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Collection N°1
Engaging storytelling
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Cheekbone beauty
Helping right the story
The Anishinaabe worldview dictates that we are not separate from the earth. Beauty brand Cheekbone extends those cultural teachings into their business and set out to reclaim the ways Indigenous peoples are represented.
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Hyundai & United Nations Development Programme
Working for a better tomorrow
A global partnership between Sid Lee, Hyundai, and the United Nations Development Programme, For Tomorrow elevates community-based innovation and sustainability solutions. See how.
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FAST COMPANY WCI
Standing out at the World Changing Ideas Awards
We’re honoured to be recognized for a second year in a row at Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards for our work on Build the Vote and For Tomorrow.
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MAPLE LEAF FOODS
Flipping colour conventions for climate change
For Maple Leaf Foods, we launched six unconventional crayon colours as a way to educate families about the real cost of climate change in Canada. From Freshwater Brown to Forest Black, explore this carbon-zero initiative.
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Protect Our Winters Canada
Shutting down climate change deniers
We partnered with Protect Our Winters Canada, Canadian universities, and scientific experts to set the record straight—and bury climate change deniers in a Twitter fact avalanche.
Collection N°2
Cultivating belonging
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Sid Lee
Engaging brands and communities
We made it our mission to question the meaning of community, and, more importantly, to figure out how brands can harness its incredible power.
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Sid Lee
From metaverse to IRL
Want young generations to vote? Convince them on Minecraft. That’s what we did for this partnership with Rock the Vote, a non-partisan nonprofit looking to meet and educate first-time and future voters.
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Sid Lee
Insights from our annual data trawl
Every year we nerd out on data and use the Sid Lee Belong Quotient to measure how well brands attach to communities. See how some top brands ranked.
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Tik Tok
Doing TikTok’s social
TikTok knows how to TikTok, but they were in a (ranch) pickle when it came to other social platforms. Here’s how we helped them trend.
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IGA
Gathering over food
Our work for Canadian grocery chain IGA is centred on 1) the brand’s role as a community hub, and 2) on food’s uncanny ability to bring people together. Two of our favourite things.
Collection N°3
Portraits of our people
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Sid Lee
Isabelle Allard takes design beyond beauty
Sid Lee Creative Director Isabelle Allard takes pleasure in reinvention and becoming an expert in net-new subject matter on every project. Her motto: dive in and get inspired.
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Sid Lee
Jenn Harper on creating what matters
The essence of Cheekbone Beauty—and of Jenn Harper, the brand’s founder—is a commitment to true authenticity. We asked her honestly: what was it like, working with us?
INTROVERTED, QUEER, BADASS
From managing iconic bands in Toronto to finding her voice in a new language, Krissi Campbell lights up whatever space she enters. Read her story in Clio’s Reinventions column here.
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SID LEE
FROM KINSHASA WITH LOVE
Our 3PM series welcomes local rising artists for a song and a snack. Our latest, Pierre Kwenders.
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Sid Lee
Sasha Velour’s art, and transgression
Drag legend Sasha Velour shares her behind-the-scenes perspective on her creative industry. Read some of the highlights from our magical voyage into all things Velour.
Collection N°4
Design-forward projects
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CN
Celebrating the brand that built a continent
We rediscovered our routes to turn CN’s centennial into a moving celebration that honoured the railway.
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Sid Lee
Boosting digital retail access
Retail is now online, but what about communities that don’t have easy access? This round-table discussion explores new solves for the limitations of virtual reach.
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Maison Mère
From empty convent to collaborative hub
Maison Mère, an iconic defunct convent, found new life as a space for innovation and creativity that celebrates and builds on the past.
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Color Canabis
High-flying colours
Color Cannabis is more than just a recreational brand of cannabis by WeedMD—it exists to inspire people to be open to the world and all its beauty.
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Ivanhoé cambridge - Espace C2
Montreal’s beacon of creativity
Overlooking downtown Montreal, the 21st floor of the revamped Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel mixes modernity and tradition by creating a unique conference haven, branded C2.
Collection N°5
Spotlight on: Tennis Canada
All 5 senses
The 2022 National Bank Open celebrates how it feels to return to the court.
What makes a trophy?
The story of a struggle and the truth of a champion. See the Trophy we designed for the National Bank Open here.
Time for a break
The Time Out project is a first-of-its-kind initiative advocating for the wellbeing of professional tennis athletes.
Girls. Set. Match.
Women make up 40% of the world’s athletes but receive only 4% of sports media coverage. Here’s how Tennis Canada responded to this statistic.
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