Personal and Professional Practice: OUGD502 - Brief 01 - Creative Report

FranklinTill Studio (UK)

Background: Founded by Kate Franklin and Caroline Till in 2010, FranklinTill Studio comprises a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers and writers. Kate and Caroline have 25 years’ combined experience in research, trend forecasting and design strategy. Recognised leaders in the fields of colour, material and design futures, FranklinTill Studio are regularly asked to comment on future material innovations and present research at global design events.

.O Studio (UK)

Background: Point Zero Studio is a multi-disciplinary studio of creation based in London.

Since 2011, Point Zero Studio covers a multitude of discipline in Art direction including

fashion, textile, graphic design, interior decoration, set design, and also provides creative consulting in branding & fashion. and curates events like film festivals, pop-up events, magazine launches, or exhibitions. Since 2015, Point Zero Studio runs 1A Space in Brixton

What draws me to this studio? I really enjoy the varied aesthetic of the work that this studio produces. They are dramatically contemporary and give British Graphic Design a good name in my opinion. Their work has a certain style to it. They use lots of block punchy colours complimented with beautifully selected typography, contrasted well with collage like compositions and quirky photographic content.

Come de Bouchony (FRANCE)

Background: Côme de Bouchony is an art director and designer working and living in Paris. After studies at Penninghen he established his studio in 2007. The studio offers art direction, graphic identities, editorial design, photography, animation, creative research and websites within the fields of art, culture, fashion and commerce. He also is the co-founder and creative director of FIGURE Magazine, and the head of design at Le Comptoir Général. In 2013, his work on Figure was selected within the Best Reviews by french Art Directors Club.

What draws me to this practitioner? I find Bouchony's aesthetic/graphic style really appealing. it's bold, loud, unapologetic and very 'on trend', some would even describe his style as postmodern.