Dossier Creative

Dossier Creative is a design studio in Vancouver that works on brand creation and innovation for entrepreneurial and consumer product businesses. Its founders come from finance and design, and the studio uses design-thinking methods, starting each project by studying the people a brand needs to reach before ideas are drawn up and refined.

What Dossier Creative offers

• Brand creation — building new brands, including storytelling and messaging.
• Naming — developing names for companies, products and ventures.
• Innovation consulting — work on products, processes, services, customer experience and organisation structure.
• Branded environments — turning a brand into physical spaces for retail settings and trade shows.
• Marketing and launch support — sales and marketing direction, audits and research, new product development, rollout and procurement management.

Who it works with

The studio works with entrepreneurial partners across food and health products, and wine, beer and other beverages. Named projects span See Ya Later Wines, the United Republic of Wine brand and the wealth manager RGF. It also invests its own creative time as a partner in some new businesses and social enterprises.

Key facts

• Based in: Vancouver, Canada
• Founders: backgrounds in finance and design
• Internships: a programme that places design and business students together on client projects