When my grandmother moved house, I found some great pieces of graphic ephemera tucked away. By far my favourite is this matchbook, printed in high-vis orange and blue on the outside (I’m a sucker for complimentary colours). Inside a tangy combination of deep indigo and a cool magenta for the sulphur tips.
Having the destinations the company serviced individually printed on to the matchsticks - wow.
A couple of years ago I went to Prague for a few days. On the way up to the castle I stumbled across a cool little shop that was packed full of old posters, postcards, magazines, matchboxes and suchlike. These labels from alcohol bottles caught my eye.
In amongst the previously mentioned postcards was a great set of martial art poses. Here are some of the best ones.
We bought a load of old postcards recently. They vary from tediously bland to outright weird. Some of the landscape scenes have great colours in them. I find them quite curious, its a bit like peering in to another world. A world of heightened colours and bleak but strangely beautiful vistas.
A Book of Scripts by Alfred Farbank, cover by Jan Tschichold for King Penguin, 1949. The cover was adapted by Tschichold from a design by Juan de Vciar, 1547.
Kate needed an online portfolio to show off her children’s illustrations so A to M built her one. She’s illustrated the books ‘Captain Pike Looks After the Baby’ and ‘Who’s a Cheeky Baby?’ alongside books by the author Judy Blume. Kate’s site.
New23 is the home of film maker Andy Benfield’s music based projects. Largely based around live performances for folks like Dizzee Rascal, The Specials and young’uns like The Whip. Andy asked us to create an identity and a site to promote his work. The site, featuring a showreel of some of new23’s work, can be found at http://www.new23.com and that’s the logo we did for him above (obviously).
