As you will know, L&F Creative have a love for nature so when we received a call from a nursery looking to relocate and rebrand, we jumped at the opportunity.

Exedra are an established nursery relocating to the beautiful cotswold village of Painswick. Our proposed brand vision retained a natural colour palette, combining a stone base colour and a cotswold green accent colour. We took a modern approach to classic typography, using cap letterforms to add flare and personality, also a sense of growth.

Due to the proposed new location, branding needed to compliment the brands surrounding the nursery site. We extensively researched the surrounding area, landscape and history and this will all feed in to future communications. We have commissioned illustration to support branded merchandise.

Gloucester Cathedral is an extraordinary space. 

Many are inspired by the art and architecture of this special place and much of their community engagement programme centres on sharing arts based activities that promote wellbeing, build skills and inspire learning. 

We’ve had the pleasure of working with Gloucester Cathedral to create a branding framework, look and feel and initial workbook, along with a wider range of resources designed to provide accessible, guided, creative activities for a varied range of interests and abilities, downloaded for free, from the Cathedral’s website.

All content for this initial Guide to Drawing was created by talented Artists Adam Davis. Adam is passionate about the positive impact of art on physical and mental health and has previously collaborated with Gloucester Cathedral to curate and display Ever-Present, an exhibition of artwork by talented Gloucester based graduates, and accompanying workshops in 2019.

During 2021 we hope to develop this branding framework for further initiatives and projects. Watch this space.

#CreativeCathedral

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Craft Ales Candles represents a new start-up brand targeting the growing craft ale market and a gap in the market for candles for men.

The West Country founders wanted to produce a range of scented soy wax candles that appeal to men, with fragrances that are fun and different, tapping in to the creative naming and styling of modern craft ale beer; youthful with bags of personality, some might say “scandleous!”

The resulting brand explores playful language and incorporates the candle within the logotype (‘A’ letterform). Typography is supported with themed illustrations and a bright, quirky colour palette.

The Cheltenham Design Festival will be returning this November and we can’t wait!

This years festival theme is all about togetherness and relationships and our Founder & Creative Director, Andy Hussey has been asked to submit a poster for “Design Connects Us” – a screen printing challenge in collaboration with Gloucestershire University.

The poster will be typographic and will be a response to the theme of “relationships”, depicting what that means to him and Lost & Found Creative as a business, as well as the wider community.

Working with students at the university, Andy will screen-print the final design and posters will be exhibited at the university for one week in the lead up to the main festival.

The final designs will form part of the official festival launch which will be happening in November.

See https://cheltdesign.co.uk for more details.

We are currently working with OneAdvent on an exciting new branding project and supporting website. OneAdvent provide skilled agents and offer a modern approach to soliciting bespoke insurance applications. They allowing their customers to start, grow and manage their enterprise without risk, worry or hassle. 

The proposed website is predominately typographic with a great use of infographics and graphic icons throughout. We are working with the OneAdvent communications team to really push the brand, providing graphic assets and brand guidelines for future implementation.

Great to see Erik Spiekermann back in Bristol. We’ve been to lots of his talks over the years and he never disappoints!

Here’s what the WEDF have to say:

This talk will talk type, and WEDF are thrilled to welcome Erik Spiekermann, presenting his career in type, old and new technologies and how he utilises them both in the work he produces today. We’ll also hear from Jonathan Doney, the current Chair of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) who will not only introduce Erik, a board member and former President of ISTD, but also talk about the society and how it has become recognised as the authoritative body for typography worldwide.

Warning: This lecture may contain four-letters words* and a German accent. Erik is presuming the audience will have an advanced knowledge of typographic terms and an interest in words and letters.

Erik will talk about the path from letterpress printer to graphic/type designer and back to letterpress printer. He will tell us stories about the studios he has started along the way notably MetaDesign and Edenspiekermann which are both operational in several countries, and how he invented the digital distribution of fonts with FontShop, designed lots of typefaces and today has ‘progressed’ to making digital typefaces into wood type. He now runs an experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin that designs, prints and publishes. Amongst other things, it uses over 500 cases of wood type from 8 to 60 Cicero, the German equivalent of a ‘line’, aka 1 pica, but about 7% larger. (You were warned about the advanced knowledge of typographic terms!)

Erik always follows the motto, “Don’t work for arseholes, don’t work with arseholes”.

*The Yanks say that Erik has a potty mouth!

Erik and Jonathan return to Bristol 11 years after their first trip here together on their ISTD ‘Kern Up the Volume’ tour when they really wanted a branded tour bus but had to settle for public transport!