ALL CAPS Design

Happy May Day! So proud of this collaboration for Mayworks Kjipuktuk Halifax. This spring Sarah Trower joined ALL CAPS and this was our first big project together. Sarah's fabulous illustration style shines in this series of quilt inspired collages. Sending solidarity to workers everywhere.

All Caps Design welcomes Sarah Trower as a partner! We couldn't ask for a better injection of fresh energy into the All Caps Design Nova Scotia office. Emily and Sarah collaborated as the Communications and Campaigns Team of Dalhousie Student Union from 2015-17 so we know we're a match made in heaven. Sarah graduated from NSCC Graphic Design in 2023, and both Emily and Sarah are NSCAD BFA grads (and former SUNSCAD presidents). Get ready for inspiring new illustration and typography (and many cribbage matches, of course).

Logo design for the Human Rights and Race Relations Committee of the Canadian Employment and Immigration Union. This logo weaves together four strands representing four equity groups: Indigenous members, racialized and Black members, 2SLGBTQIA+ members and members with disabilities. The four strands converge in a knot showing the strength of intersectional identities and unity among groups. The logo is also reminiscent of an inuksuk, a hashtag, a quilt code, and basket weaving, which all add layers of cross-cultural meaning.

What a delight to design the cover for two brilliant feminist publications from Fernwood Publishing! I designed and illustrated the cover for Atlantic Book Awards winner Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide by Ardath Whynach (October 2021). For Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada by Martha Paynter, illustrated by Julia Hutt (May, 2022) I designed the cover using on of Julia's illustrations. Both books offer timely reflections and calls to action to abolish carceral systems and build robust structures of care.

Social Justice Trading Cards are back: honouring ten more activists and trailblazers! I used a limited colour palette, inspired by screen printing, for my own spin on the series started by Zach Gough for Mayworks Kjipuktuk Halifax. Each pack even comes with a stick of gum!

Update of the All Caps design logo for the recently renamed Solidarity Kjipuktuk / Halifax. Looking forward to designing with words in the Mi’kmaw language as settler organizations and individuals shift towards recognizing Indigenous land and language.

Wonderful to be back in the Dawson Printshop working on a handset metal type and linocut. Emily designed this print of Jim MacSwain’s poem Found Horizon as a donor perk for the fundraiser for Celestial Queer the documentary about Jim’s life and work directed by Eyrn Foster and Sue Johnson.

Tenth Anniversary logo update and illustration for Mayworks Halifax! It’s our Mayworks favorite poster yet and we’re happy to report there are screen printed versions, buttons and tote bags with this design too. Speaking of swag: shout out to Zachary Gough and Sébastien Labelle for another beautiful edition of Social Justice Trading Cards available at the festival this year.

Two illustrations Emily developed for Avalon Sexual Assault Centre’s campaign From Hashtags to Healing. This funding drive campaign supports the counseling work that Avalon which builds longer term therapeutic relationships towards healing.

City Council approved the sale of the building to the community! In celebration here a bunch of the graphics Emily has made of the Khyber building and throughout the campaign so far. So proud to be part of the team who are the new stewards of this historic gem.

Happy International Workers’ Day! Thinking today about student workers who aren’t paid for internships and young people leaving Nova Scotia to find work. Sharing some of the campaign assets All Caps designed Vote Education campaign for the Canadian Federation of Students-Nova Scotia.

Update to the Mayworks Halifax brand with cool colour palette and a new illustration by Emily!

This is the second ad in the series Private Deals, Proven Failures for the Nova Scotia Health Coalition featuring branding and icons by ALL CAPS Design. 

Private Deals, Proven Failures! ALL CAPS provides logo and icon design for the Nova Scotia Health Coalition’s latest campaign. The province wide campaign includes television ads such as this spot. The campaign highlights private funding deals’ proven record of failure when used to finance and build public infrastructure. This is the first time ALL CAPS has provived assets that have been animated and aired on terrestrial television and across the internet. We’re proud to support the NSHC and help spread the message about the failure of the P3 model. 

Happy Pride Halifax. We're proud to have made this Freelance Proud design for this week's actions and festivities for the Canadian Freelance Union/Syndicat canadien des pigistes!

#ThrowBackThursday! Jonathan and Emily collaborated on this recent Art Gallery of Ontario First Thursday program. Celebrating the work of famed Group of Seven painter Lauren Harris, the program features a Harris-inspired illustration by Emily with design stylings from Jonathan. The handsome guide was risograph printed in black, blue and mint by Colour Code Printing of Toronto. 

ALL CAPS Design worked with The Bridging Bus crew to create their logo and social media iterations. Inspired by the iconic #BlackLivesMatter logo, our treatment features a bridge icon in inviting blues and greens, reflecting the outreach based nature of The Bridging Bus’ organizing and their actual work of sharing activist lessons across North America. Check out their new site by Bight and all the great work they’re doing.