The London Design Festival ends on 26 September. This week over 200 events and installations are taking place across the capital reflecting the widest possible range of design interests. For the fourth year running Domenic Lippa and his team have worked to create a new visual identity ensuring that the Festival brand has visibility across all of its disparate elements.
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The House of Cards campaign for Shelter created by Leo Burnett and our own Domenic Lippa has reaped several awards this year.
Lippa was approached by Leo Burnett’s Richard Brim and Daniel Fisher and asked to create the identity for the campaign and auction event last September as well as an exhibition catalogue and a limited-edition box of A5 playing cards.
Awards for our portion of the project include: two Golds in the 2010 Andy’s, In book for Integrated in the Creative Review Annual, four Merits in this year’s One Show, a Gold from the New York Festivals, and a Gold Design Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.
Established in 1994, Summerill & Bishop is a kitchen shop filled with hand-crafted earthenware, glassware and natural home products. It is one of London’s hidden gems.
Set up by friends June Summerill and Bernadette Bishop, the shop has a very personal aesthetic, selling only the things they like and would have in their own homes. It brings together the beautiful and practical with an eclectic mix of vintage pieces and is a haven for anyone who believes that the kitchen is the heart of every home. Over the years June and Bernadette have built a loyal following; both Tricia Guild of Designers Guild and Ruth Rogers of the River Café quote it as being their favourite kitchen shop.
To coincide with the launch of Summerill & Bishop’s online shop, Domenic Lippa was approached to design a new identity, which would more appropriately express the special nature of the business.
Domenic Lippa, assisted by Jeremy Kunze, has undertaken a complete branding exercise for Stanmore Implants, leaders in skeletal repair systems and implants.
Design activity focused on the creation of an identity, a rationale for the treatment of a number of niche sub-brands and an overall brand attitude for marketing collateral, including exhibitions, literature, packaging and the website.
At the centre of Pentagram’s solution is a typographic symbol: a solid letter ‘s’ with a single curved white line down its length. This ‘implant’ is simple and unadorned, clinical and flexible. The mark has the substance to be scaled, etched small onto actual implants or applied large at conferences. It can also be used alongside a sans serif logotype, with clean lines that suggest function and reliability.
A palette of silver and greys, with fresh accents of orange and gold, gives the overall impression of purity. The marketing collateral supports this attitude with a simple grid and uncomplicated layout for all communications. Commissioned photography highlights the quality and innate beauty of the implants while re-draughted technical drawings emphasise their engineering precision. The website reinforces the efficient image with its ‘Swiss’ approach to typography, photography and the use of white space.
More pictures after the jump.
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The Slow Food movement promotes sustainable agriculture and encourages consumers to positively influence what is produced in their name around the world. Two ‘foodies’, operating under the company name Klein Caporn, have developed ‘Slow Food Fast’ a range of slow food quick sauces, initially for sale in Waitrose, the supermarket arm of the John Lewis Partnership. Domenic Lippa’s redesign of the identity and labeling for the three-product range improves on-shelf presence and legibility. The tortoise and hare identity has been refined so that it allows a more economic use of the limited pack space and a clearer hierarchy for the mark, the name and descriptor. A stylish black background, understated lower case lettering, and new fork and spoon icons that frame the information ‘meal’, further improve legibility and stand-out.
Project Team: Domenic Lippa, partner-in-charge; Beatrice Blumenthal, designer
Issue 16 of Circular, the magazine of the Typographic Circle, designed by Domenic Lippa is out now.
This issue features articles on Spin, Bibliothèque, Fernando Gutiérrez, the late Ken Dickinson, Design Project and a piece by Jeremy Leslie charting the development of editorial design from The New Yorker of 1925 through Nova to Re- and Carl*s Cars. Also featured are Pentagram’s own Harry Pearce and Domenic Lippa.
Lippa has designed the last nine issues of Circular and delights in creating each from scratch. In this issue the close up of the title on the cover through the contents pages and dividers indicates a desire to focus on the detail of the work. The use of Courier as the default font set without justification is designed to act in contrast to the typographic perfection of the featured work.
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Fifty-three of the UK’s leading artists and designers including our own Domenic Lippa have created a unique collection of art inspired by Shelter’s House of Cards campaign. Shelter is a UK charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing. In 2008 Shelter, in association with Leo Burnett London, launched the House of Cards campaign to raise awareness of the housing insecurity facing millions of families in the UK, where more than 1.9 million households await social housing and an estimated 65,000 face repossession this year. The campaign’s acclaimed TV commercial directed by Dom and Nic uses Radiohead’s “Videotape” as its soundtrack and features a voiceover by the actress Samantha Morton, who lived in a hostel for the homeless as a young woman.
Following the success of the campaign Leo Burnett developed the idea of inviting 53 artists to design a set of playing cards. Participating artists include Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn, photographers David Bailey and Rankin and designers Kyle Cooper and M/M (Paris). The original artwork will be displayed in an exhibition at Haunch of Venison that opens today and runs through Monday, 28 September. Members of the public can place silent bids on the artwork throughout the exhibition, with a selection of the pieces going to a live auction on Monday night. All proceeds go to Shelter.
Leo Burnett approached Pentagram with the brief to create an identity for the campaign and event, an exhibition catalogue and a limited-edition box of A5 playing cards. Domenic Lippa and designer Jeremy Kunze developed a logotype that played on the idea of the rearranged letters and a symbol of a “H” that combined pictograms of the suits from the cards and a pictogram of a house. All invitations, catalogue and cards were designed with radius corners to reflect the playing cards. Patterns were printed in various colours and varnishes to give all the items a sense of desirability and quality. Lippa produced the Jack of Spades card for the set.
A show of the program and several of the cards after the jump.
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As part of this year’s London Design Festival, Domenic Lippa worked with the Festival’s Chairman, Sir John Sorrell, in curating the London Poster Project, a poster exhibition by 20 of the leading UK graphic designers and typographers including Tom Hingston, Frith Kerr, Alan Kitching, Fuel, Jonathan Ellery and Pentagram’s own Angus Hyland. Lippa commissioned the designers to produce a poster in red and black only that celebrates London as the creative capital of the world. Each silkscreened A1 poster was produced in limited edition of 100, 50 of which are available through the website Blanka. All 20 posters can be seen in the exhibition, which opened Saturday, 19 September and remains on view through 27th September at the Sackler Centre at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Several posters after the jump.
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The London Design Festival opened this past weekend, kicking off a week of over 163 exhibitions and 42 one-day events showcasing the city’s best in architecture, art, craft and product, graphic and digital design. For the third year running Domenic Lippa and his team have worked with the LDF to produce everything from t-shirts, bags, invitations, posters and postcards, through to the guide, signage and displays. This year’s theme of “Be Bold, Make a Statement” reflects the Festival’s stance that good design, even in difficult times, will always stand out. This year’s identity uses quotes from famous designers, including Pentagram co-founder Alan Fletcher.
This year the festival has worked closely with the V&A, which has become the hub venue and home to numerous installations, exhibitions and talks. These include a poster exhibition curated by Lippa that features work by 20 London designers, including our own Angus Hyland, and a talk by talk by New York partner Abbott Miller on the 24th.
As part of this growing annual event the team also worked on support material for the London Design Medal, as well as creating a new logo for the London Design Embassy. A look at some of the materials from this year’s program after the jump.
New York Design Week has just ended, but we’re already looking forward to this September, when London will be awash in the distinctive red and white of the London Design Festival. For the third year running Domenic Lippa has reprised his role as the art director of the Festival, which is the umbrella organisation for London’s annual celebration of design. The Festival was announced by Festival Chairman Sir John Sorrell and Director Ben Evans at a launch last week at the V&A.
The theme of this year’s Festival is “Be Bold” and serves as a challenge by the Festival organisers that the events should be provocative, inspiring and unique. With designer Jeremy Kunze, Lippa has created the look and feel for the Festival. A feature of this year’s identity is the use of quotes from famous designers, including Pentagram co-founder Alan Fletcher (see the tote above).
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