Frank Design

Caravan website 3.0 has arrived

Andy — Fri, 03 May 2013 07:31:17 +0000

Frank’s long term creative partnership with Caravan – the eclectic east London boutique of lovely things – continues with the launch of their new website. This is the third incarnation (hence the 3.0) of Caravan we have created and the site now incorporates a WordPress-powered online shop, client-friendly CMS, and fully integrated blog. Big thanks go out to Caravan founder Emily Chalmers for her patience and ongoing support throughout the project and also over the years!

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside

Andy — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:47:42 +0000

As big birding fans, Frank needed no extra encouragement when creating this gull-based identity and holding page for From Brighton with Love – a knitted home accessories startup run from the seaside town by designer Sally Evans. As well as the embroidered labels and badges above, we created business cards and the lovely rubber stamp version below.

Bob & Horace

Andy — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:33:26 +0000

Frank has designed a new website and online shop for London-based Letterpress printers Harrington & Squires. Run by designer/printers Chrissie Charlton and Vicky Fullick (in a space only 288 picas wide), Harrington & Squires take on bespoke commissioned projects, such as invitations or stationary, design products such as limited edition books, calendars, magnets or cards, and also run workshops where they teach the basics of hand setting type and letterpress printing using Adana presses.

And in case you were wondering… Harrington & Squires is named after two letterpress tutors from Hornsey College of Art in the 60s (Bob and Horace).

Mary on a mission

Andy — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:20:02 +0000

Frank has created the identity, website and stationery for the very lovely advertising industry recruitment legend Luisa Shelton. We worked closely with Luisa in order to create a site with a personal feel that reflects her own unique style and quirky take on the world. A helping hand on the character illustrations came from old pal Steve, over at MonkeyChops.

Jazz is not a dirty word

Andy — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:54:50 +0000

Frank has created the identity, print and website for Scottish Jazz initiative, the J-Word. Via the medium of promoting live tours, the J-Word not only aims to encourage jazz lovers to reconnect with their favourite music, but also to help build an entirely new audience. The project was undertaken for the Scottish Jazz Federation and Creative Scotland with marketing by our regular collaborator Charlotte Halliday of Noble-Ox.

Screenprint workshop at Print Club London

Andy — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:25:49 +0000

On Saturday I attended a screenprinting workshop over at Print Club London in Dalston. Big thanks to Barry, Ollie, Lisa and Kirsty who took us through the whole process, from preparing artwork, coating and then exposing our screens right through to the point where we hit the inks and squeegees. A very inspirational day and good to meet such a chilled and creative bunch of people.

Song maps – No.2

Andy — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:13:18 +0000

Okay, time for another song lyric-inspired map. This one is more epic in scale but probably even more obscure than the last… (interestingly Google Maps recommends using a canoe to travel from Honolulu to San Francisco).

Railway Children

Andy — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:07:41 +0000

I was recently the official stills photographer on the set of a short film produced for homeless charity, Railway Children – check out the resulting video here. The location was a disused factory in East Ham although some portraits were also taken in the basement car park of production company Mustard’s office in Soho.

The film was directed by Dom Bridges and some of the shots now form part of the print campaign (above) and new website designed by agency Peak 15. See other portaits and interiors in the Flickr set here »

Lino-cut long-player

Andy — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:46:51 +0000

We recently designed this CD cover for singer-songwriter and guitar-pickin’ Mark Harrison’s second album. Lovingly hand-crafted typography and illustration were all done in-house using lino-cutting. Check out Mark’s website for more info, tracks and live dates.

More Barnes

Andy — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:46:35 +0000

Joining the Frank team this week is designer Lizzy Barnes who is with us on a work placement. She has been a great help so far and is even keeping up with Nigel’s prodigious tea-drinking!