FortWhyte IS ALIVE

September 2008

Relish design has been awarded a design contract with FortWhyte Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba to develop a book that will mark the facility’s anniversary. FortWhyte Alive is dedicated to providing programming, natural settings and facilities for environmental education and outdoor recreation. In so doing, FortWhyte promotes awareness and understanding of the natural world and actions leading to sustainable living. The book is being compiled and written by Jake McDonald, author of the Houseboat Chronicles and Juliana and the Medicine Fish.

“Smart” and “Smart Looking”

September 2008

Relish is please to provide branding services, marketing and website development to The CliniCard. Launching this fall – The CliniCard links health and wellness providers with participating medical clinics – and gives subscribers up to 30% of services they use the most! The card uses “smart chip” technology (used extensively in Europe) to allow secure access to health and subscription information. This little card is poised to make a huge impact on Canadian Healthcare.

Go Organic

September 2008

In grocery stores this fall, you will find a new line of certified organic flours and baking mixes from NutraSun Foods (packaging by Relish), a division of Paterson GlobalFoods. NutraSun uses tough re-sealable pouch packs for retail packaging, which are an excellent way to keep the product fresh.

Wheat used in NutraSun organic flour comes from premium quality Certified Organic grain grown on the Canadian prairies, and is of the finest quality grown anywhere in the world. By milling organically grown grains, NutraSun supports healthy farmlands and a sustainable, ecologically responsible agriculture.

A new imprint is born!

September 2008

Great Plains unveils a new literary fiction imprint, Enfield & Wizenty. At a time when other publishers are pulling back from their commitment to Canadian fiction, Great Plains is expanding in this area. The new imprint, designed by Relish, will be national in scope and manufactured to the highest standards. Intended as collectibles, the books will be hardcover and printed on heavy, forest-friendly paper. Available in bookstores this fall:

1. The Tristan Chord, a classical-music-themed novel about the Canadian sister of a Nazi war criminal, by Bettina von Kampen, a former Winnipegger who is a violinist with Symphony Hamilton.
2. Widows of Hamilton House, a novel inspired by the real-life 1920s Winnipeg spiritualist Dr. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton, by University of Manitoba computer science prof Christina Penner.
3. 10 Things to Ask Yourself in Warsaw, a collection of edgy, urban short stories by Barbara Romanik, an Edmontonian doing her PhD in English at the U of M.