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Canada Games Centre

Dean Gallant — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:45:08 +0000

The Canada Games Centre is Halifax’s newest fitness, aquatic, & recreation facility, established to integrate both the need for high performance sport & athlete development, while promoting recreation and wellness within the community. It’s run by a not-for-profit society who operate the centre on behalf of the Halifax Regional Municipality. It’s an impressive facility—with striking architecture. Some of the highlights include a 140 foot indoor/outdoor waterslide and an indoor running track.

Over the last few months, we’ve been hard at work designing brochures, rack cards, pop up banners, print advertisements, newsletters, posters and marketing/communications templates for the good people at this wonderful new facility. The vibrant colours extracted from the logo, combined with photographs by Geordie Mott at Wooden Shoe Photography really help these products stand out.

Samples below:

Canada Games Centre - brochures

Canada Games Centre - pop up banners

Canada Games Centre - print ads

Canada Games Centre - rack card

Hillwood Consulting and Real Estate

Dean Gallant — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:03:07 +0000

A colleague of mine from the Halifax 2011 Canada Games has started a new business as an umbrella for her consulting practice as well as some real estate holdings in Halifax and Ontario. Pinwheel was approached to take on the communication and identity design for the venture.

A full identity project is fantastic to work on, because I’m able to control and maintain consistency in the look & feel throughout all brand materials.

We delivered a full logo package, business card and letterhead designs, presentation templates, and design and development of a website. The big challenge in this project was to clearly present and communicate the two (somewhat unconnected) aspects of this business—the consulting and real estate. The content had to be clearly separated, while unified under a single brand.

The name “Hillwood” is derived from the family name “Hugenholtz” and the tree imagery in the logo was refined from a sketch/idea provided by the client.

Hillwood - Business Cards

Hillwood - Letterhead

hillwood.ca

Halifax Biomedical Brochure

Dean Gallant — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:06:54 +0000

I’ve been doing a fair amount of work for Halifax Biomedical Inc. over the last few months—technical manuals, business cards, a presentation template, a trade show display unit and this Brochure.

It’s a letter size single fold handout. I was supplied with 3d models and renderings of the products they offer, which I modified to create the illustrations below.

Halifax Biomedical Inc. - Brochure

sourisharbourauthority.com

Dean Gallant — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:49:33 +0000

Souris Harbour Authority is a long time client in my family’s hometown of Souris, P.E.I. They are a not-for-profit community based corporation established to own, operate and promote the development of the Port of Souris.

Over the years, they’ve grown and expanded their operations to include a historic lighthouse and cold storage facility. And there has been a mix of separate websites and branding for the various operations.

I was recently asked to redesign and consolidate the web presence into one central site with a consistent look & feel. It was launched this week: sourisharbourauthority.com. The site has to appeal to a varied audience including commercial shippers, agents & receivers, tourists, local residents, boat owners & fishermen.

sourisharbourauthority.com

sourisharbourauthority.com - News

Green Schools Nova Scotia

Dean Gallant — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:31:58 +0000

Green Schools Nova Scotia is a new provincial program administered by Clean Nova Scotia and funded by Efficiency Nova Scotia. The program goal is to promote a culture of sustainability in the school setting. They assist schools to develop plans for implementing sustainability over the long term, and provide support, guidance, and motivation to schools over time.

Greenschoolsns.ca has been recently launched. I was contracted to develop and consulted on the design of the website. The site features an interactive map of member schools, school profiles, resources & information, success stories and various ways for students, teachers and institutions to get involved.

Green Schools Nova Scotia - Home Page

Green Schools Nova Scotia - The Elements of Green Schools

Green Schools Nova Scotia - Member schools map

Green Schools Nova Scotia - News blog

All Rights Reserved – Rejuvenation

Dean Gallant — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:31:20 +0000

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.

This is volunteer work for me in my role as creative director for the association. A fun project where I have liberal creative licence.

Osha Mae Soap – new website

Dean Gallant — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:05:33 +0000

Osha Mae Soap is one of my oldest clients, and a fantastic local business here in Halifax. They provide handmade artisan soap and aromatherapy products—it’s all my family uses. Products are made with Atlantic seaweed and kelp, indigenous plant herbals, certified organic Nova Scotian oils and therapeutic grade essential oils. You might have seen Osha Mae products at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market, or at retail outlets around Nova Scotia.

I’ve been doing their identity and label design for years, and I’m very pleased to have recently designed and produced a new website, which was launched yesterday. It’s a clean and professional design, with a fully integrated online store and shopping cart system. My first retail website.

Screenshots below, or visit the site and let me know what you think. Smells great, don’t you think?

Tech Dogs website

Dean Gallant — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:33:59 +0000

A colleague of mine has started a new I.T. support business in Truro, Nova Scotia. Pinwheel facilitated the identity and website design and we’re partnering to provide communication design services to their clients.

Tech Dogs provides a full range of computer support services for business and residential clients. Check the website out at techdogs.ca.

Halifax 2011 Canada Games – Corporate report

Dean Gallant — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:27:44 +0000

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

Josh & Jedd’s fish & chips

Dean Gallant — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:36:04 +0000

My friend Josh and his partner Jedd bought themselves a fish and chips truck this summer. Everyone’s childhood dream, I know! In exchange for some good eating, I designed a logo & sign for them. Look for Josh & Jedd’s fish & chips on Argyle Street on top of Parade Square in downtown Halifax this summer!

The vinyl decal was produced and applied by Eye Candy Signs, my preferred sign shop in Halifax.

Josh and Jedd's fish & chips logo

Josh and Jedd's fish & chips truck