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Helping Art thrive in our big, beautiful, digital world.
Learning new technology can be a daunting task. When you add in a Global Pandemic and an increasingly digital means of communication in the creative world, tech support is an ever growing need in our community.
Creative Coasts' mission is to offer a free tech support (help desk) for artists and arts administrators on Canada's West Coast. The goal? Create a brand identity that is fun, playful, and welcoming. Need support? Talk tech to me! The identity uses playful colours, and off-beat photography sprinkled with elements of tech like CCS brackets and wavy circuit boards. Asking for help doesn't need to be intimidating. Let's coast!
Brand Strategy, Identity, Creative Direction, Messaging by Swag Design Factory
#branding #design #graphicdesign #messaging #creativedirection #graphics #identity #logotype #logo #typography #type #designstudio #brand #brands #designinspo #welovebranding #creative #arts #artist #artsorganization #digitalinnovationgroup
New work for our sister company, SWAG Print Factory.
Swag Print Factory (our printing service) has grown so much that it needed it's own Identity and website. We have launched the first iteration of the new printing website: https://swagprintfactory.com and will be adding online ordering for lots of new goods to better serve the entrepreneurs, makers, artists and musicians for whom we make things.
Inspired by old factory stacks and the repeating, linear movement of our printing machines, we created a new, bold mark and playful colour pallet for SWAG Print Factory.
We collaborated with @silkyhendesign for some playful illustrations of the things we make, because printing and making stuff is FUN!
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#welovebranding #creative #branding #design #graphicdesign #graphics #identity #logotype #logo #typography #type #designstudio #brand #brands #designinspo #aesthetics #ideas #ceramics #pottery #artisan #crafted #art #print #printshop
Brand Refresh for Petal & Kettle.
Using Petal & Kettle's existing logo as the basis for a brand update, we created a new brand system and colour palette with updated marks and stamps for use in printed materials, social-media accounts, and their website. The updated marks, along with a new fern illustration and colour palette, create a cohesive identity that makes this a highly flexible identity system.
@petalkettle
#brandingdesign #illustration #graphicdesign #logo #youneedmorebranding #creative #branding #design #graphics #identity #logo typography #type #designstudio #brand #brands #welovebranding #designinspo #packaging
New Beginning - New Brand Identity.
Jody and Will at Rusted Rake Farm needed a rebrand in order to introduce their new venture to the world. Rusted Rake Brewing is a harmony of traditional and contemporary aesthetics. In addition to creating a custom word mark, we added an off-beat collaged cast of characters using vintage wood cut engravings to bring elements of whimsy and play to the brand. This branding is designed to connect the farm's unique character, Island location, and story to all the happy visitors to come.
Keep your ears and eyes open for the new launch date! @rustedrakebrewing
#welovebranding #creative #branding #design #graphicdesign #graphics #identity #logotype #logo #typography #type #designstudio #brand #brands #designinspo #aesthetics #ideas #brewery #brewing #craftbeer #art #vancouverisland
What happens when an accountant decides to follow her dream? When Kelsey Bullen decided to trade the office for the studio, she came to us to develop a unique brand identity. We created a stamp to be used as an identifying studio mark on all of her pottery. From this stamp we developed a clean, simple, refined, and approachable brand that can grow with her evolving ceramic business. Using tones representing the natural components of her craft resulted in a grounded, relatable and versatile brand identity.
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#welovebranding #creative #branding #design #graphicdesign #graphics #identity #logotype #logo #typography #type #designstudio #brand #brands #designinspo #aesthetics #ideas #ceramics #pottery #artisan #crafted #art
We are looking for a designer/layout artist to join our team. 20 hours per week to start with room to grow. Swag is an award-winning husband & wife creative partnership established in 2000. We are located in the small town of Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island.
Swag is:
A small team of talented creatives & makers
A developed line of counter-culture wholesale merchandise distributed to 100's of stores across North America
A print on-demand manufacturing service with clients across Canada
A design agency providing comprehensive strategic marketing and creative solutions for a growing clientele from local Mom & Pop startups to large NGOs in British Columbia, across North America and as far away as Belgium and Nepal.
This is NOT a remote opportunity.
To apply and learn more see the full job posting at our indeed link: https://employers.indeed.com/j#jobs/view?id=06dabfc7ab7f
#designer #hiring #graphicdesigner #creative #print #art #artwork #work
Thank you to all of you for making last year as pleasant as it was.
Your support is valued and appreciated.
We love working with you! We wish you all a soothing and relaxing holiday! 😊🎄❤
We are going to take a short break from Dec 25th to January 4, 2021!
#christmas #2020 #thanks #merryeverything
The latest merch for the lovely folks at @doucediner
Here are a few pics of their new garments & gift cards. Check out @doucediner if you are in North Vancouver. YUM!
#branding #design #marketing #fashion #style #apparel #fashionista #wemakethings #design #tee #shirt
#dtg #directtogarment #local #tshirtprint #designstudio #printstudio #merch #appareldesign #tshirt #smallbusiness #qualicumbc
Our latest brand identity project: Yellow Deer Mustard. @yellowdeermustard
Created by Chef Tim Harris, this product is all about a unique story and Big Time flavour. This brand needed a bold style to match its flavours and a playful tone.
We love helping start-ups find their path. Since rolling out in August, 2020; Yellow Deer Mustard has secured shelf space at all Quality Foods locations, Alcove Living, Olive This & More, Bough & Antler and many more Vancouver Island Artisanal retailers.
What we did:
Brand identity
Packaging
Label Printing
#brand #identity #Packaging #LabelPrinting #design #Logo #branding #graphicdesign #logodesigner #designer #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing #artdirection
Swag Design Factory has closely worked with Realm for six years, helping them evolve their brand, online presence, and marketing initiatives. Our most recent work with Realm updated and refined their brand with a new colour palette, combined with distinctive woodblock engraving imagery and colourful photographs of Realm’s delicious offerings. We also created additional branding options with a suite of secondary logos and icons that consistently support Realm’s identity. These updates are particularly noticeable on Realm’s new website (https://realmfoodco.com/), which is colourful, bold and a little wild—just like the good people at Realm Food Co. On the backend, we created a new, efficient online ordering system for these uncertain COVID times, which allows Realm to continue serving their community by providing fresh, locally and ethically sourced foods for takeaway.
@realmfoodco
Thanks to the project team:
Art Direction, Strategy & Lead Design, Elizabeth Parsons, @swagdesignfactory
Barry B @swagdesignfactory web build
@elizabethbhewitt Words
@katecarruthersdesign on Design Support
📷 @danikasea
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#brandUpdate #website #Logo #Identity #logodesign #branding #design #graphicdesign #logodesigner #designer #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing #artdirection
New packaging design for a range of hand crafted bath bombs made by Sarah Shupe at #theminibomb Simple, clean packaging suitable for retail display or shipping. Best of all: zero plastic!
#packaging #design #zeroplastic #identity #graphicdesign #logodesign #webdesign #identity #branding #artdirector #marketing #getfizzywithit
In solidarity ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #blackouttuesday
Our good friend - the delightful Donna Balzer @donna_balzer wrote another book & we were happy to design and lay out all 240 pages of her 3 year Gardeners Journal!
#gardening #layoutdesign #Logo #Identity #branding #design #graphicdesign #logodesigner #designer #graphicdesigner #creative #vancouverisland
Cowichan Valley Arts Councils is a not-for-profit arts organization that provides creative spaces and community development through arts-based programming. This Gallery and cultural hub is the ideal environment for artists and community to share, fully explore, and realize their potential. Swag Design Factory updated the brand identity and created a visual language that we incorporated into CVAC's digital space. The extensive use of member's artwork to create the visual components re-inforces CVAC's identity as a space for Art.
Our aim was to enable the viewer to explore the digital space in a manner that mirrors the traditional experience of physically visiting the gallery. The wide array of available Exhibits, Talks, Courses, and News items are easy to see, navigate, and experience.
Since this year was full of challenges and was the 50th Anniversary of the CVAC's Fine Arts Show - we created a Virtual Exhibit which invites the community to view the art, share their thoughts in a guestbook and participate by voting for their favourite piece of art for The People's Choice Award. It was important that we preserve the public engagement component of CVAC's position in the community - we feel that this was achieved.
@cvartscouncil
#brandUpdate #website #Logo #Identity #logodesign #branding #design #graphicdesign #logodesigner #designer #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing #vancouverisland
Elysia has just released her first single! This song is about the ending of a relationship and beginning of embracing memories. We photographed Elysia in a way that creates emotion and movement— as memories do. We created a single scroll web page to promote her new single on all of its platforms and highlight any upcoming shows.
Listen to her new single on all streaming platforms, follow her at @elysia.music
#photography #singlescroll #brandupdate #albumdesign #musician #takethememories #design #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing
The Mini Bomb has launched it's online store— theminibomb.com ! Now you can get fizzy right from your home. With updated photography, a brighter colour palette and all of the products browsable— this is the perfect small business retail shop! Looking to go online with your business during this isolating time? Send us a message, we can help get you there.
#website #retailsite #theminibomb #Identity #getfizzywithit #branding #design #graphicdesign #creative #marketing #artdirector #vancouverisland #shoplocal
Amazing Chef and good friend of ours, Dawn at @doucediner in North Vancouver needed to adapt to the current situation. She came up with the tasty free-range chicken - we designed and installed an online ordering system for her restaurant. She's selling out every Thursday thru Sunday!
If you are nearby - make sure and give it a try... #webdesign #graphicdesign #onlineorderingsystem #onlineshop #restaurant #design #northvancouver #diner
Updating a Brand is no small feat. We believe in telling our client's stories through their Branding. If you have a Brand, but it doesn’t seem to speak your truth— that doesn’t mean you’re stuck! There’s always room to improve your Brand's impact. We love connecting with clients like the #johncoopergroup to maximize their Brand's presence!
#BrandUpdate #rackcard #Identity #johncoopergroup #design #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing
Revisting past brand work! We love working through branding projects as thouroughly as we can to create multiple identities that all connect the message to the brand effectively. This project was about adaptable equipment and adventures for people living with disabilities. Allowing them to explore places they wouldn't be able to go in day to day life.
We focused on parts, tracks, bright colours and graphics connecting with the spark of excitement that is ignited in users!
#BrandUpdate #Logo #Identity #inthegallery #logodesign #branding #design #design #graphicdesign #logodesigner #designer #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing
As a studio, we have a great appreciation of the arts. Naturally when the Cowichan Valley Arts Council was in need of a bit of a brand update we were more than happy to jump on board. This is a sample of social media content advertising an upcoming show in the gallery. More to come about this branding project!
#BrandUpdate #Logo #Identity #inthegallery #logodesign #branding #design #design #graphicdesign #logodesigner #designer #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing
Healers Carla and Mark are the heartbeat of Anima Mundi.
We worked with them to create a new visual identity and website inspired by nature and ancient symbolism.
We created a custom word-mark constructed using timeless modern letter forms. To complimented the word mark we layered hand-crafted symbols and patterns inspired by the sacred work and ancient traditions of Anima Mundi's work.
The versatility of the branding allowed us to create an untraditional, structured approach to their website which established a brand identity that is earthy, inspiring, unique, deep and welcoming: @animamundi.life
Creative Agency - Swag Design Factory
@swagdesignfactory 2020
Thanks to the project team:
Elizabeth Hewitt - Words & Company, Photography @adamziorio & Team Swag: Liz, Barry & kate
Blue Coast Metallurgy & Research
Over the past decade Blue Coast has grown from a small team of professionals to become a world-class Metallurgical Testing & Consulting Company.
As they approached their tenth Anniversary in business, Blue Coast wanted their website and branding to be indicative of the contemporary nature of the company and to reflect what they do well, who they are and where they are going.
We brought the Blue Coast brand to life online by designing a responsive, mobile friendly site that focused on delivering information in a clean, streamlined style.
We collaborated closely with the Blue Coast team. Working with great people leads to a fantastic finished product. https://bluecoastresearch.ca
Big thanks to an amazing team:
Rainer Plendl - Lightwork Photography
& Elizabeth Hewitt - Words & Company.
#website #BrandCreation #Logo #Identity #logodesign #branding #design #graphicdesign #creative #marketing #artdirector
This beautiful reject is one we feel we need to share.
Unused Brand work for Avacena!
#BrandCreation #Logo #Identity #beautifullosers #logodesign #branding #design #design #graphicdesign #logodesigner #designer #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing
There are projects that make us swoon. This is one of them!
We love knowing the work we do can have a positive impact on people and the organizations helping make lives better. Working with the innovative & caring people of Kiwanis Village Nanaimo was a wonderful opportunity for us to have a meaningful impact in the community.
One of the main objectives for this project was to focus on Joy & shifting the mindset surrounding care for older adults.
What We Did: Creative Direction, Strategy, Design, Programming, Production. Words Swag Design Factory collaborator, Elizabeth Hewit .
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#webdesign #branding #graphicdesign #design #graphicdesign #logo #artdirection #designer #graphics #logodesign #wordpress #identity #strategy #development #design #contentdesign #copywritting
We love designing for passionate enterpreneurs and who doesn't love a bath bomb in the evening- so Mini Bomb was an easy choice. Logo and business card design as one of our smaller packages. Good design should be accesible to everyone... even if it's a simple black and white take. #logodesign #branding #update #design
#design #identity #logo #design #graphicdesign #logodesigner #logos #designer #graphicdesigner #creative #marketing
Blue Coast Metallurgy & Research
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We've finalized our logo with Blue Coast this week. Working with the gentlemen behind this thriving company has been an incredible experience. We will be creating an entire brand roll-out and this is the first step in kicking off the re-brand. We've continued with the concept of a lighthouse which they were originally using. Blue Coast is a beacon of efficiency and quality in their industry and their logo needed to represent that. We've simplified the original artwork concept and created a professional industrial approach to a dated logo. The colour palette is modern and youthful- while respecting the industry they are a part of by keeping it professional. The logo comes in a stacked option and black and white version to accommodate other platforms. #logodesign #branding #update #design #identity #logo #design #graphicdesign #logodesigner #logos #designer #graphicdesigner #creative
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WOW interiors is quite self explanatory. Getting to gush over the beautiful pieces they carry was definitely a delight! Wow Interiors is Vancouver’s first choice for Mid Century and Modernism and ours too... Check out the website we created which displays all of their treasures, wowinteriors.ca #webdesign #design #identity #branding #graphicdesign #development #strategy #logo #website
Did someone say new @originalswagstuff website is up?? Yea we did actually! Hop over to swagstuff.com and check it out. All design and web build in studio, content created across the drive way in the Swag Stuff Factory
#webdesign #design #identity #branding #graphicdesign #development #strategy #logo #website
Excited to show off this branding project for lovely Carley at Elder Tree Herbals.
New logo design to be used on the packaging for all of her handcrafted herbal products
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#branding #brand #label #design #graphicdesign #illustration #herbals #packaging
One of our latest web builds for our friends at Rusted Rake Farm - The website's clean, clear design and simple navigation allows viewers to learn about the farm & eatery and see their latest menu! (We also can't get enough of their scones) https://rustedrakefarm.com/
#websitedesign #branding #islandlife #vancouverisland #webbuild #swaglife #designstudio #graphicdesign #design #graphicdesigner #branding #logo #graphic #creative #designer #photoshop #illustrator #photography #graphics #logodesign #wordpress #brand
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