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Foot & Playsted is taking part in a Launceston City Council initiative, in partnership with 'Village Green', which will see the adoption of work practices designed to improve productivity whilst reducing environmental impact.
The initial stage was an assessment, done in February, of the current environmental impact of the business. It is being followed by a series of seminars exploring ways of reducing this impact, along with ways of implementing any practical ideas that eventuate. At the end of the program the business will be assessed again to see where gains and improvements have been achieved, and to target areas for further improvement.
Foot & Playsted have long been active in the area of environmental sustainability and accountability, and as a company, is keen to be involved in this initiative.
Treasures of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery revealed
The 228 page book, showcasing highly treasured museum artefacts, has been produced by foot & Playsted for the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
The work features photographs of the exhibits taken by John Leeming and text written by 18 museum specialists, edited by Kaye Dimmack.
The design for the book was completed by Foot & Playsted's senior graphic designer Richard Hill and subsequent printing was also performed in-house.
Foot & Playsted's chairman of directors, Bob Bilson was a key element in the initiation of the project and a driving force behind it's high quality production.
The book was launched on the 26 July at the museum's Inveresk facility by Launceston author and historian Dr Eric Ratcliff.
Images supplied courtesy of the Launceston Examiner
^ Back to topWealth of treasures, great and small
Martin Stevenson reports on a practical history guide printed and published in Launceston.
While this beautifully-designed and illustrated coffee table book details aspects of our history of which many readers will already be aware, there is still a surprise on almost every page.
QVMAG director Chris Tassell, for example, claims the institution as having the largest Australian collection of colonial convict attire.
And there is a claim to the museum holding Australia's first recognisable flag - the forerunner of this nation's flag, the giant bunting of the Australasian League designed by antitransportationist Rev. John West, and used as a potent symbol to bring about the end of convictism and here written about by Louise James.
There is an essay by physical sciences curator Martin George on the huon pine telephone used by Alfred Biggs to make a call in 1877 between the railway stations at Campbell Town and Launceston, understood to be the first such communication made in Australia.
And with a due bow to the preeminence railways have had on this State, there is a huge acknowledgement of Inveresk QVMAG's former purpose as a centre of the island's rail network as well as a formidable manufacturing base.
Ann Teasdale's detailed description of the Launceston Railway Workshops includes ethereal photos of areas that have been maintained as if the workers had knocked off for the day.
Pictured are tickets to the original turning-of-the-sod at Inveresk on January 15, 1868, for the Launceston and Western Railway by the first Duke of Edinburgh and a selection of metal plates identifying various Tasmanian locomotives.
Over its 150 year history (and that includes the early Mechanics' Institute years), the QVMAG has built up an impressive rare book collection held at Inveresk and which includes a rare 1849 edition of Tales Of The Colonies; Or The Adventures Of An Emigrant presented to prominent Irish rebel leader William Smith O'Brien by his sister Anne Martineau in 1894 when he was held in Ireland's Richmond prison.
There are thoughtful essays by QVMAG experts (displaying the depth of the intellectual resource at museum) including Glenda King on Tasmanian Aboriginal shell necklaces, Linda Clark on the Sydney Cove 1797 shipwreck collection (including a timing glass, shoes and beer bottles), Jai Paterson on the stirring history of trade union banners held by the museum. It includes the extraordinarily detailed Launceston Railway Workshops' Railway Employees' banner painted by Will Cummings in Launceston in 1892 and rescued as Paterson says "from the soot and grime of the railway's blacksmith's shop.
Tasmanian tigers, miner birds, tiger sharks and Tasmanian emus are studied in delightful detail by Brian J. Smith while Kim Simpson provides an essay on the museum's convict collection.
Many Australian museums have produced books detailing their collections and thereby inviting readers to search the premises for unlikely finds.
Treasures Of The Queen Victoria Museum And Art Gallery is one of the finest, produced with care and professionalism by Foot and Playsted.
A minor quibble are the constant reminders throughout the book that it is intended to be read from left to right - large white arrows on a beige blob at the top of most pages indicate to anyone who can read, or even just look at the pictures, that that is how books are digested.
Apart from that, perfect, just perfect.
This article has been supplied courtesy of the Launceston Examiner. It first appeared Saturday, August 5, 2006.
^ Back to topNew Digital Print Centre
Foot & Playsted have recently purchased a high speed digital print station to add to our already impressive list of state of the art printing equipment.
The acquisition of this versatile piece of equipment allows us to offer a short run fast-turn-around digital print service to our clients at a very cost effective rate.
The flexibility of the machine, and it's ability to produce a high quality finished product in a very short space of time is already proving it's worth when operating alongside our more traditional offset printing presses.
^ Back to topBoag's Brewery Battle of Pride 2006
The Foot & Playsted team, assembled and ready for battle.
Always willing to spend time with their adoring fans.
The team in full flight, on their
way to an impressive victory.
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