Earlier this month we helped Operetta Designs launch their brand new website- designed and custom illustrated by yours truly. The talented event planners at Operetta create lavish, personalized events for their clients and the many personalized illustrations we created for the website mirror their business style.  From hand-drawn flowers, to patterns and pearls… this site brings you into the Operetta world; a world of luxury and intricate details. We are so happy we could help them show off their lovely, lux work! Click here to check out the new Operetta Designs website.

In the words of Beyoncé, Lemme upgrade You! A little change is always good – that’s why anytime is the right time to think about keeping your brand fresh. We invested our love for design to help Harmonie Richelieu de Verdun, an organization that offers today’s youth the opportunity to learn how to play musical instruments. HRV were looking to have their previous logo renewed; to recognize and reflect the beauty of the work they do. The goal was to create a logo that was not too far off from their original. We aimed for a melodic, professional and fun aesthetic, mixing together musical symbols and typography. Set on a staff, the logo displays a sense of movement, melody, and soothe – all things that remind us of music. The final result is simply… harmonious! Check out the before and after below.

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Design Is Yummy proudly presents the two newest additions to our growing Award collection! We recently took home two bronze awards (and these fine looking trophies) from the Creativity International Awards; one for our season graphics campaign for The Segal Centre for Performing Arts (You may recognize Prom Queen or some of the others- they’ve been all around town!), and another for our design and printing of Niskamoon Corporation’s 2015-2016 Annual Report.

Click here to see more pictures of the award winning posters.  Click here to see more pictures of the award winning reports

This would be the second consecutive year our work for Niskamoon Corporation’s annual reports have gained international recognition. Last year, the 2014-2015 Niskamoon Corporation Annual Report received a Silver Davey Award. We would like to thank the judges from the Creativity International Awards for acknowledging our hard work. It gets us pumped to create even more award-winning pieces for our awesome clients.

Design Is Yummy is proud to announce our recent collaboration with the Segal Centre for Performing Arts on their 2016-2017 campaign.

Last Wednesday night we were out in full force at their packed season launch party announcing their upcoming productions.

We were excited to see our custom type treatments and illustrations projected on the big screen to such a warm reception? Look out for the new graphics that will grace the centre’s brochures, program books, posters, building signs and advertising throughout the city in the coming months.

We can’t wait to check out all the shows- with such a passionate, hard working and talented group, they’re no doubt going to be incredible! Congrats to our clients on such a successful evening! Call (514) 739-7944 to subscribe to their upcoming season’s productions. Click here to read more about the project and see more details of the artwork.

Paper galore! The days leading up to the uVu Paper Conference were counted down with pure excitement in our office. Gorgeous paper stocks, innovative design and delicious food – what better way to spend an evening? Despite the freezing rain, the Design Is Yummy team trekked out en masse last night to the Sofitel Hotel to check out the uVu Be Seen event organized by Veritiv.

Domtar, Neenah and Finch were just some of the paper mills showcasing their latest stocks at the event. From recyclable papers, to washable papers (what!?), we got to see and touch the paper of the past, present and future.

We left armed with tons of paper goodies and inspiration. Thanks Veritiv!

As a company founded by a female entrepreneur, we were thrilled to partner up with Artistri Sud– a non-profit organization based in Montreal with a strong focus on empowering women artisans in developing countries. With the collaboration of local communities, Artistri Sud helps women access global markets to sell their handcrafted goods and create a sustainable income to better themselves and the people surrounding them. In order to raise funds, Artistri Sud organized the upcoming event “Tales of Triumph” where inspiring women share their stories of empowerment and success. For the year of 2016, Design is Yummy was honoured to donate our time to create this powerful typographic invitation and web graphics with the hopes of raising attention and awareness to such wonderful cause.

We love adding that personal touch to your special events, no matter the occasion. Recently, we designed these custom glass stickers and napkins for a surprise engagement party. Congrats to Noah & Beckie on your engagement!

Holidays are all about sharing, connecting, and giving. We are super stoked to finally be able to share our holiday greeting card for 2015. The idea for the design was sparked by the notion that “By giving we become open to receiving more than we have”. For the front of the card, we made sure the viewer’s eyes would be drawn first to the inclusive message “Merry Everything”. (It is after-all a holiday card!) Surrounding the holiday message are bilingual inspirational quotes, holiday themed messages and intricate geometric line-art. The white line art pops on the dark gray background and of course there are accents of our hot pink brand colour scattered throughout the illustrations as well. At first glace the offset printed card seems flat, but the brightly coloured twine at the bottom hints that there’s more to this piece than meets the eye. The printed cards have been perforated with a custom die that makes it possible to pop out 5 of the messages to use as gift tags. The die cuts at the bottom of the cards keep the pink thread neatly stored ready to attach the tags provided to those holiday gifts. For the back, we added a variation of the pattern in a delicate gray on white so as not to distract from a personalized, hand-written message written on each card. White envelopes just wouldn’t do justice for these cards, so we free-style lettered the recipient’s names and addresses on silver mirror paper and inserted them with the cards into transparent A9 envelopes. One of our favourite features of the project is the hot pink round return address stickers placed on the front of the envelopes. These fun and interactive cards were designed to stand out in a sea of holiday mail. We hope they’ve helped our customers Share the Joy this holiday season!