This is us.
Key Art + Design is a return to the roots and a launch of something new from entertainment marketers Chad Maker and Kirk Comrie, the creators of Agency 71. Key is a full service design and advertising agency specialized in the entertainment industry but we love our corporate clients too! Key’s creative team, featuring Art Director Liz Szinessy, has worked on over 100 film and television campaigns covering every genre. As well we have developed brand packages for corporate clients and film festivals too.
Our talented staff of designers and illustrators, have the experience to handle any style and size of project. After we make the art, we have the ability to transform it to suit any media and supporting materials a campaign may need – out-of-home, video, press kits, web ads, online branding, you name it – we can do it. Our media buying makes sure we get your media in the places it will be seen most - whether it’s digital, broadcast, billboards, transit ads or elsewhere.
We live and breathe art + design... and movies. We also like to binge a good series or two.
Our KEY creatives…
Chad Maker
One of Canada’s most prolific Film Poster Designers, Maker has over fifty feature film posters in his portfolio. He has not only created poster campaigns, but has also designed opening title sequences, websites, and marketing packages for film and television series such as Bad Blood, Saving Hope, Amal, High Life, Hard Core Logo, Last Night, Ginger Snaps, The Husband, Berkshire County, and many more.
Chad has designed and created full scale campaigns for companies such as Bluenotes Jeans, Randy River, The Movie Network, Labatt Blue, Wampole Vitamins, Corus Entertainment and more, while also producing and/or directing several TV commercials, music videos and award-winning short films (About Face, Issues and The Offer). He was also the Art Director for Access Magazine, Canada’s leading music mag from 1996-2000 and again from 2005-2009.
Maker also spearheaded the 2015 Canadian Indie Film Series initiative giving a louder theatrical voice to the indie filmmakers of Canada.
Kirk Comrie
Kirk Comrie heads up Key’s Motion and Interactive division. Comrie also brings to the table over twelve years experience in audio/visual design and technical production for both live theatre and musical concerts working for artists such as Kenny Rogers, Alice Cooper, Tom Cochrane, Kim Mitchell and Randy Travis.
He brings a mission-critical ethos honed over an eight year period of providing internet/computer networking infrastructure consulting and web development support to a start-up internet service provider. Kirk is our self-proclaimed resident geek.
Together with Maker, he wrote, edited, and supervised the full range of post-production on the award-winning short film About Face and co-produced and edited Issues, a short film with Hugh Dillon and Enrico Colantoni from Flashpoint. In the past several years Comrie has created over fifty TV and Film trailers for clients including eOne Entertainment, the Canadian Media Producers Association, the Harold Greenberg Fund, D-Films, Union Pictures, Kinosmith Inc., The National Film Board and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
Liz Szinessy
With over a decade in the industry, Art Director and Senior Graphic Designer; Liz Szinessy, is making her mark in the world of design. Working primarily within the Canadian entertainment industry, she has used her design intuition and technical prowess to create an extensive portfolio of work across multiple platforms. Whether she is collaborating with clients from a passionate start-up, or a well established production company, Liz always puts her heart and soul into her work.