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2020 Visionaries — a specs-tacular new calendar.

Sometimes the obvious ideas work best.

By jimkdavies | December 31, 2019 | In blog, calendars, design, Design Week, illustration, print, promotion, totalcontent, writing | Read moreLeave a comment

Cubic by the book.

Cubic is a Nottingham-based branding and communications agency, who we’ve worked with over many years.

By jimkdavies | February 22, 2019 | In blog, books, branding, design, illustration, new work, print, promotion, tone of voice, totalcontent, writing | Read moreLeave a comment

type writing for the F37 Foundry website.

Rick Banks is not only an excellent graphic designer, he’s rapidly becoming one of the UK’s hottest typographic talents.

By jimkdavies | February 5, 2019 | In blog, branding, design, new work, online, print, totalcontent, typography, website, writing | Read moreLeave a comment
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Empress — from a few words to a visual language.

Our work on Empress Litho with Supple Studio shows the creative symbiosis of copywriter and designer flowing in a less than usual direction.

By jimkdavies | February 4, 2019 | In blog, branding, design, new work, print, publishing, stationery, tone of voice, totalcontent, website, writing | Read moreLeave a comment
27 Feb 2018SONY DSC

new year, new calendar.

Before we’re quarter of the way through the new year, we thought it might be worth posting some shots of the 2018 ‘Typefaces’ calendar we worked on with Pollitt & Partners.

By jimkdavies | February 27, 2018 | In blog, calendars, design, illustration, print, totalcontent, typography, writing | Read moreLeave a comment

our new quotable typographic stationery.

New address, new stationery. We were delighted that our friends at Supple Studio decided to take up the challenge.

By jimkdavies | October 3, 2017 | In blog, branding, design, print, stationery, totalcontent, writing | Read more2 Comments
3 Jan 2017cover_box_3d

2016 Royal Mail Year Book — ‘Letters Through Time’.

I’ve been working on the Royal Mail Year Book for over 20 years now.

By jimkdavies | January 3, 2017 | In blog, books, design, new work, stamps, totalcontent, writing | Read moreLeave a comment
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2016 Royal Mail Yearpack — the stamps behind the stories.

We were as thrilled as ever to work on the 2016 Royal Mail Yearpack, one of our favourite projects, this one designed by the talented chaps at Studio Up.

By jimkdavies | December 20, 2016 | In blog, design, illustration, new work, print, stamps, totalcontent, writing | Read moreLeave a comment
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a tasty brief from Harbour & Jones.

You wait weeks for a tone-of-voice project, and then five come along at once.

By jimkdavies | November 9, 2016 | In blog, branding, design, naming, new work, online, tone of voice, totalcontent, website, writing | Read moreLeave a comment
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fairytale ending at the 2016 D&AD Awards.

Delighted to report that ‘Grimm Bros Inc’, our Business Fairy Tales, picked up a Wood Pencil (in book) at the D&AD Awards earlier this month.

By jimkdavies | May 31, 2016 | In awards, blog, design, illustration, print, promotion, publishing, totalcontent, writing | Read moreLeave a comment
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