Welcome to Toronto: A colouring book

Awards:

Gold, Muse Creative Awards, 2016
Gold, Hermes Awards, 2016

Role: Book art direction and design

Produced by: Nicole Baillargeon, Andrea Pearce, Rafi Ghanaghounian, and printed by Keep6.

Welcome to Toronto is a themed colouring book that will help newcomers become acquainted with our multicultural city. The book includes a beautiful collection of illustrations created by talented Toronto artists and designers, with English and Arabic text accompanying each image.

The dual language proved to be a small challenge but we wanted to let the words breathe by creating white space around them. The last few pages at the end of the book have a notepad grid inviting the reader to create their own poetry or art.

Illustrated by: Maryam Keyhani, Regina Shing, Shannon Leigh Cote, Mélissa Tovar, Yi Zhou, Andrea Pearce + Nicole Baillargeon, Christine Kim, Ala Koreitem Bjoern Arthurs, Nevena Niagolova, Justin Broadbent, James Tuer, Ashley Barron, Lauren Pirie, Nathan Jurevicius, Melinda Josie, Nicole Tomasi, Micah Donovan, Shengyu Cai, Cheryl Voisine, Haley Vyvey, Kinda Arbach, Ibn Talib, Dimitra Papantonis, Jess Leung, Kathryn Macnaughton, Aleks Bartosik, and Ccomma.