electric angel /design for life

the scarborough fair cherubs

first in a series of collectible purse-sized cards to promote the scarborough fair collection – the UK’s largest collection of functioning vintage fairground rides and street organs.

the museum’s gavioli street organs feature decorative (sometimes performing) characters such as these and one is playing outside scarborough spa this sunday at the hugely popular vintage fair event for which these cards have been created. so if you’d like to try and collect the set why not pop on down and say hello.

photography & typography by adrian & charlotte from an original idea by rebecca.

don’t feed the animals

poster design for the stephen joseph theatre. the sjt asked if we could come up with an ‘edgy’ design that matched the content and feel of this play by their youth theatre.

set in a down-at-heel traveling circus, a gang of local ‘yoofs’ discover they might have more in common with the circus than they thought, perhaps even a shared future…

we’re often asked how we come up with ideas – it almost always starts with research into the subject, or in this case, reading the script from cover to cover. sometimes there are hours and hours of scribbles behind a design but this one arrived more or less as a fully-formed idea. one of the interesting things about projects close to home is you often hear feedback and it’s been really nice to have so many positive comments fed back to us on this one.

‘don’t feed the animals’ is part of the SJT reach out festival for which we also developed the logo and brochure as well as designing the poster for another festival production, ‘beachcomber’. you can still catch the latter today and tomorrow plus the end of festival band night at the weekend.

your place or mine

‘your place or mine’ is currently showing at scarborough art gallery and offers perspectives of the town by two different generations of artists. as with the previous exhibition, lines of conflict, there wasn’t any artwork complete to use in promotional material so camera in hand we set out to capture some of scarborough’s typography to represent different areas and demographics of the town.

the inside of the leaflet features text from two of the artists involved in the exhibition. we also designed interpretation panels for the show which using some of the photographs as drop capitals.