Meade Design Group’s Principal Designer Ivan Meade is on the cover of City Life magazine, the #1 magazine in his hometown of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Ivan talks about the process of creating his eponymous fabric line “Ivan Meade – A Personal Narrative in Fabrics“, and how each piece was inspired by a different part of his life growing up in San Luis Potosi. For example, the pattern Vista Hermosa was inspired by the pattern on the floor of his grandparents’ home.
65 years young and third generation family business, Tidman Construction was in need of an updated website. We made use of a CMS via WordPress which makes real-time updates super easy for their staff. With these great new features, we have also made the website responsive, meaning that it looks just as great on smart phones, tablets and small screens as it does on larger screens.
Tidman construction wanted something that would reflect the timeless quality of their work. The design is clean yet classic and very easy to navigate with subtle branding throughout.
Another recently completed interior design project, this design was inspired by the waterfront that the home was situated on – a very coastal interior design style. Using tones reminiscent of the beach – greys, blues and sandy taupes, and textures with sheen (mimicking the ocean), matte (driftwood) and a rough hand (sand) offset with modern lines and crisp blacks to reflect the homes modern architecture.
The West Coast space was also designed around accommodating the couple’s two large dogs and an active social life.
Here’s what the clients had to say about working with Meade Design Group:
“Hiring a designer to completely transform our home was a big decision; ultimately an act of trust. The Meade Design Group never let us down. The vision, plan and execution were flawless and efficient, the materials elegant and reflective of our taste. But it was the relationship with the whole team that made the result amazing. We always felt heard and it became a shared creative experience. Our home is now a perfect extension of its beautiful west coast setting.
There is not a day that goes by that we are not grateful for what Ivan, Echo and their team have done for us.”
We are very excited to share one of our recently completed interior design projects, for clients with traditional design tastes in a modern building. The clients were downsizing and moving from out-of-province to Victoria BC. The result: a transitional design scheme (including custom millwork) in a neutral palette with steel-blue and golden accents.
Here’s what the clients had to say about working with Meade Design Group:
“After moving from a large house and selling all our furniture, the prospect of how to make our small condo, with its challenging room configurations an elegant but comfortable new home seemed a daunting task. Fortunately for us, a friend recommended Meade Design and we decided to start with the living/dining room and an office. Working with Meade Design was a true pleasure and eye-opening experience as to how gifted, innovative interior designers conceptualize and put together living spaces. Any time there were setbacks (and, inevitably, on any project there are a few), Ivan and Echo went above and beyond expectations to rectify problems and keep things on track. We could not be happier with the end result. The office space is both beautiful and functional and the living/dining room is everything we hoped for and much more. We are so pleased with this project that we have embarked on a new one to design our bedroom. We can’t wait to see the finished results!”
The team here at MEADE DESIGN GROUP want to wish everyone and their families a very happy holidays and all the best in 2015!
We hope you enjoy our extra special video message below!
And don’t forget – the MEADE DESIGN GROUP studio will be closed for the holidays from December 22nd, 2014 through to January 2nd, 2015. We will reopen during regular business hours on Monday, January 5th, 2015.
If you’re up on the buzz, the hottest thing going on in Victoria’s design scene certainly seems to be Meade Design Group’s Principal Designer newest venture, the Ivan Meade fabric line! MHV (Modern Home Victoria) wanted to get the inside scoop and interviewed the man behind the Ivan Meade fabric line himself. Check it out at: modernhomevictoria.com We hope you enjoy it as well!
Modern Home Victoria is a new local directory and online magazine in Victoria BC that showcases what is new and exciting in our industry. If you have not seen it yet; you are definitely missing out on a great source of information and inspiration.
We also want to extend our gratitude to Mr. Jody Beck for all the hard work he put into making this entry.
Fall is a time for change and renewal, and we have most certainly had some of that in the air here at Meade Design Group…
We’ve got some big announcements, beautiful eye candy and lots of internal movement to share with you – 2014 has been quite the year for us! We’ve been working really hard on these launches for some time now, and can’t believe the time is finally here for us to share them with you!
As always, we look forward to your feedback – so feel free to get social with our newsletter!
Well, we really pushed ourselves to the limits with our most recent site launches! but we are so happy we did it and proud of what we have accomplished. All three sites are now completely responsive and use CMS, not to mention, they have a very cohesive appeal for maximum brand recognition.
We focused on getting as much information as we could on the new Meade Design Group site, including extensive portfolios for the interior and graphic design galleries with more specific descriptions. The images throughout are also much larger so you can really see the beautiful design details (and people!) in them.
For IvanMeade.com, we wanted a high-end branded appeal, but also needed to maintain the functionality of the e-commerce portions of the site. We applied some of the basic design elements used on MeadeDesignGroup.com, but added colours from the line into the site’s theme in addition to focusing on key images used in the line’s advertising and branded elements.
Lastly, our revamped blog, LifeMStyle.com, was created to be interactive, fun and more user-friendly than our old format.
Everything is new, bolder, and clean. We hope you like it!
We are very honoured and excited to see this awesome post about our multidisciplinary studio by MHV (Modern Home Victoria). Check it out for yourself at: modernhomevictoria.com We hope you enjoy it as well!
Modern Home Victoria is a new local directory and online magazine in Victoria BC that showcases what is new and exciting in our industry. If you have not seen it yet; you are definitely missing out on a great source of information and inspiration.
We also want to extend our gratitude to Mr. Jody Beck for all the hard work he put into making this entry. It was really cool to hang out with you and we loved all of the photos and flattering compliments throughout the article!
Take a peek at The Avenue Gallery’s new look at: theavenuegallery.com courtesy of Meade Design Group!
We updated one of Victoria BC’s best art galleries with a new site which makes updating (thanks to CMS via WordPress) and online purchasing (e-commerce) a breeze. With these great new features, we have also made the website responsive, meaning that it looks just as great on smart phones, tablets and small screens as it does on larger screens.
The new look is subtle and clean. The greyscale palette allows all of the artwork to pop while maintaining an unobtrusive and contemporary aesthetic.
We are excited to enable The Avenue Gallery to extend their reach beyond Oak Bay Avenue to the rest of BC, Canada, and indeed the world wide web.
April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month, and as many of our clients and colleagues know, our principal, Ivan Meade was diagnosed with stage III-B testicular cancer in the summer of 2011 at the age of 37. His prognosis is much better now, but he is still fighting the battle against testicular cancer.
During his treatment, although there were many sources of information on Cancer available, he struggled to find information on his particular condition. He was also shocked to hear that none of his peers were educated about regular checkup procedures to prevent this from happening to them.
In an effort to put a positive spin on his experience, and use the resources at our disposal (the graphic and web design side of Meade Design Group) Meade Design Group is pleased to be partnering with Testicular Cancer Canada, encouraging men to give themselves regular checkups, and spread the word about this disease. Learn more about the campaign at: www.savethosenuts.com
Spring has sprung and we are busy bees here at Meade Design Group studio!
We’ve got big new projects on the go that we can’t wait to share with you – in both interiors and graphics. They’re all in the works right now, but by next newsletter we should have some gorgeous imagery to include! We have a few recently completed projects we will be including on our website soon, but for now, we have a different kind of big reveal we want to promote – we’ve been working very hard for a few years now and are ready to launch a very special project with you which you can learn more about below.
As always, we look forward to your feedback – so feel free to get social with our newsletter!
The team here at MEADE DESIGN GROUP want to wish everyone and their families a very happy holidays and all the best in the new year!
We hope you enjoy our extra special video message:
And don’t forget – the MEADE DESIGN GROUP studio will be closed for the holidays from December 21st, 2013 through to January 5th, 2014. We will reopen during regular business hours on Monday, January 6th, 2014.
Lucky number seven has arrived! It’s been a terrific last couple of months filled with travel, new partnerships and clients, and even new members of our team.
As always, we’ve got lots to share with you – we look forward to your feedback!
Our new MailChimp format for The MDG Times is exciting and allows us to easily share on our social media, keeping our readers up to date on all fronts! We hope you like our newest look.
As always, we’ve got lots to share with you – we look forward to your feedback!
We love working with our repeat clients at The Village Restaurant, and were thrilled to take on Village #2 in Royal Oak!
It was a wonderful opportunity for us to be able to reinterpret our design elements from the Estevan location to suit this new space’s needs and introduce the new secondary logo.
We re-used many materials and fixtures for consistency, but also added in new unique features, such as the private dining and waiting spaces and lots of mirror to reflect as much light as possible. We were also able to introduce banquette style-seating to maximize the floor space.
Stay tuned to see this new village added to our portfolio with a full gallery in both the interiors and graphics sections of our website!
Meade Design Group’s very first wedding and we’ve already had it published!!! WE and out clients are honoured to have been featured as one of top bridal inspiration magazine Wedding Bells’ ‘Real Weddings’ on their website.
The wedding vision included an air of vintage charm which was introduced throughout in such elements as the bride’s birdcage veil and the invitations, in addition to the mismatched collection of antique china used in the place settings atop custom lace tablecloths.
This elegant affair was held at Victoria b.c.’s historic Hatley castle. The grounds are known for the peacocks that roam freely, and they quickly became the inspiration for the lively colour scheme and stationery which even included real peacock feathers.
Some of our favourite clients, the owners of the Village, asked us to help them create a secondary logo for their branding. They wanted something with no text that really spoke to the personality of the restaurant.
We opted to maintain the distressed look of the primary logo and map designs, as well as the vibrant burnt orange to keep a strong connection. A popular framed photograph of the owner’s bulldog in the restaurant quickly became a source of inspiration. But how do we make the leap from bulldog to breakfast you ask? Well obviously, the dog is hungry for their delicious benny’s too – and with the addition of a spoon in the dog’s mouth and bold patterns to create focus, a secondary logo was born.
You will see this graphic used more prominently in the new Village we are working on in Royal Oak, and the Village team already loves it so much that they are using it in all new graphics and their social media!
Vic 42 is a local website that celebrates the unique and interesting people in Victoria – our pricipal, Ivan Meade, was invited to be part of their collection of personalities. He was very honoured to be selected and to share virtual space with some of the most influential people in our own community.
Ivan has always said that Victoria has great talent and that we should embrace it – Now we have an opportunity to discover our locals thanks to VIC 42.
Teresa Lindsay & Al Smith are the geniuses behind the VIC 42 concept. A very innovative and progressive platform to showcase talent.
We highly recommend our followers to check out the site for themselves at: http://www.vic42.com!
7070 Design Headquarters is a new studio that has just launched in Calgary, Alberta. It is a place designers can go to use the resource library, hold meetings, and even rent out office space. A shared work space for Calgary’s design community.
We were approached for our graphic design services by seventyseventy who were looking for something classic and sophisticated – yet adaptable, allowing designers with their own identities to fit right in. We went with a typographical solution that has an understated detail with the seemingly handwritten font – the final line entices your eye to follow it throughout the e-brochure, business card and website. The elegantly versatile aesthetic was carried through with an colour scheme of black, white and gold.
We just launched the seventyseventy website, check it out today at http://7070.ca to see what 7070 has to offer.
News and Events is a mini-blog filled with the latest goings-on at Meade Design Group. Concise posts about the most recent media features, project launches and an archive of the popular newsletter, The MDG Times.
Meade Design Group’s Principal Designer Ivan Meade is on the cover of City Life magazine, the #1 magazine in his hometown of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Ivan talks about the process of creating his eponymous fabric line “Ivan Meade – A Personal Narrative in Fabrics“, and how each piece was inspired by a different part of his life growing up in San Luis Potosi. For example, the pattern Vista Hermosa was inspired by the pattern on the floor of his grandparents’ home.
Take a peek at Tidman Construction’s new online look at: 
We are very honoured and excited to see this awesome post about our multidisciplinary studio by MHV (Modern Home Victoria). Check it out for yourself at: 
Take a peek at The Avenue Gallery’s new look at: 
April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month, and as many of our clients and colleagues know, our principal, Ivan Meade was diagnosed with stage III-B testicular cancer in the summer of 2011 at the age of 37. His prognosis is much better now, but he is still fighting the battle against testicular cancer.
Spring has sprung and we are busy bees here at Meade Design Group studio!
Lucky number seven has arrived! It’s been a terrific last couple of months filled with travel, new partnerships and clients, and even new members of our team.
Our new MailChimp format for The MDG Times is exciting and allows us to easily share on our social media, keeping our readers up to date on all fronts! We hope you like our newest look.
We love working with our repeat clients at The Village Restaurant, and were thrilled to take on Village #2 in Royal Oak!
Meade Design Group’s very first wedding and we’ve already had it published!!! WE and out clients are honoured to have been featured as one of top bridal inspiration magazine Wedding Bells’ ‘Real Weddings’ on their website.
Some of our favourite clients, the owners of the Village, asked us to help them create a secondary logo for their branding. They wanted something with no text that really spoke to the personality of the restaurant.
Vic 42 is a local website that celebrates the unique and interesting people in Victoria – our pricipal, Ivan Meade, was invited to be part of their collection of personalities. He was very honoured to be selected and to share virtual space with some of the most influential people in our own community.
7070 Design Headquarters is a new studio that has just launched in Calgary, Alberta. It is a place designers can go to use the resource library, hold meetings, and even rent out office space. A shared work space for Calgary’s design community.