“we don’t see colours,
we see flavours.”
XHM
What We Do
Visual Identity &
Brand Development
Event Collateral
Company &
Promotional Collateral
Editorial Design
How We See
Everything you want to know about who we are and how we work with our clients is best understood – of course – through our logo. The XHM mark is an unusually shaped ‘X’ and our version of a Rorschach blot – “blot”, as in the famous inkblots developed in the 1900’s by Hermann Rorschach, to be used in the world of psychoanalysis.
We’re not psychologists, but we believe a lot of psychology goes into what we do. Our mark signifies our innate trait as designers to “see things differently”, the analyzing and interpreting we partake in every time we start a new project, and our ability to accommodate the visions of a diverse clientele representing industries from Financial to Film.
Between conceptualizing and design execution, our most important stage of the design process is stepping into the minds of our clients to see the world from their angle.
Our Designers
Leslie (left) and Lisa Jones are the co-owners and principal designers at X Height Media. The twin sisters and artists at heart since birth, remember a childhood punctuated by various references to the Arts: an affinity for music, fascination with literature, and pages of school agendas decorated with creative lettering.
Independent-minded with instinctively unique views of the world, at just the right moment in their formative years their interest was piqued by the title of a vocation they had, then, just heard of for the first time: it was called graphic design.
Today, Leslie’s philosophy in life is to “be creative and go the extra mile”. In her world, templates do not exist because originality is QUEEN (or KING, if you will). Lisa thinks the world would be quite boring without creative people. For her, being original is not a “line”, it’s a lifestyle and she truly believes in the power of ideas.
They collaborate on most assignments, having very similar thought patterns, though from time to time combine distinct perspectives to launch a project into the execution stage. Each assignment begins with a genuine and detailed process of getting to know their clients. However, they recognize that executing a vision is more than just integrating client values in the design strategy: they always work hands-on, going above and beyond, from beginning to the end of a production period.
Leslie and Lisa received their Bachelor of Design degrees from the Ontario College of Art & Design University. They share a genuine appreciation for all creative disciplines, but of course graphic design – the art of visual communication – is where their hearts lie.
Our Designers
Leslie (left) and Lisa Jones are the co-owners and principal designers at X Height Media. The twin sisters and artists at heart since birth, remember a childhood punctuated by various references to the Arts: an affinity for music, fascination with literature, and pages of school agendas decorated with creative lettering.
Independent-minded with instinctively unique views of the world, at just the right moment in their formative years their interest was piqued by the title of a vocation they had, then, just heard of for the first time: it was called graphic design.
Today, Leslie’s philosophy in life is to “be creative and go the extra mile”. In her world, templates do not exist because originality is QUEEN (or KING, if you will). Lisa thinks the world would be quite boring without creative people. For her, being original is not a “line”, it’s a lifestyle and she truly believes in the power of ideas.
They collaborate on most assignments, having very similar thought patterns, though from time to time combine distinct perspectives to launch a project into the execution stage. Each assignment begins with a genuine and detailed process of getting to know their clients. However, they recognize that executing a vision is more than just integrating client values in the design strategy: they always work hands-on, going above and beyond, from beginning to the end of a production period.
Leslie and Lisa received their Bachelor of Design degrees from the Ontario College of Art & Design University. They share a genuine appreciation for all creative disciplines, but of course graphic design – the art of visual communication – is where their hearts lie.
Partnerships
Pages For Good Health, Inc. (P4G) is a strategic health communications agency with a passion for community engagement, advocacy, and storytelling.
Annette Power leads the P4G team with a concentration and expertise in the health care space, advising leaders where community, equity, trust & complexity meet.
A P4G/XHM partnership has fused a suite of communications and design services that have brought to life multiple campaigns and projects for nonprofits, hospitals, public systems and leading healthcare centres in the Greater Toronto Area.