The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Drink is truly a celebration of the season. Our goal was to have these pages echo the return of sunshine and new growth and to get readers excited after a long Ontario winter. It features playful art direction, bright colours, earthy textures, and soft florals.
The cover story of TMU mag's Winter 2023 issue is about the virtual world: from Twitch streams to virtual classrooms and groundbreaking video game design, tech advancements are changing the way we teach, learn, work, and play. The talented Kate Dockeray captured colourful and energized portraits of our tech-savvy subjects. We brought in grids and gradients to create a slightly futuristic look and reflect the tech-forward focus of VR.
The issue also delves into the unique comic book collection in the TMU Archives, explores ways to uplift and champion children’s rights, and captures portraits of three outstanding alumni, and more.
The summer issue celebrates TMU’s 75th anniversary and is fully digital. We designed custom layouts for the anniversary package and worked with some great photographers to capture students, faculty, and alumni that are making the university proud.
The Holiday 2022 issue is 250 pages of festive inspo! Featuring a fancy potluck with friends and family, indulgent breads, high-brow cocktails, classic holiday favourites, a deep-dive into dumplings, beautiful mocktails, a celebration of ginger, giftable cheese and spirits… Oh, and lots of sparkle.
One of the challenges with this issue was coming up with different creative direction for over 20 holiday-themed departments and features. We took advantage of all types of holiday concepts, from colour-blocking and campy Christmas sweaters to draped velvets and glitter.
CB’s Summer issue includes a look at the wildly lucrative metaverse property market, a piece about how natural language processing is being used to make computers better communicators, plus we meet 5 Canadians who ditched their desk jobs to pursue their foodie fantasies.
The Fall 2022 issue includes the “How I Made It” feature — a celebration of Canadian entrepreneurs who are making big moves, a riveting story involving Hydro-Québec, a peek inside Universal Music’s new campus and most importantly, CANDY!
Get cozy with the Autumn 2022 issue, featuring hearty squash, cheese & homemade crackers, spicy wines, welcoming Sunday night suppers, a celebration of sage, and a jaunt into the wine regions of Ontario.
The visual theme of this issue is comfort: soft textures, rich colours, cozy lighting. A mix of outside and in, as we soak up the last days of warm weather and move indoors.
The spring issue of the University of Toronto Magazine features stories about the incredible things that become possible when we ask big inspiring questions like: “What If?” So many talented contributors in this issue!
The Autumn 2022 issue of University of Toronto Magazine features stories about Ilya Sutskerver and the new AI system he’s building that can use language to create art, a new medical school working to fix the racial gap in health care, a look at the staged crime scenes where forensic students learn and lots more.
The Summer 2022 issue is a love letter to the season, from colourful thirst-quenching cocktails, to fresh seafood, giftable wedding wines, and supersized party eats. We learn all about the daiquiri, celebrate local Ontario producers, and finish off with a sweet summery treat.
The art direction is sunny, fresh, and fun. We play with long shadows—evoking the seemingly endless days of summer. Patterned tablecloths, colourful tiles, and hints of plants remind us how wonderful it is to eat outside. Our bright, bold cover captures the hot mood of the season with a hero cocktail that makes you want to dive right in.
CB’s Winter 2022 issue features a piece about space tourism, a look at the 50 Canadian companies that made CB's New Innovators list, a profile of Moderna co-founder Derrick Rossi and one of our favourite subjects: PETS!
The Spring 2022 issue includes a piece about Canada’s cannabis crash, CB’s guide to the EV revolution, and a story about cellular agriculture and how lab-grown protein may be the solution to humanity’s hunger problem. Plus a little something for the cleaning-obsessed.
Food & Drink is dedicated to the art of entertaining, inspiring its audience with tempting recipes and the latest information on wine, spirits and beer. It is published five times a year in both English and French by the LCBO, one of the world’s largest purchasers of alcoholic beverages, with a circulation of over 500,000.
The challenge was to refresh and modernize the look without embarking on a redesign. Working within the existing framework, we established organizational structures to better navigate through the issue, resulting in a magazine that is more engaging and easier to read.
Partnering with a roster of talented photographers, food stylists and prop stylists, we brought a bolder, more contemporary approach to the art direction that both elevates and re-energizes the magazine.
The 2022 Early Summer issue includes a sophisticated vintage cocktail party, tropical, al fresco dining and fun, colourful frozen treats, all of which capture the warmth and anticipation of the season. We also brought in illustrator David Sparshott’s pencil drawings to add a layer of texture to the book.
Founded in 1928, CB is a valued destination for business journalism, profiling and connecting innovators who are changing Canada for the better. We were tasked with rethinking every aspect of the magazine to reflect a more modern approach to business—one that is more diverse, less stuffy and a lot more fun.
The full print and digital redesign includes a fresh new logo, bold typography and engaging photography and illustrations. Colour is used minimally to allow the visuals to stand out. Text columns shift to create dynamic compositions that flow from one page to the next, creating a cohesive yet surprising package.
The website captures the magazine’s exciting new direction in a modern and user-friendly web experience. The homepage features a bold modular grid of interchangeable cards that capture the innovative energy of the mag. The article pages are structured in a flexible way to accommodate both long reads and shorter stories.
“I’m immensely proud of our success in partnering our editors at Canadian Business with the talent at Studio Wyse. The new CB exceeds my expectations in every way. It’s stunning and draws you in immediately. The cover is bold without being overwrought. There’s a great mix of visual storytelling. The illustrations are lively and the photography is beautiful. Together, we’ve produced just about the best magazine that SJC Media has ever published.”
—Ken Hunt, President and Publisher of SJC Media
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The Winter 2021 issue of Ryerson University Magazine focuses on “change makers” who are taking action to address inequality. It includes a stunning series of portraits by photographer Janick Laurent, who captured the fun and dynamic personalities of the subjects, many of them students from the inaugural class of Ryerson’s new law school.
This year also required a lot of adapting to change with the COVID-19 pandemic. We had Image Arts ’11 graduate Kiana Hayeri document what life has been like on campus for students who have quickly adjusted to mostly virtual learning.
The Summer 2021 issue of Ryerson University Magazine focuses on things we learned during the pandemic - from the urgency of addressing socio-economic inequities, to how businesses can pivot, to how often to wash our hands. We wanted to give serious issues the attention they deserve while bringing in some levity - after all, isn’t a little fun what’s gotten us through this tough time? Enter Ty Dale, whose bright, pleasing illustrations on the cover and throughout the 14-page feature are the silver-lining sparkle we needed.
We bring in a diverse group of photographers and illustrators for each issue – from internationally acclaimed artists to up-and-coming Ryerson grads. Here are some of the amazing people we've worked with to bring Ryerson's stories to life:
The University of Toronto Magazine recently expanded its coverage to include the Scarborough and Mississauga campuses. To mark the occasion, we developed a fresh new logo and cover design for the Winter 2020 issue and introduced a new opening section featuring three big, beautiful double-page spreads capturing “A Moment” from each campus.
The issue is jam-packed with incredible work, including the cover and cover feature illustrations about the future of medicine by Gastón Mendieta and absolutely stunning portraits for a piece about efforts against anti-Black racism by Jorian Charlton.
Other great contributors to this issue include Christopher Katsarov Luna, Kevin Van Paassen, Galit Rodan, Nick Iwanyshyn, Jamie Cullen, Christopher Philpot, Owen Gent and David Sparshott.
