arriving at

concrescence

Concrescence Design Inc.

our work

Portfolio item: Child Health Policy Centre at Simon Fraser University
child health policy centre
Portfolio item: homesure
home sure
Portfolio item: Aldershot Landscape Contractors
aldershot landscape contractors
Portfolio item: R.W. Penson Financial
r. w. penson financial
Portfolio item: J. Holmes Landscape Services
j holmes landscape services

about us

Good Design, Good Business

Our clients understand the competitive edge creative thinking and accessible design give them in the marketplace. Our clients demand beautiful, functional websites which produce results and meet AODA and Web Accessibility Standards.

We specialize in carefully crafted, standards-based, accessible, fast-loading websites. You simply can't get these results from a WordPress theme or online builder. Our websites out-perform to naturally rank higher in search, load faster and reach the widest or most targeted audience possible.

From a business-validating starter web site to custom design, we have the right solution for your business.

Creative Concrescence

With each new like, share and post the web expands in into a new form, only to be replaced in the next moment.

Always growing, our digital world demands we fight for attention in an overwhelming wave of data.

Your story must be clear and straightforward to grab your audience. Your website must be fast, accessible and SEO friendly for your message to even have a chance.

team lead

Photo of Craig Hermanson

Craig Hermanson
Creative Director

Craig Hermanson Designer/Developer/Coder

A registered graphic designer and educator, Craig graduated from York University’s respected design program in 1993 and never quit learning.

Adept at translating “Techno-Babble” into “plain-old-English” Craig quickly took his design skills to the emerging world wide web. Working with marketers and clients across North America he helped many advertising agencies, businesses, and not-for-profits launch their first website.

Through Concrescence Design, Craig helps clients expand their reach through engaging and accessible websites to meet legal obligations, delight audiences, load quickly and sweet-talk search engines.

More than simply adding beauty, Craig solves client problems by reframing the questions, applying design thinking and refining the solution.

Associate developers, designers and copywriters are brought on to each project as required.

how we got here

605

Projects

22

Years

8

Computers

1

Client at a time

our services

Web Design

Web designs which look equally great on your phone or your computer. Each project is coded with speed, search and compatibility in mind.

Content Marketing

Developing a strategy and marketing through social media and scheduled web updates are key to promoting your business and climbing to page one on Google.

Print

Our focus is digital, but our background is print design and branding. We work with clients to ensure a consistent message across media.

Accessibility

Web accessibility makes your message available to more people and improves search. For larger organizations, it is also required by law.

Our Process

  • Discover

    We ask questions, examine your business, check out the competition and learn everything we can!

  • Planning

    We plan out your website architecture, develop a strategy and source content.

  • Sketch

    We sketch out our ideas and share with you our design ideas.

  • Prototype

    We start coding real web pages with dummy content.

  • Iterate

    We iterate and refine our ideas as we start to add more content and finalize draft pages.

  • Develop

    We combine the sourced photos, illustrations and text into the final pages.

  • I don’t know who discovered water, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a fish.

    Marshall McLuhan

  • The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

    Charles Eames

  • Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

    Steve Jobs

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