Rick Cartledge

Communication designer, marketing specialist, writer, project manager.

Experience, environmental graphic design, signage, identity, brand effects, other.

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32 Aspasias Bulv

Symbol design for small boutique hotel whose name is its civic address on beautiful tree-lined Aspazias Boulevard, in Riga, Latvia.

Ocean Forum conference literature

Visual identity for delegation to international conference on sustainable developmemnt of oceans.

Burnside Industrial Park

Signage system design for 2,500 acre industrial park with adjacent suburban office park and tech-industry concourse. Signage scope included conceptual design, contract documents, coordination and inspection. Communications scope: visual identity, marketing themes, advertising and collateral materials.

Joining Heaven and Earth

Design event poster

Joining Heaven and Earth

Design of event symbol and visual identity, direct mail collateral materials for Buddhist event using traditional symbology and contemporary visual treatment.

Burnside Industrial Park

Signage system design for 2,500 acre industrial park with adjacent suburban office park and tech-industry concourse. Design of signage system for 2,500 acre industrial park with adjacent suburban office park and tech-industry concourse. Signage scope included conceptual design, contract documents, coordination and inspection. Communications scope: visual identity, marketing themes, advertising and collateral materials.

Purdy's Wharf Office towers

symbol design, visual identity, signage design, marketing communications, advertising, from project inception.

Purdy's Wharf office towers

Interior signage design for the million sq/ft project.

Five Island Lake Provincial Park ecology interpretation signage

Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia

Waterfront Development Corporation

Design, writing, contract management, Halifax Harbour boardwalk interpretation signage

Halifax Harbour Boardwalk Interpretive Signage

Signage design, writing, environmental graphic design, tender documents, deficiency control of fabrication and installation.

Summit Park signage design

Summit Park signage design

form without content.

Personal interest in non-signifying text with form and colour.

ScotPine Office Park

Suburban office park, natural setting with lake, walking trails, quick access to highway

afternoon at Bonsor with light pouring in

Photography - Personal interrest in photography, light pictures.

Refurbishment Halifax Shopping Centre

Environmental graphic design, Halifax Shopping Centre, flagship Halifax destination, Bramalea Properties. Signage design, environmental graphic design, tender documents, deficiency inspection.

Neptune Theater poster

Poster design for Master Builder performance.

CIMI Consortium. Organization of museum intelligence

Symbol design, visual identity, print collateral, web design story-boards, positioning line and writing.

CIMI Consortium. Organization of museum intelligence

Website story boards: design treatment for members forum.

Neptune Theater poster design

What the butler saw apparently involved some nudity.

CIMI Consortium. Organization of museum intelligence

Website story boards: design treatment for members forum.

CIMI Consortium. Organization of museum intelligence

Symbol design, visual identity, print collateral, web design story-boarding, positioning theme, design and writing corporate literature that targeted directors of world museums.

Halifax Shipyards

Halifax Shipyards: symbol design and visual identity, vehicle livery, marketing material for panamax floating dry-dock

Quinpool Centre, mid-town retail - residential project.

Site signage, visual identity, environmental design, retail concourse banners and furniture.

Font is dead

Home page for typo-graphic designer.

Travel Information Points - Tourism Nova Scotia

Interpretation of five Nova Scotia tourist regions through maps, history and culture, amenities, attractions, events.

architect: John MacLennan
signage design: Rick Cartledge

Math Resources

Visual identity for math-learning company - story-boards for web site, packaging design for math-learning CD product, trade show booth, print advertising in math journals.

Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Ferry Terminals

Design of signage system targeting foot traffic, Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Ferry terminals.

architect: Henn Sousar
signage design: Rick Cartledge

Purdy's Wharf office towers,/p>

Design and writing: Purdy's Wharf, Phase I, leasing collateral materials, outside front cover

Purdy's Wharf office towers

Writing and design of leasing materials, site signage, symbol design.

Purdy's Wharf office towers

Writing and design of leasing materials, site signage, symbol design.

Purdy's Wharf office towers

Purdy's Wharf is a state of the art "smart" building retrofitted with T1 internet pipe.

Purdy's Wharf office towers

Purdy's Wharf HVAC system circulates empirically cleaner air and is highly maintained and monitored. The air tests up to the highest rating.

Fresh Air, fresh people. Conversely, not so good.

Global Marine Products Ltd.

Symbol design for long-line trawling equipment manufacturer, marketing and trade show collateral materials

Dedication

With humility I dedicate the merit of my design practise, if any, to the teachers and instructors, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; Horst Deppe, Gerhard Dorrie, Ludwig Scharfe, Hanno Ehses, Tony Mann, Frank Fox, John Asimakos, Garry Neill Kennedy. May you have happiness and its causes. To Isaac Robin, John Lindsay, Jr. and Sr., I have only gratitude for the chance to work with good people, thank you.