What kind of design do you do?
What industries do you have experience in?
Why do you focus on the health sector?
Why should we work with Canister instead of some other design studio?
What types of projects do you do?
What are the steps to complete a project?
What are your favourite projects?
What are Canister's sustainable business practices?
Why did you name your company 'Canister' ?
Canister Creative is a graphic design firm located in Vancouver, BC that develops communication materials and solutions for a variety of businesses and organizations. Our services include brand development, identity systems, advertising, print, packaging, website development, consultation, newsletter management, and illustration. We are an experienced, passionate creative team that provides excellent products delivered professionally. We cater our services to meet the needs of a variety of industries, with a focus on medical device, biotech, research, OEM, and other healthcare related organizations.
We have multi-faceted expertise that includes graphic design, creative and technical illustration, project management, website design and copywriting. Our background in the fields of arts, sciences and engineering give us a strong foundation and a broad perspective to draw upon when contributing to our client’s projects.
We describe our work as “communication design” — this is a more accurate term than the more familiar “graphic design”. Either one will do the trick. Our work is about conveying messages to people. Communication design uses the right mix of graphic design, image, typography, language and ideas to convey your message to your target audience in a clear, concise and captivating manner.
We have specific experience in the medical device, biotech, film, retail, music, educational and tourism industries, as well as in the arts and culture realms.
We work with clients to develop and maintain their brands. We help clients convey their message to their audiences by producing effective communication materials like brand identities, promotional material, catalogues, educational materials, websites, annual reports, presentation material — anything they use to convey their message to their audience. We manage all aspects of a project including graphic design, production, liaising with professional contributors, and overseeing printing and other output processes.
Our services include: Brand development, identity systems, advertising, print, packaging, website development, consultation, newsletter management, and illustration.
We enjoy working on interesting projects in many different industries, but when possible we focus our talent and energy on working within the health sector.
Our creative director wanted to draw on his experience from his previous decade-long career designing new medical devices, and our art director has always been interested in the realm of health and well-being. This focus is a natural way to capitalize on interest and experience while providing our clients with great service.
We offer great work delivered thoughtfully and professionally. We are problem-solvers. Idea generators. Creative workers. While we emphasize the value of our expertise, we also believe great work comes from great relationships. We work hard to develop long-term, mutually fulfilling relationships with our clients. This means that clients are enthusiastic about starting new projects, feel proud of past ones, and know the process is efficient, trustworthy and fruitful.
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We develop brands and design concepts that we turn into communication materials. It could be a corporate identity system, a multi-faceted promotional campaign, a website, an email newsletter, or almost any other form of communication material. We work with clients to determine their goals for the project, distill its core message and decide what form the solutions should take to best meet the project’s goals.
Creative solutions flourish best in conjunction with thoughtful organization and clear goals. We use our proprietary process to guide the progression of your project from start to finish.
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We thoroughly enjoy big, multi-component projects and feel we shine especially bright when we can flesh out a concept across many forms of communication media. We love to see the pieces come together.
For comprehensive projects and new clients we write a short document that outlines the scope of the project and includes an estimated budget. We create our estimates based on our experience with similar projects while taking into consideration factors that may be unique to the project in question. Long-term clients usually prefer to be billed by the hour for smaller projects as they find this is a more efficient process.
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At Canister, we believe that sustainability means interacting with our society, economy and environment in positive ways. We periodically contribute to our community by getting involved with various organizations in our city and volunteering our time or donating our services. We seek ways to reduce our environmental footprint: we walk to work; we shop locally where we can; and we actively reduce, reuse, recycle and compost. We generally work remotely with our professional contributors, and we promote paperless project management and communication with our clients; we offer increasingly sustainable options for the production of their projects.
Communication design is concerned with conveying messages to people. A communication design approach uses the right mix of graphic design, image, typography, language and ideas to convey your message to your target audience in a clear, concise and captivating manner. It is about getting the delivery of your message right. Communication design means using the available forms of communication strategically to direct the public perception of your company and your products.
A canister is a container. We create containers for your content. We also like the alliteration. Canister Creative communicates clearly.
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