Graphic Thought Facility

News
- Spring 2013
  - Publication Rizzoli – Miles Aldridge: I Only Want You To Love Me
    
    Shot on film, Miles Aldridge’s photographs of women stand out for his use of cinematic narrative and intense colour. Over 288 pages, I Only Want You To Love Me sequences together 36 stories originally published in Vogue Italia, Numéro and Paradis. A dedicated uncoated section reproduces Aldridge's felt-pen working drawings.
  - Publication Charming Baker – Lie Down I Think I Love You
    
    Published to accompany the British artist’s Los Angeles show,
    this book is both structured and chaotic: paintings, drawings and sculpture slip in and out of sync with the coated and uncoated papers on which they are printed. Metallic pigment is incorporated into the black ink to emulate the the sheen of the soft pencil drawings and the book’s jacket is impregnated with linseed oil to evoke smell like the painter’s studio.
  - Publication Gagosian Gallery – Robert Rauschenberg: Jammers
    
    The Jammers series was created by the American artist following a visit to India in 1975 on which he observed the intensely coloured fabrics used in day-to-day life. The accompanying exhibition catalogue’s generous page size, singer-sewn binding, transparent jacket and reductive typography (set in one size of Univer 45) respond to the qualities of the expansive colour-saturated artworks.
  - Identity Lubna Chowdhary
    
    Lubna Chowdhary creates tile-based artworks for interior
    and exterior spaces. Her visual identity is concentrated on a distinctive bold typestyle used across all printed and digital applications. By restricting the identity palette to shades
    of grey, focus is kept on the colour within Chowdhary’s work.
    A mailing package designed in fluted-board both protects and presents a single unique tile to architects and interior designers. Chowdhary’s website – designed in conjunction with Wolfram Wiedner – uses large multiple images to show both the glazed detail and architectural context of each project.
    
    lubnachowdhary.co.uk
  - Event Kvadrat – The Wool Parade by Doshi Levien
    
    Taking its inspiration from the avant-garde parties and theatre costumes of the early Bauhaus, The Wool Parade installation by design studio Doshi Levien combines Kvadrat textiles to highlight the unique qualities of wool.
    
    Based upon Doshi Levien’s concept of abstract marionettes on parade, the animated film commissioned by GTF and directed by Philip Hunt of Studio AKA, brings The Wool Parade to life and the objects become living characters — moving and dancing within a pre-defined space.
    
    Launched as part of Stockholm Furniture Fair, the installation and film will tour Kvadrat’s showrooms during the year.
    
    The Wool Parade by Doshi Levien
    Art direction of film: Graphic Thought Facility
    Director: Philip Hunt
    Music: David Kamp
    Production: Studio AKA
    
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  - Campaign Kvadrat – Ready Made Curtain
    
    Designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Ready Made Curtain is an easy-to-install curtain hanging system. GTF created the product packaging and art-directed the related press campaign to accompany the new range’s launch at IMM Cologne 2013.
    
    Photography: Casper Sejersen
    
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  - Campaign Kvadrat – Shapes 2
    
    Building on the imagery of 2010’s Shapes campaign for upholstery fabrics, the new campaign suspends Kvadrat curtain fabrics
    in bespoke aluminium frames to create a delicate play of light
    and shadow. Due to run from Autumn 2013, a preview of the campaign can be see in Wallpaper*’s February Oscar Niemeyer supplement.
    
    Design and art-direction: Graphic Thought Facility and
    Fabien Cappello
    Photography: Matthew Donaldson
  - Publication M to M of M/M (Paris)
    
    Five years in the making, Thames and Hudson publish a major
    528-page monograph on the graphic design studio M/M (Paris). Edited by Emily King and designed by GTF.
    
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    Press release
  - Publication Franz West: Man with a Ball
    
    Gagosian Gallery, 6 – 24 Britannia Street, London
    9 October – 10 November 2012
    
    This exhibition combines the artists final works with a survey of his large outdoor sculpture, bound with chunky plastic coil binding in a corrugated board cover.
    
    Visitor information
  - Publication Olafur Eliasson: Life is Space 4
    
    Designed by GTF and Peter Saville. Life is Space 4 was a one
    day seminar held at Studio Olafur Eliasson in June 2011. As a record of the event, one thousand unique books were produced on an HP Indigo 7500 digital press. Each copy contains a selection of images drawn randomly from a database of a 1000 prepared images. Mathmatician, Nicholas Firth scripted a programme to enable the variable composition of the pages.
    
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About GTF
- Profile
  
  Graphic Thought Facility is a London-based design
  consultancy with an international reputation for appropriate, effective and original solutions. Recent commissions include store environments for M&S, exhibition design for the Science Museum, books for the Gagosian Gallery, wayfinding for Vitra, and campaigns for Kvadrat and the Frieze Art Fair.
  
  We believe that a successful project is rooted in a deep understanding of its objectives and we take great care
  to listen to our clients, often forging long-term relationships. Although our approach has been cited as original and unconventional, our underlying principles are clarity, simplicity and a belief that functional need and emotional response
  demand equal consideration.
  
  We enjoy exploring the physical possibilities of design,
  which has naturally extended our work into product, exhibition and environmental design. We often use non-standard materials and production methods, exploiting our knowledge of niche manufacturers and forgotten techniques, as well as new technologies.
  
  Established in 1990, GTF is jointly owned and led by three directors – Huw Morgan, Paul Neale and Andrew Stevens –
  all of whom remain very much hands-on. We have chosen
  to keep the studio relatively small and are currently a team
  of nine designers supported by our studio manager. We often collaborate with other creative specialists such as architects, writers and digital media experts, and are equally happy
  either to join or build a team for a particular project.
  
  GTF has been invited to exhibit and talk around the world
  and our work is held in public collections in Europe and
  America. In 2008, ‘Graphic Thought Facility – Resourceful
  Design’ became the Art Institute of Chicago’s first ever show
  dedicated to the output of a single graphic design studio.
- People
  
  Huw Morgan
  
  Designer, director
  Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1971
  Central Saint Martins, 1991–94
  Royal College of Art, 1994–96
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 1996,
  and became a director, 2003
  
  Paul Neale
  
  Designer, director
  Born in Leicestershire, 1966
  Saint Martins School of Art and
  Central School of Art and Design, 1985–88
  Royal College of Art, 1988–90
  Founded Graphic Thought Facility, 1990
  
  Andrew Stevens
  
  Designer, director
  Born in Sheffield, 1966
  Leeds Polytechnic, 1985–88
  Royal College of Art, 1988–90
  Founded Graphic Thought Facility, 1990
  
  Roland Brauchli
  
  Designer
  Born in Rheineck, Switzerland, 1976
  University of Art and Design Basel, Switzerland, 1999–2002
  Cooper Union, New York, 2001
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2004
  
  Philippa Brook
  
  Finance
  Born in Leamington Spa, 1976
  Leeds University, 1995–98
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2001 (until 2007) and 2011
  
  Guillaume Chuard
  
  Designer
  Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1986
  ECAL, University of Art and Design Lausanne, 2006–10
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2012
  
  Stephanne Curran
  
  Studio Manager
  Born in London, 1979
  Central Saint Martins, 2003–06
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2010
  
  Eibhlin Doran
  
  Designer
  Born in Monaghan, Ireland, 1990
  National College of Art and Design, 2008–12
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2012
  
  Robbie Mahoney
  
  Designer
  Born in Shropshire, 1972
  Central Saint Martins, 1993–96
  Royal College of Art, 1996–98
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2001
  
  Mike Montgomery
  
  Designer
  Born in Belfast, 1983
  Glasgow School of Art, 2002–06
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2007
  
  Fabio Schmieder
  
  Designer
  Born in Wetzikon, Switzerland, 1985
  Zurich University of the Arts, 2007–10
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2011
  
  Julie Van Severen
  
  Designer
  Born in Wilrijk, Belgium, 1982
  Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium, 2001–03
  Sint Lucas Antwerp, Belgium, 2003–05
  Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 2008–10
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2010
  
  Deirdre Woods
  
  Designer
  Born in Galway, Ireland, 1983
  National College of Art and Design, 2001–05
  University of Brighton, 2009–10
  Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2012
- Selected biography
  Solo exhibitions
  - 2008Graphic Thought Facility: Resourceful Design, Art Institute of Chicago
  - 2006GTF: 50 Projects, DDD, Osaka
  - 2004The/Le Garage (with Paul Elliman), 15éme Festival International de l’affiche et des arts graphiques, Chaumont
  Selected group exhibitions
  - 2011Graphic Design: Now in Production, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
  - 2009Super Contemporary, Design Museum touring exhibition, London and Taipei
  - 2006Love and Money: The Best of British Design Now, British Council touring exhibition, Tokyo and Hong Kong
  - 2004Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties, Barbican Art Gallery, London
  - 2003Somewhere Totally Else – The European Design Show, Design Museum, London
  - 2002AIGA 50 books/50 covers of 2001, American Institute of Graphic Arts exhibition, National Design Centre, New York
  - 2002The Book Corner, British Council touring exhibition, Milan
  - 2001Great Expectations, Design Council, New York
  - 2001Lost and Found, British Council, Stockholm
  - 1997New British Design, Thessaloniki Design Museum, Thessaloniki
  - 1996Design of the Times: One Hundred Years of the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, London
  - 1996Work from London, British Council touring exhibition, various countries
  Public collections
  - Art Institute of Chicago
  - Museum of Modern Art, New York
  - V&A, London
  Selected publications
  - 2011Graphic Design: Now in Production, edited by Andrew Blauvelt and Ellen Lupton, Walker Art Center
  - 2011Design Museum Visual Identity Development and Application, 2002–06, Graphic Thought Facility/Kam Tang
  - 2008Graphic Thought Facility – Resourceful Design, Zoë Ryan, A+D Series, Yale University Press
  - 2005Lovely and Amazing, Emily King, Print, May/June
  - 2004Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties, edited by Rick Poynor, Lawrence King
  - 2003‘Graphic Thought Facility: Three Dimensional Projects’, IDEA Magazine, number 298
  - 2001‘Reputations: Graphic Thought Facility’, John L. Walters and Nick Bell, Eye, number 39
  - 2001GTF – Bits World, Graphic Thought Facility with Emily King, Gabriele Capelli Editions
  - 2000‘Graphic Thought Facility: Thought and Practice’, IDEA Magazine, number 278
  Lectures and talks
  - agIdeas, Melbourne
  - Apple Inc., Cupertino
  - Art Institute of Chicago
  - Belgrade Design Week
  - Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm
  - D&AD President’s Lecture, London
  - ddd Gallery, Osaka
  - Design Indaba Expo, Cape Town
  - Design Museum, London
  - École Nationale Supérieure des Art Décoratifs, Paris
  - Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Porto
  - Fabrica, Treviso
  - Glasgow School of Art
  - GraficEurope, Barcelona
  - Grafill, Oslo
  - International Society of Typographic Designers, London
  - Offset, Dublin
  - Royal College of Art, London
  - TCDC, Bangkok
  - V&A, London
  - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  Workshops
  - CalArts, Los Angeles
  - ÉCAL, Lausanne
  - Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
  - National College of Art and Design, Dublin
  Juries
  - D&AD Awards
  - Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher
  - RSA Student Design Awards
- Credits
  
  Website designed by Graphic Thought Facility
  and Wolfram Wiedner
  
  Website built by Wolfram Wiedner
  
  © 2012 Graphic Thought Facility. All rights reserved.
  
  Unless otherwise indicated, all materials on these pages are copyrighted. No part of these pages, either text or images may
  be used for any purpose other than personal use, unless explicit authorisation is given by Graphic Thought Facility. Therefore reproduction, modification, storage in a retrieval system
  or retransmission, in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical or otherwise – for reasons other than personal use,
  is strictly prohibited without prior written permission.
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Frieze Art Fair–Campaign 2012