A busy few months for Design for Print

Exhibition design work for the River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, the World Rugby Museum, Twickenham and Abingdon's newly re-furbished County Hall have all been produced in 2012.

In Henley the show, which remains open until the autumn, celebrates the work of the artist John Piper.

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.

Celebrating a decade at the R&RM

In Henley-on-Thames the River & Rowing Museum is celebrating its first ten years and we were asked to design a series of panels for a special anniversary exhibition. The theme is the power of museum collections to inspire us, with the public being asked to vote for their favourite objects. Our eye-catching designs are based on the rowers' blades in the museum's logo.

A century of the Wallabies at Twickenham

We designed a series of panels for a new client, the World Museum of Rugby at Twickenham. They capture the excitement of the Wallabies first ever tour in 1908, including some life size cut-outs that reveal that the rugby players of 100 years ago wouldn't match up to today's highly developed players.