Thomas%27s_Church%2C_Huron_Street_logo.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4e\/National_Design_Council_logo.svg\/1920px-National_Design_Council_logo.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fd\/Centre_for_Medieval_Studies_device.svg\/800px-Centre_for_Medieval_Studies_device.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allan Fleming Born May 7, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Alan Fleming would shape many of the early influences in Canadian graphic design. He attended the Western Technical Collegiate in 1943 to study commercial art. After his graduation, he would work as an illustrator for the T.Eaton Company, as a layout artist for the Art Associates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-142-r","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/dallasmckinnon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}