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Yurko Gutsulyak RGD, Art Director & Graphic Designer at Gutsulyak.Studio, highlights six Ukrainian designers who brought their unique design approaches and skills to Canada from the 1950s-1980s.

The modernist era of Canadian design was highly influenced by Western European designers who made Canada their home in the early 1960s. Their work was characterized by a minimalist approach with a focus on typography.

However, this wasn't the first wave of creative immigrants to Canada.

A decade earlier, many Ukrainian graphic artists had to flee from an earlier Russian invasion to seek asylum overseas.

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As a result, many talented Ukrainian artists arrived in Canada contributing to Canadian design starting in the 1950s but continuing into the 1980s. Their styles were a mix of European modernist movements like Fauvism and Neo-primitivism with a strong influence from Cossack Baroque.

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