Don’s Bio:
Don Chisholm is Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of dossier, an award-winning design brand creation studio based in Vancouver Canada. Specializing in birthing brands, the firm was founded in 1987 and is known for creating category defining brands that deliver massive value and endure. In 1996, dossier created the Mike’s Hard Lemonade beverage brand which has become and continues to be a phenomenal international success.
Don is an dynamic designer with a marketer’s business sense and a strategist’s ability to see the big picture. He is highly intuitive and aware of what resonates with audiences. Don is passionate about challenging the norm and ‘creating the unseen’ by pursuing uncharted directions. Two decades of experience as a design practitioner and as a student of creativity theories have made Don a sought-after authority and speaker on design and creativity at corporations and international conferences.
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Don is a graduate of the design program at Capilano University in North Vancouver. His early design career successes include work with Vancouver Expo 86 pavilion and several other international expo projects. Don lives in North Vancouver with his wife and two sons. His third passion–after family and design – is his classic 1971 – 43’ Sw
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