Hello!

We are rebuilding and launching soon!

Learn more below

About Gas +

Solvers of impossible problems. The insider’s secret weapon. The retoucher’s retoucher. Though none of these phrases quite fit, all of them have been used as a way to try to sum up The Gas Company. For over twenty years, our clients have come to us – again and again – when they need:

  • One-of-a-kind, custom proposals that outshine the competition
  • Multiple photographic details merged into one seamless image
  • Cost-effective solutions for complex, multifaceted printing projects
  • Bindery, macquettes, boxes, books, bangles and other bells and whistles
  • Prepress, cutting, stamping, paper, substrates, inks, signage and samples
  • Big things, small things, tall things and wingdings
  • Reinvention, reassembling, reworking, reordering and renewal
  • Untangling, unification, unjamming and undoing

Our clients turn to us when they’re told that it can’t be done. Our colleagues turn to us when they don’t know how. We’re grateful for the trust these people have placed in us. We’re thankful for all the many friends we’ve made. As always, we’re looking forward to the next challenge – and the next twenty years.

22 Ripley Avenue
Toronto, ON
M6S 3N9

416-363-1010

Sample Portfolio +

Retouching +

A word which here means everything from simple colour correction and harmonization to the removal, reinvention and replacement of entire backgrounds. We also do tummy tucks, chin reductions, hair replacements and painless blemish removals.

Photographed by Sandy Nicholson, each player of the Chelsea FC Academy was shot individually – on and off site. The photographs were digitally combined and colour balanced by Gas Co.

Created for the Toronto Raptors, Sandy Nicholson photographed the players individually and the background separately. Gas Co. combined, colour-corrected and sharpened the individual shots while adding shadows for dramatic effect.

We do a lot of these. Often, our only reference is a quick cell phone image. Graphics are digitally rendered using lighting effects, highlights and shadows. Created for John St. Advertising.

Created with We are Social for Grand Marnier, Gas Co., retouched the supplied photography for a social media campaign.

Printing & Proposals +

By which we hereby mean the production of short run, long run, digital, lithographic, stamped, letter-pressed, bound and or folded printed objects that might be proposals (or not).

With silkscreened opaque white graphics on charcoal linen, this binder/manual for TAS Design Build sends the right message.

Gas Co. produced custom matching powder-coated rings.

The use of high-quality digital printing on natural linen (exterior) and matt vinyl (interior) allows for a flawless and affordable RFP, even in small quantities.

The quality of the photographs, printed digitally, is as good or better than traditional lithography.

The yellow foil-stamping on linen is crisp, clean, and durable.

This presentation for Diamond Schmidt, Architects was designed, printed, laminated, laser-cut, photographed and assembled by Gas Co. in less than 36 hours.

Despite a very tight timeframe, our client's bid on this large project was received in good time.

This bid/proposal for the Kellogg School of Management building project by KPMB Architects was produced in two sizes – both with custom black metals.

Twelve sets of five binders, this comprehensive RFP for the William Osler Health System by EllisDon uses foil-stamped graphics on printed cloth.

Twelve sets of five binders, this comprehensive RFP for the William Osler Health System by EllisDon uses foil-stamped graphics on printed cloth.

Short-run laminated and die-cut playing cards created in collaboration with John St. Advertising for Loblaw's No Name brand.

Custom die lines were created to produce, folded and glued matching boxes to house the cards.

These handsome custom foil stamped journals were designed by Viva & Co. for a Royal Conservatory Music event, sponsored by Tricon Residential.

The smythe-sewn booklet was given to each guest.

Stationery package designed and printed for Guy Knowles by Gas Co. The cards and envelopes are stamped in white foil on wood veneer and mounted back-to-back with letterpressed stock.

Front and back of business cards.

Designed by Sarah Dinnick, this carefully considered stationery package includes blind debossing and intaglio engraving.

The crisp blind deboss was achieved through the use of a custom brass die.

Our award-winning stationery package uses double hits of black ink with a registered deboss and intaglio engraving. Logo and stationery designed by Viva & Co.

Crisp blacks and whites are achieved through the use of duplexing and die cutting.

Created for Agathom Architects, this deceptively simple-looking stationery package designed by Viva & Co. uses six-colour lithography, letterpress printing, intaglio engraving, and duplexing.

The custom envelopes were first printed, then die cut, and then folded and glued to achieve printing on the inside.

Created for Knoll as part of a corporate bid, these smythe-sewn presentations are printed digitally.

A blind deboss and translucent section dividers complete the package.

A set of three saddle-stitched promotional books for the Bishop Stachan School.

The books were produced for Type A Print with retouching, colour corrections, prepress, printing and bindery by Gas Co.

Special Projects +

And here the term is not meant to imply that all other projects are not special. Not at all. Only that some projects – for whatever reason – present a challenge that requires a wholly unique solution. Not better. Not worse. Just special.

A custom die cut "singing" pizza box promotion for John St. Advertising.

Gas Co. programmed the jingle, onto 300 hidden, light-activated audio cards that played when the box was opened.

Detail showing die cutting of printed sheet mounted on cardboard using our Zund digital die cutter.

These President's Choice Black Label influencer packages use a cloth-wrapped case and a silk-screened red and white logo. The matte black inner liner was digitally printed with gloss black type.

The promotion ran for one year with 20 boxes released each month.

Produced with John St. Advertising, each version had a different set of products with a custom die cut tray.

A blind and copper hot foil stamped, four-piece case with a tray and magnetic closure was presented to Drake (yes, that Drake!) as a thank-you from The Hershey Company for including Reese's in a song lyric.

The false bottom holds a grid of 9 mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Lifting the ribbon reveals a lower chamber containing a small box with a custom ring fashioned as a peanut butter cup.

Produced for Grip Ltd., sixty die-cut, embossed foil packages with spot gloss coating were produced for a Dulcolax promotion.

These boxes were presented to VIPs in the lead-up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by Bell Canada. The red cup when revealed through the circular die cut represents the Japanese flag.

The invitation was designed to hold four canisters of Japanese tea arranged around a handmade ceramic teacup.