coastival returns, and a year earlier than expected with a one-day event – their rather splendid day out.

due to public demand, coastival’s buxom seaside postcard mascot – christened glady’s – also returns to entice you to the UK’s first seaside resort for an out-of-season day of drama, laughs and good grooves for all ages. tickets are already sold out for some events so head straight to www.coastival.com for yours.

images are from our flyer design featuring a die-cut cover, hand-drawn logo and some cheeky seafront-inspired typography.

scarborough’s own cultural olympiad project, seaswim, is sending poem postcards to outdoor swimming clubs around the country asking them to notice sights, sounds and textures when they swim. the aim is to write a collective poem from the responses.

look out for a seaswim exhibition as part of coastival and a series of beach hut artist residencies in summer, plus regular group swims of course.

the 2011 swim times leaflet for the imove sea swim project.

the photograph that covers the whole leaflet was taken by james swimming out in the south bay and we printed it in reverse on translucent paper with the black type printed on the front to give a sense of depth. the white lettering is the whited out of the background image and so is basically the light shining through the paper. the typography continues a house style for the project started on the beach huts earlier in the year.

we’ve had more lovely comments about this than any other recent piece of work (thanks everyone who has taken time to mention how much they like it), not least this typically poetic one from john who is co-curator of the project: “lovely liquid quality – as if you’d dipped an image in the water and hung it up to run and dry”

the leaflet was printed by north wolds.

here’s the limestone journeys artwork i blogged about last week on display for the ‘festival of the environment’ at creswell crags visitor centre in derbyshire. there were some great comments about the artwork, not least the postcards written in character as ice age cave dwellers.

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if you’d like to read about the different sections of the artwork and the activities that led to them being created you can download an info sheet here.

if you’re reading this, please do feel invited to come along. the exhibition will continue through to november and is part of the arts programme put together by coastival for the UK pro surf tour which comes to scarborough next month.

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this year’s beverley literature festival brochure. front cover image, beverley images and children’s photography all by james. and it’s all real bar the ’2011′ sticker – no photoshoppery here, thank you.

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as with last year’s we’ve used a flip-over approach so the single piece of print can work as both full and children’s festival brochure according to how it’s displayed.

continuing the branding work with the future ferens group in hull.

you’re sat in a cafe, waiting for a friend who has just texted to say they’ll be late. drink in front of you, you look around for a distraction. it’s then you notice on a neighbouring empty table what appears to be a photograph with a scrawled personal message. your curiosity gets the better of you and you casually reach over to grab it.

just as you suspected it’s a somewhat intimate photo – a young woman on all fours and the message ‘see you sunday, bow wow. love spot’. you turn it over for any clue as to who it’s from or who it was meant for…

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this guerilla approach to marketing a forthcoming exhibition of photographs by francesca woodman was developed in partnership with the future ferens – a group of young people whose aim is to encourage their peers to engage with exhibitions at the ferens gallery in hull. the photos being exhibited were all given by the 18 year old woodman to her boyfriend, several featuring hand-written messages and being exhibited as part of the national ‘artists rooms on tour’ from the tate.

the original context of the images and resonance with that particular age group led us to suggest that a standard leaflet approach and corporate gallery look wouldn’t attract the audience we wanted to nor would it really communicate the intimate nature of the experience of seeing these small photographs up close (the future ferens have constructed a room-within-a-room to exhibit them). however, because ‘artists rooms’ is a nation-wide project we had to build a case for disregarding the corporate style guidelines and taking a more unorthodox approach that would work with a guerilla distribution approach. we’re grateful to the tate and the estate of francesca woodman for listening to our reasoning and agreeing to our breaking of the rules.

if you’re in or near hull look out events connected with the exhibition including a photobooth popping up around town where you can have your own woodman inspired portrait taken. the exhibition launch is this saturday at 1pm.

leaflet/fold-out poster for forthcoming exhibition at rural arts gallery in thirsk. it features work by judith brown, iona calvert, ruth moore and dionne swift and is curated by lara goodband.

this flyer was distributed across large swathes of britain in the weekend’s guardian. designed to whet the appetite for exploring some of the fabulous festival’s that north yorks has to offer, it tempts you with the chance to visit artists studios, travel through time, see world class artistes and home-grown talent in stunning venues, and fill your tum with yorkshire-produced goodies. and that’s just the 10 festivals featured…