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‘Creative Review’ Names Pentagram Design Studio of the Year
Pentagram has been named Design Studio of the Year by Creative Review. The award is announced in the Creative Review Annual 2008, which represents the magazine’s choice of the highlights of the past year in visual communication. The Design Studio of the Year Award is given to the studio with the most work accepted into the annual.
Five Pentagram projects were selected by the judging panel for inclusion in the annual; images and links after the jump.
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New Work: Circular Fifteen
Domenic Lippa has designed issue fifteen of Circular, the magazine of the Typographic Circle, a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers which formed in 1976 to bring together anyone with an active interest in type and typography.
Lippa has a long-standing relationship with the Typographic Circle, previously acting as its chairperson for two years. Circular Fifteen is the eighth issue of the magazine Lippa has designed in as many years.
New Work: 'Time & Territory'
Domenic Lippa, with design assistant Beatrice Blumenthal, has designed Time & Territory, a book published by the landscape architecture and urban design firm J&L Gibbons to celebrate their 21st anniversary.
The book is a review of the best of the firm’s output to date, presented in the form of a visual essay interspersed with written contributions by a selection of 21 clients, friends and former colleagues.
Lippa has a long-standing, close relationship with J&L Gibbons and has previously consulted the firm on their identity and designed their website.
Domenic Lippa at Guadalajara DesignFest
Domenic Lippa will be speaking about his work and giving a design workshop on Friday 19 October at the Guadalajara International Design Festival, DesignFest ‘07, a three day design festival taking place on the campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Pentagram Celebrates 35 Years of Poster Design
Pentagram London opened its doors to the public on Thursday, 20 September for an exhibition of over 100 posters from throughout the company’s 35 year history, curated by Domenic Lippa.
The London office, designed by founding partner Theo Crosby, was transformed; with posters filling every available wall space and mounted on easels kindly loaned by Mark Cass of Cass Art.
More photos after the jump.
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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.
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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Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce Join Pentagram
Lippa (left) and Pearce (right) outside Pentagram’s London studio
Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce have joined Pentagram as partners in the London office.
The graphic designers founded their own studio, Lippa Pearce, in 1990. They have received numerous international design awards for their work in print, identity, packaging and environmental graphics. Clients have included The Co-operative, Boots, Witness, TDK, Unilever, Espa, Heal’s, The Science Museum London and The Typographic Circle.
Angus Hyland says, “We are thrilled that Harry and Domenic will be joining. They are the perfect fit in terms of philosophy and personality, and have built an amazing portfolio of design work that is a great complement to our own. We’re excited to have two such experienced talents going forward.”
From the new Pentagram partners’ perspective, Pearce comments: “Our outlook and work fits seamlessly with Pentagram. We stand by the same principles of design-led business and creative excellence. To be amongst so many other like-minded partners is inspiring.”
Update: The new partners—including Luke Hayman— are featured in Form.
After the jump, some work from the new partners.
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