Graphic Clinic

Month: March 2010

  • Grafik Magazine reviews our Original Designers Workbooks

    Last year, not long after we’d printed our 1,000 copies of the Original Designers Workbooks, we sent a few off to Grafik in the hope that they’d put them in their magazine. Alas they didn’t feel they would be right for the luscious pages of their international journal on graphics, preferring to featuring screenprints from the brilliant Anthony Burrill or some super sexy collaboration between Generation Press and Build. We understood. The ODW is a functional design—with a nice clear foil block on the cover—but essentially 200 of the 204 pages are identical. It’s not going to win a D&AD Black Pencil (well it would be amazing if it did, but we won’t put the Bolli on chill just yet).

    What the Workbook does offer is a damn useful notebook/sketchbook. However, having used them in their offices for nearly a year and finding them utterly invaluable, they’ve put our Workbooks top of their “Objektified” list of the most desirable notebooks around.

    http://www.grafikmag.com/index.php?m=GR&sub=GRdetail&id=378

    So thanks to Dan who wrote the article and we’re chuffed you find your Workbook so valuable.

  • More V&A exhibitions images

    More V&A exhibitions images

    The stencil produced for the ‘materials’ wall

    The ‘materials’ wall, otherwise known as the “How are seats made” section of the exhibition

    The “play” section of the exhibtion

    A Tripp Trapp highchair, something I will be buying for my baby thanks to discovering it during this project

    Some nicely typeset Rockwell. It’s a nightmare font and every headline, and indeed much of the body text in the exhibition required kerning.

    The exhibition has some interactive elements for kids, for which we produced little voting cards in this instance, so they can vote for whether the stools designed by New Bucks Uni students should go into production…

    …and these ones for them to design their own seats and post them for all to see on the wall.

    Details of  object labels

  • V&A Museum of Childhood images from the exhibition

    If you can’t make the time to take a trip to Bethnal Green in London’s east end before September here are a whole load of images we took at the exhibition we designed (in partnership with Wells Mackereth Architects and commissioning Emma Houlston) for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Museum of Childhood temporary exhibtion on child seating through the ages.















  • Ignite – designing a sub-brand

    We’ve just completed a logo design for one of our long-standing clients, Nucleus, for a new sub brand of theirs called Ignite. Taking into consideration all the factors in a sub-brand design, we’ve produced the shown logo (below). We think it’s spot on and sits perfectly into all their existing marketing material. They think it’s “absolutely brill”, which is nice.

    Ignite logo