Accelerating the impact of Canada’s largest natural science museum complex

Espace pour la vie

Creative strategy, brand architecture, design systems, advertising campaigns

Brand strategy

Strengthen the institution’s positioning and elevate its museums

The challenge was to create a flexible, integrated advertising platform tailored to Espace pour la vie’s complex communication needs. Through strategic workshops, we rethought the brand architecture and clarified campaign messaging to better support awareness, promotional, and conversion objectives.

This strategic thinking led to a modular design system that simplifies and unifies communications, powered by a modern, distinctive campaign platform.

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ART DIRECTION

A grand celebration of life

The creative platform draws inspiration from the immediate sense of well-being that nature provides. We designed a vibrant, colorful universe that sparks positive emotions and brings museums and their audiences together in a shared journey of discovery and connection with nature.

ART DIRECTION

A flexible and powerful design system

In the modular platform, each museum is represented by a rounded shape, evoking the organic world and known for eliciting positive emotions. Rendered as masks or wireframes, these shapes provide a wide range of visual possibilities and modularity.

The color palette, directly inspired by nature, adapts to different themes to enhance realistic, immersive, and emotive photography, always maintaining scientific accuracy while capturing attention through focal points and original angles.

Finally, the typographic system combines two complementary fonts to balance the museums’ modernity and authority with the more organic, approachable experience of nature.

Strategy & Art Direction

Complete redesign of the inter-museum passport

The passport provides access to all five museums. To standardize its communications and ensure alignment with the new platform, we redesigned its visual identity with a minimalist, timeless approach.

A modular seal adapts to promotions, solo and multi passes are simplified and more vibrant, and messaging now highlights the passport’s benefits more clearly.

"Not only are you creative, you are brilliant. You perfectly understood our needs and challenges, and approached who we are with great sensitivity and intelligence."

— Julie Jodoin, director, Espace pour la vie

"You are truly attentive to our needs, and the collaboration is seamless and easy. I would recommend you without hesitation."

— Caroline Guay, marketing manager, Espace pour la vie