January 2020
Monolith
Every two years, Desert X, an outdoor exhibition, presents a collection of art installations throughout California's Coachella Valley. SPECTER, a florescent orange monolith, was created for Desert X 2019 by Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby. This brazen, reflective form stands in complete contrast to the surrounding earth tones of the serene natural landscape. Ruby wanted to establish an optical illusion that left viewers questioning "what was missing from the scene."
Vestacon
Website & Video
With exponential growth since beginning operations in 2008, Vestacon Ltd., a construction management and general contracting firm, recognized the need for a redeveloped website to keep pace. With a client list of top companies and growing portfolio of projects, Vestacon sought out H&W to design and build a new website with greater emphasis on storytelling as both a showcase for potential work and a recruitment platform for it’s expanding staffing needs. Through our rigorous planning and design process, we crafted a visually rich and responsive site with an intuitive and easily maintained CMS. A key feature of the new site was to document the unique work-life balance philosophy as a recruitment tool. H&W planned and directed a people-focused video that
features on the site and has additional pitch applications. The new website delivers a fresh, intuitive audience experience that builds on the successful brand we launched for Vestacon in 2012.
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Quadrangle
Notebook
As an annual gift for the firm’s clients and partners, Quadrangle's notebooks have become a welcome arrival each January. With the beginning of a new decade (coincidentally marking the 10th notebook H&W has designed with Quadrangle), we wanted this year’s version to feel particularly celebratory and fresh. We worked closely with the Quadrangle team to bring some real pop to 2020's books using a vibrant neon palette in designs derived from their symbol. Those eye-catching colours continue inside the book, where we created a tab sheet that allows each recipient to customize the book for their own use.
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ACO
Acorn Magazine
Active since 1933, ACO (Architectural Conservancy Ontario) has helped save hundreds of significant structures, districts and landscapes of architectural, historic and cultural significance throughout Ontario. Acorn, ACO’s twice-a-year publication, illuminates members and the public through interesting articles that take a deep dive into the history of heritage buildings and sites like Windermere House in Muskoka, or Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. H&W redesigned the publication to create a better reading experience – employing an editorial design focus to build typographic
structures, a consistent grid and adding new content ideas. It has met with great acclaim!
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