School managed to keep me away from following through with this blog but I don't believe it is a lost cause as of yet. This post is to pick a favourite designer and write a brief description why.
Starting this assignment was a challenge because I have yet to narrow my interests when it comes to the specific areas if design that I hope to work in. By no means do I think that this needs to be done now but I have the feeling that I will start to follow designers, marketers and organizations once I narrow my interests. I started locally and combined my previous experience in marketing resorts to try and identify some BC based organizations that peaked my interest. The one company I was very impressed with, and ended up having some previous experience with, was The Tartan Group.
The Tartan Group is a Marketing and PR firm based in Victoria that was started about 12 years ago by a PR specialist that worked for Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. When I looked through their portfolio I noticed that many of their long term clients had been direct competitors to the hotels I had worked for in Tofino and Whistler. I was always impressed with their web development and their uncanny way of capturing the feeling of resort destinations with simple, clean designs. After looking through all of their clients I was extremely impressed with how many high end resorts they had worked with.
Researching the Tartan Group excited me and they will definitely be a target when I am looking for possible internships next summer. I appreciated how with a relatively small team they were able to establish such a high end international scope of business. By the end of my time on their website I got the feeling that this would be the kind of organization that could utilize all of my skills ranging from Hospitality to Design.
WEB: http://www.tartangroup.ca
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A second studio that deserves mentioning is Studio 7 that is also based out of Victoria. This was mentioned on a top 25 list that also featured some international giants of the industry. I was impressed with how young and accomplished their team come across from their bios and the work in their galleries.
WEB: http://studio7designs.com/about/
Thats all for now and with School finishing next week I'm looking forward to more frequent posts over the holidays...cheers.
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