I’ve just wrapped up another productive session of my personal “genius time”. I was working on a particularly tricky task at the tail end of my day yesterday and I wasn’t making very good progress - I kept making a series of small mistakes that were setting me back. I decided to shut down my computer and re-visit the same chunks of code this morning, during my “genius time”. Turns out it was the right thing to do. I ended up figuring out a far more elegant solution to my problem, a solution I just couldn’t see the day before.

Here, you’ll find none of the glorified, perfect and stagnant portfolio trimmings you’d normally expect to see on a design studio website. Instead, here you are part of our journey – experiencing our challenges, successes, deep thinking and of course, the design output. This is what life at Dynamo is like. Work. Play. And everything in between. Take what you can from it and let us know what you think.

Dynamo garnered a packaging design award in the recent Quebec-wide Grafika competition for its design work on the Wayne Gretzky Estates project. The Family Reserve Merlot - a commemorative 3-Liter (Double Magnum) special launch bottling - was created as part of the arsenal of branding and packaging materials Dynamo designed for the launch of the brand in 2007. An edition of only 99 of the double mags were produced, number one and number 99 going to Wayne at the launch ceremony.

Mr. Gretzky and his winemaking partners approached our strategic partner and thinktank Resonance in Vancouver to collaborate on building the brand identity from scratch. Dynamo collaborated on strategy and naming, and drove the design and development of all branded materials including packaging for all the varietals, a CMS-driven product website, and merchandising and commemorative keepsakes for the brand launch.

Penson is a recognized national B2B financial services provider offering clearing (trading execution) to banks and independents in the financial industry. Penson called upon Dynamo to design a new strategic offensive to increase market share and expand clientele. Upon reviewing the competitive landscape and narrow demographic, we decided a strong media push (print campaign) in conjunction with a call to action driving viewers to a complimentary microsite would serve them best.

2M2 is a high-caliber creative talent agency and event productions company representing premiere international photographic and visual effects artists. Dynamo designed the 2M2 website exclusively as a sophisticated online showcase and repository for 2M2’s talent roster folios.

Dynamo is a creative communications design studio populated with visual storytellers and design thinkers.

We create and produce engaging design, communications, branding and content tools for business and culture, with a primary focus on customized interactive web solutions and robust, project-tailored content management systems (web apps) with great depth and functionality. Our ability and experience in supporting and complimenting online initiatives with offline deliverables such as full branding suites including identity, print collateral, packaging and other strategic vehicles allows us to service clientele in a full spectrum. We are an integrated agency...