This is a short, entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Africa over a millennium ago, to what it is today, a global phenomenon that is enjoyed around the world.

Author Philip Mann dispels the myth that dandyism centers upon aestheticism through portraits of the first dandy—Regency England’s Beau Brummell—and six twentieth-century figures. He chronicles their style, identity, influence, melancholy, and often untimely demise, using a mélange of analysis, biography, and anecdote. Mann contextualizes the relationship of dandyism to decadence and to modernism, while simultaneously portraying the cultural development of a century punctuated by two World Wars and social upheaval.

Tea: A User’s Guide is the most up-to-date and factual guide to specialty tea. This volume presents an extensively peer-reviewed framework for navigating the world of tea whether you are just embarking on your tea journey or whether you have been drinking tea your entire life.

Rise and Fall documents artist Nicholas Pye's most recent photographic work. The photographs in Pye's book use found light in selected interiors to examine the vulnerability of the artist engaging in the practice of self-portraiture. The book design echoes the artists intentions in its simplicity and choice of materials and type. We selected matte white and grey stocks to create a counterpoint between image and text pages and elegant, yet warm, typefaces to compliment the texts.

Pye has exhibited his photographs internationally in Canada, the US, UK, Germany, and Spain. His films have been screened in numerous international film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, The Locarno International Film Festival and Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Berlin, and Madrid.

The Children’s Guide to Islamic Art is a beautifully illustrated book which explains the fundamental principals of Islamic art in a fun and engaging way. Each chapter is accompanied by many photographs and activities which help guide young readers to an appreciation of the  richness of Islamic arts — from ceramic tiles to calligraphy.

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance.

Histories of Kanatha is the first collection written by an Aboriginal Canadian on the Aboriginal understanding of history and the colonial experience. These essays, stories, lectures, and poems, written over the last twenty years by Georges Sioui, present and explore the perspectives of the Huron-Wyandot people on the place of Aboriginal people in Canada, in the world, and in history.

Mirabilia is both a record and investigation of artist Jakub Dolejš’ work “Tribune” produced during a Canada Council for the Arts residency in Paris. We designed the book as a collaboration between artist and designer. Mirabilia means “wonders” or “miracles” and our book is a treasure trove of Jakub’s exquisite photographs and paintings created as part of his research in the mansions, chateaus and galleries of Paris and its environs. A limited edition of Mirabilia was sold as part of his exhibition at Angell Gallery in Toronto, Canada. It was also sold at the National Gallery of Canada coinciding with Jakub’s participation in a major survey of staged photography.

Winner of a Creative Summit Award

This catalogue was published to coincide with Jakub’s second solo show at Art Mûr gallery in Montreal, Canada. The works in the exhibition were characterised as “thoughtful deconstructions of the manipulation behind image construction, and the historical legacy of their consumption.” The page design employs traditional elements of typographic design with deconstructed, asymmetrical blocks of text and image.

We worked with curator Carmen Victor to develop this catalogue for the thirteenth annual Junction Arts Festival. The Junction Arts Festival is North America’s largest “art meets street” event. The title of the exhibition, “Many Fires”, was based on a quote from Jane Jacobs’ seminal book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which metaphorically compares the diversity of a city to a field in which many fires are burning. We sourced an aerial photograph of the Junction neighbourhood for the cover image and created an abstract illustration of a bonfire. There was a very limited budget so we printed the catalogue using only black and yellow which was not only striking but allowed us to create a multiple-page catalogue within the budgetary constraints.

Everyone loves the catalogue!

Carmen Victor, Curator

Jakub’s photographic tableaux are a fusion of painted backdrops, live models and props. He uses these elements to construct fictions that comment on the evolution of modernism.

This catalogue complements his work by contrasting modernist elements such as sans serif type and structural white space with scripts and traditional decorative elements.

Winner of a Summit Creative Award