Moveable was founded in 1983 and has grown steadily since then,
establishing a reputation
for professionalism, thoughtful attention to detail and a strong
commitment to serving its
clients.Today the company operates around the clock out of a
landmark 21,000-square-foot
loft space in Toronto’s downtown west district, and employs 55
people.
Its prepress and
scanning divisions
offer a full range of services, including conventional drum
scans, Photo CD scans, colour editing and image retouching,
trapping, imposition and film
separations, and a variety of digital and analog proofing
options. Recent projects include
advertising for Smirnoff and Eli Lilly, sales material for
Manulife Financial, magazine spreads for
Wedding Bells
and Outpost,
point-of-sale promotions for Revlon and Yves St-Laurent, CD
packaging for BMG Music, book covers for Random House, Harcourt
Canada and Key Porter,
catalogues for the Toronto International Film Festival and
Umbra, and annual reports for Bank
of Montreal, Andres Wines,Hydro One and Imax.
The company’s
digital
printing division features a
Heidelberg Quickmaster DI press, two Xerox
DocuColors, a DocuPrint black-and-white printer and an in-house
bindery.The
poster division
includes three large-format inkjet plotters and offers rapid
production of digital colour posters
for indoor and outdoor point-of-sale, event marketing and
signage.
Typesetting
is
alive and well at Moveable, and the company offers production services for a
wide variety of print projects. Its innovative proofreading and
typographic fine-tuning service
refines designer-formatted pages to ensure that the final
document is error-free and meets the
highest typographic standards. Its rigorous proofreading process
has also been used prior to
major Web launches to ensure accuracy and consistency.This
division specializes in corporate
communications, and in the past 12 months alone has handled
typesetting, proofreading and
copy editing on more than 40 annual reports, including those for
major corporations like Bank
of Montreal, Noranda, Barrick, Onex,TD Waterhouse,Hydro One and
Kimberly-Clark.
Moveable Online, the company’s
Internet
division, offers everything from
HTML coding to
custom dynamic application development and secure hosting
services. It collaborates with its
design studio clients to create Web sites and robust
applications marked by high production
values and intelligent, user-friendly functionality.
Moveable is a member of the International Digital Imaging
Association and has won more than
75 international awards for excellence in the graphic arts. Its
work has been cited by the
American Center for Design, the New York Type Directors Club,
the Mead Annual Report Show,
The Advertising & Design Club of Canada and
Applied
Arts magazine, among others.