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Vancouver is an amazing city, chock full of creative talent. WE ARE VANCVR is a simple, elegant way to showcase all that talent in one place. Every Tuesday we profile one individual from the VANCVR community.VANCVR.com is a Domain7 Labs project.

Nothing is commonplace in the hands of illustrator Janice Wu. Chopstick wrappers, Splenda packets, or a week’s worth of receipts—when curated and illustrated in her distinctive pencil and gouache can be pretty stunning. She reimagines everyday objects into playful renderings you want to reach out and touch.

The fourth-year Emily Carr student has already had work featured in New York Magazine, BUST and most recently The Walrus, and has participated in group exhibitions in BC and Ontario. Keep your eye on this one.

Read on to find out how she likes being a creative in Vancouver, and ways she’d like to collaborate.

[photo by Kriza Borromeo]

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Vancouver is an amazing city, chock full of creative talent. WE ARE VANCVR is a simple, elegant way to showcase all that talent in one place. Every Tuesday we profile one individual from the VANCVR community.VANCVR.com is a Domain7 Labs project.

Meet Paul Belen. If you’ve been around the Vancouver music community for any amount of time, you might also know him as Paul Skratch, or maybe Pluskratch. Paul is a former Technics DMC Vancouver champ and a member of the No Luck Club. His music career has meant lots of self promotion—press packs, websites, posters—and eventually, all that design dabbling lead to a completely different career path. Now he spends more time in front of a computer than a turntable, running his one-man design studio, Almighty Creative. He’s currently studying at VFS to refine his craft in storytelling and design.

Read on to find out why he likes being a creative in Vancouver.

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Vancouver is an amazing city, chock full of creative talent. WE ARE VANCVR is a simple, elegant way to showcase all that talent in one place. Every Tuesday we profile one individual from the VANCVR community.VANCVR.com is a Domain7 Labs project.

Our city’s weather gets a bad rap, but locals know the rain is to thank for a whole lot of imaginative output. Among other things, illustrator  Peter Komierowski says it’s one of the best parts of being a working creative in Vancouver. Peter left the brisk sunny skies of Alberta for Vancouver in 2010. Since then, he (along with his wife Jo) has been spreading illustrated love around publications like Discorder and King Snow. The ACAD graduate went back to school in 2011. He just graduated from the Visual College of Art and Design, like, yesterday and is already keeping busy as a freelancer.

Read on to find out why else he likes being a creative in Vancouver.

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Vancouver is an amazing city, chock full of creative talent. WE ARE VANCVR is a simple, elegant way to showcase all that talent in one place. Every Tuesday we profile one individual from the VANCVR community.VANCVR.com is a Domain7 Labs project.

New Brunswick native Meg Robichaud has plenty of great things to say about the creative community in Vancouver. No wonder—fresh out of the Graphic Design program, the Art Institute grad has already developed a thriving freelance career in our fair city. Her cheeky illustrations have made appearances on board games, food and costume packaging, collateral for music festivals and even VIFF promotional material.

Read on to discover some other reasons why she loves being a creative in Vancouver.

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Vancouver is an amazing city, chock full of creative talent. WE ARE VANCVR is a simple, elegant way to showcase all that talent in one place. Every Tuesday we profile one individual from the VANCVR community.VANCVR.com is a Domain7 Labs project.

Last Fall we had the fun task of plumbing our directory of local talent for some of the very best creatives in Vancouver to put forward as TEDx speakers. It gave us a chance to connect with Mike Nowland and Carson Ting, who we felt truly embody the collaborative spirit of VANCVR, through their co-created murals.

Around that time, Carson was in Hong Kong getting married to Denise Cheung. The newlyweds bring that spirit of collaboration home (literally) with their experimental project Chairman Ting Industries. Their goal in every creative endeavour is to make you smile—a mission we can totally get behind.

In the process they create some pretty innovative, inspired projects. Check them out below, and read on to find out why they like being creatives in Vancouver.

Vancouver is an amazing city, chock full of creative talent. WE ARE VANCVR is a simple, elegant way to showcase all that talent in one place. Every Tuesday we profile one individual from the VANCVR community.VANCVR.com is a Domain7 Labs project.

We don’t normally profile wedding photographers in this weekly feature—that’s what wedding blogs are for, right?—but darnit, we just were so charmed by Luke Liable‘s warm and quirky photos of people in love.

This Saskatchewan native first learned the basics of light and composition on his grandfather’s vintage Canon FTb. He dove headlong into his love of portrait and surf photography when he moved to the west coast in 2007 and made it his career in 2010.

Read on to find out why he likes being a creative in Vancouver.

[photo by Jayme Lang]

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Vancouver is an amazing city, chock full of creative talent. WE ARE VANCVR is a simple, elegant way to showcase all that talent in one place. Every Tuesday we profile one individual from the VANCVR community.VANCVR.com is a Domain7 Labs project.

Zach Bulick just calls himself a designer—and yes, that’s his day job at Vancouver’s Union Gospel Mission—but this Texas native also has some serious illo and photography chops.

The honorary Canadian moved to Vancouver for university in 2004 and stuck around. We’re really glad he did. We love his illustrated designs for Homelessness Action Week and his fantastic type treatments, and we also think he’s a close tie for nicest guy in the city.

Bonus: after a visit to last year’s SXSW in his home state, Zach also became an unwitting Instagram-celebrity—his lovely light-washed feed is pushing 40,000 followers! Read on to find out why he loves being a creative in Vancouver.

[photo by Rachel Pick]

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Vancouver is an amazing city, chock full of creative talent. WE ARE VANCVR is a simple, elegant way to showcase all that talent in one place. Every Tuesday we profile one individual from the VANCVR community.VANCVR.com is a Domain7 Labs project.

Nathan Skillen is a rarity in the We Are Vancvr community—he’s a videographer, and only a videographer. In the last five years he’s worked the gamut of production roles around Vancouver for clients as diverse as Coca-cola and the Institute of Professional Bookkeepers. Today the BCIT grad gets to focus on what he loves—events and music, shooting Green Couch Sessions and videos for local bands.

Read on to find out why he loves being a creative in Vancouver.

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