About
We’ve been doing this for a long time. That’s the point.
JoyGrafika is an Ottawa-based senior creative studio with over 15 years of experience helping tech companies and growing businesses build brands that command attention.
Paul Dymel
Founder and Art Director
Rick Radko
Developer and WordPress Sensei
Frank Wimart
Videography and Photography Consultant
Who We Are
Craft, experience, and a genuine love of the work.
JoyGrafika was built on a simple belief: great design is not decoration. It is strategy made visible. We are a tight, senior-level studio that brings together deep expertise in graphic design, web development, video production, and aerial cinematography to give our clients something that is both beautiful and purposeful.
We don’t hand your project off to a junior team. Every brief is handled by experienced creatives who have spent careers solving real problems for real businesses. That’s not a selling point. It’s just how we work.
Our Background
Decades of design. Hundred feet in the air.
Our roots are in graphic design, and those roots run deep. From brand identity systems and editorial design to large-format production and trade show environments, we have spent over 15 years developing the kind of visual fluency that only comes from doing the work at the highest level, across industries, and under pressure.
JoyGrafika Aerial Video Production
In recent years, we expanded into aerial cinematography, adding a capability that has transformed the way we tell visual stories for our clients. Whether it’s capturing the scale of a robotics facility, establishing a cinematic backdrop for a corporate brand film, or producing aerial sequences for a trade show reel, our drone work brings a perspective that ground-level cameras simply cannot match.
The combination of a traditional graphic design foundation and cutting-edge aerial production is what makes JoyGrafika unusual in this market. We can take a project from logo to launch video, and make it all feel like it came from the same creative mind. Because it did.
Who We Work With
Ottawa’s tech sector. Growing businesses. Ambitious brands.
Our clients include some of Ottawa’s most recognized technology companies, as well as startups on their way to becoming them. We have partnered with Military Police, Senstar, Recognia, Robotics Centre, ONE9, Hill+Knowlton, and Canadian Blood Services, among others.
Our Approach
Senior thinking. No unnecessary complexity.
We keep our studio lean by design. A smaller team means you work directly with the people doing the work, not an account manager relaying messages between you and someone you’ve never met. It means faster decisions, tighter execution, and creative work that stays coherent from brief to final delivery.
We bring a strategic lens to every project. Before we talk about fonts or colour palettes, we talk about your audience, your competition, and what you are actually trying to achieve. Good design follows from that conversation. Great design depends on it.
