First Nations Health Authority

Since 2021, Spryberry has been providing graphic design and editing support to the First Nations Health Authority. FNHA communication specialists collaborate with us on a wide range of projects that are distributed across the province in communities. FNHA provides the inspiration and general direction, allowing our design team to provide creative solutions. We work within the FNHA brand guidelines and collaborate closely with their internal design team on tone and direction of the brand.

Providing quick turnaround on design is critical to the FNHA team, particularly at times of public health crisis. Our designers work in two different time zones, allowing us to meet high-quality design expectations within tight deadlines.

Projects include:

  • Campaign materials for pandemic understanding, protocols, and vaccine rollout.
  • Prenatal and maternal care information packages
  • Annual reports
  • Living with cancer guidebook, fact sheets and flip book
  • Palliative care guidebooks
  • Addictions forum materials
  • Climate health action program guide
  • Infographics
  • HR guides and onboarding materials
  • Naloxone awareness and information materials
  • Medical transport guide
  • Brochures and posters
  • Large format displays

Case Study

First Nations Health Council – Social Determinants of Health Discussion Guide

Representatives of the FNHC approach Spryberry to assist in creating a layout that would bring their document to life. As the audience for the guide included community members, a story was developed to make the content more accessible to a wider audience. Spryberry created a suite of illustrations to match the story and created a path/stream as an integrated part of the layout.

This was a collaboration between Spryberry’s team — art director, designer, illustrator — and the FNHC team.

We had several collaborative meetings with the FNHC to hear their vision for the project. We then presented several illustration concepts to the FNHC to establish the style for the project. Refinement required numerous rounds of changes and collaborative sessions as we worked on the shape of faces, character emotions, colours, as well as integrating important cultural items such as clothing. We worked diligently to ask questions and make suggestions to enhance these discussions. As a trusted partners in this project, we offered our own ideas for design and production.

The project was well received by community members attending regional sessions. The FNHC reported that polling showed a 70% increase in understanding of concepts with the use of the guide.