Two spreads from an upcoming children's book for Firefly Books Ltd., written by the wonderful Tracy Read.

A logo I designed for friend Barry Estabrook's new blog. Check him out, he's the best:

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This is the front cover of a promo piece for the Canadian Geographic Travel magazine sales department. In advance of the promo piece, postcards were sent out to prospective advertisers to the magazine, seen here as well. We came up with the concept of using travel quotes throughout the pitch, as well as the idea of sending postcards to advertisers, reinforcing the idea of travel. This work was created in 2006, but I think it's holding up well.

Three favourite images from the shoot for The Pan Chancho Cookbook. Buy it here!

This fun project is waiting for a publisher. Linda Buckingham created all the toys and shot the how-to images, I photographed most of the kitties and designed the book.

The Canadian Foundation for Innovation hired me to put together their latest issue of InnovatioNation. Check out their work here: InnovationCanada.ca

One of my favourite recipe spreads from Canadian Health magazine. Styled by me, shot by the talented Bernard Clark.

Two from a series of four posters designed for the Archives of Ontario. Many thanks to Frank Edwards for the gig! The first poster is an homage to late great designer Paul Rand, the second, genius Saul Bass.

A spread I designed for Sept/Oct 2009 issue of SkyNews magazine

A page I styled for Canadian Health, for a story on legumes. I created the bean stalk with a combination of dried peas and beans on a black background. 

An award-winning art director, Janice McLean has over two decades of experience working on national magazines, starting as a designer with Harrowsmith and Equinox magazines and becoming the art director of Equinox in 1994, and Canadian Geographic in 1996. In recent years, she has taken jobs that allow her to work from Kingston, Ontario, an easy distance from both Ottawa and Toronto, where most of her clients are based. She was hired in 1999 to design the National Gallery of Canada’s member magazine Vernissage, and when the publisher changed jobs to become vice-president of media for the Canadian Medical Association in 2006, he asked her to come along to create a patients’ magazine for the CMA, Canadian Health, and its french-language sister, Santé canadienne. Currently, Janice designs SkyNews, the Canadian magazine of astronomy and stargazing.

In addition to working on SkyNews, Janice McLean is creative director for Bookmakers Press, a company which produces full-colour nonfiction books and calendars that are distributed throughout North America by Canadian publishers. Responsibilities include design and layout, photo editing, illustration assignment and liaison with printers and film houses (colour correction of images, file submission and proofing). Since 1998, she has designed more than 30 books and 50 calendar titles for clients Firefly Books Ltd., Canadian Geographic Enterprises and Pokeweed Press. Of special note: As art director for two cookbooks, The Chez Piggy Cookbook (a Cuisine Canada silver award winner) and The Pan Chancho Cookbook, she was principal food and prop stylist.