Explore the Shore

We recently just completed another fun branding project for Explore the Shore. Here is a description of this event, if you like weekend strolls you’ll love this.

“A weekend event highlighting local foods and beverages on scenic, rural Essex County Road 50, along the shore of Lake Erie, south of Harrow, Ontario. Local businesses, including wineries, a blueberry farm, fruit orchards, vegetable growers, restaurants, bed and breakfasts, a golf course, artists, authors, carriage rides, trolley rides, salon, gift shop and convenience store, and sites, including Holiday Beach, Colchester Harbour and John R. Park Homestead, recently named “Ontario’s best living history museum”, offer a variety of unique activities and products.”

When: July 23 and 24, 2011 (11 am to 5pm)
Where: Essex County Road 50

CLICK HERE FOR MAP OF ROUTE

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Spotvin Gets Inked

I’ve finally gone and done it. Branded in the true sense of the term…my first tattoo.

I’ve been wanting to get my Windsor ‘momentum rose’ tattooed for some time now and I’m really glad it’s over. It kinda hurt, but it was well worth the pain. If you are looking to represent Windsor too, give Bill a call at Sanctuary, he did a really fantastic job.

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The Tourism Cafe

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, mainly cause we were working on our new swanky online digs, hope you likey. Here is a recent branding project we completed for The Tourism Cafe, a new company which will focus on Product and Marketing Development for the tourism industry. Our goal was to create a logo that looked stylized and “green”, while showing movement in multiple directions, as well, the shape represents a “T” and “C” for the company’s name. Photo below is of their recent business cards.

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Spark ED Branding

I had the pleasure to have two passionate, funny and driven women be referred to me for branding work. We had so much fun during the process, meeting in Rino’s Kitchen (The cafe below my office) multiple times over a couple months while the logo was being developed. Their new business is called Spark ED (short for Spark Education) and will be accented learning that will be customized to each child, youth or adult. Really excited to see their business grow, and help them out along the way. A bit about the logo, the little graphic was hand drawn and then polished in Illustrator, The main typeface is a modifie Avenir and the “ED” is custom.

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Vote Out Loud (VOL)

I just recently completed a fun project for The City of Windsor, I was asked to create a full branding and image package for a new campaign to promote voting for younger voters. On top of creating the brand image, we developed a website, t-shirts and shot candid videos of young residents discussing why they feels it’s important to vote. To see the site click here.  The VOL site was developed in collaboration with Accent Media.

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Young Fabulous

My favourite part of branding is the process. You end up trying a whole bunch of executions before landing on one the client is thrilled about. I just completed this project, with the logo the client chose at the top. I show both because I wanted to show a bit of the process, I tried something completely different with the bottom one and really liked how it feels. The client didn’t feel the same, which is totally fine, so we tried a few new ideas and she ended up being very happy with the top one, which I like as well.  Young Fabulous is a really slick, high end children’s boutique opening up in LaSalle soon.spot_young_fab1

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Cloud K9 Pet Grooming

I was asked to create a logo for this company, really happy how it turned out, all the text is hand drawn.

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Accent Media

This was branding created for a new company based out of Windsor, ON who specializes in all things web. So if your website is livin’ in the late 90′s, maybe it’s time for a new wardrobe.

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thepartyphotos.net

I’ve been very busy lately when it comes to branding, that’s just fine, I really enjoy it. My recent branding project was for a client based out of London, England. It’s a pretty cool concept. He will come to your event or wedding, set up a big LCD screen and start taking photos around the room. His camera has wifi, so he can send the pics to the big screen so the guests can view the photos that have been taken.

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Windsor International Film Festival

Going back a few years, I was asked to create the branding for the new Windsor International Film Festival. Now in its fifth year, it has been very successful, check out their website at windsorfilmfestival.ca

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