Emily Carr 4th Year Design Series - Max Olson

Once again, FAC would like to share a select series of student work from Don and Tak’s 4th Year Core Studio class this past Fall at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

4th year student Max Olson has created a contemporary brand identity design and signage system for MOCA Calgary, (the Museum of Contemporary Art Calgary). The main challenges were to elevate the public profile of MOCA and facilitate the museum's model of setting up a variety of smaller gallery venues throughout the city. The solution was to provide the museum with a flexible kit of elements that could be used to create a vast set of deliverables unique to the featured art and specific venue. In the end, Max found the time to create marketing material, office collateral, a flexible signage system for exterior applications as well as a functional Wordpress website.

~tyukawa

Honors for FAC Designer - JL Lum

Our newest designer, JL Lum, is a recent graduate of Vancouver Film School’s Digital Design Program.  “Square One” is his graduation project, an interactive web documentary that aims to provide information for skilled immigrants who are considering making Canada their home.

Working in a team of three, the 4-month-long project won several awards, including the 2011 Salazar Award for Best Interactive Project and The Jim Rimmer Community Scholarship Award for Design. The project was also a semi-finalist for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and was presented at the 2011 Bridge to S.U.C.C.E.S.S Gala.

“Square One” is a collaborative project by JL Lum – Interactive, Salim Hassan – Branding, and Arcelia Ocana Manjarrez – Film & Motion.

Apocalypse Calendars

Recently one of our designers Cameron McKague got together with Jennifer Griffiths—his main squeeze and designer at Cause+Affect—and created a beautiful Apocalypse-themed risograph print 2012 calendar.

They brought together a host of illustrators and designers from around the world (including two more of our designers Dirk Wright and Ginger Ngo) to offer their take on the end-of-the-days predictions of the Mayans.

Have a look at some highlights below and if you're interested, there are still a few copies left for $20.

Click here to email Cameron for more details

Happy Holidays from Free Agency Creative!

As many of our clients know, we often present moodboards that evoke the look and feel of our concepts. So what better way to express how we perceive the Holiday Season than a Christmas Moodboard!

Herewith, a collage of images that represent our associations and memories of the Season. Some are serious. Some are funny. And some are downright bizarre. Enjoy! Perhaps you will find images within that resonate with you.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us here at Free Agency!

// Don, Tak, Lisa, Cameron, Kat, Dirk, Angie, JL //

A little of Venice

Well, I’ve been on vacation for 2 weeks and haven’t posted a thing. So, here are some photos from Venice during our 5 days there. I’m not going to bore you too much with details just lots of images. Images from Budapest and Krakow coming soon!

Ciao,
Don :)

2010 FALL FASHION SHOOT FOR PARK ROYAL MALL

We had a great time shooting the 2010 Fall Fashion Campaign for Park Royal Mall -  "Fall Head Over Heels in Love with Fashion".

In order to compliment the core typographic elements of the concept, our goal for the day was to capture the models falling and tumbling in mid-air. We shot the campaign at Sugar Studios in Vancouver with photographer Dexter Quinto who expertly directed the models through their paces. We had the opportunity to team up with Mark James who produced and co-art directed the shoot with us. All the outfits were expertly put together by Charlotte Stokes. 

Here are some more images that we love that didn't make it into the final campaign.

Click here to view the campaign on our website

MODA Hotel Wall Feature

FAC was honored to be asked by the Solterra Group of Companies to create a new wall feature behind the front desk of the Moda Hotel. We set out to bring a more contemporary, almost futuristic look to the room in order to contrast the traditional looking features of the lobby's existing architecture.

We'd like to thank Mike Allen at Adpoint for the impeccable job he did executing and installing our delicate design.

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