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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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New Work: London Design Festival 2009
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.
Abbott Miller at the London Design Festival
Quick Link: Abbott Miller at the London Design Festival
‘26 Exchanges’ Exhibition to Feature at London Design Festival
Pentagram has collaborated with International PEN, 26 and UNESCO to produce 26 Exchanges: Journeys Between and Behind the Lines of Language, a typographic installation that explores what happens when one language adventures boldly into another. The exhibition will be on view as part of the London Design Festival.
For the exhibition, members of 26 were twinned with PEN members from around the world to translate a text and tell the story of its journey in translation. Using their own resources, the participants searched for ways to understand stories in Basque, Khasi, Ndebele and Aymara, among others, to find meaning and connections across cultures. Harry Pearce and Simon Sankarayya of AllofUs then reinterpreted the stories and accompanying issues of translation as typographic animations. The digital installation also features readings from and conversations between the participants. The project is also featured in Design Week.
The exhibition will be on view from September 21 - 25 at The Royal Academy of Engineering. It will then move to Paris in October for the UNESCO international conference on translation. More information here.
New Work: London Design Festival 2009
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).
New Work: London Design Festival 2008
Domenic Lippa has reprised his role as the art director of the London Design Festival. With his design team; Beatrice Blumenthal and Marie Bauer; Lippa designed the identity for the 2008 festival, which is the umbrella organisation for London’s annual celebration of design that took place last week.
New Work: The London Design Festival
One of Domenic Lippa’s typographic opening sequences for The London Design Festival website. Click on the links to see all the animations in a new window: one, two, three. Flash design by Andrew Heaps.
Domenic Lippa, with senior designer Paul Skerm and design assistant Ali Esen, has designed the identity for The London Design Festival, the umbrella organisation that promotes the annual season of design-related events that take over the city each September. Lippa and his team also designed every element of the festival’s city-wide graphic presence including brochures, signage, guidebooks, promotional material, environmental graphics and the look and feel of the website as well as the first London Design Medal, which was awarded to Zaha Hadid for her outstanding contribution to design.
Designing London Design Week
Monday night saw the opening of The London Design Festival at the Royal Festival Hall. The ceremony marked the beginning of one of the world’s great design events which, between the 17th and the 23rd of September, fills London with exhibitions, workshops, talks and private views. With branding and identity designed by Domenic Lippa, The London Design Festival’s organising committee is just one of the places you can see work by Pentagram partners during London’s celebration of design.
Angus Hyland has designed the identity and brand architecture for 100% Design London, the UK’s largest trade fair for the design and architecture profession and one of the longest running events in the festival calendar.
Harry Pearce has designed a poster with John Simmons as of part of 26 Posters, an installation for the festival organised by the writer’s advocacy organisation 26, which aims to demonstrate the power of language in design. The posters will be displayed at London’s Old Street and Elephant and Castle roundabouts, as well as on billboard sites in Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester.
Pentagram will be holding an exhibition of posters from throughout the firm’s 35-year history on Thursday, 20 September at our London office in Notting Hill. Contact Leah Speakman for further enquiries.
35 Years of the Poster at Pentagram
As part of the London Design Festival, Pentagram will be hosting a poster exhibition for one evening only on Thursday 20th September at our Notting Hill office. This is a unique opportunity to view designs which span the last 35 years, from the work of founding to current partners. There will be an open door policy from 7:00-9:00 pm. Enquiries please contact Leah Speakman.
Lippa to Design Identity for London Design Festival
Poster for this month’s press launch for the London Design Festival.
Domenic Lippa has been appointed to design the graphic identity for this year’s London Design Festival, taking place 15-25 September. He will be responsible for the development and art direction of all graphics to promote the festival, from books, brochures and signage, to posters and the festival website. The event will take place throughout the city at over 150 venues and is expected to attract an estimated 300,000 visitors. The first designs were introduced at the press launch for the festival earlier this month.
Additional pieces from the launch after the jump. Stay tuned for more work in the coming months.
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