Archive: CM30
Artifact Type: Case Bound Book
Title: Vegetation, Soils and Wildlife
Year: 1969
Designer: Uncredited
Studio: Hiller Rinaldo
Client: Methuen Publications
Size: 250mm X 152mm
Condition: Very Good
Collection: Canada Modern Archive
Artifact Type: Case Bound Book
Title: Vegetation, Soils and Wildlife
Year: 1969
Designer: Uncredited
Studio: Hiller Rinaldo
Client: Methuen Publications
Size: 250mm X 152mm
Condition: Very Good
Collection: Canada Modern Archive
One of a series of books subtitled “Process and Method in Canadian Geography”, it comprises a collection of articles that pull together relevant research undertaken by biologists, geologists and members of other landscape-oriented disciplines. The cover design combines typography in Helvetica, a 45º rotated square (common to all covers in the series) in which abstract foliage imagery is housed — juxtaposing the order of process and scientific investigation against the more random and organic qualities of the natural world.
Designed by Toronto based studio Hiller Rinaldo (Steve Hiller & John Rinaldo), who were previously known as Anderson & Hiller (owned by principals Bob Anderson & Steve Hiller). The studio employed an impressive number of designers in their time, including Anthony Hobbs, Carl Brett and Peter Steiner amongst others.