Polytechnic

More from our new visual identity and website for ENSEMBLE – a programme of advanced workshops for professional actors developed and delivered by revered and electric duo Chris Kelham and Eliot Shrimpton. The wordmark mirrors the workshops central premise of working on the individual by learning in a group; emphasising the individual letters within a dynamic collective form. The central clearing this arrangement creates in turn reflects the space Ensemble provides actors to develop, fail, explore and experiment, free of judgement. The visual identity is built around this playful, protean wordmark, set in Helvetica Textbook. This cut of Helvetica is a studio favourite, offering a distinctly pedagogical feel through its highly geometric, primary numbers and open single-storey ‘a’. Colour is used across the communications, in the main to theme each workshop, and more quietly elsewhere – bringing delight by tracing cursor movement through the website’s Testimonials section. Shot strictly in black and white to ground colour within the graphic identity, the image bank and film content capture the actors’ arresting and expressive responses to the training. #Ensemble #graphicdesign #branding #website #Polytechnic

Introducing new work for ENSEMBLE – a programme of advanced workshops for professional actors developed and delivered by Chris Kelham and Eliot Shrimpton. We were commissioned to create a visual identity and website for this revered and electric duo, whose training foregrounds working on the individual by learning in a group. The wordmark mirrors this premise, emphasising the individual letters within a dynamic collective form. The central clearing this arrangement creates in turn reflects the space Ensemble provides actors to develop, fail, explore and experiment, free of judgement. The visual identity is built around this playful, protean wordmark, set in Helvetica Textbook. This cut of Helvetica is a studio favourite, offering a distinctly pedagogical feel through its highly geometric, primary numbers and open single-storey ‘a’. Colour is used across the communications, in the main to theme each workshop, and more quietly elsewhere – bringing delight by tracing cursor movement through the website’s Testimonials section. Shot strictly in black and white to ground colour within the graphic identity, the image bank and film content capture the actors’ arresting and expressive responses to the training. Find more at www.polytechnic.works #Ensemble #actortraining #actorworkshops #actingprocess #graphicdesign #branding #website #design #Polytechnic

Sharing this vital show at the Photographer's Gallery – 'We Others: Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini'. Gottschalk's brave, intimate and beautiful portraits of her chosen family with illuminating narrative by Hélène Giannecchini. Running until 7 June. https://lnkd.in/ekwrTWKy

Visual identity and book design for Common Treasures — an organisation developing practical tools and processes to help communities, landowners, housing providers and local authorities realise better shared outcomes for rural places. For the publication series, we developed a bespoke lighter cut of the wood-engraved lettering from Kornog – Occident, a 1928 Breton magazine that became a reference for artistic renewal in the region. The letterforms carry that history into a new context — rooted in place, attentive to craft. Production decisions were made with the same care and consideration for environmental impact. Printed and bound in the UK to reduced shipping, they use solvent-free vegetable-based inks, powered by renewable electricity, on FSC-certified papers produced with Elemental Chlorine Free pulp and are free of heavy metals. commontreasures.org | @polytechnic___ #VisualIdentity #BookDesign #PublicationDesign #GraphicDesign #Sustainability #CommonTreasures

Visual identity and website for Esther Breithoff, archaeologist and heritage researcher. Esther’s work spans Contemporary Archaeology, Critical Heritage Studies and Environmental Humanities — tracing the relationships between conflicts, resources and rights across more-than-human worlds in the Anthropocene. The identity and website were designed to gather and present this research in a form equal to its scope. The design takes its cue from the work itself: mapping sites of conflict and visually emphasising connection across time. Structure, navigation and visual language work together to hold research that is necessarily layered, cross-disciplinary and ongoing. estherbreithoff.com | @polytechnic___ #VisualIdentity #WebDesign #GraphicDesign #Archaeology #Heritage

Slow Time — an essay by curator and writer Hollie Douglas, designed in close collaboration with the author. Hollie’s writing brings together conversations with artists, encountered artworks, and theories of radical imagination and Black utopias — exploring how overlooked artists might be embedded more fully into art history, and how we might hold time differently. The design responds directly to the essay’s concerns. The text block is mapped across spreads in ways that resist a straightforward reading path; the individual letters of the title are dispersed throughout in place of page numbers; imagery recurs in warped repetition. White ink on silver paper stocks changes the atmosphere of the page — slowing the reader, altering how the text is met. @polytechnic___ #GraphicDesign #PublicationDesign #EditorialDesign #BookDesign #SlowTime

Proud to share our visual identity work for the Mayor of London's Creative Enterprise Zones programme — a Mayoral initiative dedicated to giving artists and creatives affordable space to put down roots and grow across the capital.

Revisiting our signage for Natalino's Mortimer Street store – as part of the rebrand we developed custom display lettering and body typefaces and we took every opportunity to translate these into touchpoints in the physical space.

Report out today, designed for Lucie Murray and Rose Marshall-Gibbons at ING Media Full report available to view on the ING website here: https://lnkd.in/gh6XscM2