BACK ISSUES - AUGUST 2022
LAUNCH ISSUE DONE AND DUSTED
Issue 1 of Catalogue 18 is officially sold out!
We Kickstarted the launch issue in early 2019 and printed 1,000 copies. There are still a few boxes of Issue 2 remaining.
SOCIETY OF PUBLICATION DESIGNERS - MARCH 2021
SPD LAUDS C18
Um, wow.
The Society of Publication Designers has just named Issue 2 of Catalogue 18 to its list of Print Merit Winners, a big accomplishment for a little startup. You may (cough) have heard of a few of the other on the list: The Atlantic, Conde Nast, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, GQ, Martha Stewart Living, Mother Jones, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Wired.
We can’t say enough about the brilliant art direction on our behalf by Vanessa Wyse and her team at Studio Wyse. Check out a selection of their handiwork right here.
Oh, and it’s not too late to pick up a copy of Issue 2. Thanks as always for your support.
CLIPPINGS - MARCH 2021
Catalogue 18 in the media
Catalogue 18 is a magazine, but for other media, it’s also a unique business story. Here’s some recent coverage:
TSN Radio: Hosts Jim Tatti and Perry Lefko grill publisher Guy Nicholson on C18 and more. (Starts around the 26:30 mark)
Golf Pass (formerly Golf Advisor): “It’s refreshing to go analog,” says writer Tim Gavrich.
Golf Canada: Author John Gordon says C18 is pure “golf porn.”
ScoreGolf: C18 nominated as Canadian Golf Product of the Year for a second consecutive year.
ScoreGolf: Columnist Rick Young describes how Issue 2 came to pass. “As good as the original launch was … the sequel could be better.”
Lorne Rubenstein: Hall of Fame golf writer calls Issue 2 “extraordinary.”
Evalu18.com: “Read if you want a visually stimulating, coffee-table inspired thrill ride to overload your senses.”
Irish Examiner: If a picture is worth a thousand words, C18 is “a production to rival War and Peace.”
ISSUE 002 - MAY 2020
C-19 AND C18
No tournaments, no travel, course openings on hold … golf and golfers have mostly been grounded as life, business and the game we love grind to a halt during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Catalogue 18 cancelled its trip to the Masters this spring as the coronavirus circled the globe. Any other year, this would have been painful, but the loss felt almost trivial compared to what’s been suffered by others around the world and around the game.
Please spare a thought for our contributors, many of whom don’t know when they’ll start travelling and working their magic again. They’d love to have you buy a print or commission them for some post-COVID work.
As for C18 itself, we were well into production on our second issue as the world went into lockdown. With finances uncertain and the world consumed with the virus’s spread, moving ahead has been no small decision. We pushed back the print run a bit while we worked out the logistics: Editorial production and subscription work are being completed remotely as usual, but we needed to be sure our printer’s staff would be working safely and keeping their distance on the floor. They will be, and we are comforted that printing would continue in any case — it’s still widely considered an essential service.
So we’re going ahead with another whopping collection of golf-course images and stories. We’re introducing two new contributors, Jon Cavalier and Chris Fry. We’ve dreamed up a brand-new bucket list, and plotted a photographer’s dream trip. We’ve put together guided tours of golf courses in Vietnam, New Zealand, Scotland, New York and California. Our writers played Augusta National, investigated the rise of hand-crafted golf products and travelled to historic links at risk of flooding.
Speaking of which, we’d dearly love a few more subscribers to help keep our own heads above water. If you expect to have a bit of time on your hands in coming weeks and months, now is a perfect time to get lost in a beautiful collection of golf-course images. (Preview: It includes Jacob Sjöman’s loving capture of the 3rd at Thracian Cliffs in Bulgaria, above.)
UPDATE: Issue 2 has now been sent to print but you can still subscribe while quantities last. A few copies of the launch issue are still available, too. Thank you and best to all our subscribers and supporters.
SCOREGOLF MAGAZINE - DECEMBER 2019
CANADIAN GOLF PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
ISSUE 001 - APRIL 2019
THE LAUNCH ISSUE
Catalogue 18 is golf’s first subscription art magazine — 300 pages of pure visual pleasure. A sumptuous annual compendium of photos, paintings, illustrations, tours, articles and portfolios by two dozen award-winning photographers and artists. It’s large, it’s lavish and there’s nothing like it in print. Oh, and it just became the first golf magazine to launch on Kickstarter.
The launch issue ships in early 2019, but we’re saving you a copy. You’ll want to check out image collections from Pinehurst No. 2, Cabot Cliffs, The Loop, Doonbeg, Nordic Europe, the Coachella Valley and Australia’s other sand belt. In all, there are images of nearly 200 courses from around the world, expertly shot or created by David Cannon, Stephen Szurlej, Linda Hartough, Brian Oar, Channing Benjamin, Dave Baysden, David Scaletti, Evan Schiller, Gary Kellner, Kaia Means, Josh Bills, Lee Wybranski, Wood Sabold, Aidan Bradley, Kevin Markham, Jacob Sjöman, Gary Lisbon, Michael Miller, Patrick Koenig, Mike Cocking, Kevin Murray, Riley Johns, Tony Harris, Russell Kirk and Steve Carr.
Keep Catalogue 18 for yourself or wrap it up as a golf lover’s gift. It’s $60, plus door-to-door shipping to any U.S. or international address. And there’s no commitment: The subscription’s for convenience, but you can opt out at any time, even after a single issue.