Messenger is the boutique design studio of award-winning Designer and Creative Director Laura Wills. Originally trained as a branding and packaging designer, Laura founded Messenger in 1999 in Toronto, Canada – the studio began as a digital agency that specialized in dot-com era start-ups, and evolved over the years into a well-versed branding studio with a love for design and ideas of all kinds. 

Laura is first and foremost a Design Thinker, dedicated to question-asking, strategic investigation, and clear, compelling storytelling. Her clients consider her a valuable, collaborative partner, helping them to articulate and crystallize their vision, and bringing their dreams to life with skilled and beautiful visual systems.

Laura holds a BFA Specialized Honours in Visual Communication Design, with Distinction, from York University.

Laura's work spans many disciplines – brand consulting and design, packaging design, print, websites, environmental graphics, illustrations and more. Over the years, she has worked with big and small brands; with clients like Southbrook Vineyards, Butterfield & Robinson, UBC,  Emily Carr University, Yorkshire Valley Farms, Real Food for Real Kids, and GoodLot Farmstead Brewery, as well as some of the most exciting artists and performers in Canada, like the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Citadel + Compagnie, and many others.

Messenger has received awards and recognition from design competitions and publications all around the world, including Communication Arts, The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, Applied Arts Magazine, the London International Advertising Awards, Coupe Magazine, the National Post Design Exchange Awards, Marketing Magazine, HOW Magazine, Vines Magazine and a few big fat coffee table books about wine labels.

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Toronto, Canada