Slapstick Rebrand

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Here we feature Louis Murphy Hancock’s rebrand for the Slapstick Festival, an annual event that takes place in Bristol. This project was part of Louis’s degree show and cleverly intertwines typography with appropriate silent slapstick footage to great effect.

Stills mood board

Stills mood board

Animated billboard

Programmes designed on celluloid & rolled up

Programmes designed on celluloid & rolled up

Short advertising show start times

A short film outlining the theatres ground rules

Perforated tickets play with visual wit.

Perforated tickets play with visual wit.

Short film advertising ticket sales

Outdoor Advertising

Outdoor Advertising

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Ambient Ideas

Ambient Ideas

Goodbye and come again soon!

Great work. Comprehensive, well crafted and appropriate to the subject matter.

Monster Project

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Here we feature James Clarke’s brand vision for the Monster Raving Loony Party. The brief was one of our final year industry contact briefs set in autumn 2017 by Love Creative.

Identity - Referencing Screaming Lord Sutch’s (founder of the MRLP) iconic top hat

Identity - Referencing Screaming Lord Sutch’s (founder of the MRLP) iconic top hat

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Utilising the four words in the title the brand was able to create a simple grid devise

Utilising the four words in the title the brand was able to create a simple grid devise

Party political broadcast concept

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All in all a top project and great example of connected, expansive & creative thinking for any student of Graphic Design. Words & image in harmony.

Good book, great advice

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With record numbers of design and advertising students graduating into the job market each year, it makes more sense now than ever before to be fully armed to succeed. This book helps new designers make the transition from design school to work, giving them the ammunition they need for a successful start.


Here the reader will learn how to get that all-important first job, and how to impress their new employer. They will also have at their fingertips plenty of useful, practical information essential to know in the design studio and when working for clients. Enriched with quotes and advice from some of the best and brightest in the industry, this book is where you will find out what they didn't teach you in design school.

Paula Scher - Life Lessons from the Field

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A couple of weeks back, Kev, Ted and a group of students headed over the Pennines to Sheffield Hallam where design legend Paula Scher was giving a talk: Life Lessons from the Field. In her early design career Paula worked as an art director at CBS Records where she designed many record sleeves (literally hundreds), in all styles and in all ways. Paula became a partner of Pentagram in 1991. In her time there, Paula has created an amazing amount of work, both for her clients but also as a practising artist. With such a career behind (and still in frront of) her, showing everything would be an impossibility.

More recent work in Pentagram has taken her down a path of creating environmental graphics, the exterior of Lucent Technologies Centre being particularly recognisable (and now almost 20 years old). This has led to newer projects, the Quad Cinema being a personal favourite.

The talk broke down through ten salient points:

  1. Fall in love with something that’s been designed

  2. Have heroes and/or mentors

  3. Push back against something

  4. Defy the career staircase

  5. Go the distance

  6. Be a neophyte

  7. Find a personal expression

  8. Work for free

  9. Hang around with smart people

  10. Do what you do best but change with the times

Now I shan’t try and explain those points here. Luckily enough, they are self-explanatory to a point. But - for example - with point 3, Paula chose to push back against Helvetica. She developed a passion for scavenging and resurrecting old type in an era when digitisation was threatening to erase historical wooden type from history. Then using the type in an expressive manner, directly opposite to the teachings of Swiss typography. In fact this was a direct lesson she took from her teacher at art school - Stanislaw Zagorski - he told her three words to “illustrate with type”. See type as an illustration, and that letters have form.

I attach some photographs below, apologies for the quality, but they were taken from the rear quarters of a sizeable lecture theatre. 

One of the things I also took from the talk was in a response to a question after the presentation. Regarding the shear quantity of work outputted, how does she find the time to actually do it all to which Paula simply answered “I work fast, not long”.

Record sleeve designs: art directed type, stained glass typography, pure typography

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Snippets from The Public Theater

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One week project: Google doodle

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Year 1 have recently submitted their ideas for the Google doodle illustration project. The brief required the students to research and discover an unusual date or anniversary and illustrate the concept using their design skills. Though not required at this stage, some (Linked below) were presented in animated form.

The Invention of the magnifying glass

Anniversary of the ballpoint pen

National umbrella day

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For the love of it - Conference Week 8

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Here we feature our official Conference Week 8 ident and this year’s theme - ‘for the love of it’. We are also close to finalising the full line up for the week and once we have our bucket list completed we will let everyone know. This year’s week of talks, workshops and folder surgeries runs from Monday 11th through until Friday 15th February, 2019.

However what we can say is that it’s shaping up to be a belter!