We've just completed a lovely little project for Nokia.
A short film commissioned to show the benefits of 'Near Field Communication'. We commissioned 7 fresh upcoming illustrators to illustrate a script (written by Nicola Place & Nick Asbury) based on the potentials of NFC technology.
Design & Art Direction by Build.
Editing & Production by Build.
Contributing illustrators: Nina Cosford/Tom Edwards/Sam Falconer/Pete Gamlen/Sam Hawkins/Joe Luxton/Hannah Rowlands + Aaron Vohra.
Cat portraits by Jason Tozer.
Original music by J-VEN.
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Illustrators:

Nina Cosford.
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Tom Edwards.
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Sam Falconer.
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Pete Gamlen.
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Sam Hawkins.
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Hannah Rowlands.
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Aaron Vohra.
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As part of the project we produced a short film called 'ImageMakers' which is a sort of behind-the-scenes look at the illustrators we work with on the project. With additional commentary by me (Michael) & Amanda Moorby (D&AD) & Patrick Burgoyne (editor, Creative Review).
Watch 'ImageMakers' here.
Watch 'Nokia-NFC' here.

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Extremely happy with our first piece of livery for the new Generation Press van!
If you spot the GP van out and about, tweet its location to @GenerationPress using the #GPTweets hashtag for a chance to win a limited edition poster designed by ourselves for Generation Press!
Please excuse the crappy iPhone pictures, better ones to come.
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Swag in the newly designed GP Tube-Mailer.
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We've been working on an interesting new project for 'Close' an anonymous music collective. The website we designed for them has just been launched, see that here.
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Design/Typography/Photographic art direction by Build.
Photography by Benjamin Grillon.
Website development by Tom van de Velde.
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Custom typography—
As part of the project we designed a mono-linear-humanist typeface which will form the basis for the collectives identity.
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A few months ago we were asked by GFSmith to design a Wallpaper* cover to celebrate the magazine's 15th anniversary. See above for our contribution. More about the project below...
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Wallpaper* has collaborated with GFSmith on a cover project that looks to celebrate the magazine's 15th anniversary. 15 designers or brands were approached to each create a special cover design, to be printed on Colorplan paper stock. Collaborators include Build, It's Nice That, James Joyce, MadeThought, Nike, and Spin...
"Wallpaper* asked us to commission 15 designers to each produce a 'celebrity' bespoke cover around the concept of Wallpaper* Famous for 15 years'," explains GFSmith's James Groves.
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"In the true sense of bespoke, using digital printing by FE Burman, each cover design was printed on to the stock of the designer's choosing from our Colorplan range," continues Groves. "FE Burman pushed the printing by using many different processes including multiple passes of white ink. The results show how choice of paper plays an integral part of the design process."

Film poster (side 1).
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Film poster (side 2).
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It's with great pleasure that we can show you the official film poster for the new Gary Hustwit documentary film 'Urbanized'.
having worked with Gary on his previous film 'Objectified' (Michael also featured in his first documentary film 'Helvetica') we are really happy to be working on the identity and all print collateral for this latest installment.
The poster is double-sided. Why two sides? 1) You get to you choose which side you want to display, and 2) If they’re randomly alternated when multiple copies are posted, they create sort of a “city skyline” of their own, like such—

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Sorry for the lack of activity on the old blog but we've been busy on some exciting projects. Here are a couple of recent additions, T&Cake-ID and a poster for Wim Crouwel.
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T&Cake marque.
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T&Cake packaging.
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Identity design for T&Cake, a new Yorkshire based modern café. Consisting of stationery, packaging, website (content managed by T&Cake), signage and interior design input. Run by established restauranteurs Tracy & Stephen Jackson (previous owners of The Weavers Shed, former Yorkshire Restaurant of the Year) in the small northern town of Almondbury. If you are in the area check it out, the food on the menu looks amazing!
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Wim Crouwel-DM print.
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To celebrate Wim Crouwel at the Design Museum Spin commissioned some of their favourite graphic design studios to create a Crouwel inspired poster using the grid structure he developed for his series for the Stedelijk Museum. We were honoured to be one of the studios invited and are rather pleased with the end result. The print is for sale and is available exclusively from Unit Editions here, and the Design Museum Shop here.
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