Phantom Shanghai is a monograph featuring the work of Greg Girard, a Canadian photographer who has been living in Shanghai for over eight years.

The vivid photographs document Shanghai's old neighbourhoods, historic buildings, and condemned homes before they are demolished to make way for the city's rapid urban redevelopment.

The typography and supporting elements are all printed in light greys. Combined with the large, horizontal format of the book, the restrained design provides an unfettered showcase for the stunning photography.

“Girard accentuates this sense of dislocation by taking most of his pictures in those crepuscular moments when Shanghai reveals its private self.... All that will be left are these phantom images, a visual elegy to a city that is lost.”
—Time Magazine

ON is the new, ongoing programming guide for The Power Plant, Canada’s leading contemporary art gallery.

To increase awareness of the gallery’s extensive programming each season, we developed a very accessible, visually engaging design which reinforces the curatorial focus of the season’s main exhibitions.

In addition to ON, we also design the gallery’s exhibition signage, promotional materials, and member newsletter, maintaining a cohesive visual identity across all their materials for the season.

The folded brochure unfolds into a poster that presents the entire season’s programming at a glance.

2nd Place is a photography exhibition by Sandy Nicholson, featuring portraits of the non-winning contestants of various competitions.

We collaborated closely with the photographer to develop an exhibition catalogue that would be a fitting tribute to all of these competitors.

The exhibition and catalogue will be expanded into a complete book to be published in 2008.

For the Royal Ontario Museum’s gala launch of the Libeskind-designed, Michael-Lee Chin Crystal addition, we were asked by Consumption Inc., the event’s creative directors, to develop a special promotional item. We conceived of a jewel box-like package that would celebrate the museum’s new architecture.

Presented in the box as its treasure is the crystal-like new entrance constructed out of metallic paper echoing the building’s exterior finish. In collaboration with our office, Liming Rao (Studio Liming Rao) transformed the CAD drawing of the front elevation into a 3D form that emerges out from the base.

Suspect is the latest volume of Alphabet City's ongoing themed-anthology series.

Essays, photography, fiction, film, and graphic novels examine the figure of the suspect and the politics of suspicion in a post-9/11 world.

The small 4.75" x 6.25" format belies the bold typography and strong imagery found inside the 350-page hardcover book.

“The size of the book . . . creates the sense of something intimate, or perhaps contraband. It looks so certain on the outside, but the inside churns with doubt.” —Los Angeles Times

idea&s is a journal published semi-annually by the University of Toronto’s Arts and Science Faculty to showcase the multi-disciplinary work of alumni and faculty to the public. The third issue explores the notion of scale.

Classic book-typography, stunning image reproduction, and sumptuous fine paper all convey with confidence the university faculty’s status and tradition as a world-leading educational and research institution.

The journal series has garnered several design awards as well as distinctions from academic organizations for university advancement.

Up North, written by Lisa Rochon, architecture critic for The Globe and Mail, chronicles a previously untold epic tale of remarkable architecture in Canada that is deeply connected to the land and culture.

The lavishly illustrated book contains hundreds of photographs carefully chosen to illucidate Rochon’s search for architecture that matters.

Up North was written with a broad audience in mind; the design is just as approachable, with easy-to-read typography, generous use of call-outs, and comprehensive captioning of images

“In an increasingly placeless world, what makes Canadian architecture unique is its fight to maintain a foothold—a powerful sense of place.” —Lisa Rochon