A new entrance to the Gallery was created in time for the Gallery's bicentenery celebrations. Our graphics are shown here in the interior which was designed by Small Back Room.
Cattle: History, Myth, Art
Forthcoming from the British Museum Press.
Cast your eyes downwards...
Dulwich Picture Gallery is known principally for its paintings. Little attention has been paid to the furniture and the imminent publication of a concise book, generously funded by the Dulwich Decorative & Fine Arts Society (DDFAS), seeks to redress this imbalance. We designed the 40 page book which is due out at the end of September.
The ideal cover girl for ‘Drawing Attention’
Considered one of the most striking pictures in the forthcoming Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition, 'Drawing Attention', we thought that this Egon Schiele drawing would be perfect for the front cover of the latest issue of In View. We are grateful to the Art Gallery of Ontario which made a generous exception to their "no overprinting, no cropping, no bleeding" rules and allowed us to feature it.
Kensington Palace – Enchanted Palace
The Enchanted Palace will take place at Kensington Palace between 2010 – 12 while it is undergoing building work. This design to promote it is probably the most luxurious piece we have ever created, involving foil-bocking, die-cutting, litho-printing and singer-sewing.
Ruin and rebellion: uncovering the past at Tutbury Castle
This exhibition at the British Museum explores the history and archaeology of Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire. The centre piece is the Tutbury Hoard – the largest coin hoard ever found in Britain. We designed the graphics which you can see in room 69a until March 2010.
Dulwich Picture Gallery: The Polish Connection
In 1790 the last King of Poland commissioned two art dealers, who later became the founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery, to buy a collection of paintings as Poland's national collection. A group of the most important state portraits of the King of Poland are on loan from Warsaw to Dulwich. We designed the graphics and a sumptuous 48 page catalogue.
Pearl Pictures
‘Your Wedding Day Captured Forever’ is the motto of Pearl Pictures. Working closely with founders Lucy and Jemma we developed the brand, and designed a suite of materials prominently featuring the wonderful feedback they routinely receive.
Reconstructing a Renaissance masterpiece
For the first time in over 200 years the surviving fragments of Veronese's Petrobelli Altarpiece were reunited at Dulwich Picture Gallery. We designed the graphics with suitable dignified, classically-inspired typography.
In View magazine
In 2004 we were asked by the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery to develop their magazine In View to reflect the Gallery’s core values. Five years and a further refresh later, this full-colour 24 page magazine is still ‘original, accessible and world-class’.
Life’s Pleasures
We designed this 216 page book on the Ashcan Artists for Merrell/Detroit Institute of Art. The Ashcan school of artists are associated with depictions of working-class life in early twentieth-century New York. However they also embraced the world of play enjoyed by all levels of society. Spirited scenes of diverse leisure activities in cafés, bars and parks, at the theatre, on the beach, at sporting events and in the countryside provide a refreshing look at this important artistic movement.
Lector, si monumentum...
These are the first words of Sir Christopher Wren's famous epitaph at St Pauls which reads: ‘Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you’. They were the inspiration behind our design for this invitation to a lunch and tour of St Paul’s in its tricentennial year.
New Gallery for Clocks and Watches
The British Museum asked us to design the graphics for a new gallery devoted to the display of their magnificent collections of Clocks and Watches. The Sir Harry and Lady Djanogly Gallery opened in November. We’re also designing the graphics for a new Medieval Gallery which will open in 2009.
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
Saul Steinberg was an American artist whose magic lit up the pages and
covers of The New Yorker for six decades. Dulwich’s restrospective exhibition features more than a hundred drawings, collages and sculptural assemblages. This poster and flyer were among the internal and external graphics we created for the exhibition.
Identifying the membership
Gwerthoedd proffesiynol - Gwerth am Arian
The title of this post, when translated from Welsh, means ‘Professional Values - Value for money’. This was the theme for trade union Napo’s AGM which recently took place at Venue Cymru in Llandudno. For the sixth year running we designed the graphics. In the picture on the right David Hanson MP addresses conference. Photo © Stefano Cagnoni.
Painting Family
Goodwood Revival, The First Ten Years
The Revival’s unique combination of pre-1966 motor racing, famous drivers and riders, classic vehicles, air displays, period fashions, music, food and a uniquely nostalgic atmosphere are all celebrated in Goodwood Revival, The First Ten Years. We designed the book for Merrell Publishers who also produced a limited edition bound in cloth and leather available from the
Goodwood online shop.
The Lion and the Dragon
2008 sees a year-long celebration of modern China called China Now. We were asked by Dulwich Picture Gallery to create designs for their contribution, which is a small but fascinating exhibition of photographs of China ‘Then’. The photographs relate to James Stewart Lockhart and Reginald Johnston, British administrators in the territory of Weihaewei, then leased from the Chinese.
Cranach at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts presented the first major exhibition in Britain devoted to Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1472–1553). The exhibition brought together some 70 works chosen to represent the quality and range of this important master. We worked closely with the exhibition designer Eric Pearson to create the graphics and with the curators to produce large-print guides for the visually impaired.
