Design - 128pp A5 trade catalogue, design and artwork

We're a UK distributor of industrial wood coatings and finishing products, and we need a designer to create our first product catalogue.

128 pages, A5 portrait, perfect bound. Roughly 100 pages of product listings — several products per page with images, descriptions and spec tables — plus around 20 pages of technical and advisory content at the front. Product data will be supplied as a spreadsheet, images as files, and we have brand guidelines and a logo.

We're after a clean, dense, practical reference document rather than a glossy brochure. Think trade catalogue.

You'd be responsible for the grid and layout design, the product page templates, the cover, and building out all 128 pages. Files must be print-ready for a UK litho printer: PDF/X-4, 3mm bleed, crops, CMYK, 300dpi.

Please send examples of catalogue, directory or magazine work you've designed, along with your rate and an estimate of the time involved. We'd like to start with a paid trial — cover plus one 8-page section — before committing to the full project.

The budget I have shown is not our budget I have just added something to get the advert up and running - please give your realistic budget.