TORONTO—UPDATED JAN. 19 Creating and sending unique holiday cards and season's greetings to clients and colleagues is a design and ad industry tradition. The 2012 season's crop seems to favour digital and interactive greetings rather than the printed variety. Here is a selection of holiday cards submitted or sent to Design Edge.

Toronto-based freelance designer Deana DeCiccio sent her 12 Days of Christmas Infographic.


Vancouver-based studio Harmonic Concepts, which specializes in graphic design for the music industry sent this card along.


OCAD University celebrated with this animated greeting.

Toronto ad agency Tamm + Kit created this interactive site in which people can create their own digital cards to send to their contacts, while Zync offered its own take on the holidays in the guise of this holiday promo.


Toronto designers Katherine and Matt Webb (two of our TOP 10 Young Designers to Watch this year) sent a seasonal postcard, which arrived via snail mail.


Many of the greetings have altruistic endeavours attached to them.

The GDC BC Chapter produced a set of Designer Holiday Cards. A portion of the sales will go to the GDC Foundation. The set consists of 16 cards and 4 images; one image each was designed by chapter members 
Angela Hot, Matt Warburton, Marga Lopez, and 
Stu Ross. 

Paper was donated by Spicers: 120 lb Sterling Premium Dull Cover. Printing services were donated by Vancouver's Metropolitan Fine Printing.

lg2 Boutique in Montreal is running an interactive food drive entitled 12 Cans of Christmas from Dec. 17 - 20 (9 am to 5 pm). Invited participants can remotely control a ping-pong ball launcher located at the lg2 offices and try to hit cans of food set up as a target. For each can hit, the studio will donate a can of food to Banques alimentaires du Québec (Food Banks of Quebec).

Everytime someone visits Lowe Roche's intern holiday bonus landing page, the ad agency will add to the holiday cash bonus it gives to its volunteer interns.


Vancouver's Dossier Creative sent an invitation to help it continue its Kiva donation tradition by visiting a site and clicking through 15 interactive doors. Non-profit Kiva fights poverty worldwide by issuing small business loans to individuals. If 200 visitors click through all the doors (to read about who needs a loan and why) by Dec. 24, Dossier will double its donation to Kiva this year. To date, 260 have clicked through all the doors.

While many others, like Toronto's Method Branding, make a charitable donation on their customers' behalf. Method gave both to the New York State's Empire State Relief Fund and to the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund — a fact reflected in the design of Method's printed card.