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About


Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing an array of marketing solutions focussed on communicating your brand and messages beautifully.

Our belief is that clients are best served when they can talk directly to those creating the work. Avoiding the potential of miscommunication, when dealing with intermediaries, saves time and money.

We have the experience to quickly understand your needs and how best to achieve your goals. We’re confident our down-to-earth communication style, coupled with our straight-forward no-nonsense approach, will be a refreshing change—one that will quickly get you where you need to be, with a lot less less pain than dealing with the layers involved with many other firms.

Our team expands to fit your needs. Whether it’s a simple design request, best handled by one person, or a complex project needing the skills of a multi-disciplined group, we have the flexibility and experienced resources to efficiently and accurately handle your needs.

Identities & Branding

Web Design & Development

Marketing / Advertising

Publications & Annual Reports

Web Design

Packaging Design

Advertising

Print Design

Motion Graphics

Identities

Mission

We build relationships. Ones based on honesty, fairness and an undying belief that open communication results in the greatest work. We respect your budget. You’ll know costs upfront, in fact, you’ll approve them before we proceed. It’s all about eliminating surprises. The only surprise you’ll have is the quality of our solutions.

  • Identities & Branding
  • Web Design
  • Annual Report Design
  • Print Design
  • Advertising & Marketing
  • Wayfinding Signage
  • Print Management
  • Motion Graphics
  • Style Guides
  • Consulting

Dean McNeill


A senior, strategy-driven marketing professional, Dean possesses a unique ability to quickly understand his clients’ business and determine how best to increase their impact. His primary focus is on improving brand exposure, marketing and his client’s bottom line.

A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Certified Graphic Designer (CGD), Dean is a driving force on the Canadian design scene. He has served as National President of the Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), participated as Graphic Design representative on the Federal Government Cultural Trade Advisory Team and was the founding Chairman of the GDC’s National CGD Certification Board.

At one time or another Deans’ skills have helped sculpt virtually every major Atlantic Canadian brand. Recognized with over twenty national and international creative, marketing and design awards, Dean is adept in all facets of visual communication: corporate identities; publication design; annual reports; web; video production; and advertising. Dean’s award winning work has promoted world-class golf courses, tourist destinations, law firms, non-profits, startups, oil & gas, bio-industry, executive search, construction and investment firms.

Recent Projects


Here’s a few of our projects to give you a sense of our range.

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Pivotal Coaching
Pivotal Coaching

Branding, Design

Podcast Site
Podcast Site

Design, Websites

Interactive Publication
Interactive Publication

Design, Websites

Wayfinding
Wayfinding

Branding, Design

Packaging
Packaging

Branding, Design

Alexander Graham Bell Foundation
Alexander Graham Bell Foundation

Branding, Design

reSport
reSport

Branding, Design

Animation
Animation

Design

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Services


We’ve handled a lot of different projects over the years. Here’s some of our most common services. If you don’t see what you’re interested in, we’ve probably done it but if we haven’t, we’ll point you to the best folks to help you out.

Website Design

We can handle the entire process from concept, architecture, design, programming and launch of a fully responsive website. All our websites include full client editing functionality.

Identity & Branding

From initial naming, identity design, tagline and collateral development—we’ll capture and portray your firm’s brand in a way that drives interest.

Print Design

Magazines, annual reports, sales kits, brochures, packaging, stationery, displays—we do them all. If it’s visual and communicates a message we can handle it and we’ll get it printed for you beautifully.

Animation & Motion Graphics

Often a simple animation or motion graphic is the best way to communicate a complex message. As simple as a few seconds or as complex as a hour-long creation with sound and voice-over, we can make it happen.

Advertising & Marketing

From simple digital ads to complex campaigns utilizing various media—we’ve got you covered.

Writing

Naming, tag-lines and descriptive text that motivates buyers is our sweet spot. Writing for websites, brochures and longer pieces is certainly in our wheelhouse as well.

Print Management

From stationery to billboards, from decals to clothing—we know the the right suppliers, and the language they speak, to make sure your print work sings.

Creative Development

With years of experience creating award winning concepts, we know how to get where you need to be and get you noticed.

Consulting

Maybe you just need a jump-start on ideas or another point of view on direction—we’re up for that.

Client Reviews


Clients tend to stick around here, see what a few of them have to say.

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Happy Clients

582

Completed Projects

26

Design/Marketing Awards

63

Websites Launched

Get In Touch


Have a project in mind? Maybe you just want to see if we’d be a good fit? Send us a message and find out just how responsive we can be.

Let’s chat! We can help steer you in the right direction…

Address

1963 Cambridge Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4B1

Phone

+1 (902) 489 8556

Say Hello

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