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Client

Co.Labs (via Innovation Saskatchewan)

Location

Co.Labs, Suite 110, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Completion

2026

Process & Tools

Benjamin Moore Scuff-X MatteAdobe IllustratorProjection layout
Interior office mural at Co.Labs in Saskatoon, showing a prairie scene with wheat, a tractor and a lightbulb wrapping a corner wall, with the corridor mural beyond.

The Challenge

Co.Labs is Saskatchewan's technology accelerator, and their new Saskatoon office needed more than decoration. Three walls, each experienced completely differently: a feature wall you stand in front of at the entry, a 67-foot corridor you walk past, and a 13-foot end wall you arrive at. They had to work as one coordinated system rather than three separate paintings, support wayfinding through the space, and speak to what the companies there actually build without resorting to literal tech imagery.

The Solution

The mural runs as three coordinated walls, and the sequence follows how you move through the office: introduction, exploration, convergence.

Signal is the identity moment, on the feature wall in the lounge. A stylized Saskatoon landscape with the Broadway Bridge acting as the connector across it, plus a rocket, Canada geese and rising forms for growth and momentum. Signal waves and pixel patterns layer the language of technology into the place itself.

Continuum is the spatial connector, 67 feet along the main corridor. Node clusters, pixel grids and modular forms reference networked thinking and system architecture, and an observing eye stands in for machine vision - AI made tangible through abstraction rather than circuit-board cliche. It unfolds as you walk, resolving from no single vantage point.

Foundation anchors the south end of the workspace. The same visual language compresses into a denser, almost mosaic arrangement - agriculture, energy, networks, experimentation - with the prairie threading through as a constant. Individual components interlock into something larger. This is where the ideas converge.

Hand-painted in Benjamin Moore Scuff-X matte, low-VOC so the work could happen alongside a working office. A WebAR layer sits on top of the paint: scan a code on site, point a phone at the wall, and elements animate in place with no app install.

Visual Documentation

Wide view of the Signal wall at Co.Labs Saskatoon: a rocket, city skyline and the Broadway Bridge rendered in bold geometric colour.
Corridor of the Co.Labs office with orange and navy geometry wrapping the entry doors and the mural continuing down the hall.
Long view down the Continuum corridor, with a green field, red arc and layered stripe forms sweeping toward the far end.
Close view of the Co.Labs logo on frosted glass, with the mural's colour forms visible behind it.
Wide corridor view of overlapping circles in green, violet and light blue, cut by a horizontal orange bar.
Co.Labs kitchen and meeting area with pendant lights, the mural's arc forms filling the wall behind the communal table.
The Foundation wall seen straight on: a profile head filled with geometric shapes, wheat, a tractor, houses, a lightbulb and a telescope.
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