Design House Examples Pt. 2

Sawdust [Sawdust Website]

Another small studio of only two artists, Rob Gonzalez and Jonathon Quainton focus their work on typography, image-making, and visual identity. Their studio is based in London, UK, and have worked for such companies as:

• Coca-cola
• Universal Music
• John Lewis
• British Heart Foundation
• New York's Time Magazine

...and many others. They have worked for a fair amount of large names with high quality pieces of imagery.

Their work seems a lot more clinical than some of the other studios that I have looked at, appealing more to the monochrome or plenty of white space audience rather than other viewers.

Example of work taken from here.

Nobrow [Nobrow Website]

Nobrow is a very successful design house in the UK, formed in the winter of 2008 with the aim to create a platform for graphic designers, illustrators and comic artists in the UK. This was considered the age of 'dying print', and to stand out, the company had to bring about something new, their images had to deserve to be printed and to really bring something new to the table in such a hard time for new artists and companies.

Using spot-colour and the finest inks they can buy, they create some of the most lucid prints that you will ever see, creating quite a vivid library of spectacular colours to look at. For such a recently formed company, they are very successful in that their prints are now being distributed world-wide, their most recently formed Nobrow France published Hilda et la Geant de la Nuit, which received widespread approval in the press and made an appearance on French national television.

They have a smaller arm, Nobrow Small Press, in which their books are hand printed of roughly 100 copies by hand through screen printing. 

Nobrow is a fairly large studio, proudly featuring 35 artists, all of which repping their own style - though the styles are similar, they do deviate from one another and showcase their own characteristics that set them apart from eachother. Each artist within this studio has their own way and pace of working, for example, Ray Lemstra prefers to work intuitively, not focusing on concepts too much, whilst Kyle Platts spends a lot of his time portraying his ideas, constantly carrying his phone for notes and his sketchbook on him.

Example of work (by Bianca Bagnarelli) from here.