Work That Speaks for Itself
We’re a graphic and web design studio that turns creativity into clarity. From bold brand identities to seamless websites and polished reports, our work blends strategy, design, and function in equal measure. At Universe Design Studio, we help nonprofits, academic institutions, and public organizations bring their ideas to life through clear, modern, and meaningful design — the kind that looks great and works beautifully.
Featured Project: Impact Report Design for Weizmann Canada
Magazine style report design with high visual impact.
Explore Our Universe of Work
Explore our recent branding, web, and report designs.
Financial Accountability Office of Ontario
We created a bauhaus-inspired brand design for the new Ontario Government's financial accountability office.
Markus Goertzen Family Law
Branding and website design and development for Toronto family law practice Markus Goertzen Family Law. The modern logo and identity give the office a unique brand identity in a competitive market.
Measuring Main Streets
A project by the Canadian Urban Institute, funded by the Government of Canada, this project is a website of comprehensive data on Canada’s main streets. We created a CUI-related brand design for the website (not the website itself).
Boann Social Impact
Boann is a social impact fund wholesaler, funded by the Government of Canada, to support Canada's new Social Impact Fund. We created the logo, website and complete brand identity package.
Research Digest Podcast
Brand design for New Horizon's research podcast, an Ontario think tank. The geometric abstract art communicates futurism and science in a minimal way and will give the podcast immediate visual recognition.
The Social Finance Fund Hub
Brand, logo, and website design for Canada's Social Finance Fund Hub. This project includes a minimal, accessible, bilingual Wordpress website and a modern logo design.
Erin Tolley, Canada Diversity Research Chair
Brand design and development of research portfolio style website for Canadian gender, race, and inclusive politics researcher.
The State of Canada’s Cities
For the Canadian Urban Institute: Brand design, report design, promotional material, and social media support for an annual summit + report release highlighting the latest research on Canadian cities.
Canadian Caregiving Summit
Website design for a Canadian Caregiving Summit event. Brand development and all accompanying design assets created for the conference.
Amanda Clarke, Research Excellence Chair
Brand design and website development for Amanda Clarke, a Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair. Personal portfolio website for Canadian researcher.
Borealis Mental Health Care
Borealis Mental Health Care is an online service to connect people to professional mental health care, quickly. Based in Toronto, Ontario, we created the brand design and website for Borealis.
Anthony Moustacalis & Associates
Brand designer for Toronto criminal lawyer Anthony Moustacalis. Logo and website design for law office AMA LAW.
SAMbot
Website design for the Samara Institute for Democracy and Areto Labs. SAMbot is an AI designed to track toxic tweets on the federal election campaign trail.
University of Toronto
University of Toronto website design. UNIVERSE Creative Director Elaine worked at U of T for several years and had the unique experience of working on the university’s main website redesign project. The redesign took a year to complete and she was involved in every part of the process.
The Action Group on Access to Justice
Complete graphic and web design services of conference identity design, multilingual Wordpress website design and report designs for The Law Society's Access to Justice initiative, The Action Group.
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View our creative (non-academic) branding and design projects.
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