Experience

Viva & Co.

• Canada
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner / Creative Director

  • Jun 2008 - Present

  Viva & Co. is a branding and design agency. We are fanatically loyal to our clients, employees and suppliers. We are experts in new media (Custom CMS sites, WordPress, Indexibit, blogs and e-commerce), identity systems, print, writing, packaging and illustration. After getting to know us, our clients often ask us to help out with marketing and advertising, including micro-sites, social media initiatives, viral marketing campaigns, direct mail, print ads, POP and trade communications. Indeed, we are often asked to help map out and coordinate annual marketing plans. Some of our clients are category leaders, including New York Life, Le Creuset, All-Clad, Krups, Butterfield & Robinson, The New Yorker magazine and George Weston Limited. Others are tiny start-ups, non-profits and good causes. We don’t market ourselves as luxury experts, but companies with products and services that cater to an affluent audience keep coming back – some for over 14 years. Whatever the demographic, we are really good at helping to uncover what makes an organization unique and then finding an original and appropriate way to consistently express that difference to an audience we make it our business to understand. Recent Viva & Co. awards include Communication Arts, New York Type Directors Club (TDC), ADCC, Applied Arts and others. Show less



Whigby

• Co-founder

  • Jan 2008 - Present

  Whigby Inc. designs, manufactures and markets stationery products that can be found in over 500 retail outlets. Chains that carry Whigby include West Elm (Williams-Sonoma), Urban Outfitters (UK), Kate’s Paperie, Paper Source, Paperchase, and Selfridges (UK). Museum stores that carry Whigby include MoCA, the American Folk Art Museum, The Neuberger Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts & Design. Whigby products can also be found in many independent stationery stores, bookshops, gift stores, flower shops and bakeries including Lundeens, Flax, The Powerhouse Arena and Posman Books. Whigby is represented by the Lynn Mitchell Group in Los Angeles (covering Southern California) and Sharon Smiley & Co. (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire). Whigby's maxim and tagline: "Perfectly Odd." Show less



Viva Dolan Communications and Design

• Designer

  • 2002 - 2008