CATEGORY: DESIGN (PACKAGING) Entrant: jones knowles ritchie In summer 2016, coinciding with the Olympics, Independence Day and the upcoming election, Budweiser changed its name from Budweiser to America on its packaging. The standard text on bottles and cans was replaced with quotes from the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star Spangled Banner, and America the Beautiful […]
CATEGORY: DESIGN (Packaging) Entrant: Here Design Here Design took three of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor’s greatest buildings as the starting point for the packaging of this 16 year-old single malt whisky: the Mausoleum in Castle Howard Gardens, St Paul’s Cathedral and Christ Church, Spitalfields. Here’s designs for the label evoke and replicate architectural blueprints of the […]
CATEGORY: DESIGN (PRINT) Entrant: Studio Sutherl& This poster design for a Royal Mail talk at the Typographic Circle features a grid determined by standard Royal Mail stamp sizes which was perforated to allow for stamps (given out at the talk) to be placed on to the poster. Credits: Entrant/Design Studio: Studio Sutherl&. Client: Royal Mail Stamps […]
CATEGORY: DESIGN (PRINT) Entrant: Graham Hanson Design New York-based design studio GHD was commissioned to bring new life to an architectural masterpiece: Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building on Park Avenue. It worked with Ruben Toledo, a Cuban- American artist based in New York City, to create a marketing campaign in celebration of the building’s […]
Category: Design (Print) Entrant: Monotype Monotype’s bi-annual Recorder publication explores type design and the role of type in a wider cultural context. Issue 3 included pieces on the history of banknotes, typefaces with a political agenda and how a new generation of women is carrying on the legacy of Beatrice Warde. It also featured original […]
First they swam, then they rollerskated, and then they danced. And now those irrepressible Evian babies are out on the surf.
Category: Design (Print) Entrant: Osborne Ross Animail is a set of six stamps designed by Osborne Ross for the Royal Mail. The brief was very open: “design something which has never been done before and which will appeal to children”. The designers created a series of creatures whose hands, feet or tail fold around the […]
CATEGORY: DESIGN (PRINT) Entrant: Magpie Studio TfL entered the full set of posters into the Annual but Magpie Studio also entered theirs separately.
CATEGORY: DESIGN (PRINT) Entrant: Pentagram Design Pentagram’s contribution to TfL’s 100 Years of Johnston project echoes the Harry Beck Tube map in its interlocking typography. Credits: Entrant: Pentagram Design. Client: TfL. Partner & Designer: Domenic Lippa Designer: Jack Gilbey.
CATEGORY: DESIGN (PRINT) Entrant: Tfl In order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Transport for London’s Johnston typeface, TfL invited some of the country’s leading designers to create posters marking its contribution to the city and to design. The posters were part of a broader Johnston typeface centenary campaign which included an exhibition and advertising […]
CATEGORY: DESIGN (BRAND IDENTITY) Entrant: jones knowles ritchie Hippeas are organic chickpea puffs. The brand was built by JKR from the ground up – packs, personality, purpose and all – capturing the spirit of an era and making it relevant for today’s modern hippies. Launched in June 2016, the yellow pack design features a smiling […]
CATEGORY: DESIGN (BRAND IDENTITY) Entrant : The Chase To commemorate 350 years since the Great Fire of 1666, the Museum of London asked The Chase to promote a new exhibition that brings the story to life, for visitors of all ages. Collaborating with illustrator Christopher Brown, they created a charming 17th century London linocut cityscape […]
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