Today is a good day! A bilingual website we created for the Historica-Dominion Institute to commemorate Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthday was selected as site of the day at awwwards.com. As it was just John A’s 197th Birthday this week, this is a great present.

Congratulations as well go to Chris Benotto for helping with Illustration work and Toby Leftly for building the site. And thanks again to Historica-Dominion for having the vision to create such a fun informative site.

A bit about awwwards.com

Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world.

An international jury made up of some of the most important designers, bloggers and Internet agencies, will evaluate each site by means of a strict system of evaluation; scoring it on a scale of 1 to 10 for its Design, Creativity, Usability and Content.

Our goal is to create a meeting point where web developers, designers and agencies across the world can share experiences, inspiration and knowledge: A community that bids for a more accessible, usable and beautiful Internet.

This one is called Robot with Space Frog 

We have a wonderful new client here at Spotvin, and happily introduce our newest campaign for Dr. Tayfour, and the Windsor Laser Eye Institute. Our concept asked for a very clean direction to attract potential customers and inform them that Dr. Tayfour and WLEI are one and the same, and they are the obvious choice. Trying to keep the amount of text to a minimum, we found “CLEARLY” was perfect for conveying that Dr. Tayfour is the only choice for those in visual need and basically, you will be seeing “CLEARLY” after your procedure.  Billboards in both the Detroit and Ontario areas will be going up soon.  So look up, and if you can’t read the text, we know a doctor who can fix that.

We introduce the Rocket Chicken and all of his chickeny glory. The Story: Chris, (my employee) and I are always looking for new things to inspire us during our week, sometimes it’s t-shirt design, sometimes it’s just browsing Youtube for funny cat videos, we have found our new creative train, Rocket Chicken. This was an illustration I (Shane) did a few years ago, which consisted of Rocket Chicken standing on what looks like the Moon with the shadow of an alien standing out of view, with the text ” What will become of Rocket Chicken..Find out next week”. We were looking at the illustration a couple weeks ago and Chris and I starting tossing some ideas around, ie. villains, weapons, sidekicks and it’s now blown up into brainstorming about apparel, mobile games and a web comic. It’s lots of fun because we feel there is so much room to expand the story line….however, we don’t want to give away too much right now. Here are a couple preliminary graphics, including the logo. Will post more soon. Check the teaser site out here.

Just a dedication to a man who created so much for the world and specifically our “graphic design” and media industry. iSalute you sir.

I posted an illustration a few months back of Sir John A. Macdonald (view here) that was the beginning of a much bigger project for the Historica-Dominion Institute to develop an entire campaign. This included a print campaign, (posters, brochures, buttons and t-shirts) as well as a fun scrollable website (in English and French) to help educate Canadians more about their first Prime Minister. Spotvin was hired to create all graphics and site design, including the 1 minute intro Flash animation at the top of the page. This was one of our first projects that really utilized what we do best; illustration, print and web. Have a poke around the site as there is plenty of useful videos and information about Sir John A. including a downloadable party hat. Those are always fun, I’m wearing one right now……you’ll never know.  GO TO SITE

Design by Spotvin, Build and Coding (ie. nerdy goodness) by Accent Media

We’ve been so busy lately I haven’t had the chance to post any of the recent projects we’ve completed. This site was for the Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada (AVLIC) which is a non-profit, professional association for interpreters whose working languages include a sign language. We’re happy with the outcome, very clean and easy site to navigate. Have a look see. avlic.ca

Design by Spotvin, Build and Coding (ie. nerdy goodness) by Accent Media

Our latest web project has been launched for Toronto’s Historica-Dominion Institute called The Memory Project DVD Site. This acts as a microsite to an initiative where DVD’s are sent to schools across Canada and feature Veterans telling their war stories. I’ve been on a WW2 kick as of late so it’s been really great and educational to work on such an amazing project. Check the site out at www.memoryproject.com/DVD

Design by Spotvin, Build and Coding (ie. nerdy goodness) by Accent Media