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Gill Sans. Its current digital version (black) with the Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft's version (red). Redrawn characters by Phil Baines & Natalie Braune by kind permission of Monotype.
The regular seeks to restore the original metal versions of selected characters; the light and bold are are an experiment on our part, no precedent for this consistency across the weights of Gill Sans exists as far as I know.
A new comprehensive identity for the Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft in the UK.
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The first public appearance of the new namestyle was in press ads in the Museums' Journal, March 2013. (The website URL is the old one).
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Stationery.
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East window vinyl. With a name on the building suddenly everything seems real. Installation 11 September 2013. Graphic contractors were BAF Graphics.
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Writing the menu just prior to opening to the public 21 September 2013. Photo: Jackie Baines.
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First drinks in the café, the logo looks good on the till roll I think.
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Crockery supplied by the Big Tomato Company.
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Manifestations on the glass panels and doors are the '+' in Gill Sans Light from the logo used as a kind of shorthand.
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Graphics panel detail.
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All disks are Arizona printed on Valchromat.
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All nameplates and direction signs are Arizona printed on Valchromat. While exhibition graphics are fixed with hidden fixings, these are face-fixed as though part of the building. It seemed a pragmatic decision for a building concerned with arts & crafts.
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Leaflets and feedback card. What's on and General leaflet designed with Natalie Braune.
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Ticket, What's on and General leaflets. What's on and General leaflet designed with Natalie Braune.
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Cards to announce the opening and initial print work for the museum.
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The 'arra' on this map owes more to London Transport signage than the standard museum 'arra' but works better in this context.
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Checking graphics at BAF Graphics, Earlsfield, prior to installation. Signs are direct to media printed on black Valchromat; exhibition panels on white sprayed MDF.
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Not quite resolved logo from the presentation on 20 November 2012. Part of the whole HLF-funded project was a curatorial refocussing of the museum and this resulted in a new name. The proposed namestyle foregrounds that shift. The + is used instead of 'and' or '&' to reflect the centrality of the catholic guild in all this art & craft. At this point the position, size and colour of 'of' was unresolved, as were other spatial niceties.