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New Work: ‘PLP Architecture’
Angus Hyland and his team have created an identity for the newly formed PLP Architecture.
PLP Architecture was founded in 2009 by Lee Polisano, David Leventhal, Fred Pilbrow, Karen Cook and Ron Bakker, the five former partners of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s (KPF) London office. The new practice operates from offices in Camden with a team of over 70. They are currently working on a number of projects in the U.K. and abroad, including a mixed-use tower in the City of London for Heron International, the over-site development at Bond Street Station for Grosvenor, a hotel in Abu Dhabi for Mubadala and a large-scale urban planning project for the Qatar Foundation.
The identity utilises a re-drawn version of the typeface DIN. The font has been customised into a stencil version evocative of architectural hand-drawn lettering. The slash between PLP and Architecture is positioned at the same angle as the slope of the ‘A’. A range of stationery is laid out using a linear hang-line system and clean typography and the background for literature uses a pattern based upon the diagonal slash.
Examples of the application of the identity after the jump.
Pentagram Wins at the Transform Awards
Pentagram partners Harry Pearce and Angus Hyland scooped seven awards between them at last night’s Transform Awards 2010, including the Grand Prix for excellence in rebranding for The Co-operative. The Awards are the UK’s only dedicated celebration of rebranding, brand transformation and reputational change.
In a ceremony hosted by the BBC’s arts editor Will Gompertz, Harry Pearce’s work for the Co-operative won a further two gold awards; for best brand architecture and best national rebrand. Angus Hyland’s AkzoNobel identity won two golds and a silver and his work for Grant Thornton received a gold.
The Transform Awards were established by Communicate magazine, the UK’s leading magazine for corporate communications and stakeholder relations.
AkzoNobel’s ‘A’ Magazine Wins Again
‘A’ The AkzoNobel Magazine has won the ‘External Publications’ category in the European Excellence Awards. The Awards were announced at the Hofburg in Vienna on the 10th of December and honour outstanding achievement in communication on an international scale. This recognition follows a Bronze at the ADC 88th Annual Awards earlier this year. Angus Hyland and his team designed issue one and collaborated with AkzoNobel designer Pepe Vargas on the subsequent issues.
Previously: New Work: ‘A’, The AkzoNobel Magazine
New Work: ‘The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox’
Angus Hyland was commissioned by Jacob Lehman at Rizzoli to design the book to accompany “Fantastic Mr Fox,” the latest film by Wes Anderson. The film is based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel, originally illustrated by Donald Chaffin. The book chronicles the making of the film adaptation, which uses stop-motion animation and features the voices of George Clooney as Mr. Fox, Meryl Streep as Mrs. Fox and Bill Murray as Badger.
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Quantum of Solace Wins British Book Design Award
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New Work: Cass Art Kids
Angus Hyland has extended his work for Cass Art to include this charming promotional giveaway. A brightly coloured bag branded Cass Art Kids containing an activity book and pencils with which to fill it was designed to promote a new space dedicated to children’s art materials in Cass Art’s flagship Islington store. The activity book is the result of a collaboration between Angus and Marion Deuchars and contains her beautiful hand drawn typography. 10,000 bags have been created which will be given away to anyone who makes a purchase in either the Cass Art Kensington or Islington stores.
Spreads from the activity book after the jump
Preview: ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
Wes Anderson’s latest film “Fantastic Mr. Fox” premieres in London tonight as the opening feature of this year’s London Film Festival. Angus Hyland and his team have designed a new book, The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox, to accompany the film, which is based on the much-loved tale by Roald Dahl. The book is an ‘art of’ book rather than text or script-heavy and is full of storyboards, sketches, screen shots, behind the scene photos and a commentary of how the original story was developed to make a feature film.
Cass Art Kids Book on CR Blog
Quick Link: Cass Art Kids Book on CR Blog
Designers Celebrate London in Posters at the V&A
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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Tattoo You: New Laurence King Autumn Catalogue
Angus Hyland continues his role as Art Director for Laurence King Publishing with the new Autumn 2009 catalogue, out now. Hyland has been the company’s consultant Art Director since 2005 and oversees all design for the Laurence King books. Among the books showcased in the new catalogue is Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books, an extensive look at the best design publications of the last 100 years, including many books designed by Pentagram. (More on this soon.) Also listed in the catalogue is Adrian Shaughnessy’s Graphic Design: A User’s Manual, which features a foreword by Michael Bierut.
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