Dougal & Co.
Verified on September 25th, 2008
Dougal & Co. is an experienced, award-winning producers of interactive multimedia, video, live events and Web sites.
Dougal & Co. was created in 1988 to fill a need in the corporate communication marketplace — for a company that could provide communication consultation and creative production services without the attendant overheads and bureaucracy of the large agencies.
Dougal & Co. filled that need at the time and continues to do so.
A recent project for the Professional Engineers Ontario and National Engineering Week, included the production and coordination of simultaneous live events at the three science centres in Toronto, Ottawa and Sudbury, a website featuring a live webcast of the Toronto show, a 20 minute video, and several print promotional pieces. The video produced for that event — Fessie and the Kid — won awards in both the Canadian and American corporate television awards and was aired on TVO.
Since 1988, Dougal & Co. has produced
• numerous projects for IBM Canada Ltd.,
• many live awards presentations, including the first Cassies awards, five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, two Promo Awards, two CAPIC Awards, the Billi Awards, and the Marcees Awards.
• the first Canadian Congress of Advertising
• all on-screen visuals produced for major seminars for Mary Kay Cosmetics
After 1992, we developed an interest and expertise in the rapidly developing Internet and interactive computerised multimedia. In 1995, We worked with Grey Canada to start one of the first advertising agency interactive divisions — GreyInteractive and continued to collaborate with them for the next five years.
During that time we continued to produce live events including
• Billies awards at the St. Lawrence Centre
• Cassies Awards Gala presentation at the Harbour Castle Ballroom and
• a new creative launch for the Ministry of Tourism, featuring Al Paladini at the Bassett Theatre
• A Guided Tour of the Near Future,
• The X Show, live game show format
Other interactive projects included
• numerous projects for Ontario Centres of Excellence
• pilot program for the Insurance Institute of Canada
• an interactive CD-ROM training program for therapists using the Guided Self Change process for the Addiction Research Foundation
• an interactive CD-ROM to showcase the winners of the 1995 Applied Arts Annual Awards contest.
• for Grey Canada, the OXYZONE project
The working relationship between Dougal & Co. and GreyInteractive ended in 2000. Since then we have produced
• the above-mentioned project for National Engineering Week
• complete Web site re-design for Spar Aerospace
• the visual wall, 70' x 140', for the ACTRA Toronto Performers party at the Glass Lounge, 150 Pearl Street, Toronto, September 2000
• many other websites
In partnership with e.o.b. communications we have
• completed a number of communications projects for Seneca College
• published KnitNet, an online magazine and store, with full eCommerce capability, for hand knitters, since 1988
• designed the corporate image and Web site for Nextus Inc., a biotechnology consulting company
Recent Dougal & Co. projects have included
• conversion of Spar Aerospace Web site to L-3 Communications and ongoing upgrades and maintenance
• public relations event for Raising the Roof charity
• fund-raising event for Peacebuilders International
• sponsorship, advertising and visual performances for The Distillery Jazz Festival
• Cabaret Deco, associate producer with John Evans Productions
• video production for Raising the Roof charity
• sponsorship development for The Toronto Blues Society and Maple Blues Awards
• sponsorship development for the Small World Music Festival
Dougal & Co. continues to offer offer full creative development and production management to produce projects on-time and on budget. We have expertise in all areas of multimedia including live presentations, video and DVD production, the Internet, interactive computerized multi-media, as well as more traditional communications media such as print.
We like challenges — the different, the unusual, the new direction.