A catalogue documenting Montreal's metro art, station by station.
Project Type
Publication Design
Role
Designer
Year
2026


Design a catalogue on the public art commissioned for Montreal's metro system. The audience includes commuters, students, artists, architects, and tourists. The format needed to be informative and aesthetic, treating the artwork and photography as the priority. The cover had to announce the tone, and the interior had to hold a history section, artwork listings, and two data visualizations.
Artwork Photography: Isabelle Gadbois






I organized the artwork by metro line rather than by year. A passenger riding the orange line can see exactly what art lives throughout the line. I wanted the book to feel like a path, moving through the network in the same order a traveller would. The landscape format came from the artwork itself. Most pieces stretch horizontally across station walls. A tall book would have fought them.


The layout stays consistent throughout. A simple grid, generous negative space, and typography that never competes with the images. The history section includes a timeline of key dates, placed cleanly within the spread. One data visualization appears as a spread, tracking the materials used across the artworks. The cover features croppings of the artworks placed side by side, creating a continuous path from front to back cover, like walking through a gallery.



