Winnipeg, Manitoba

Circle is pleased to play a role in the launch of Concordia’s largest fundraising campaign to date…  unveiling a drive to raise $45 Million for a new world-class health and fitness centre in the north-east corner of Winnipeg. The campaign went public last Friday, at Concordia Foundation’s 30th Annual Gala Fundraising Dinner.

Circle was engaged to design an identity for the state-of-the-art facility, as well as to create marketing tools (literature, exhibit, etc.) and a website for the initiative. Learn more about this exciting project here.

Images (top down) – The Concordia Health & Fitness Centre identity designed by Circle. Conceptual renderings by LM Architectural Group of the exterior, lobby atria, and gym areas. The website design features a “responsive” interface designed to optimize user experience based on the specific viewing device being used.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Circle has recently completed the design of a trade exhibit display and a suite of marketing tools (presentation folder, a capabilities brochure, and a library of technical literature) for the Orthopaedic Innovation Centre (OIC). This work built on the branding and website developed a year ago.

The OIC is conveniently located in Winnipeg, Canada (the geographic center of North America). OIC’s facilities are situated in the Concordia Hip & Knee Institute. With their team of technologists, engineers, and scientists, they offer a unique combination of testing capabilities and scientific expertise. The OIC supports the medical device industry with product development services, product testing and validation capabilities, clinical research, and small-scale additive manufacturing.

Learn more about the OIC here: www.orthoinno.com

Images (top down) – 9″ x 12″ pocket folder, a spread from the corporate brochure, OIC trade exhibit display.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

We wish you hope, peace, love, joy, and the very best for 2013…

Please note that our office will close on 21 December and reopen on 2 January 2013. If needed, a voice message can be left at 1 204 943 3693 (we’ll be checking messages from time to time).

Best wishes from all of us at Circle…

Winnipeg, Manitoba

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website we recently designed for long-time Circle client, the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre (MHRC). The new website represents the first phase of an overall corporate communications and marketing update that Circle has been engaged to assist with.

MHRC is a world leader in power system simulation and applied services, creating advanced technologies and applied solutions for the power systems industry. The new website features the broad range of products and services offered by MHRC, and introduces a new colour-coordinated “brand palette” for the company’s marketing collateral. (Website design by Circle; code development by Visual Lizard).

Images: a sampling of the new Manitoba HVDC Research Centre website; an alternate view of the new website as it appears on a tablet device.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

It’s the final day of Movember! Congratulations to all the Mo Bros and Mo Sistas who’ve supported this year’s campaign. Total funds raised for this year’s Movember campaign exceed $102,711,000 — with Canada once again leading “donations by nation” with a whopping $32,611,833+ !!!

We’re very pleased to report that the 4-man, GDC Manitoba Movember team (comprised of Adrian J.K. Shum, Robert L. Peters, Evan Kuz, and Kirk Warren) raised over $2500! http://ca.movember.com/team/633289 — thanks again for all of your support!

Images (top to bottom): 3 out of 4 members of the GDC Manitoba Movember Team (from left to right – Evan Kuz, Kirk Warren, Adrian Shum); Carisa Romans (Sugarcrumb Confections) our Mo’Sista who showed her support by baking the team “tasteful” moustaches; the gents behind their edible ‘staches; and a composite of “past ‘staches” from Robert L. Peters (who happened to be in Europe on the final day when the other team members gathered for the end-of-Movember lunch).

Edmonton, Alberta

On 9 October 2012, Circle’s founder/principal, Robert L. Peters, had the privilege to present Walter Jungkind (Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta and Icograda President 1974-1977) with the Icograda Achievement Award at an evening event in Edmonton organized in his honour by the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada / Alberta North Chapter.

Created in 2001, the Icograda Achievement Award honours an outstanding career. The Award may be presented to an individual or a team in recognition of outstanding and consistent achievement in the practice, education, or promotion of communication design. Recipients receive a signed certificate and an engraved trophy.

Read more about the award and Walter Jungkind via Icograda here and the GDC here.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

We’re very pleased to announce the launch of a new website for Seccuris — seccuris.com/  Circle recently completed a “brand refresh” for Seccuris, along with input to their strategic marketing planning, the development of key messaging, updating of visual assets, and design of a suite of marketing / communication literature.

Images (top to bottom): the new Seccuris website, and the Seccuris “Context” newsletter.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

We recently designed a “welcome” sign for the reception area of the West Central Women’s Resource Centre—a community-based initiative in the ethnically diverse West Central neighbourhood of Winnipeg. The sign incorporates 20 of the most common languages used by the centre’s constituents (Canada offers a remarkably multicultural milieu).

Earlier, Circle designed the West Central Women’s Resource Centre’s new graphic identity, stationery, interior and exterior signage, and various promotional materials.

Image: the multilingual “Welcome” we designed for WCWRC.

Montréal, Quebec

In response to a request by its current board, Robert L. Peters is serving as interim Acting Director for Icograda (the International Council of Communication Design) for a period of several few months, helping this world design body bridge the gap between its outgoing Managing Director, Brenda Sanderson, and the inauguration of a new, incoming Managing Director in early July. Since April, he has been making regular visits to Montréal, where he is responsible for Icograda staff and management of the Icograda Secretariat, which shares office facilities with Icsid (the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design).

Together with IFI (the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers), Icograda and Icsid constitute the International Design Alliance (IDA). Robert has a long history of involvement with Icograda; he served as its president from 2001-2003, and was involved in the formation of the IDA while serving as an Icograda board member.

Icograda is the world body for professional communication design. It is a non-profit, non-partisan, member-based network of independent organisations and stakeholders working within the multidisciplinary scope of communication design and expanded media. Founded in 1963, Icograda actively promotes the value of design practice, thinking, education, research and policy, representing more than 200 organisations in 67 countries and regions globally. As a partner of the IDA, Icograda’s members believe in interdisciplinary collaboration and the effectiveness of a collective voice to represent the design industry.

Captions for photos: Members of the current Icograda Board, left to right, who were present in Montréal for this term’s third board meeting in May: Jeffrey Ho (Singapore), Sophia Shih (Taiwan), Yesim Demir (Istanbul), Leimei Julia Chiu (current president, Japan), Iva Babaja (Croatia), Gaby de Abreu (South Africa), Kyle Kim (Korea), Sali Sasaki* (France), and Gitte Just (Denmark)—missing were Russell Kennedy (Australia), Vesna Brekalo (Slovenia), and Lawrence Zeegen (United Kingdom) | Outgoing Managing Director Brenda Sanderson and president Leimei Julia Chiu at the farewell dinner arranged in Brenda’s honour.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Groove Academy is a Winnipeg-based school of music, offering professional instruction for all ages and skill levels. Circle recently designed the Groove Academy identity, stationery, website: www.grooveacademy.ca