Posts Tagged halifax
02.2011 Boutique – Paper doll print ad
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, print ads, recent work on February 24th, 2011
This is a fun little print ad promoting the Halifax 2011 Canada Games gameswear. These ads ran in the Chronicle Herald and Le Courier several weeks ago, and variations on this design are in print again this weekend. Watch for them!
I made the Canadian Design Resource!
Posted by Dean Gallant in what's new? on January 16th, 2011
I’ve been a big fan of this site for a while now. The Canadian Design Resource is a constantly expanding library of Canadian design and material culture. It’s a blog/archive of Canadian Design—product, graphic, craft, etc..
The 2011 Halifax Canada Games torch was posted yesterday. I’m thrilled to see it up there. A little piece of Canadian cultural history.
Anni & Sammi vehicle wrap
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, recent work, various on January 9th, 2011
Anni & Sammi—mascots for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games—are riding in style with their very own RV to take them from venue to venue during the Games this February.
We designed this vehicle wrap artwork for the RV to mirror the look of their website: annisammi2011.ca which I’ve described in an earlier post.
The vinyl wrap was printed and applied by Atlantic Digital.
Anni & Sammi RV wrap
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.
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.
2011 Canada Games athlete cutouts
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, recent work, various on February 19th, 2010
I designed some freestanding athlete cutouts for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games. These were created for the volunteer kick-off and one year to go countdown celebrations over the last week. We produced ten each of the three versions. The gold signs are attached by velcro so they can be easily replaced with current, relevant messaging.
2011 Halifax Canada Games athlete cutouts
Advocate did the printing & production and I think they look great. The cut was achieved with a laser-guided drill over a path I defined (similar to a die cut job). A first for me.
The cutouts were seen all over town, at the World Trade Centre, in the Scotia Square food court, the ferry terminals & malls. And they’ll be used over the next year at our various public events and—of course—during the Games next winter.