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The design realm is a fluid one—that’s why we approach each project with a fresh outlook, identifying ways to challenge the status quo. At the end of the day, your design needs to work for you, and we are here to help make it a reality, while keeping in mind accessibility and today’s requirements.

Below, explore our collective creativity and design thinking in a few of our favourite projects. Contact us if you are looking for specific industry examples.

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From concept to installation: Design in motion at Ivey 100

Designing environmental signage for a company event always comes with constraints—but also big opportunities for creativity. For Ivey Business School’s 100th Symposium, we brought the event’s visual identity to life across a wide range of environmental graphics, including column wraps, digital way-finding signage, a 20-ft-wide screen, and a large-scale window mural to block a nearby […]

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Brand Guidelines Sales collateral

Polymath: Bringing clarity to a growing brand

A company’s brand is its hallmark It must be carefully managed to present a consistent, recognizable, and polished image in the market. Polymath had developed an appealing B2B visual identity, but its execution lacked consistency. Multiple logo variations and graphic elements, each with different patterns and treatments, allowed for too much flexibility—often resulting in an […]

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Videography

Tourism HR Canada: Propel success stories video series

Adapting for impactful, on-site filming In the midst of the pandemic, we provided an innovative solution to help our client, Tourism HR Canada, record a set of videos promoting their student work placement program. When the client came back to us to produce more, we no longer needed to send out self-guided video shooting “kits” […]

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Sales collateral Website design

TuneIn: Website and marketing collateral

Driving brand adoption in the automotive space The marketing materials that we developed for TuneIn Automotive support their efforts to have their audio streaming service designed into the infotainment ecosystem of today’s vehicles. The single-page website, corporate brochure, and white paper had to follow their brand guidelines yet look a little different than their usual […]

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Graphic Design Sales collateral

Destination Canada: Economic sector brochures

Refreshing a “look” is an exciting challenge for 
a creative agency The new design we provided for this set of five brochures (Advanced manufacturing, Agribusiness, Digital industries, Life sciences and Natural resources), reflects Destination Canada‘s mandate to tell the story of Canada’s unique, modern, and beautiful value proposition for hosting business events. Creating a fluid design […]

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Graphic Design

Over a decade of creative and production support for Trend Micro

About Trend Micro Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity company renowned for its extensive suite of advanced endpoint security, network defence, threat detection, and cloud security solutions. Trend Micro employs cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and behavioural analysis to protect individuals, businesses, and governments from evolving digital threats. Trend Micro’s commitment to […]

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Brand Guidelines Graphic Design

Calian chooses Initiate as high-level brand support

About Calian Calian is a homegrown Canadian company providing innovative solutions in healthcare, training, advanced IT, engineering, and cyber security for government, military, and commercial clients worldwide. Calian is a dependable partner in several critical and high-technology sectors. The company is headquartered in Ottawa. Initiate has been proudly working with Calian for over two years. […]

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Brand Guidelines Sales collateral Social media

Elevating Entrust’s brand identity through creative collaboration

About Entrust Entrust is a global leader in trusted digital identity, payment, and security solutions. The company provides secure identity, authentication, and encryption technologies 
to organizations worldwide. With a focus on protecting digital information and enabling secure transactions, Entrust 
helps businesses and governments safeguard sensitive information, mitigate fraud, and ensure regulatory compliance through innovative technologies […]

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Experiences Packaging Print Social media

Holistic packaging experience

We redesigned the product packaging experience for Harmonic Arts, a plant-powered wellness business. Thanks to our intentional and flexible design approach, we earned the owners’ trust and confidence and continue to work together to this day. Collaborative approach Harmonic Arts needed to evolve the designs on th eir elixir (now herbal lattes) packaging. Founded by […]

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Branding Website design

Custom corporate brand creative and marketing

A creative partnership emerges Our relationship began in 2020, and it’s been a dream to work with such a visionary in Coin, collaborating on building custom brand creative for some of Canada’s top advisors, brokers, and insurance experts such as Surround Wealth Advisors, Outfitter Financial, Dream Harbour Wealth Advisors, Brian Laundry, 
and Trevor Parry. Initiate […]

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