Welcome to Straydog — We’re an award winning Vancouver Branding, Website Design & Graphic Design agency, building thriving brands through creative design and thoughtful brand messaging.
Branding
Unleash your brand!
Brands, like dogs, never stand still, and we design innovative branding solutions that grow, evolve and thrive.
Website Design
Embark on Web Design
We craft responsive WordPress & Drupal CMS website's that are on-brand, mobile-friendly and easy-to-use.
Package Design
Stand out on the shelf
We design product packaging that communicates and connects your unique brand message with the consumer.
Video
Tell your story through video
We all have a story to tell, let us help you tell yours through video!
Brand Naming
What's your Name?
You only have one chance to make a first impression. A great name can make a great first impression and opens doors.
Graphic Design
Great design for all your needs
Conceptual and creative thinking delivers design that is far more than just aesthetically pleasing.
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Black Ninja Software
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Black Ninja came to Straydog in the summer of 2018 with a need to update their logo as well as the need for some marketing and sales collateral. Because they didn’t have a proper logo file to work from, we had to re-create the Black Ninja. This is a common situation for many start-ups and small businesses…. whereby, when they began business, they were either didn’t have the budget to support a full branding project, or they simply hired the wrong people in the first place.
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This is where we can help. We can work with any logo file you have to either fix it or re-create it in the proper formats so that it can be used for all your digital and print requirements.
Once we finished re-creating the logo, we then designed their new business cards, and their social media platforms. Next up, their website and additional the design of new marketing collateral.
Article by Rob Barnett
President & Brand Strategist at Straydog
With a warm yet modern, urban feel, the Shore healing brand evokes feelings of confidence, hope and trust. Bespoke in nature, and backed by academic expertise and real-world experience, it’s a safe space (online and in a physical location) to explore the journey to wellness through unparalleled customer service. With an attention to detail that is unmatched within the industry today, Shore Healing is paving the way forward by setting a new standard for professionalism, personalized care, advice and advocacy.
Inspiration taken from: fashion, textile, packaging, interior design, print finishing, lifestyle & demographic photography and nature. This body of images and corresponding colour palette (on the right) sets the tone for the Shore Healing brand. With a nod to the history of Cannabis’ healing power, and the academic origins of it’s founders, the brand has an Olde World character that holds weight and integrity.
This, juxtaposed with an easy, urban chic, upbeat side, will allow the brand the freedom to breathe and grow. The new logo is a bold, playful script font hand-customized for a unique look, coupled with a classic serif font to anchor it. The uplifting shape is easily contained without being boxy and it feels relaxed and easy but has presence and strength of a professional brand ready for the competitive and legalized world of cannabis in Canada.
If you’re looking for award winning brand strategy and design work, give us a call at 604-913-7936 or drop us an email, we’d be happy to help you bring to life your passion for making a difference.
Article by Rob Barnett
President & Brand Strategist at Straydog
In the past two decades, hundreds of new car dealerships have been built or renovated in accordance to the manufacturer’s branding requirements. In each case, every element of architectural design, colour scheme, signage, furniture and building materials has been carefully mandated by the manufacturer.
Today, dealerships representing the same nameplate look similar in appearance and design, in order to distinguish its products and services from the competition and to maintain a consistent brand image and customer experience.
While automakers work hard to distinguish their brands, individual dealers will create distinctive brands of their own, separate from the corporate identity but often tied closely to it.
Branding at the dealership level also involves phone etiquette, relationships with suppliers, e-commerce experience, website design and presence on social media. From the back end to the front end of a dealership’s operations, a chain reaction of experiences establishes the brand.
And this is where a local branding & design agency can work with local car dealerships to help them create their own unique brand image.
Straydog is now working with North Vancouver Mitsubishi which owns the North Vancouver Mitsubishi, Fraser Valley Mitsubishi and now Kamloops Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram. Recently, we have worked on updating the North Vancouver Mitsubishi dealership logo, designed in-store signage, marketing and collateral material, created some digital ads for web, newspapers ads, worked on a number of video’s for online and on-presence promotional purposes, including at BC Lions games and UBC Thunderbird games.
We also worked closely with them on their marketing strategy for their sponsorship of
Primal Quest 2018 in Squamish, BC. For this event, we provided the following services:
- Graphic design for outdoor signage,
- Graphic design for vehicle wraps for their Mitsubishi sponsor vehicles,
- Strategy and design for online ads,
- Graphic design for print ads
- Video editing services
If you’re looking for award winning brand strategy and design work for your dealership, give us a call at 604-913-7936 or drop us an email, we’d be happy to help you drive your dealership’s brand forward.
Article by Rob Barnett
President & Brand Strategist at Straydog
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