ISTD Certificate of Excellence
Book Design
ISTD Typographic Awards 2011
'Envy will sell The Ivington Diaries, of course. The book
itself is deeply covetable, with
its heavy, creamy paper and
its splendid efflorescence of colour images.'
James McConnachie
The Sunday Times
Winner
Best Jacket / Cover Design
British Book Design and Production Awards 2010
Winner
Best Food Book
André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards 2010
A unique treasury of flavour combinations, offering endless diversion and inspiration for the creative cook.
Cover and typographic text design/typesetting.
To accompany Heston Blumenthal's Channel 4 TV series, the book tells the story of the famous chef as he embarks on creating his famous 'feasts', such as Gothic, Chocolate Factory and the Seventies.
The design was crafted to evoke a classic fairy tale book with specially commissioned illustrations by Tom Lane,
highly crafted typography to reflect old typesetting ways
and the liberal use of gold inks throughout. A Grade fantastical design feast was topped off
with a limited edition slipcase.
Tying in with the hit BBC1 series and generously illustrated with specially commissioned colour photography by Paul Barker and over 100 historic images, this book reveals how the UK's structures originated in the experiences and beliefs of the British people, and how they hold the key to who we are. As well as designing the book part of our remit was to retouch the legendary broadcaster's socks for the front cover.
To tie in with the Ian Fleming centenary and the Imperial War Museum's major exhibition on the author and his character James Bond, we were appointed to design the book of the show. With access to the Fleming Estate and the Bond film archives we created a design sympathetic to the subject matter but filled with design detailing
to evoke the nature of spies and their murky world. A range of icons were also created for each chapter to convey the nature
of the content that lay ahead, incorporating many well known and lesser Bond visual references.
