From the Archive: Dovecot Posters, 2015-2018

Here is a selection of posters that I designed for Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh from 2015 to 2018. Working closely with Lizzie Cowan, the marketing and communications manager at Dovecot, the posters were part of a wider project to establish a distinct identity for Dovecot that included private view invitations, exhibition graphics, exhibition guides, marketing leaflets, and the quarterly Dovecot What’s On guide. Prioritising imagery, the posters used pared back typography, initially using Callibri but eventually switching to Dovecot's ‘official’ typeface, Whitney. Although the basic layout remained consistent on each poster, the type treatment of the title of each exhibition was different, creating a self-contained identity for each exhibition whilst establishing a strong and recognisable brand for Dovecot.

 

Edinburgh Art Festival Guide 2022

This is the Edinburgh Art Festival Guide 2022, a guide to exhibitions in Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Art Festival, 28 July – 28 August. The guide has a print run of 20,000 and is distributed free throughout the festival city. 

Although I have worked with the Edinburgh Art Festival on many things, including catalogues and interpretation material for the EAF commissions programme, this is the first time that I have worked on the programme guide. Working very closely with Graham Webster, the marketing and communications manger at EAF, the guide was designed along branding guidelines and art direction by Freytag Anderson, the designers of the main EAF identity. The guide is 44 pages with a two panel throwout cover with a short fold on the right-hand side that reveals the yellow of the first page; it is typeset throughout in a mixture of ES Klarheit Grotesk and ES Klarheit Kurrent and the trim size is 148mm x 210mm. 

The guide was launched online on 26 May and went to print a few days later. The guide was printed by Allander and is distributed by Out of Hand.