Josh & Jedd’s fish & chips
Posted by Dean Gallant in logos/identity, recent work, various on July 6th, 2011
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
Visual Arts Nova Scotia website
Posted by Dean Gallant in recent work, web design on June 12th, 2011
Last week we launched an exciting new project, a website redesign for local non-profit organization Visual Arts Nova Scotia. This was a large project which involved a visual and functional redesign of the site, as well as the importing of content from the old website—which was extensive.
The new VANS website features an exhibitions archive, photo galleries, a searchable database of resources and art galleries and an interactive fullscreen calendar. All easy for the staff to update and manage through the WordPress content management system. It’s the most extensive website we’ve created so far, and I’m happy to see an organization utilizing all of these great features.
What I’m most excited about though, is the e-studio directory. This is a searchable directory of Nova Scotia artists with an interactive visualization map. Additionally, artists are organized by region, and tagged by medium.
Another fun feature is that each page view loads a random highlight colour. So everytime you look at a page, there’s a new colour for the header and links. This was a solution we came up with for two reasons: Because it works conceptually with the broad range of artist members, and also we couldn’t settle on a specific colour choice.
Here are some screenshots from the new site. Click to check it out!
Visual Arts Nova Scotia website screenshot - Front page
Visual Arts Nova Scotia website screenshot - E-studio
Visual Arts Nova Scotia website screenshot - Artist search
Visual Arts Nova Scotia website screenshot - Calendar
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 – Commemorative DVD set
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, recent work, various on May 26th, 2011
One of the final projects I worked on for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games was to design and produce a three disk commemorative DVD set. This included the various promotional videos and commercial spots produced for the Games, video documentation of events & highlights, photo slideshows from the Games, the National Artist Program Gala performance as well as TSN’s coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies.
The DVD set shares it’s title with the upcoming final corporate report: Compete Contribute Celebrate—the three pillars of the Halifax 2011 Canada Games.
Halifax 2011 Canada Games - Commemorative DVD case
Halifax 2011 Canada Games - Commemorative DVDs
Voluntary Sector Professional Capacity Trust
Posted by Dean Gallant in brochures, recent work on May 17th, 2011
The Government of Nova Scotia has established a Voluntary Sector Professional Capacity Trust and I was contacted to design an info sheet and application form for the program. This trust is open to Non-Profit and Voluntary sector organizations in the province and will fund training and capacity needs for the organizations’ paid staff.
With several years of personal experience working for various organizations in this sector, I understand the challenges faced and the dedication of the staff. This is something I can definitely get behind.
Voluntary Sector Professional Capacity Trust info sheet and application form
Mi’kmaw Conservation Group
Posted by Dean Gallant in recent work, web design on May 13th, 2011
I was recently contacted by the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq to design and produce a basic website for the Mi’kmaw Conservation Group – this is an emerging group formed from various First Nation communities located in the Bay of Fundy watershed.
The mission of the MCG is “To promote and restore the concept and practice of Netuklimk in the Fundy Watershed”. Netukulimk is achieving adequate standards of community nutrition and economic well-being without jeopardizing the integrity, diversity, or productivity of our environment.
This is a basic information website – and we’ll be expanding on it as the group grows and develops.
mikmawconservationgroup.ca
Innovacorp – green team
Posted by Dean Gallant in logos/identity, recent work on May 11th, 2011
Local crown corporation innovacorp has established a “green team” committee to focus on issues of environmental sustainability. They wanted a look to identify the committee—for use on posters, letterhead and email newsletters.
The typical brand image used by innovacorp is a blue butterfly – so the clear solution was to use a green butterfly in it’s place. This has the desired impact of drawing attention while retaining their existing brand equity.
Innovacorp supplied the “Green is in us” tagline - a clever reference to their existing wordmark.
Celebration Square stage
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, banners, recent work on April 15th, 2011
For the two weeks of the Halifax 2011 Canada Games, there was a stage setup in downtown Halifax at Parade Square—dubbed “Celebration Square” for the duration of the Games. I was tasked with design of the surrounding banners. This design featured silhouettes of dancers and fans which mixed with real shadows during the shows to enhance the fun, party atmosphere of the event.
This stage held free performances at noon and at night for ten days with big Canadian artists including: The Joel Plaskett Emergency, Sloan, Hey Rosetta!, Matt Mays, Christina Martin, Hawksley Workman, Great Big Sea, Jeremy Fisher, Old Man Luedecke, Buck 65, Rich Aucoin, Radio Radio, City and Colour, Amelia Curran and more.
I neglected to get a nice photo of the stage while it was up. Trust me, it looked great at night with spotlights! Below is the best record I’ve got of it.
Celebration Square stage design
Design books galore
Posted by Dean Gallant in what's new? on April 14th, 2011
In order to continue my growth and development as a designer and to add to my available resources, I recently purchased a load of books—including the new Pantone Plus colour guides! Exciting stuff.
Now: Will I find time to read any of them?
Design books galore
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