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Dickens newspaper

We are producing a series of newspapers as part of Dickens 2012. The first edition, Night Walks, will be in newspaper and iPad formats and will be available from the 5th of February.

We will be posting links to the app,

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by Noel

23/012012

Enter the Grid

Enter the Grid

We’ve just released a short film to promote the launch of the A4 sketchbooks we designed for the Design Museum. The film documents ‘Enter the Grid’, a drawing workshop by The Design Museum to celebrate Wim Crouwel – A graphic odyssey. Also featuring a presentation by Tony Brook on Crouwel’s grid system.

Enter The Grid from KentLyons on Vimeo.

http://www.vimeo.com/27191375

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by Noel

05/082011

JARMAN Award/Taschen

The identity that we created for the JARMAN Award, now in it’s third year, has been featured in Logo Design 3, a new book by Taschen.

You can view it online before it goes into shops here (page 72 –81).
Or see the project in more detail here.

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by Jon

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01/032011

Goodbye Xmas – hello +mas!

Xmas is rubbish, and everyone knows it. Not Christmas – Christmas is fantastic. I’m talking about the word Xmas – it’s awful. It feels negative, cheap, tacky… It is short, and that is in its favour, but other than that,

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by Noel

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15/122010

Insectype

Whilst not making websites for KentLyons, I’m studying for an MA in Graphic Design at London College of Communication. These newspapers are the end result of a type design project, and have just arrived back from Newspaper Club.

Our brief was to select a set of related objects, from which we would then produce a family of pictograms. These pictograms were to provide the basis for a set of glyphs for an unknown language/writing system. I chose to base my final glyphs on an Armenian typeface, Maral.

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by Tom

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07/122010

Coffee morning is go!

Put a smile on your mug

It’s been a long time in the preparation, but Macmillan’s Coffee Morning is now on, and it’s a lot of fun! We’ve got cakes and coffees on the go, and @mrsstephenfry is hosting the twitter coffee morning. Our lovely little iPhone app is doing the rounds as well. You can download it here: http://bit.ly/coffeefinder. It’s free!

We’re currently getting a bit of a sugar buzz – time to put the kettle on!

Click here to view what we did for it.

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by Noel

24/092010

Macmillan Coffee Finder App launches

As part of our campaign for Macmillan’s Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning, we’ve created an iPhone app to help you find the nearest decent cup of coffee near you. It’s completely free, and features the top 10% of the UK’s coffee

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by Mark

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20/092010

LV= Micketing™

Marketing + Picketing = Micketing™

LV= were attending the MoneyFacts awards last Friday (they won 2!) and they asked us to help raise their profile. So we Micketed™ the event. We created some placards encouraging the attendees to be as excellent

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by Noel

19/092010

Putting a smile on your mug

Our new campaign for Macmillan Cancer Support has launched, in the papers and online, and very soon to be on your phone as well. The ads promote the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, helping to raise money for people affected by cancer…

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by Noel

17/092010

All over Channel 4

We were totally all over Channel 4 (kind of) last night. First, there was the Food programme, which we did a fun (and HTML only, amazingly) quiz, so you can test your knowledge of where food comes from. Play it

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by Noel

16/092010