Frontier
Paddy Harrington is an experienced design professional currently serving as a member of the World Experience Organization (WXO) since November 2023. As the founder of Frontier Co. since February 2014, Paddy leads a design office focused on purpose-driven performance. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Design Innovation and Digital Creative Director at Indigo, responsibility included advancing the brand through innovative design and digital communication. Paddy served as Executive Creative Director at Bruce Mau Design from 2003 to 2012, overseeing high-profile projects. Additional experiences include roles as a copywriter at Maclaren McCann, intern architect at Diamond and Schmitt Architects, research assistant at the University of Toronto, and research analyst at Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting. Paddy Harrington holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto and a BA Honours in English Literature from the University of Ottawa.
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Frontier
We design big stories. Big stories are brave, imaginative, and guiding. They help you stand out, discover new creative territory, and generate meaningful action. Frontier is a design office that believes in the expansive potential of storytelling to help people get somewhere new. We design the strategies, brand identities, and experiences that make big stories real. For a decade, people have come to us because we’re experts at drawing together diverse perspectives into something unified and resonant. Generating ideas, building consensus, setting direction: we accelerate this work by listening closely and bringing to bear new tools and methods of understanding and shaping what’s next. We draw from diverse realms—like contemporary art, purpose design, playful speculation, and radical technologies—to help organizations and their people understand the edges and make progress that matters. This pluralistic approach to purposeful branding leads to genuinely inspiring amd strategic stories that we turn into momentum-building brand identities, exhibitions, websites, campaigns, books, and videos. In addition to design services for partners, our commitment to big stories runs through studio-initiated projects. These include Frontier Magazine, an online publication about new and newly relevant ideas in the arts, technology, and the built environment; Projectory, an experiential learning platform that trains organizations on building future resilience; and Live Magazine, a traveling editorial project.