Congratulations go out to two of our valued collaborators in being recognized by the 2012 Applied Arts Magazine Illustration Awards for the work they created with us on couple of projects. In Home Depot Canada Foundation’s 2011 annual report, Rachel Ann Lindsey’s evocative and whimsical drawings brought to life the wide range of communities that [...]
We recently returned from Calgary, Alberta, where we attended the launch of Tervita – a new brand that unites more than a dozen business units of the former CCS Corporation into one of North America’s leading environmental and energy services companies. Tervita is the culmination of nine months of close work with a client team [...]
We’re excited to have stepped into the warm waters of the Caribbean for our first project with Publicis Trinidad – a rebranding of Flow, the leading video service provider in the English-speaking Caribbean. In a joint effort between several Publicis arms – in Trinidad and Toronto – Ove was enlisted to apply our branding expertise, [...]
In a world where postsecondary education has become more digital and mobile by the day, there’s still something to be said for a chalkboard diagram and its ability to tell a big story quickly. When developing the viewbook for Algonquin College we wanted to create a powerful visual that conveyed the breadth of programs and [...]
This coming Tuesday (January 31) at 6:30 John Furneaux will be a featured panelist at the Design Exchange for a discussion on the transformation of how people experience and consume media. With every generation, media are experienced in different ways. We need to be aware of these changes and continuously find new and innovative ways [...]
This year, home for the holidays is in the heart of downtown. Inspired by the vibrancy of life in the urban core, Ove’s Holidazzle campaign for Toronto Eaton Centre captures the brilliant, lively and modern sensibility that befits the Centre’s position as THE downtown destination and the heart of the holidays. The multi-pronged campaign encompassed [...]
Congratulations to our newest designer, Pawel Rokicki, for recently winning Silver at the ADCC (Advertising & Design Club of Canada) 2011 Awards competition for students. His project was based around a Conference poster for ED AWARDS (fictional conference) based in Cologne, Germany. Well done Pawel. The poster emphasizes Erik Spiekermann and his typeface FF Meta. [...]
We recently had the opportunity to work with Candu Energy on the repositioning of its brand, an opportunity that arose when Candu was acquired by SNC-Lavalin. These two forces coming together prompted the need to create a broader brand – one that would encompass the intellectual capital of Candu’s technology, along with SNC’s strong reputation [...]
Shopping centre food courts are typically not the most inspired places to dine. Cadillac Fairview, owners of the landmark Toronto Eaton Centre, are out to change that – with a fresh approach to dining downtown in Canada’s most vibrant city. As part of a $130 million revitalization initiative at the Toronto Eaton Centre, the Urban [...]
Most of us know of The Home Depot as the go-to place for repair and home improvement tasks around our own homes. But did you know that the organization is also dedicated to helping build communities across Canada? The Home Depot Canada Foundation, the charitable arm of The Home Depot Canada, is a private, Canadian, [...]
