electric angel /design for life

coastival programme

the coastival programme was launched this week announcing a fantastic line-up for the festival in february. our challenge in designing the programme was to create a cohesive look for a wonderfully diverse weekend in which you might go see feeder, watch laurence olivier in wuthering heights, visit a video installation in an underground carpark and spend some time in the company of a best selling author.

we’ve identified the 8 strands of the festival with hand-drawn icons and a colour-coded system. the first two ‘openings’ of the programme reveal a general then genre-specific intro to coastival, the reverse is a full page of what’s going on over the whole weekend categorised by strand. we wrote the copy for the introductions.

as with all work for festivals like this the priority is to create something that is as usable as possible. all the venues are numbered and can be found via a map on the rear of the leaflet. plus there’s an at-a-glance listing so you can browse each day chronologically.

if you’d like a programme posting to you free of charge send an email titled ‘Please send me a Coastival programme’ and containing your name and address to contact@create.uk.net

celebrating 125 years

the boys’ brigade have been celebrating their 125th anniversary this year which makes them the world’s first uniformed youth organisation [the scouts celebrated their centenary last year].

we were commissioned to design a logo to be used at celebrations, on publicity material and on a whole range of commemorative products. when i went down to bb hq around easter it was fun to see everything from mugs to rulers to keyrings with the 125 logo on including this rather nice bronze badge – we adapted the logo to work as a roundel for this. anyway, we failed to blog this at the time so are sneaking it in at the end of the year, but a belated congratulations to the bb on their 125 years of ‘bringing hope to a generation’.