Design thinking at any scale
I bring creativity, clarity and intelligence to branding and business cards, social posts and postcards, 16-pixel icons and 16-foot wall displays. I am adept at creating eye-catching design across all media, with particular expertise in print.
Partners in doing good
You are making the world a better place — through culture, social change or science. I distill big-picture concepts into deliciously digestible words and images. Let’s talk about working together. And making your message heard.
”We’re thrilled with the stylish, crisp and fresh design on our new brochure. Lind’s collaborative approach and quick response throughout the design development process was much appreciated. And his talent as a wordsmith is an added bonus — always on the mark!” — Ella Pauls, River Run Centre
”We’re thrilled with the stylish, crisp and fresh design on our new brochure. Lind’s collaborative approach and quick response throughout the design development process was much appreciated. And his talent as a wordsmith is an added bonus — always on the mark!”
— Ella Pauls, River Run Centre
”We’re thrilled with the stylish, crisp and fresh design on our new brochure. Lind’s collaborative approach and quick response throughout the design development process was much appreciated. And his talent as a wordsmith is an added bonus — always on the mark!”
— Ella Pauls, River Run Centre
Recent Work
About Gareth Lind RGD
I apprenticed at Bakersmith Graphics in Toronto in the late 80s, then art directed Metropolis, a Toronto alternative weekly. In 1993, after a few years working at a design firm in Germany, I moved to Guelph, Ontario, where I still live and work. I was accredited as a Registered Graphic Designer (RGD) in 1996.
A self-taught cartoonist, I have published in Eye Weekly, This Magazine, Alternatives Journal and yahoo.ca.
Gareth Lind apprenticed at Bakersmith Graphics in Toronto in the late 80s, then art directed Metropolis, a Toronto alternative weekly. In 1993, after a few years working at a design firm in Germany, he moved to Guelph, Ontario, where he still lives and works. Lind was accredited as a Registered Graphic Designer (RGD) in 1996.
A self-taught cartoonist, Lind has published in Eye Weekly, This Magazine, Alternatives Journal and yahoo.ca.
I specialize in design for public and cultural institutions, book publishers, social change groups and small businesses. Clients have included:
- World Wide Fund for Nature
- Firefly Books
- University of Guelph
- River Run Centre
- Hillside Festival
- Art Gallery of Guelph
- Planet Bean Coffee
Associates
Projects with a wide scope or tight timelines may need more hands on deck. I work with friends in the flourishing Guelph creative community to provide a wide range of services and quick turnarounds.
Trina Koster Photography
Everyone takes pictures. But Trina Koster makes art from life. She distills the mood of an event, the essence of a person, the form of a product — all with intelligent staging and life-of-the-party direction.
Barking Dog Studios
Barking Dog Studios merges design and technology to create engaging, accessible and usable internet projects with full CMS. A common thread in their work is inspiring people to interact for positive change.
Designers of Guelph
In 2008, I reached out to a few other local designers to meet for drinks and talk shop. Now comprising more than 40 designers, illustrators and photographers, the DoGs have helped coalesce Guelph’s design community, with monthly meetings and a public presence advocating against spec work. Members share tips and resources and sometimes collaborate across styles and disciplines.
Lind Design is on Indigenous land.
I live and work on land that is now called Guelph. Archaeological evidence shows that Indigenous Peoples were present here as early as 11,000 years ago. Until the 15th century, the Attawandaron people lived, farmed and hunted here. In 1690, the Mississauga peoples entered the area. They were members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which sided with Britain against the American colonists in the War of Independence (1775–1783). After the war, they were among 80,000 Loyalist refugees, 3,500 Black Loyalists (both free and enslaved people), and 2,000 Indigenous allies who fled the U.S. for Canada.
In compensation for their alliance, Sir Frederick Haldimand, governor of Quebec, signed the Haldimand Proclamation in 1784. It granted a tract of land to the Haudenosaunee, along the Grand River: six miles deep on either side, from source to mouth. The arrangement was affirmed in the Between the Lakes Treaty No. 3 of 1792, a land-sharing agreement between Britain and the Mississaugas of the Credit. (Guelph is one of six present-day municipalities on land described in the Between the Lakes Treaty.)
Despite these treaties, British bureaucrats were enlisted to settle as many people as possible on what were considered “empty” or “fallow” lands. Many Indigenous People call Guelph home today. (Courtesy Guelph Museums)
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