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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Designer, director
Born in Sheffield, 1966
Leeds Polytechnic, 1985–88
Royal College of Art, 1988–90
Founded Graphic Thought Facility, 1990
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
Finance
Born in Leamington Spa, 1976
Leeds University, 1995–98
Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2001 (until 2007) and 2011
Designer
Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1986
ECAL, University of Art and Design Lausanne, 2006–10
Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2012
Studio Manager
Born in London, 1979
Central Saint Martins, 2003–06
Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2010
Designer
Born in Monaghan, Ireland, 1990
National College of Art and Design, 2008–12
Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2012
Designer
Born in Shropshire, 1972
Central Saint Martins, 1993–96
Royal College of Art, 1996–98
Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2001
Designer
Born in Belfast, 1983
Glasgow School of Art, 2002–06
Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2007
Designer
Born in Wetzikon, Switzerland, 1985
Zurich University of the Arts, 2007–10
Joined Graphic Thought Facility, 2011
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
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and Wolfram Wiedner
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