MilAero
Posted by Dean Gallant in banners, brochures, recent work on August 22nd, 2010
Some recent work for a new client, MilAero. They are a local company specializing in the manufacture and integration of high performance electrical assemblies. MilAero had an established logo (which I quite like) and look and feel. I was engaged to design two pop-up banners and a brochure/handout for an upcoming industry trade-show. The results below.
MilAero Pop up banners
MilAero brochure
Colchester Active Transportation Week
Posted by Dean Gallant in banners, recent work on August 22nd, 2010
Colchester Active Transportation Week street banner
This is a twenty foot long street banner for Move On Colchester Active Transportation Week. They wanted something they could reuse every year, without specific dates. We settled on sort of a variation or expansion of the Move On Colchester logo, which I designed in September 2009.
Souris Historic Lighthouse – Interpretation
Posted by Dean Gallant in interpretation, recent work on July 22nd, 2010
This Monday was the official grand opening of the Souris Historic Lighthouse. Working on this project, I’ve had the opportunity to develop the identity, website, brochure, signage and—probably what’s been most interesting—interior and exterior interpretive signs.
Timeline of events and lighthouse keepers
Historic photos of the Souris Port
Life Cycle of Sea Glass
Visitors to the lighthouse can take tours to the top and to the outer platform, and learn—in sort of a mini-museum—about the history of the light and surrounding area. The lighthouse also includes a local craft shop and interpretation of the history and formation of sea glass. Funds from the tours will go towards maintenance of the building.
This is particularly timely since the Federal Government has recently declared almost 1000 Canadian lighthhouses as “surplus“. Basically, it is now going to be up to communities to manage & maintain the surplus lighthouses. Which is exactly what Souris is doing.
Since I’ve been responsible for designing such a range of the communications material, we’ve been able to maintain a consistent look & feel throughout the experience. Hopefully the lighthouse will bring new visitors to the area!
Halifax Headshots identity
Posted by Dean Gallant in logos/identity, recent work on July 9th, 2010
Business card and letterhead design for Halifax Headshots. Like the logo, the intention is for the whole identity to be clean, professional, timeless and with a corporate appeal.
Halifax Headshots identity
Mediscribe brochure
Posted by Dean Gallant in brochures, recent work on July 9th, 2010
A single card brochure for a local company. Mediscribe is a leading provider of transcription and workflow management services for physicians and healthcare providers. I’ll also likely be designing a website in the near future.
Mediscribe brochure
Backyard chickens!
Posted by Dean Gallant in what's new? on June 21st, 2010
I want to introduce the new members of our family, our backyard chickens!
They are a heritage breed called Rhode Island Reds. They’re about a month old and they’ve spent the last few weeks in our house in a plastic bin. Yesterday I had a great time building them a coop and we moved them outside.
We want the chickens primarily for egg laying—though we are planning to eat the Roosters. We didn’t know what sex they were when we got them.. We have five and we’re fairly convinced now (unfortunately) that four of them are roosters.
It was a rude awakening to the outside world, as they spent last night in a thunderstorm! But as of this morning, they’re doing great.
the run
the coop
the ladies
the chicks
Halifax Headshots logo
Posted by Dean Gallant in logos/identity, recent work on June 3rd, 2010
Here is a recent logo design for Halifax Headshots. This is a new company from Halifax photographer Kate MacLeod focusing on—you guessed it—portraits. We wanted the logo to be clean, professional, timeless and with a corporate appeal. The font used is Perpetua.
Business card & letterhead coming soon!
I designed a torch!
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, recent work, various on May 3rd, 2010
Halifax 2011 Canada Games torch
I’m really proud of this.
I’ve had the opportunity through my employment with the Halifax 2011 Canada Games Host Society to design the 2011 games torch. I’m excited to see the impact and exposure that the torch is going to have over the next year and it’s just a great legacy to have my name attached to.
The major challenge of this design was to represent the four founding cultures of Nova Scotia: Acadian, Gaelic, African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaq, while maintaining consistency with the 2011 brand. Also, with the recent mass exposure, I have to contend with everyone comparing it to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic torch!
We decided to go with a nautically inspired form, winter colours, and decorative elements of the 2011 Games. You can read a more extensive explanation of the design here.
It’s been really interesting to follow a concept from my head, through into engineering and production.
For fabrication, we worked with a local company, Yachtsmith International who normally build custom Yachts. I’m really pleased with the job they’ve done, both in working out the functional logistics, and in the construction and attention to detail. It’s built of fiberglass, with a repurposed/modified martini shaker(!) to contain the fuel and wick for the flame.
There were four torches built, and they will be appearing at community events across Nova Scotia from now until Games-time.
While designing this torch, I made a number of models out of paper and a few people had the same idea that we should encourage people to make their own paper torches. So I developed with a template and we made an instructional video and put it the website.
At least once, I want to see a mass of school kids waving their paper torches and cheering while the torch gets run past them. That would make me really happy.
Medal design competition
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, print advertisements on April 8th, 2010
The Halifax 2011 Canada Winter Games has launched an open competition to design the medals for the games. Here’s an ad I designed that we ran in The Chronicle Herald today.
Medal Design Competition Print Advertisement
Web theme design contest
Posted by Dean Gallant in recent work, web design on April 1st, 2010
I don’t usually do this sort of thing, but I entered a design contest at Weebly. Weebly is a free website and blog creation tool that’s really simple to use for creating template based websites. I think it’s a good product, and I teach people how to use Weebly as part of my “Free & Easy internet promotion” workshop through Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS). I also tend to recommend Weebly to people as a no budget solution for creating a web presence. Click here to vote for me, and buy papa a new roof:
Pen & Ink theme