KentLyons

Happy Face app – how and why we made it

We've recently launched a new app called Happy Face to the app store. It's an app to help parents encourage good behaviour from their kids whilst out and about. Think of it as a naughty step in your pocket. Except it's a lot more fun. And you don't have to say "unceptable" instead of "unacceptable". And it looks cool. Here is the story of how and why we created it.

The App & Mobile Case Study Book

A visual from The App & Mobile Case Study book design for Taschen showing the gradient that runs across the chapter openers.

You can see the full project here.

Spotify App Test

For quite a while we've been running Spotifriday in the KentLyons studio. We choose a subject (Animals, Mothers, Lost... the subjects are pretty random), and everyone has to choose 3 tracks on Spotify. There are some rules (no repeats, one track per artist, you have to actually like the song), but it often yields some nice results.

Dickens Papers at Westminster Abbey

We handed out copies of the first edition of the Dickens Papers to the great and the good at the Dickens Bicentenary Service at Westminster Abbey today. 300 copies were handed out in total.

Y.CO Book

We have designed a luxury hard backed book for yacht firm Y.CO.

More images coming soon.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

Coffee morning is go!

Put a smile on your mug

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

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

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...

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