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About Feral Dog Studios

Feral Dog Studios is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We are a fun boutique creative agency involved primarily in photography, graphic design, brand identity, and website design, producing dynamic visual media for our exacting clientele. We design awesome, AWESOMELY !!

We use creativity, collaboration, experience, and strategy to identify your purpose and express it across multiple channels. What this means is we LISTEN to your input and feedback to deliver what you want for the purposes you need.

Our driving force at Feral Dog Studios is to earn your business with each project you entrust to us. We are not a cookie-cutter, run-of-the-mill creative agency. We have no desire to be all things to all people, and you can expect us to be professional, playful, honest, opinionated, and tenacious. We are your partner who shares your objective of creating a positive image through visual media.

Whether you are a new start-up seeking to establish your visual identity or an existing business looking for an image change, let Feral Dog Studios work for you in creating or expanding your presence.

In case you were wondering, our name is derived from our adopted rescued dog, Asylum. He was a feral dog when he came into our lives, but soon gravitated to the training and our cozy home life. Asylum became a canine blood donor, a companion pet therapy dog visiting hospitals, assisted living facilities, schools, etc., mentored other rescued dogs in training, and had a knack for finding lost dogs (he found four in his lifetime). Sadly, Asylum passed away at age 13-ish on May 12, 2017 following complications from surgery. He is dearly missed, but his spirit lives on in all we do.

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Feral Dog Studios Graphics/Web/Brand Portfolio

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Feral Dog Studios Core Services

Graphic Design

Posters, Albums/CDs, Banners, Vehicle Wraps

Website Design

Website Design, SEO, Analytics, Site Management, Social Media

Swag / Merchandise

Coming Very Soon
Paintings, Prints, Sculptures, Pottery/Porcelain, Mixed Media Art, Entertainment Memorabilia, T-Shirts

Photography

Photo Restoration, People Photography, Nature Photography, Wildlife Photography, Food Photography, Product Photography, Social Photography, Shows and Displays

Publishing

Children's Books, CDs, Posters, Photo Prints

Brand Identity

Logos, Business Cards, Banners, Posters, Collateral, Flyers, Albums/CDs, Reputation Management

Hire Feral Dog Studios

At Feral Dog Studios, we recognize you have many choices in hiring creative talent. While making such a choice can be daunting, Feral Dog Studios is committed to making the process easier, freeing up more time to tackle your other tasks. Think of us as your partner. We work WITH you to achieve success.

Right sized boutique creative agency where you matter.

Hey, we're fun. We listen. We care about your image.

Honest. Reliable. Deadline-oriented.

No billing surprises. Full quote provided up-front.

Feral Dog Studios FAQ

Feral Dog Studios seems to provide a wide array of services. Is there anything FDS does not do?

Thanks for recognizing the many ways we are able to partner with businesses and people to help them achieve their visual media goals. We will be honest with you up-front and inform you if your project and our capabilities are incompatible, saving you time, frustration, and money. That said, yes, there are some services we do not provide, including the following:
Website Hosting
Back End Programming
Photography of Weddings or Bar/Bat Mitzvahs
Drone Photography
App Development
Voice Overs
Printing or Production
Custom Fonts
Videography


OK, we love your approach and think you are the guys to deliver us great results. How much is this going to cost?

This is probably the most often asked question of us. We pride ourselves on designing awesome, AWESOMELY !! That means we invest the necessary time and resources to research, develop, design, and deliver the products and services you entrust us to undertake so they, in turn, deliver impressive results for you. The truth is that we will not be the cheapest quote you will receive. That said, we always provide an upfront quote detailing our scope of work and the commitments we make to you. Some free advice, if we may be so imposing... be wary of those impossibly low-cost quotes you are bound to receive. The headaches will begin the moment you agree to their terms.


What methods of payment do you accept?

Feral Dog Studios is a boutique creative agency. As such, we operate on thin margins and appreciate your immediate attention to our invoices. We accept the following forms of payment:
Cash (Canada, USA, Euro, and British Pound Sterling only)
Company Cheques on approval
Money Orders and Bank Drafts (Canada Post or Canadian bank only)
Interac eTransfer
Direct Deposit
Major Credit Cards thru PayPal (3% extra fees apply on Visa/MC; 5% extra fees on all other cards)


We want to be certain that whomever we hire has the right equipment for the job. What does Feral Dog Studios use to undertake projects?

This is a very important consideration for clients, so thank you for your critical inquiry. Feral Dog Studios employs a wide range of tools, depending on the task at hand. We shoot with Nikon full frame cameras and create/process with the absolute latest ingenuity from Adobe software. Beyond that, we have all the accessories such as lighting, backdrops, lenses, and even our own cozy studio, required to complete every project we undertake.

Feral Dog Studios Team

Asylum

Asylum

Chief Inspiration Officer and Official Mascot
Curtis

Curtis

Photographer and Designer

Photographer. Designer. Author. Poet. History Buff. Student of Human Behavior. Community Activist. Social Commentator. Survivor. Truth Seeker. Environmental Steward. Double Amputee. Wage Slave
Festus

Festus

King of Crankiness and Chief Coffee Getter

Feral Dog Studios Blog

  • Curtis
  • March 30, 2020
Tessa Virtue photo copyright The Star

Our Latest MILP: Models I'd Like to Photograph ~ Tessa Virtue

While not a model per se, Tessa Virtue is a spokesmodel for the likes of Nivea and The Brick, so she qualifies under our loosely formatted MILP – Models I’d Like to Photograph. Virtue has honored Canada by representing her talents in the Olympics and in figure skating championships. Her smile envelops her face, showing the glistening white teeth and homespun genuine sweetness easily shared by Virtue. If her smile has not reeled you in, then Tessa’s bold determined eyes certainly will. Cameras love her.



Photo copyright The Star
  • Curtis
  • December 27, 2018
Sophia Ahrens featured in Paco Rabanne's Million fragrance video advertisement

Our Latest MILP: Models I'd Like to Photograph ~ Sophia Ahrens

Sophia Ahrens is the female model in Paco Rabanne's latest ads for their Million fragrances. We love her sultry, pouty look. We had nothing to do with the creation of their ad (credits below) but think everyone involved did a bang-up fabulous job. The soundtrack is Hot-N-Fun by N.E.R.D. featuring Canadian songstress Nelly Furtado. What started out as an ad for the French market quickly mushroomed into a worldwide phenomenon showing somewhat shortened versions of this full-length advertisement. Click HERE to be shuttled to Paco Rabanne's Million site where you can watch the full advertisement video.

Paco Rabanne: Million Crazy Dance
Client: Paco Rabanne
Geo: France
Released: June 2017
Advertising Agency: Mademoiselle Noï, Paris
Creative director: Françoise Jacquey and Valérie Larondo
TV Producer: Catherine Guiol
Production Company: Stink France
Director: Dvein
Director of Photography: Darius Khondji
Producer: Greg Panteix
Production Director: Scarlett Wood
Production Assistant: Victoire Cheneau
Postproduction Producer: Toby Ridgway
Edited by Marie-Charlotte Moreau
Post-production: Mikros Image
Hair Stylist: Kazue Deki
Makeup Artist: Marie Duhart
Actors: Jordan Barrett, Sophia Ahrens
Music: Hot-N-Fun by N.E.R.D. features Nelly Furtado

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  • Curtis
  • December 27, 2018

The Best GoPro Photos in the World

In our ever-enduring scanning of the internet, we stumbled across this article from msn.com that featured some extraordinary photos shot using a GoPro. Wow!!!

Click HERE to see what we're all ga-ga over.

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  • Curtis
  • December 27, 2018

Finally Here~ Our Long-Awaited Relaunch of FeralDog.ca

Welcome to the re-launch of FeralDog.ca. It has taken us quite some time to migrate to our new presence on the internet. We think it's a lot like a mechanic not having time to fix his own car. We are so busy helping others meet their visual media needs that our own needs take a back seat. Anyway, here we are. Loud and proud. Let us know what you think.

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