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All Rights Reserved – Rejuvenation
Posted by Dean Gallant in book/layout, recent work on October 26th, 2011
All Rights Reserved Literacy Journal & Association is Halifax’s only independent, non-profit literary association. Its mandate is to provide a voice to the artistic community while embracing quality of expression. They publish a yearly journal of original prose & poetry—this year it’s being made available as an online .pdf—which I’ve designed with screen reading in mind.
Presenting: All Rights Reserved’s 2011 literary journal, Rejuvenation! As with the literary submissions, the artwork for these journals is sourced through an open submission process. The artist chosen for this edition is an impressive 15 year old from the UK—Eleanor Leonne Bennett—who supplied all of the photography.
Click the image to download the full edition.
All Rights Reserved’s 2011 literary journal, Rejuvenation.
This is volunteer work for me in my role as creative director for the association. A fun project where I have liberal creative licence.
Halifax 2011 Canada Games – Corporate report
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, book/layout, recent work on July 6th, 2011
Yesterday, the Halifax 2011 Canada Games released the Final Corporate Report for this past winter’s successful event.
This report was a privilege to work on with such a great resource of amazing photography from Games time. It’s a beautiful, colourful, 9.5 x 7.5 inch book peppered with full page photos which are paired with memorable quotes from the event.
I had completed most of this project during my employment with the Games, but had a few details to add this week, along with creating a French version of the layout. For the moment, this has been released online as a .pdf for screen viewing, but we’ll be producing some quality bound copies for the archives and funding partners.
Melissa MacKinnon and Andrea Young did an excellent job pulling together the content. Photos were taken by the volunteer team which was lead by the incredible photographers at Communications Nova Scotia. Copy editing for this project was handled by my old friend Tara Lee Witchen, who I was lucky to work with on quite a few projects for the Games.
See the cover and a few sample interior spreads, below.
Halifax 2011 Canada Games: Final Corporate Report - cover
Halifax 2011 Canada Games: Final Corporate Report - interior spreads
Halifax BioMedical Inc. – RSA Patient Protocol Manual
Posted by Dean Gallant in book/layout, recent work on June 12th, 2011
I recently completed the layout and illustrations for an interesting project: A technical manual for an x-ray machine. The product—developed by local biomedical company Halifax BioMedical Inc.—is called the Halifax SR suite. Stereo radiography (SR) is the practice of imaging an object from two different perspectives at the same time. The machine is used primarily to analyze artificial joints in the hip, knee and spine.
I worked closely with Ryan Jones from Clear Mirror Editorial on this project. Also, my wife (and local drawing instructor) Anne Pryde helped enormously by sketching the patients for the illustrations.
Below are a couple of sample pages from the manual.
SR RadTech Manual sample page
SR RadTech Manual sample page
Halifax 2011 Canada Games – Souvenir program
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, book/layout, recent work on March 27th, 2011
The Souvenir Program for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games was provided to each participant and given out at various venues and events throughout the Games. This is a full glossy, eighty page magazine style publication, fully bilingual throughout.
The program contains general information about Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Canada Games, as well as information on the sports, venues, cultural events, medals, torches, etc… surrounding the Halifax Games. We also included a hard stock insert for holding pins collected. And another fun thing: we took images of real volunteers from our accreditation database and created a mosaic of the Halifax 2011 Canada Games logo.
This was in many ways a true commemorative piece as it really collects and showcases all the various projects and programs we’ve worked so hard on implementing over the last two years. See below for detail images of some of my favourite sections of the program.
Halifax 2011 Canada Games Souvenir Program
Souvenir Program detail
Foldout sport schedule
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, book/layout, recent work on March 27th, 2011
For the Halifax 2011 Canada Games we produced a detailed sport schedule which was handed out to the general public throughout the two weeks of the Games.
This was a challenge, to reduce what is a very complex schedule—for 22 different sports at 13 separate venues—to a simplified and unified chart. Each sport has it’s own particularities, so maintaining a consistent system and legend is tricky. An overall schedule with this level of detail had not been produced for previous Canada Games and the work for this involved a lot of hours from a lot of staff. It’s definitely something we are proud of.
The schedule is French on the reverse, and folds to a tidy pocket size which you can see in the detail images below.
Halifax 2011 Canada Games foldout sport schedule
Foldout sport schedule detail
Drive Line newsletter
Posted by Dean Gallant in book/layout on October 8th, 2009
Layout design of a new monthly Newsletter for the Owner-Operator’s Business Association of Canada (OBAC). They are a trade association representing professional drivers and owner-operators across the country. “The authoritative national voice of small business trucking”. This design pulls from the existing look & feel of their website.
Drive Line - The Monthly Newsletter of the Owner-Operator's Business Association of Canada.