Category Archives: Design

Get organised – 2012 calendars!

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We’ve been wanting to create a wall calendar for yonks and have finally got round to it. No excuses for us to be late and disorganised in 2012 now. There are two hand drawn designs (created at our kitchen table) and each will be available in a choice of two colourways – they’ll be on the website soon, but if you can’t wait just email us!

First up, the doodle calendar. Something quite gratifying about taking the organisation and structure of a year planner and creating it from random, scribbly doodles!

From Solitaire colouring books to Victore Vasarely posters – we’ve always been fascinated by geometric pattern and tessellating shapes. The calendar was an ideal opportunity to create some unique patterns of our own.

Happy shopping!

By popular demand

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We’ve responded to your requests and added even more countries to our popular type map collection – with Canada, France, Italy and Ireland. It is a slow process, a map a month, all that fiddling with type line by line and cross referencing against google maps, but we got there in the end . They’ll be available to buy from our shop in the coming weeks, we’ll send out an e-newsletter the minute they hit the shelves.

Whilst working on the last map, the Japan tsunami struck. We felt compelled to do something to raise funds and have created a Japan type map in response. We’re unsure whether a roman alphabet map will be popular, but we’re going to give it a shot. Half of the 2011 profits from the sale of the Japan map will go directly to the charities providing relief in this area.

The fun, fast and friendly squirrel

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When we joined North Herts Road Runners a while ago, they had a slightly tired logo and we offered to design them a new one as our contribution to the club. The emblem is our local black squirrel, but they all felt the existing representation looked more like a rabbit and didn’t reflect the athletic nature of it’s members. So that was the brief – design a fast, fun and friendly squirrel, using the club colours of green, yellow, blue and black. Below are both logos, fingers crossed that you can tell which one came from the Bold & Noble camp?! And of course if you are local and feeling the post Christmas bulge, come along and join us for a jog and a natter. The new squirrel may be speedy but we’re not all that streamline, so you won’t be the slowest, promise. – www.nhrr.org.uk