keighley green trail
guide to the keighley green trail which took place in keighley town centre in 2010. printed on 100% recycled paper with vegetable-based inks.
Archived entries for design-flyers & leaflets
storm force
invitation / poster for the recent ‘storm force’ exhibition at scarborough art gallery.
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unwrapped
some images from the unwrapped exhibition and publicity. the flyers are printed using fluorescent blue – not as in-yer-face as lime green or yellow but still the brightest possible blue you can get. we’ve developed a range of colours designed to contrast with the heritage colour palette generally associated with municipal galleries – a continuation of the work that began with dayglo orange of ‘crazy, damn right i’m crazy‘.
the image used on the flyer is by Eduardo Paolozzi. his work and studio recreation at the dean gallery in edinburgh is must-see if you’re a fan of pop art or just interested in post-war art and sculpture in general.
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you can read more about the exhibition at the contemporary art society website. it is, of course, a great exhibition. go see.
the ferens have got it licked
lollipops printed as part of a promotional campaign targeted at a student audience for the ferens gallery in hull. the exhibition has been curated by ‘future ferens’ – a group of young adults working with the gallery who aim to engage a younger audience. we have recently helped rebrand the future ferens (originally known as the ferens art ambassadors) and designed the promotional material and interpretation for ‘unwrapped’.
an special view of the exhibition happens tonight with DJ’s, free drinks, CD’s and great art. i’m confined to the scarborough locale awaiting arrival of mini-riley no.2, but james will be there – do say hello if you are too.
porcelain by post
invitation to the opening of ‘resolutions’ by gabrielle naptali which is showing in our tiny gallery until 24th november.
we liked the idea of posting a little piece of potential artwork out as part of the invitation and so these invites were handmade by gaby and ourselves – the card folds to seal in and protect the fragment although we did hear that one piece had escaped in transit. it is probably now crossing britain in the corner of post bag. the porcelain is layered black and white – the same material that the two main pieces in the exhibition are made from and their random broken shape (each is unique) reflects the element of chance that is part of gaby’s current work in ceramics.
saucy
the coastival 2011 brochure design – it folds out from a postcard size leaflet to a large poster. we had fun playing with the seaside cliches and puns (and acknowledge our debt to saucy seaside postcard artist donald mcgill for the inspiration).
the toe-dipping skinny man illustration is by house of deadleg, the plump lady we drew in-house. look out for a few more seaside cheeky chaps and gorgeous gals when the coastival essential guide comes out in november-december which will feature complete listings for the weekend.
post some art today
advance postcards for coastival 2011. the postcards all feature images by local creatives who will be taking part in the yorkshire coast’s biggest arts festival in february next year including rachel welford (her postcard features the glass panels in our studio/gallery windows), rachel howfield who turned a hotel room into art installation at the last coastival and this haiku by kate evans with photo by mark vesey:
we wanted the cards to be functional so that you could post some art to a friend. there are six to collect but you’ll need to visit several venues around scarborough to find them all…
for the postcard promoting ‘rollercoastival’ – the mini-festival within a festival of creative stuff for kids, we took a photo of a craft activity from last year and superimposed text taken from a ‘rollercoastival radio’ broadcast about ice cream from the first festival. the fonts were chosen based on shop fronts on scarborough’s south shore ice cream parlours and arcades.
the coastival poster/flyer with details of all the headline acts will be launched on tuesday down on the south bay beach.
beverley literature festival 2010
brochure design featuring the children’s as well as ‘grown ups’ festival – the brochure flips over to use two covers according to the desired audience.
it’s a change of style from the previous couple of years which had a very graphic/print look. taking on board feedback from attendees and a more targeted approach to the children’s literature festival we’ve continued the typographic style but a change of format and used a mix of muted locational and lifestyle photography.
pyschogeography, postcards and place
to accompany the production of the CHART Scarborough map and to follow the success of the workshops with local residents which amongst other things, sought to identify the essence of scarborough, a postcard project was launched. this teamed local residents – a mix of teenagers and older adults – with a poet and photographer to talk about and photograph the places that had resonance for them.
photographer tony bartholomew took the final photos used on the postcards and john w clarke shaped the verbal and written material into prose and scratch-poems for the rear of the cards relating to that place. some poignant, some playful, the wordplay also extends to the minutiae of text often seen on postcards such as the publisher – we designed logos for some. each is addressed as if travelling to the place but using ‘mind map’ directions, not a conventional address. we designed each card in a slightly different style based on postcards we randomly found, the ‘postmark’ and ‘stamp’ linking them into a set and to the map.
the cards are scattered around public buildings and cultural venues in Scarborough, there are 12 to collect if you fancy hunting them down. the 12th will give you the CHART Scarborough map references of the places the photos were taken so you can visit for yourself.
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more CHART
a couple more pics of the CHART Scarborough map (that’s Culture, Heritage and ART Scarborough) to show the size. it folds down to normal DL leaflet/envelope size but with the photographic side we hoped to create something that was interesting/attractive enough to be a poster too. which way up you display it is up to you – it’s designed so there is no top, bottom, left or right (although personally i’d snip off the cover before framing).
