We design
big stories

Big stories are brave, imaginative, and guiding. They help you stand out, discover new creative territory, and generate meaningful action.

Big stories are brave, imaginative, and guiding. They help you stand out, discover new creative territory, and generate meaningful action.

Big stories are brave, imaginative, and guiding. They help you stand out, discover new creative territory, and generate meaningful action.

Frontier is a design office that believes in the expansive potential of storytelling to help people get somewhere new. We design the strategies, brand identities, and experiences that make big stories real.

For a decade, people have come to us because we’re experts at drawing together diverse perspectives into something unified and resonant. Generating ideas, building consensus, setting direction: we accelerate this work by listening closely and bringing to bear new tools and methods of understanding and shaping what’s next. We draw from diverse realms—like contemporary art, purpose design, playful speculation, and radical technologies—to help organizations and their people understand the edges and make progress that matters.

For a decade, people have come to us because we’re experts at drawing together diverse perspectives into something unified and resonant. Generating ideas, building consensus, setting direction: we accelerate this work by listening closely and bringing to bear new tools and methods of understanding and shaping what’s next. We draw from diverse realms—like contemporary art, purpose design, playful speculation, and radical technologies—to help organizations and their people understand the edges and make progress that matters.

For a decade, people have come to us because we’re experts at drawing together diverse perspectives into something unified and resonant. Generating ideas, building consensus, setting direction: we accelerate this work by listening closely and bringing to bear new tools and methods of understanding and shaping what’s next. We draw from diverse realms—like contemporary art, purpose design, playful speculation, and radical technologies—to help organizations and their people understand the edges and make progress that matters.

Select Clients

Select Clients

Select Clients

Art Gallery of Ontario

ArtsHelp

ATB Ventures

Azure

Canadian National Exhibition

Design Exchange

Diamond Schmitt Architects

Dream

Electronic Arts

EllisDon

Fogo Island Inn

Government of Ontario

Giannone Petricone Associates

Honnold Foundation

Interior Design Show

Kilmer Group

KPMB

National Arts Centre

Sacramento Kings

The Bentway

Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Botanical Garden

University of Toronto

TIFF

Unilever

United Way

Woodgreen Foundation

YouTube

This pluralistic approach to purposeful branding leads to genuinely inspiring and strategic stories that we turn into momentum-building brand identities, exhibitions, websites, campaigns, books, and videos.

This pluralistic approach to purposeful branding leads to genuinely inspiring and strategic stories that we turn into momentum-building brand identities, exhibitions, websites, campaigns, books, and videos.

This pluralistic approach to purposeful branding leads to genuinely inspiring and strategic stories that we turn into momentum-building brand identities, exhibitions, websites, campaigns, books, and videos.

Services

Services

Services

Strategy

Facilitation & Engagement

Brand/Marketing Advisory Services

Purpose Metrics

Identity

Positioning

Brand Architecture

Naming

Visual Identity

Experience

Web Design

Video & Motion

Print Design

Wayfinding & Signage

Exhibits & Spatial Experiences

Campaigns

Content

Copywriting

Editing

Art Direction

In addition to design services for partners, our commitment to big stories runs through studio-initiated projects. These include Frontier Magazine, an online publication about new and newly relevant ideas in the arts, technology, and the built environment; Projectory, an experiential learning platform that trains organizations on building future resilience; and Live Magazine, a traveling editorial project.

In addition to design services for partners, our commitment to big stories runs through studio-initiated projects. These include Frontier Magazine, an online publication about new and newly relevant ideas in the arts, technology, and the built environment; Projectory, an experiential learning platform that trains organizations on building future resilience; and Live Magazine, a traveling editorial project.

In addition to design services for partners, our commitment to big stories runs through studio-initiated projects. These include Frontier Magazine, an online publication about new and newly relevant ideas in the arts, technology, and the built environment; Projectory, an experiential learning platform that trains organizations on building future resilience; and Live Magazine, a traveling editorial project.

People

People

People

Paddy Harrington
Founder

Laura Sellors
CEO

Brian Sholis
Editorial Director

Rachel Hilton
Director of Growth

Jessica Leong
Associate Creative Director

Tristan Marantos
Associate Creative Director

Lisa Qin
Senior Designer

Paul Twa
Designer

Cecilia Salcedo
Designer

Rhiann Moore
Studio Coordinator

Contact

Contact

Contact

General Inquiries

hello@frontier.is

General Inquiries
hello@frontier.is

Careers

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Mailing Address

2208 Dundas St West
Toronto, ON
M6R 1X3

Mailing Address
2208 Dundas St West
Toronto, ON
M6R 1X3

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