Kyle Schruder RGD
Brand & Editorial Designer


Indiescreen 2026 
Studio: Creative Currency
Team:
  • Jennifer Gagnon RGD Art Director
  • Lenore Ramirez Senior Designer
  • Meleana Conquer Designer
  • Ysabella Ocampo Designer
Creative Currency designed and produced the latest issue of CMPA's Indiescreen magazine, Canada's guide to independent media production. We handled the full editorial layout, developed creative feature designs tailored to each article's content, and illustrated the cover. The issue arrived during a period of heightened cultural nationalism in Canada, with audiences and policymakers rallying around homegrown content amid debates over American platform dominance and the Online Streaming Act. 

Our cover illustration — two Canada geese protectively flanking film equipment — nodded directly at that political moment, casting the country's indie production sector as something worth defending. Inside, features cover accessible content, sustainability, innovation, and the future of Canadian storytelling. The work spanned typography, page composition, and visual concept development, delivering a publication that reads as credibly in Ottawa lobbying meetings and at TIFF as it does within the creative community it represents.








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Kyle Schruder RGD    
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LinkedIn Creative Director at Creative Currency
Previously design at Coactuate, Bridgeable, Fresh Art & Design, James Ireland Design

Awards:
2026 – National Magazine Awards: B2B
  • Gold – Best Art Direction of a Single Article
  • Nomination – Best Cover
  • 2x Nominations – Best Art Direction of a Single Article

2025 – RGD Branding Award
  • Program & Campaign Brand

2025 – National Magazine Awards: B2B
  • Silver - Best Art Direction of a Single Article
  • Nomination – Best Cover

2024 – RGD In-house Design Awards
  • Award of Merit