Going green with Bottomline

Design for Print recently created a successful campaign to persuade staff at Bottomline Technologies EMEA HQ to 'think before they print'.

We wrote the copy, researched and sourced suitable images, and designed a range of posters and stickers. They were produced and delivered them in time for a visit by the CEO, just two weeks after we were briefed.

Online portfolio now available

We recently posted a new online portfolio in PDF form. It shows a range of recent work, including logos, brochures and book design.

Not so dawdlin at the River & Rowing Museum

Design for Print recently completed in record time some new exhibition panels for the River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames. They tell the story of two very different boat clubs. Seven panels commemorate 150 years of rowing at Magdalen College, Oxford and and a further set describe the rise and fall of the Shanghai Boat Club.

For Magdalen we selected the elegant typeface Janson Text with its non-ranging numerals and small capitals. Oscar Wilde's career as an oarsman was brief, since he followed advice to avoid 'fruitless slashing of the river'.

To tell the Shanghai story we chose a typeface called 'Sho' - which looks convincingly oriental rather than being a clumsy pastiche.

Down by the river

Working closely with Reading's Two Rivers Press and author Dr Gillian Clark, we have designed and produced Down by the River, a fully illustrated history of the Thames and Kennet in Reading. The book was launched in the Spring at the Museum of English Rural Life. According Two Rivers Press: "The book is attractively designed, thoroughly researched, and generously provided with maps, drawings, and contemporary photographs, many not seen before."

Gillian Clark grew up in a Caversham boat-building family. As well as designing the book, Design for Print advised on editorial matters took some photographs, and supplied the printed copies. In the course of the work we discovered that Gillian Clark's father had saved David Woodward's uncle Ronald Allen from drowning.

Walking the Thames with the French Horn

Besides being restaurant critic Michael Winner's favourite place for duck, the French Horn Hotel at Sonning on Thames is beautifully situated in a sheltered arm of the Thames, just at the foot of the Chiltern Hills.

We devised, photographed, and wrote the words for a series of leaflets describing some of the walks available from the hotel. Our design work features a series of maps which we created specially for the project.