This is another responsive website design—where the site layout adapts to whatever device (phone, tablet, etc..) you are viewing it on to provide an optimal user experience. For this site, we defined a custom, easy to use system for the organization to manage their touring artists, concerts, and presenters, in addition to the general information and news they need to communicate. The individual artists have associated video/audio clips and can be easily browsed by instrumentation or touring season.

Check out an upcoming concert in your area to see some of Canada’s top emerging and accomplished classical musicians!

Debut Atlantic – Season 2012/13 Program

debutatlantic.ca

debutatlantic.ca – Artists

For the design of this report, we continued a theme of that was established for the membership appreciate day at the Centre—using the idea of sports pennants to portray a feeling of celebration and victory.

The report is light on text and heavy on colourful imagery and photographs. Also, check out the fun infographics featured below.

Click here to read the full report online.

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.

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

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

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

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