My Favourite Print Project of the Year

I have had many projects this year for a variety of clients that I’ve enjoyed working on but I thought I’d highlight one print project today and one web project tomorrow that I really loved having had the opportunity to work on.

Wetlands Catalogue

Though this project started at the end of 2008, it wrapped in January, 2009. I enjoyed, from beginning to end, working on this catalogue for an art show at the Art Gallery of Golden in Golden, BC.

It was such a pleasure to have a whole collection of images featuring media from artists of the Columbia Valley. Bill Usher, Executive Director of Kicking Horse Culture (my client) gave me a lot of freedom on the design of this 32-page, full colour booklet printed using an environmentally sensitive process (paper, inks, etc)*.

I chose a horizontal page size to help accommodate the majority of landscape images, but also to give the document a different feel. Each page was 10.5 inches long by 7 inches tall.

Along with the print document, I also incorporated the content into their website which available here.

* While getting prices for printing, I learned a lot about the standards of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) and “recycled” paper as well as the varying processes used in printing today.

One of the most interesting things to learn was that FSC paper came from Japan. It was one of those crazy things where we think we’re being so environmentally friendly by cutting trees, sending them by truck to the coasts of North America or Asia, sticking them on ships, sending them across the ocean, processing them into environmentally friendly paper and then shipping at back across the ocean. How much carbon does that all take?