STEEDMAN DESIGN

This book offers a comprehensive (but not exhaustive) compilation of Karin Bubas’ Women in Landscape series, and Toles, and accompanies the exhibition Karin Bubas: Garden of Shadows at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler

Marketing campaign and exhibition catalogue for "Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding", an exhibition curated by Patrik Andersson at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, BC, Canada. With 19 artists in the show, the type treatment explores ideas from the book's essay, "Fractures and Expansion" by Natalie Porter, and the modular re/deconstruction of Raphael Zarka's sculptures. The campaign included many ads, billboards, motion graphics, a catalogue, stickers, hoodies, posters, beer …

The logo is an adaptation of Orientation (created by Sandrine Nugue and released by Commercial Type), and the book body face is Adobe’s Objektiv Mk1. The book is printed at Hemlock Printers and bound by Specialties Graphic Finishers Ltd.

On July 2, 2014, renowned Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artist Chief Beau Dick along with 21 companions set out from the University of British Columbia on a journey to Ottawa which they called Awalaskenis II: Journey of Truth and Unity. Intending to raise awareness about the plight of the environment and to challenge elected officials to attend to the relationship between the federal government and First Nations people, the group brought with them a copper shield made by Haida carver Giindajin Haawasti Guujaaw. On July 27, the shield was broken on Parliament Hill in a traditional copper-breaking ceremony, marking a ruptured relationship in need of repair, and passing the burden of the wrongs done to First Nations people from them to the Government of Canada. Lalakenis/All Directions presented the broken copper shield along with the other five coppers, sacred and ceremonial objects taken on the journey and those gifted to the travellers along the way including pipes, medicine, thunder sticks and rattles. 

“Thank you … this book is beautifully and respectfully designed, and moving as a record of a significant event”

Santa J. Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC on Lalakenis/All Directions: A Journey of Truth and Unity

Transits and Returns presents the work of 21 Indigenous artists whose practices are both rooted in the specificities of their cultures and routed via their travels. Co-published by the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

Alice in Wonderland: A collector’s edition of this original unedited version, designed for Simply Read Books. There is no title on the front cover beyond the upside down bookmark inviting the viewer to “READ ME”. Illustrations by Iassen Ghiuselev and calligraphy by Fred Peters.

Winner: AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) 50 Books / 50 Covers.
Third Prize: Alcuin Society Competition for Excellence in Book Design.
“Those who love its elegant traditional approach thought it deserved first place ... The cover is outstanding, arguably the best in show. The illustrations and calligraphy are as elegant as the typography, and the designer has made excellent use of the white space and the limited colour ranges. This book is a timeless design classic in the making.”

ART SCHOOL HIGH is an art catalogue designed for curator Patrik Andersson (Trapp Projects) for an exhibition at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. Artists include Karin Bubaš, John Collins, Rodney Graham, Scott Livingstone, Ken Lum, Kyla Mallet, Jean MacRae, Shannon Oksanen, Kathy Slade, Ron Terada, Neil Wedman and David Wisdom — all artists whose work reflects on their high school experience.

Elspeth Pratt: A monograph of the work of Vancouer artist Elspeth Pratt, published by the Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Emily Carr University Press in collaboration with the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.

Inconsolable Memories / Stan Douglas: Exhibition catalogue for the Joslyn Art Museum and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

Fundraising brochure for the University of British Columbia's Visual Arts Department — "Art: An Evolution." Part of a larger campaign — "Start an Evolution."

Pinocchio: Designed for Simply Read Books. A wooden cover, of course. Illustrations by Iassen Ghiuselev.
Winner: AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) 50 Books / 50 Covers: Outstanding book and cover design.

An exhibition catalogue for the Japanese Gutai artist, Atsuko Tanaka, published jointly by the Grey Gallery (New York) and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver).

Jack Jeffrey: Exhibition catalogue for Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver.

Real Pictures / Photographs from the collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft: Exhibition catalogue for the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Ian Penn. Projections: A Monument to Personal Memory. Catalogue of an art exhibition at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. The cloth cover and interior paper (like watercolour paper) mimic the artist's working method and sketchbooks, while the scale speaks to the size of the "projections" and paintings in the show.

Exhibition catalogue for the Equinox Gallery, Vancouver.

Esther Shalev-Gerz. Exhibition catalogue for the Kamloops Art Gallery and accompanying booklet for the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. In French and English.

West Coast Residential: Catalogue of a touring exhibition of west coast modernist architecture, comparing contemporary and historical examples from cities down the coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles. The pages are inset from the endpages, allowing the index (printed on the endpages) to be always visible.

A series of catalogues, designed for the Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver.

 A catalogue for an exhibition curated by Patrik Andersson of Trapp Editions, for the Kamloops Art Gallery. Who doesn't love green thread to bind a book?

"Inside Magazines is a visual record of the publications that occupy the niche that falls between the world of underground 'zines' and the mass market, those journals that gather under the broad cultural canopy of art, music, fashion, design and youth culture - quirky, small-run and often idiosyncratic magazines that contrive to make the ordinary extraordinary. The book features extracts and spreads from a wide variety of some of the most exciting examples of the genre, among them Petit Glam, Mall Punk Magazine, Permanent Food and Asianpunkboy." "Not only is Inside Magazines a vividly visual survey of this publishing phenomenon, but it also features an engaging collection of essays, artist projects and mini-magazines created specially for the book, plus a wide selection of revealing interviews with the magazines' creators. Anyone professionally concerned with contemporary magazines, media and design, and all those interested in popular culture and the contemporary zeitgeist will find this book a revelatory read."--BOOK JACKET.

Patrik Andersson, Judith Steedman

Gingko Press

READYMADES: Exhibition catalogue for the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art

Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive, this book was published in 2020 as a collaborative project by the Carleton University Art Gallery in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Koffler Gallery.

Carol Sawyer’s The Natalie Brettschneider Archive is an ongoing series of photographs, texts, music recitals, and two films, that together reconstruct the (fictional) life and work of a genre-blurring historical performance artist. The book strives to legitimize and heroize the status of the archive.

STAN DOUGLAS: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971

“As a comprehensive guide to understanding the recently installed artwork by Stan Douglas, Arsenal Pulp Press has given us here a visual tour de force, with stunning colour representations of the original piece throughout the hard covered volume supporting the essays and interview with the artist. And as so much more than a commemorative plaque, the artist's depiction of the unsettling event is sure to be a catalyst for social change (the Occupy movement in fact used the space in 2011), not just for the DTES, but for all of Vancouver and its environs. “

-Spacing Vancouver

Much of Italian artist Walter Marchetti’s practice has been dedicated to “visible music.” His chamber music confounds the distinctions made between composer, player and listener. This show presents: musical scores for La Caccia (Quartetto No. 2) / The Hunt (Quartet No. 2), 1965; two recent scores for birdcalls; and chamber music installations conceived and theorized as musical works including Chamber Music No. 19 in which the viewer “plays” the piece by walking over a gallery floor covered with 20,000 pounds of course, white salt.

Exhibition catalogue from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

Texts by Scott Watson, José Luis Castillejo, Walter Marchetti, Gabriele Bonomo.

Published by Owl Kids, Toronto. Written by Elin Kelsey, and artwork by Soyeon Kim.

Exhibition catalogue. Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver.

T&T

We have produced SO much design for Trapp Projects (aka Patrik Andersson), but perhaps my favourite artists are the amazing Tony Romano and Tyler Brett (aka T&T), for whom I made a few books along the way.

Pendulum Gallery, Trapp Editions, Other Sites for Artists’ Projects et. al

A catalogue from the exhibition Tonel: Lessons of Solitude at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Cuban artist Tonel carries the Cuban tradition of satirical illustration into an ongoing interrogation of the condition of the individual in contemporary Cuba, started by the American blockade and called to account by the revolution.

In Spanish and English

Exhibition catalogue and marketing campaign for the Vancouver Art Gallery

Exhibition Catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery

Belkin Curator’s Forum: A special invitation. Instead of a letter, the viewer peers through the window of a gallery-like card, feeling like they hold the gallery in their hands.

Winner: Gold and Silver, Visual Design & Fund Raising and Special Audience Publications, CASE VIII Communication Awards

Among the Inuit: The photographs of Robert Semeniuk’s travels with the inuit. Published by Raincoast Books. A cloth cover with a surprise photo on the back cover. Embedded pull quotes and a bookmark are in blood red.