A publication showcasing the Trust's first holistic city strategy, created by the National Trust team in Birmingham, which is also the first step in the Trust's new Urban Places strategy. Working alongside Ian Francis, who wrote the text. Photography from both contemporary and historical sources, with portrait shots by David Rowan.
The Electric, Identity
The Electric, Quad Poster
The Electric, Membership Cards
The Electric, Logo Variations
The Electric, Additional Logos
The Electric, Brand Guidelines
The Electric, Identity Development
The Electric, Foyer Screen
The Electric, Website Design Template
The Electric, Email Template
The Electric, Cafe Bar Menu
The Electric, Business Cards
The Electric, Foyer Screen
Brand identity, guidelines and artwork for Birmingham institution The Electric, the oldest working cinema in the UK, which was taken over in 2022 by the Markwick family, cinema owners for three generations. Extensive research was undertaken into the previous identities of the cinema, which then informed the final design. The identity references the history of The Electric and the golden age of cinema, but also remains contemporary.
Greenpeace, Connect Magazine
Greenpeace, Connect Magazine
Greenpeace, Connect Magazine
Greenpeace, Connect Magazine
Greenpeace, Connect Magazine
Greenpeace, Connect Magazine
Greenpeace, Connect Magazine
Greenpeace, Connect Magazine
Design of Greenpeace's magazine, Connect, which is mailed directly to more than 200,000 regular supporters three times a year. More than a decade working as part of a small editorial team, to show the incredible breadth of Greenpeace's activities worldwide. So many people have been involved over the years, but special thanks to the current team of Shelley Harlock, Gurvinder Uppal, Neilza Polidore and Angela Glienicke from Greenpeace, and freelance writer Matt Kurton.
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
General Public, The Allotment Project Exhibition
Identity, exhibition graphics and a 56 page newspaper for General Public's 'Wotta Lotta Culture' exhibition, exploring the history of Birmingham's allotments from the 1960s to the present. Held at the Library of Birmingham between 16th September and 25th November 2023.
With exhibition build and installation by Joseph Welden and natural dyes by GEM Eco Studio. Photographs by Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora (with a couple by Rory Dodds).
Verso Books, The End of Policing
“The simple, sober cover design that @keithisworking did for @VersoBooks's "The End of Policing" is not the kind of thing that wins awards or makes year-end 10 best lists, but holy sh*t it works to devastating effect at a moment like this”
Hoarding designs for MAC, a contemporary arts centre in Birmingham's Cannon Hill Park, to help maintain a public presence during the Covid lockdowns.
Verso Books, Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal
Verso Books, A World Without Police
Verso Books, Rhapsody for the Theatre / The Age of the Poets
Verso Books, For a Left Populism
Verso Books, A Critical Theory of Police Power
Verso Books, Direct Action
Verso Books, Revolution in the Revolution
Verso Books, Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality
Verso Books, The Enemy Within
Verso Books, The Dignity of Chartism
Cover designs for Verso Books, the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
Art direction by Andy Pressman, Melissa Weiss, and No Ideas.
Black Hole Club, Welcome to the New Earth
Black Hole Club, Logo
Black Hole Club, artofficedoc.online
Black Hole Club, Press On and Play
Ongoing design for Black Hole Club, Vivid Projects' artists develpment programme, which provides space for sharing skills, testing ideas and reaching audiences through live and online platforms.
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Identity
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
“The project has uncovered a dazzling array of material from public and private collections alike, bringing Birmingham’s cinema history to life.”
Editorial illustration for America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art.
Publication for David Rowan, based on works relating to Oliver Lodge, the University of Birmingham's first Principal, originally commissioned by the University's Research and Cultural Collections. Phantom Walls is the title of Lodge’s book of 1929, which explored the possibility of an afterlife – an alternative reality beyond death.
Pluto Press, Transgender Marxism
Pluto Press, Revenge Capitalism
Pluto Press, Postcapitalist Futures
Pluto Press, The Situationist International
Book cover designs for Pluto Press, established in 1969 and one of the world’s oldest radical publishers.
Art direction by Melanie Patrick
Wümme
Wümme, January 2020
Wümme, February 2020
Wümme, March 2020
Wümme, April 2020
Wümme, April 2020
Wümme, May 2020
Wümme, May 2020
Wümme, May 2020
Wümme, May 2020
Wümme, June 2020
Wümme, July 2020
Wümme, August 2020
Wümme, September 2020
Wümme, October 2020
Wümme, November 2020
Wümme, November 2020
Wümme, November 2020
Wümme, December 2020
Begun as a monthly risographed mailer, Wümme turned into an accidental plague diary. Twelve monthly editions were sent free across the UK, Europe and North America, the only constraint the A6 kraft envelopes they were mailed in. Print on demand and lots of hand finishing took over when the risograph died after the first month.
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
A publication by David Rowan which bears witness to the rise and fall of John Madin’s Paradise Circus. ‘Paradise 1974-2016’ marks the passing of this brutal landmark both celebrated and contested in its’ lifetime.
Poster design for Birmingham Design Festival's Creative City poster exhibition.
Thanks to Luke Tonge for the invitation.
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
Publication about the Birmingham adventure playground movement from the 1960s to 1980s. These were temporary ‘junk playgrounds’ set-up on patches of urban waste-land and stocked with ‘loose parts’ of discarded wood, abandoned building materials and other detritus, with children encouraged to construct their own play environments.
An anthology, published by Sternberg Press and edited by Jon K Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison, in which a mixture of new and established names in the fields of contemporary art, media theory, philosophy, and speculative fiction explore the diverse ways fiction manifests.