Posts Tagged community
Canada Games Centre
Posted by Dean Gallant in banners, brochures, print ads, recent work on February 5th, 2012
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
sourisharbourauthority.com
Posted by Dean Gallant in recent work, web design on November 27th, 2011
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
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!
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.
Souris Historic Lighthouse brochure
Posted by Dean Gallant in brochures, recent work on February 18th, 2010
This is the very beginning of an exciting new project. The old lighthouse in Souris, PEI (currently unused) has been renovated by the local harbour authority and will be re-opened this summer as an interpretive centre & gift/craft shop. I’ve been hired to work on the identity, signage, advertising & what I’m most excited about—the interpretation! The plan is to have exterior reading signs & an exhibit room on the top floor with displays, video, artifacts & stories.
Anyone who knows me knows that I love interpretive signs so you can understand my excitement.
Souris Historic Lighthouse brochure
Get Active Fundy
Posted by Dean Gallant in logos/identity on November 9th, 2009
“Get Active” is a community based physical activity initiative that encourages all citizens in the Fundy Region of Nova Scotia to be more physically active.
Get Active Fundy
They wanted a generic logo that would reproduce well in embroidery that they could then use for individual municipalities by adding place names, i.e. “Get Actve Truro”, “Get Actve Cumberland” etc…
Souris Striders Ski Club
Posted by Dean Gallant in logos/identity on November 2nd, 2009
A volunteer logo job for the local cross country ski club in my family’s hometown.
Souris Striders Ski Club
Souris Biomass Energy System logo
Posted by Dean Gallant in logos/identity on September 11th, 2009
Just completed a logo design for a proposed community bio energy plant on Prince Edward Island. The bio-fuel generation project would reduce carbon emissions and energy costs for the community by capturing steam from wood burning & use it to generate heat/power.
Souris Biomass Energy System
The logo incorporates a tree from the PEI flag and references the seaside community with water, seagulls & a lighthouse. The sun symbolizes energy & sustainability. The font is Cochin (appropriate for the French/Acadian community) which is consistent with the look & feel of the Souris Harbour Authority.
Move On Colchester logo
Posted by Dean Gallant in logos/identity on September 8th, 2009
New logo design for “Move On Colchester”. A community-based campaign aimed at advancing the wider use of active transportation in the Colchester region. Of the four options I gave them, they chose my preference and I’m very pleased with the final result.
Move On Colchester Logo
Some notes from the design pitch:
- Displaying a range of ages & demographics drives the message of broad community inclusiveness.
- Consistent movement from left to right is symbolic of forward momentum or achieving progress.
- Multiple colours of the individuals gives the impression of multiculturalism, while being non-specific.
- Vivid red is suggestive of movement, passion or a zest for life.