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Designer puts stamp on Tiger

Layne Christensen TT

News Reporter
layne@nsnews.com

THE Year of the Tiger,
1998, will be a year of
considerable opportuni-
ty, technological!
advance and intense
activity.

For Ray Mah this is dready
truc.

The Wese Vancouver resi-
dear has just moved his design
firm into the — Bendtsen
Associates building in False
Creck he purchased in
December. He's embracing
technology by advancing
RayMahDesign into the next
millennium, expanding  ser-
vices and resources to open a
fully equipped multimedia
production house. And as for
intense activity, Mah couldn't
be busier. The phones just
keep ringing off the hook.

NEWS photo Paut McGrath
RAY Mah's stamp design for Canata Frost celebrates the Year of the
Tiger, which begins at sunset Wednesday, Jan. 28.

His high-profile commissions include the corporate
imaging for Park Royal Shopping Centre, Orca Bay
Sports & Entertainment and Simon Fraser University.

His company has designed the loge mark for the
Canadian Dragon Boat Festival and the opening graph-
ics for VTV's Double Exposure.

His design team’s graphic imagery for Coss.
Highway has helped land the focally produced TV show
a recent Gemini nomination for Best Documentary
Series.

But it is his design for a stamp commissioned ':v
Canada Post to commemorate the Year of the Tiger that
has Mah riding a wave of publicity right now.

Personable and encryctic, he’s been in’ constant
demand with Chinese- and English language media
since the stamp was presented Jan. 8 at ihe Chinese
Caltural Centre in Chinatown.

The limited-edition stamp is the second of a planned
i2-vear series depicting animals of the Chinese codiac
to correspond with the Chinese New Year.

According to legend, it was the Heavenly Emperor
fade who established the Chinese zodiac. One Chinese
New Year the emperor invited all the animals of his
kingdom to come before him. Only 12 showed: rat, ox,
dt. rabbin, dragon, snake, horse. goat, monkey, roost-
zr tag, and pig.

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

Favorite music.

Future plans: success

“This has been a really rewarding experience,” savs

Mah. See Desiqn pane 26 as a model and actor

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