All work03 / 11 · Catalogue
56 parts, one product card
A 16-page trade catalogue of bolts, screws, nuts and washers, with product cards filled by Data Merge and engineering reference tables at the back.
- Project
- STENVIK fastener catalogue
- Category
- Catalogues & lookbooks · 2026
- Extent
- 16 pp
- Specification
- US Letter · 16 pp · English · InDesign, Data Merge · Self-initiated
The brief
What it had to do
I set myself the brief of an industrial distributor: dozens of near-identical parts, where a buyer has to find thread, length, drive, torque and pack price at a glance.
In a catalogue like this, one wrong number is a returned order. The data has to go onto the page untouched.
Inside the InDesign file
How it is built
- Data Merge from a 56-row spreadsheet: reference, standard, thread, length, drive, torque, pack size, price and a line drawing for every part
- One product card with the same fields in the same order, for all 56 parts
- A reference code key on page 3, so a buyer can read any code without the index
- Two numbered sections with full-bleed openers, then dimensional reference, technical data, a reference index and ordering terms
- IBM Plex Sans for reading and Plex Mono for every figure
“Every number is set in a monospaced face. Thread pitches, lengths and prices line up down the page, so a buyer comparing M8 × 25 with M8 × 40 reads straight across.”
What this shows
Adding a size or changing a price is a spreadsheet edit and a re-merge. The layout does not move.
STENVIK is a fictional brand.