The GDC/BC Salazar Student Awards were established in 1985 to honour Enrique Salazar, a founding member of the Society, a BC National Representative, Partner in Salazar Graphics and a highly regarded member of the BC design community.

Among many other achievements, Enrique Salazar remained committed to design education throughout his career and taught Graphic Design at Capilano College until his death in June 1985.

MET Fine Printers, the Founding Sponsor of this event, has once again joined with the GDC to commemorate Enrique Salazar and celebrate BC’c most talented and promising design students and their inspirational work.

For more information visit http://bc.gdc.net/salazar2012/

2012 Salazar Awards May 11th

This years theme of “Vancouver” was presented by a wide range of iconic images from Fluor’s rotating Umbrella Skyline of Vancouver, Levelton Consulting’s amazing Eagle Cam and Perkins+Will / MET Fine Printers Chinese Dragon in the Four Seasons Gallery.  The event is open to the public for FREE Monday March 26th through to April 4th 9:30 am – 5pm. Bring your family down, enjoy the creativity, do your good deed for the day, have a little fun. …. ok, Barry, nice job of supervising.

MET Fine Printers founded Canstruction Vancouver in 2002, since then over 1,056,000 cans of food have been collected, built, stacked, stuck, created, taken apart and donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Our 10th competition gets underway this weekend with 20 teams building amazing sculptures out of canned food and creativity. Schools, Architects, Engineers, Graphic Designers of all shapes come together to pit their creative prowess against each other for the greater good.  Wish our competitors luck *and a straight plumbline.  Come see the event on our Walk of Cans from the Four Seasons Hotel at 791 W. Georgia, to the HSBC Pendulum Gallery, over to the Fortis building 1177 W. Georgia and finally at Presenting Sponsor FortisBC’s office at 1111 W. Georgia starting Monday March 26 thru to April 4th (excluding April 1).

MET UV Inks are polymer based inks that cure instantly upon exposure to a short burst of Ultra Violet light, releasing ZERO harmful VOC’s into the atmosphere. UV or light activated inks, effectively lay down wet on dry to yield unparalleled color and fidelity especially on Un-Coated papers and provide amazing Gloss to Matt ratio’s on Coated papers.  It requires less physical space, no dry time and is not subject to the issues that Vegetable/Soya/Oil Based inks struggle with such as “dry back”, “chemical gas ghosting” and long drying times.MX12

For more information on MET UV inks and coatings, send us a note at hello@metprinters.com

This is the time of year we focus our collaborative efforts on our Canstruction Vancouver project founded by MET Chairman George Kallas.  A curious and creative design/build competition pitting corporate teams, schools and students together to create magical sculptures out of canned food. This is the 10th year for Vancouver and we can’t be more excited. To date we have raised 1,056,000 cans of food, the single largest injection of food (largely protein) into the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society each year.

We are supported by an amazing cast of sponsors including; FortisBC, The Vancouver Sun, CKNW98, Global TV, HSBC, Ritchie Bros. to name but a few. See our website at www.canstructionvancouver.com (powered by MET Resource by the way…) to get the full cast of characters.

Be sure to come down and support Canstruction Vancouver; anchored in the HSBC Pendulum Art Gallery 885 W. Georgia St, moving through a total of 5 venues strolling along W. Georgia St. with 20 sculptures.

Our goal is to generate as much traffic as we can in order to give the Greater Vancouver Food Bank more opportunity for on site donations. We invite you to join our Corporate Tin Cup Challenge sponsored by HSBC where your company can send a group of builders down for a lunch time challenge and great team building event. Vote for your favorite sculpture with The Vancouver SUN’s Peoples Choice Award during the event. Come and celebrate at the Ritchie Bros. Candemonium event Wednesday March 28th where we discover the winners of the local and international Canstruction award categories, bid on some spectacular auction items and enjoy a preview of the upcoming CircusWest show BlueSky.

Help us sustain our population with nourishing food and a healthy dose of philanthropy on everyone’s part. Business can do their job, or they can do them right.

Scott Gray is a Co-Chair of Canstruction Vancouver and can be reach at scott@metprinters.com

“I was amazed with the overall quality exhibited by all 10 finalists,” said Tim Larsen, president of Larsen (Minneapolis, MN and Menlo Park, CA) and judge for the Quarter Four competition. “But the Nike piece stood out to me because of that fabric in the front cover. Combined with the use of uncoated paper and the honest photos and illustrations, you’ve got an engaging piece of communication that captures our attention and holds out interest.”

See the full article and video Nike Collaborates with Opolis Design and MET Fine Printers

MET Fine Printers keeps building Brands

Canada’s Premier Print Action Magazine celebrates MET Fine Printer’s Brand story in their February 2012 issue, highlighting the companies history and bold vision under the eye of Nikos Kallas and his team. The front page article is a result of MET’s stellar North America wide reputation in the design and communications industry for award winning environmentally innovative service.  The interview goes into detailed conversation with the team with President – Nikos Kallas , Chairman – George Kallas, COO Mike Winteringham, VP Sales Bob Faulkner and Director of Brand Scott Gray revealing the companies vision for a new world of Print Communications. Read the article for the full story. Print Action Feature Story on MET Fine Printers

For immediate Release

Peter Tom joins MET

MET Fine Printers is proud to announce the addition of Peter Tom as Technology Integrations Manager for our Vancouver based Pre-Media team.  Peter has a long history of award winning systems and colour management experience and is excited to join MET and push the boundaries of service and print innovation.

Peter has an exceptional understanding of what print is capable of and where it is heading. With over 20 years of industry experience with Blanchette Press, 3S Printers and ongoing teaching roles he continues to be fascinated with the potential of communications.

“Peter is one of those guys you can’t really put a label on; his experience and thought process is so diverse.” Says COO Mike Winteringham, “Today, Pre-Media is more than beautiful colour, it spans, remote proofing, web portals, one-touch workflows, mobile platforms, and the convergence of technology. I’m really excited about our future and the exceptional projects our team is working with.”

MET Fine Printers is one of North America’s most sought after commercial printing companies. Their family owned and professionally managed Carbon Neutral operations are based in Vancouver, BC.  Since 1977, MET Fine Printers and MET Resource continue serving the Environment, Design and Business communities of the Pacific Northwest with craft, technology and an unparalleled service commitment.

For more information please contact
Scott Gray, Director of Brand

scott@METprinters.com l www.METprinters.com

TED Global Conference Guide GOLD

MET came home with Bronze, Silver and Gold in the prestigious “Most Environmentally Progressive Print Project” category at the Canadian Printing Awards Gala in Toronto presented by Print Action Magazine.

Scott Gray, MET’s Director of Brand was on hand to accept the awards “This is a tremendous honor for us and shows how MET’s environmental efforts are paying off. This is the fourth year we have won in this category but the first that we taken all 3 awards. Our clients understand the power of the Green Economy; the MET process and our crafts-people are able to make Environmental Print production look gorgeous as it is part of our everyday lifestyle here.” Gray continues “ Our partnerships with Climate Smart / Pacific Carbon Trust , MAN Roland and Enviro Image Solutions have helped develop our Green Economy toolkit and our clients drive the process forward.”

The winning projects are:
Gold – TED Global Conference Guide, designed by Hybrid Design of San Francisco.
Silver – design mind Magazine, frog design of San Francisco.
Bronze – Spring 2011 issue of Montecristo Magazine published in Vancouver, BC

for more information, please contact
Scott Gray
Director of Brand
scott@metprinters.com
1 866 254 4201