Discover public art in Calgary!
The Calgary Public Art Guide is a free digital resource that invites people to explore a growing number of artworks across the city. The guide connects people to artworks, artist stories and community contexts, making public art more accessible than ever.
Explore Calgary’s public art and submit your own discoveries at calgarypublicartguide.com.
#yycArts #yycPublicArt
Even for a born and raised Calgarian deeply rooted in the arts, Adora Nwofor is still surprised by how Calgary is booming in a way that it hasn’t before. She’s seeing places with new eyes, getting fresh ideas about things. There’s a different feeling in the communities. A feeling that we’re a global city who can do anything - and we’re doing it.
That’s exactly why we created the new Public Art Guide, which is designed to help Calgarians tap into that energy. A living digital map that turns the entire city into a museum, connecting you to the layered, diverse places and stories that define Calgary.
See the Public Art Guide story and explore the guide yourself at our link in bio! 🤳🧭
Living a Creative Life isn’t just a series, it’s a love letter to the thousands of Calgarians turning everyday life into art.
Each episode pulls you inside the minds and studios of creators whose work will leave you rethinking what’s possible.
A film by @sansfuccs
Public Art Guide contributing partners: @cityofcalgary , @yycbump and @calgarymlc
Adora Nwofor isn’t just looking at public art. She’s climbing into it, sitting on it, touching it, letting it reshape how she experiences the city. As she roams Calgary with the new Public Art Guide in hand, she lights up at the pieces built for play and connection. The ones you don’t just observe but join. Suddenly you’re hanging out with antelopes, stumbling onto giant bunnies, or spotting a beaver who looks like he’s mid-thought.
It’s public art that feels alive, an open-air collection that belongs to everyone. 🫶
Now, the entire city becomes a museum you can wander through in real time. Every stop at one of the hundreds of public artworks in this living, evolving archive connects you to the places and stories that define Calgary.
Click the link in bio to get the full story and to check out the art guide! 🧭
Living a Creative Life isn’t just a series, it’s a love letter to the thousands of Calgarians turning everyday life into art.
Each episode pulls you inside the minds and studios of creators whose work will leave you rethinking what’s possible.
A film by @sansfuccs
Calgary has always been a city shaped by what happens outside the gallery walls. Murals, monuments, sculptures and installations have quietly woven their way through its streets, forming an open-air collection that belongs to everyone.
Now, we’re launching our first ever Public Art Guide, a digital map that turns the entire city into a museum. Built in collaboration with @builtbyfield , the guide brings hundreds of public artworks into one living, evolving archive, a tool that connects people to the places and stories that define Calgary.
In this powerful new Living a Creative Life episode, we speak with the team behind the public art map and hit the road to experience the city through its art.
What emerges is a portrait of a place in motion: layered, diverse and full of memory.
Watch the full episode and check out the guide at our link in bio. 📍🧭
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Living a Creative Life isn’t just a series, it’s a love letter to the thousands of Calgarians turning everyday life into art.
Each episode pulls you inside the minds and studios of creators whose work will leave you rethinking what’s possible.
A film by @sansfuccs 🎥
Did you know Calgary now has a new way to explore its creative side? 🎨
The Calgary Public Art Guide is an interactive digital map that highlights the murals, sculptures, installations, and community projects bringing life to our city’s public spaces.
Developed by Built by Field for Calgary Arts Development, the guide lets you explore everything from iconic landmarks to hidden neighbourhood gems — complete with artist bios, photos, and self-guided tours.
It’s more than a map — it’s a growing archive of creativity shaped by the people and stories that make Calgary unique.
Discover it now and see the city through a more colourful lens. 🌆✨
#CalgaryDesign #PublicArtYYC #DesignLivesHere #CalgaryArts
Today, we’re proud to unveil with Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (@calgarymlc ) the next chapter for their Culture + Entertainment District Access Map (@cedistrictyyc ). Used by locals and visitors all year long to navigate this vibrant area, the map now offers an enhanced user experience, interactive map, 3D buildings, project information, and tour-like Stories.
At the core of this project is our latest proprietary technology - Sightline - a set of tools, integrations, schema and data management approaches created by our team that enable anyone to manage content in a map-based environment from a user-friendly content management system. Sightline is deeply integrated with Sanity (@sanity.io ) due to its robustness and flexibility, and will be expanding to other content management platforms.
Explore Calgary’s most exciting district like never before! Check out the link in our bio to experience the new map.
We worked with the Alberta Real Estate Foundation (@arefabca ) to update their brand and website to better reflect their impact and work in the province's real estate sector.
We made resources a prominent content pillar of the website as AREF offers lots of helpful information and articles that are useful to Alberta residents, business owners and real estate representatives. The updated site highlights different types of grant offerings by breaking down the information into simplified and more digestible parts.
We loved working with AREF and recommend you checking out their new website and explore their grant offerings and expansive resource library!
Visit them at: https://www.aref.ab.ca/
#edmonton #yeg #yyc #calgary #web #branding
To celebrate Earth Day, we’re sharing an art project we’ve been working on over the past number of years.
Have a special place you’d like a custom print of?
We’re designing a limited run while we test the best ways to get these to more people.
DM for more info.
Supporting a culture of innovation, UCeed represents a significant stride by the @ucalgary towards nurturing and propelling forward the next generation of entrepreneurs and inventors. As a series of investment funds, UCeed bridges the gap between groundbreaking ideas and their realization by providing vital resources: capital, equipment, and expert advisement. These funds, bolstered by the generous backing of philanthropic organizations and individuals, are a testament to the community’s belief in innovation as a cornerstone for future prosperity.
Our collaboration with the University of Calgary aimed to amplify the reach and impact of UCeed, making its benefits known to potential donors and the wider Calgary business community. To achieve this, we meticulously crafted a digital storytelling experience that mirrors the enlightening journey individuals undergo when introduced to UCeed through personal advocacy. This involved breaking down the UCeed proposition into digestible sections and chapters, each tailored to convey part of the UCeed story compellingly and coherently online.
The website is powered by a headless content management system called Prismic. This tool was chosen for its exceptional flexibility and control, allowing the University of Calgary to dynamically manage and update content in response to the evolving landscape of innovation and entrepreneurship. This flexibility ensures that the UCeed narrative remains fresh, relevant, and engaging for all stakeholders.
Through this project, we sought to highlight UCeed’s critical role in the innovation ecosystem, illustrating how it acts as a catalyst for transforming visionary ideas into tangible, impactful realities. The website is a reflection of this mission, designed to inform, inspire, and invite collaboration and support from all corners of the community.
Bringing to life the United Way’s vision for a brighter Calgary, we teamed up with Studio Dialog (@studiodialog ) to spearhead a brand campaign that’s all about igniting change and inspiring action. Our journey involved creative and art direction, copywriting, and scripting - crafting a message that resonates deeply with the heart of our community.
This vibrant campaign, with its colorful shapes and powerful slogan “A Better Tomorrow Starts With You,” was designed to showcase the collective power of our actions.
Displayed across Cineplex theatres, TV, public transit, billboards, YouTube, and more, our work has reached eyes and hearts far and wide, it’s a visual and narrative representation of how together, we can build a more vibrant, educated, and healthy future for all.
A huge shoutout to Studio Dialog for their incredible animation production, making our vision a moving reality.
Client: @unitedway
Creative and Art Direction: @essejmclean , @deeeangelo
Copywriting and Script: @nathan_atnikov
Animation Production: @studiodialog
#UnitedWay #ABetterTomorrow #CommunityImpact #DesignForGood #CreativeDirection #ArtDirection #Copywriting #Animation #CampaignLaunch
Bringing to life the United Way’s vision for a brighter Calgary, we teamed up with Studio Dialog (@studiodialog ) to spearhead a brand campaign that’s all about igniting change and inspiring action. Our journey involved creative and art direction, copywriting, and scripting - crafting a message that resonates deeply with the heart of our community.
This vibrant campaign, with its colorful shapes and powerful slogan “A Better Tomorrow Starts With You,” was designed to showcase the collective power of our actions.
Displayed across Cineplex theatres, TV, public transit, billboards, YouTube, and more, our work has reached eyes and hearts far and wide, it’s a visual and narrative representation of how together, we can build a more vibrant, educated, and healthy future for all.
A huge shoutout to Studio Dialog for their incredible animation production, making our vision a moving reality.
Client: @unitedway
Creative and Art Direction: @essejmclean , @deeeangelo
Copywriting and Script: @nathan_atnikov
Animation Production: @studiodialog
#UnitedWay #ABetterTomorrow #CommunityImpact #DesignForGood #CreativeDirection #ArtDirection #Copywriting #Animation #CampaignLaunch
Milk Jar Candle Co. was born in founder Holly Singer’s kitchen in November, 2016, it answered two of her desires: to bring clean-burning, beautifully smelling candles to the local market, and to be a vehicle for giving back.
We had the pleasure of working alongside Bamff for design and development of Milk Jar Candle Co’s new ecommerce storefront. Bamff’s designs for the site were astoundingly creative and presented us the opportunity to flex our technical and strategy muscle as we integrated the website with a headless content management system (@sanity.io ) for maximal flexibility and @shopify for all things ecommerce.
The website is full of small details that translate into the actual product that will be delivered to you upon purchase. The success of this project is reflected by the consistent brand experience across Milk Jar Candle Co both on and off site, but also the functional, practical success of equipping Milk Jar Candle Co with a performant, editable, and sales-driven website that will further their mission and business.
Client: @milkjarcandleco
Web Design: @bamffstudio
Development: @builtbyfield
#webdesign #headless #ecommerce #shopify #sanity #web #design #development
