Woodward Design

This is the cozy online home of our graphic design & illustration studio. Offline, Woodward Design is nestled in the heart of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, amidst tree-lined streets and heritage buildings, just a short walk from the farmer's market, pubs, and cafes of historic Whyte Avenue.

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Brian Webb Dance Company 2014/2015 Season
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Brian Webb Dance Company 2014/2015 Season
The creative for 2014/2015 Brian Webb Dance Company features bright colours and hand rendered type that was created in studio. The brochure folds out showcasing each of the 6 dance companies. The back side features the dancers from Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal in a full size poster. A variety of ...
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Adsotively! Vintage Ads from Edmonton
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Adsotively! Vintage Ads from Edmonton
We have officially launched Adsotively, a blog dedicated to showcasing vintage ads from Edmonton. From the Royal Alexandra Hospital archives we have collected ads from yearbooks as early as the 1930s. Lots of exciting things still to come! Follow this project here! A special thank you to the Edmo...
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ESO Symphony for Kids
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ESO Symphony for Kids
  These are a new series of illustrations for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Symphony for Kids program! Many fun steps came out of this project, including a photo shoot on the Winspear centre roof with the symphony artist in residence, Lucas Waldin, dressed as a superhero in the wind. Luca...
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ASEBP Health & Wellness
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ASEBP Health & Wellness
  Check out the 2014-15 ASEBP Day Planner! We have worked on this project for a few years now, this year being a stronger focus on health and wellness. Lots of illustrations of food and exercise, along with areas where the user can fill in ideas and goals related to health. With a delicious ...
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Harvest Celebration 2014
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Harvest Celebration 2014
Delicate, ornate swirls of gold ink are the name of the game for the 2014 Harvest Celebration creative. This will be the fourth year Woodward Design has worked with the Lois Hole Hospital for Women in the look for this event. The event is this weekend, and it sold out early! Proceeds raised from ...
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Northern Light Theatre 2014-15 Season
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Northern Light Theatre 2014-15 Season
This season at NLT, the overall theme is transgender. Each show is cast as two people. The creative has been illustrated (in-house) around these characters and specific themes of each show. The season brochure opens up in such a way that with each show, the two characters are facing off to each o...
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Platypus Theatre Identity
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Platypus Theatre Identity
We created a new logo/identity for Platypus Theatre, based out of Ottawa, Ontario. Researching for this logo was so much fun. Platypus are strange and NEAT! Especially the babies. If you have a hour to spare, we suggest you learn about them by watching this nature documentary on the Platypus.
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RAHF School of Nursing
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RAHF School of Nursing
We are pleased to share a unique project we developed for the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation. This is a direct mail campaign targeted to the alumni of the RAHF School of Nursing. For the creation of these pieces, we were given access to the nursing photo and yearbook archive. We found amazin...
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U of A Extension Brochures
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U of A Extension Brochures
We created a series of programming brochures for the U of A, Faculty of Extension. Lots of yummy colour, typography clusters and a little bit o’ spot varnish accent, too If you like Gist (the slab font we used in this project), you can get it for 50% off if you purchase the whole collection...
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Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton (PACE)
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Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton (PACE)
Hello everyone! If you are an Edmonton based arts organization or artist, consider becoming a member of PACE. We worked with PACE to rebrand and recently designed/produced the new PACE website. Check it out: Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton (PACE)
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