Graphic Clinic

Category: News

  • Dear politicians: Serve.

    Dear Politicians: Remember, you were elected to serve us, not your own agendas.After what seems to have been an eternity we are now voting for our next government. There have been lies, subterfuge and more spin than a launderettes on wash day, but now finally we might get a new kind of politics in Britain. However unless we, the British people, remind those that get elected today that we are watching them then we risk another generation of under performance for our politicians. This is why we have decided to create a simple poster that everyone can print out and display in their windows, on the lamp post in their street or indeed anywhere, that will serve as a constant reminder. A reminder that it’s time we got respect from our “Right Honourables”.

    Download our simple PDF and display it with pride: Download it now ››

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Foiled invites for V&A

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    We’ve received copies of the invites produced for the V&A Museum of Childhood to the opening preview for the exhibition we’re working on at the V&A at the moment. The exhibition opens next Saturday (6 February) with the preview evening on the 4th. At the moment the builders are still on site and Emma Houlston the illustrator is painting some wonderful statements on the walls to inspire and engage kids. We’ll put more pictures online from the exhibition next week once the objects are in place and the painting is finished.

  • Twenty 10

    It’s like 20:20 vision but not for another ten years. Happy New Year!

  • V&A proofs arrive

    Here’s a sneaky sneakers peek at a very small section of the massive roll of Llambda prints that arrived in the office today to be checked over.

    vna-proofs

  • In the midst of darkness another Nucleus Christmas card persists

    This year, after discussions with the client, we decided to resurrect an idea used three years ago – whereby we made their Xmas card a year long calendar too. So, armed with another inspiring quotation from Ghandi “In the midst of darkness, light persists”, we created another seasonal mailer that reinforces their brand values.

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  • 1,460 days of Graphic Clinic

    We’ve just completed our 4th year in business and would like to thank all our clients for not just last year, but the preceeding years too — we have a large number of long standing clients, and we like to think that’s a tribute to the way we work. We become friends, and an ear for advice on not just projects, but day-to-day questions about branding, products, messaging, ideas and of course the football.

    Year 4 has seen us working harder than ever, with highlights including launching a new website for Barclays Wealth Protected Investments, a rebrand for MRM, working with the V&A, investing in our first ‘product’ – the Original Designers Workbook, helping launch Humans not Robots, adding blogs to existing clients sites and working with Langdon Executive Properties on an exciting property development in the Caribbean’s marketing material. Not to mention changing our trading name from North & East to the slighty more obvious Graphic Clinic.. and all without a reference to the health of your brand in sight!

    There’s been much more going on than just that tip of the iceberg. So happy birthday to us, 1,460 (and a bit) days old.

  • Concrete Hermit to stock our Workbooks!

    Chris at Concrete Hermit in London’s trendy Shoreditch, one of the coolest design shop/galleries in London has agreed to stock our Original Designers Workbooks! Yay! So there’s now two locations in London to get your grubby designer paws on them.

    We’re almost out of Black covered Workbooks — should we do a reprint next year? Get in touch and let us know, we’d also like to know if you think you’d like an A5 version of them?