Posts Tagged sport
Soccer Nova Scotia Training Centre
Posted by Dean Gallant in recent work, web design on February 20th, 2013
We’ve launched a new website for the Soccer Nova Scotia Training Centre.
This impressive, year-round, world-class, multisport facility opened in October 2011. There are three indoor fields covered in a modern Greenfields V-Shape Synthetic Turf. Check it out!
snstc.ca
Canada Games Centre 2011-2012 Annual Report
Posted by Dean Gallant in book/layout on June 25th, 2012
I’ve recently completed work on the 2011-2012 Annual Report for the Canada Games Centre. It’s their first annual report, published as an interactive online .pdf.
For the design of this report, we continued a theme of that was established for the membership appreciate day at the Centre—using the idea of sports pennants to portray a feeling of celebration and victory.
The report is light on text and heavy on colourful imagery and photographs. Also, check out the fun infographics featured below.
Click here to read the full report online.
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
Halifax 2011 Canada Games – Corporate report
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, book/layout, recent work on July 6th, 2011
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
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
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
Foldout sport schedule
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, book/layout, recent work on March 27th, 2011
For the Halifax 2011 Canada Games we produced a detailed sport schedule which was handed out to the general public throughout the two weeks of the Games.
This was a challenge, to reduce what is a very complex schedule—for 22 different sports at 13 separate venues—to a simplified and unified chart. Each sport has it’s own particularities, so maintaining a consistent system and legend is tricky. An overall schedule with this level of detail had not been produced for previous Canada Games and the work for this involved a lot of hours from a lot of staff. It’s definitely something we are proud of.
The schedule is French on the reverse, and folds to a tidy pocket size which you can see in the detail images below.
Halifax 2011 Canada Games foldout sport schedule
Foldout sport schedule detail
Athlete bib designs
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, recent work, various on March 25th, 2011
Another exciting project for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games was designing the bibs worn by athletes during competiton. There were about twenty variations on this but it was essentially the same design—with modifications on size and style for particular sports.
See a sampling of the design mockups below, and some of my favourite action photos taken during the Games which display the bibs prominently.
Halifax 2011 Canada Games athlete bib designs
Action shots of the athlete bibs for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games
Three pole gantry
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, banners, recent work on March 24th, 2011
I designed a few of these for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games. The particular product is called a three pole gantry. This was located in Parade Square, in front of Halifax’s City Hall. The design features a different athlete image on each of the three sides.
three pole gantry
Brick vinyl application
Posted by Dean Gallant in 2011 Canada Games, recent work, various on March 24th, 2011
Among the many interesting projects that I’ve worked on for the Halifax 2011 Canada Games was building or wall applied artwork.
A unique approach to this a high performance vinyl designed for application on rough textured surfaces. These were applied directly to brick walls on either side of one of the entrances to the Halifax Metro Centre. The vinyl is heat set, and moulds itself to the texture of the wall. It’s a striking effect.
Halifax 2011 Canada Games - vinyl on brick application and detail.