It was deemed part of the designer’s brief to liaise with the architects wordwide to collect the illustrative content of the book. These included digital photographs of architectural models, drawings, and three – dimensional renderings. As the time-scale was critical, electronic transmission had to be employed to collate these elements from all points of the globe. The images were supplied in a number of different formats, file types, and resolutions. Most were compressed as JPEGs to speed transmission. All the images had to be re-sampled to TIFF or EPS format to create 300 dpi CMYK files suitable for printing. Text was supplied as a digital word-processing file by email and run into the page layouts. The pages were designed entirely on screen and first stage proofs created as PDF files. A set of hard-copy page proofs were also supplied to the client to ensure the ‘feel’ was balanced and the weights of type sympathetic to the design.