NEWS
July 28 2010
BMA Patient Information Awards
We have recently had two projects for the British Heart Foundation commended at the British Medical Association's Patient Information Awards.
The first series of books explaining Inherited heart conditions – cover illustration by Aude van Ryn below – were commended.
The Living with a healthy heart booklet, aimed at disabled people, was highly commended too.
The awards recognise quality in written patient information leaflets and small booklets, taking navigation, accessibility, and layout & design into account – a great award to be up for.
Massive thanks and congratulations go to Cardiac Nurse, Cathy Ross, at the BHF who project managed both, and whose passion made these so successful.
July 9 2010
Pocket map
The lovely people at Arts Council England, London wanted a map to introduce the staff moving to their offices in Westminster to the local area. We designed this fold-out map which fits in a pocket-sized slip case so it can be easily carried around. As with the moving card, we hand-rendered the illustrations for a more personal feel.
Printed and finished digitally in a limited edition of 80 by our new friends over at New Perspective.
June 28 2010
Crafts Council identity
A new identitiy that we have designed for the Crafts Council was unveiled last night at the private view of New Designers in Islington.
Firing Up is a national programme in ceramics, its aim is to raise the profile of ceramics in education, inspire learners and 're-fire' kilns in schools.
We typeset the name very simply, which is then applied to clay in the form of a stamp, referencing the marks used in ceramics.
We'll have more applications of this to show soon. Below is the front of the flyer.
June 28 2010
Great Ormond Street
We are very happy to say that we have just started working with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity on a project. We look forward to giving you more of an update when the project is in full swing.
June 8 2010
The new Artie!
Following the British Heart Foundation’s Artie Beat Club vote, we are pleased to announce that a new Artie Beat character has been chosen. Eugene and Louise’s heart-shaped Artie was the most popular amongst the children and is now being developed to appear throughout all marketing materials, including newsletters, membership packs, posters and story books. We will be designing a fresh new look for all of these across the campaign, working with the excellent Eugene and Louise, through their agency Eye Candy, to allow Artie to become an informative way of teaching young children about heart disease and the work the British Heart Foundation does. Watch out for more work to come.
May 10 2010
Work Update
After a very busy few months we've recently had a whole load of projects come to fruition. Check our work section for two lovely new little projects for the Arts council, the Striking Women's exhibition and supporting website for the Women's Library and also the website we've designed for The Music Exchange.
March 19 2010
Royal Mail
We are very excited to announce that we have been asked to work on a project for the Royal Mail. It's a top secret, self-destruct in 10 seconds type thing at the moment. But when we can, we will announce more.
February 22 2010
Striking Women exhibition
The exhibition we designed for the University of Leeds, showing at The Women’s Library, has been extended and is now open until the end of March.
We are just finishing a website to document the whole exhibition, so that the research and stories will go on beyond the life of the exhibition itself. Lookout for the launch of the website very soon.
January 20 2010
Taking Part Place DVD
We've just received this lovely piece of print back from Calverts. All hand finished, and printed on Cyclus Offset and Cyclus Print, they house a DVD showcasing a project run across five London Boroughs.
We'll be putting this in our work area soon with a few more pictures.
January 15 2010
The Music Exchange website
Having last year designed a logo and identity for The Music Exchange – a not-for-profit music shop run by Nottingham based homelessness charity Framework – we are currently designing the website for them to fit in line with the rest of the brand. It should be live by the end of Feburary so check back then to see the result. 
January 12 2010
London to Brighton bike ride
The BHF London to Brighton Bike Ride attracts 35,000 entries, with 27,000 lucky (lucky?!) people riding the 54 grueling miles, raising an incredible £4.5m on the way. We took inspiration from these numbers in the design of the supporting materials, highlighting the efforts involved in raising this money, and focussing on what it eventually goes towards.
You can apply on the BHF website from 2 March 2010
January 11 2010
Artie Beat
The British Heart Foundation came to us last year, asking for our help in developing their popular children’s character Artie Beat. We spent a great deal of time researching illustrators to try to find the right look and feel of a new “Artie”, while still maintaining the essence of the original, which made it so appealing to our target audience. Finally we narrowed down the selection to 3: Lee Cosgrove, Lucia Gaggiotti and Eugene and Louise. Here are their wonderful illustrations, respectively. These will now be presented to the Artie Beat Club, who will decide on their favourite by vote.
November 2 2009
Fit or fat?
We've just completed the design a report outlining the prevalence of junk food aimed at children in leisure facilities.
For the cover we cut food wrappers and games equipment out of paper. Not the combination you should expect!
September 4 2009
Work update
This last week has seen a whole load of work come back from the printers in to the MARC&ANNA letterbox – it has been very exciting indeed. We will be updating our work section over the next couple of weeks with projects from RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People), Film and Video Umbrella, The Women's Library, BHF, and not to mention the 2009 Origin campaign.
September 4 2009
Pete and Repeat
Pete and Repeat is the new exhibition opening at 176 Gallery, for which we've done the identity and all the supporting marketing materials for.
Each of the 36 artists exhibiting uses 'strategies of repetition' in their work, an idea we've carried into the design of the identity. All posters and invites are cut from the same sheets, in which the title has been overprinted on top of the repeated exhibition details – an exercise in the process of repetition.
Check our work section soon for the whole project.
The exhibition opens on 17th September and further details can be found here www.projectspace176.com/home/
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August 7 2009
Faster, Higher
After a whole year in development, Faster Higher – our book for the artist Susan Pui San Lok, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella – has gone off to print. Without giving too much away at this stage it has been a great project for us to work on, working with an open minded artist, exploring ways of continuing the concepts of the work in to the format of the book.
Check back soon to see the finished piece.
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July 31 2009
Origin 2009
Last week we received the first piece of marketing from the Origin 2009 campaign. The A5 Flyers printed by Beacon Press on Trucard Gloss feature a matt reverse and are complimented by a spot UV.
– A little teaser of things to come.
June 29 2009
Origin 2009 photoshoot
On Friday we shot eight objects featuring at this year's Origin, to be used in the poster campaign which will be launched very soon. The objects were beautifully shot by Sylvain Deleu, and shown are ceramic bowls by Sara Moorehouse,
Illustration for the posters is currently being put together by David Sparshott, and we can't wait to see the two elements together.
June 12 2009
Origin 2009
We are currently working on the marketing campaign for Origin 2009 – The London Craft Fair put on by the Crafts Council which takes place in October. We will have something to show on the new direction very soon, but for now here is the teaser advert we recently designed.
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May 20 2009
Creative Space
After a long wait the book we worked on tirelessly last year arrived through our letterbox yesterday – and it looks fantastic!
You can see more images of the inside in our work section, or if you want to see it all it is available to buy from Amazon.
April 30 2009
Take it away!
We have been exceptionally busy this last month – but our first project for the Arts Council is very nearly complete. Last month Jo Metson Scott shot musicians playing 'air' instruments for us, and above is a taster of the end result.
Seven more of these will be following shortly to complete a lovely poster campaign for Take it away.
March 20 2009
Origin 2009
We are delighted to have been asked back to work on the Origin 2009 campaign with the Crafts Council. It was such a big project for us last year, and we can't wait to get stuck in and move the whole thing on again.
We'll keep you posted as the campaign unfolds.
March 20 2009
Get 60 a day
We are working with illustrators Andy Smith and Kenneth Andersson on two posters for the British Heart Foundation. The posters will go up in schools around the country to encourage children to do 60 minutes exercise a day, not the 30 needed by adults.
February 19 2009
First of many...
After much care and attention we have received our first booklet in a series for the British Heart Foundation. We'll feature this as a project very soon – but until then, here is the cover, beautifully illustrated by Aude van Ryn, who also worked on illustrations inside.
February 19 2009
British Heart Foundation poster
The poster we designed for the British Heart Foundation's new campaign is now up in BHF shops across the country.
This is also featured, with some behind the scenes shots, in our work section here.
And you can of course sign the petition yourself at newheartplan.org.uk
February 13 2009
Knitwear books
We have just completed the design of two new books for international knitwear designer Debbie Bliss. Both contain some lovely photography and neat typography.
February 13 2009
Women's Library programme
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We have just completed the design of the Spring/Summer programme of events to coincide with the exhibition we designed, Between the covers. See more of the exhibition here. And other programmes here.
January 14 2009
Arts Council roster
We have just found out that we have been appointed to the Arts Council's first formal roster, with an annual marketing budget of £1.5 million. We're absolutely delighted, and really look forward to working with them.
We're also amongst a great crowd, with GBH, Intro, Love Creative and Studio Output also selected as part of the 16 strong team. So hopefully we'll be posting some lovely work soon!
November 24 2008
Between the Covers opens
After a very successful Private View, the exhibition Between the Covers is now open to the public at The Women's Library. We'll be featuring this in our update, due before Christmas.
November 18 2008
Work update
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This year has been manic so far, and we're still working on lots of new jobs, which is great.
Projects we're working on at the moment include a book to document susan pui san lok's video installation this summer at the BFI, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella; the Annual Review for the Energy Saving Trust ; a campaign for Nottingham-based homelessness charity Framework and a new project for Brighton-based PR agency Man Bites Dog.
We promise to update our work before Christmas – we have seven projects and counting...
October 20 2008
Origin ends...
After six months of hard graft, a very successful Origin finally comes to a close.
Shown here is the front of the Pavilion, and the beautifully printed and finished catalogue inside. The catalogue was printed by Calverts, with a die cut hole in the front of the gatefold cover.
September 23 2008
Youth Forum Presents...
We recently designed an identity for, and in conjuction with, the National Portrait Gallery's Youth Forum — a group that meets twice a month at the Gallery to discuss and be involved in upcoming events.
We have just designed a poster and flyer for an event put on by the Youth Forum themselves to celebrate the launch of their new identity, both shown above.
We'll have more on this project soon.
September 17 2008
We love craft
For the Origin Craft Fair we designed and produced 3,000 packs of badges, to appear in Don't Panic bags around the city, leading up to the start date on 7 October.
Many shifts around the meeting table, and with a lot of help from a friend, we eventually got all the packs made up!
August 18 2008
Between the Covers
The first piece of print for the upcoming exhibition at the Women's Library has just arrived back — the programme of events, cover shown.
We commissioned Jo Metson Scott to shoot three women reading magazines from different eras, in a hair salon. This will be used as the main image across all promotional print.
We also designed a logo for the exhibition, made up of found lettering from many different magazines. This lettering will be used throughout exhibition graphics, which will are to be designed over the coming months.
July 29 2008
Be good to the planet
The second in our series of case bound books promoting energy saving is now out in a limited edition of 200 — this one focusing on the Energy Saving Trust's Energy Saving Recommended kite mark.
July 28 2008
Emission impossible?
Emission impossible? sets out the vision of a world up to 2050 and a reduction in CO2 emissions of 80%.
Is it impossible? Definitely not, and illustration throughout by Stefan Plaetz brings their vision to life.
July 21 2008
Project 35 website
A spanking new website for Project 35 Architects. Nice and simple, with an easy to use content management system and plenty of scope for adding content to.
Have a look at it here.
July 15 2008
Original
Flyers and adverts are now in circulation for the Origin crafts fair at Somerset House in October. Below is the flyer for the event, with tube posters out soon and work on the catalogue going on right now.
Click through to the project more more information, and which we'll be updating as and when work gets published.
May 29 2008
Very crafty
We recently won a six-way creative pitch to design all the materials for this year's Origin crafts fair, again held in the courtyard of Somerset House. Origin is run annually by the Crafts Council – a very exciting new client indeed. Developments are well under way with posters and adverts to be released very soon.
The fair is open over the two weeks, 7–19 of October.
April 30 2008
Exciting new project
We have just been commissioned to design a new exhibition at the Women's Library. We'll be designing both the marketing collateral and the actual exhibition, and are very excited about it. The exhibition opens in October this year – watch this space for more details soon.
April 4 2008
Heartfelt
We have been working with the British Heart Foundation on a number of projects recently and are really pleased to be involved with an organisation for such a great cause.
February 27 2008
Project 35 mailer
The first piece of literature to be printed since redesigning the identity of architects Project 35 is this mailer.
It unfolds to reveal iconic scale rulers used by architects — which we have appropriated for their identity — and looks like a row of tall buildings.
Stationery and website will follow later in the year.
February 27 2008
Energy Saving Recommended
Following the success of last year's limited edition hard back book promoting the use of Energy Saving light bulbs (see news October, or here) we have been commissioned to design another — this time promoting the use of Energy Saving Recommended appliances.
This is in the process of being put together now, so look out for the final design in the coming months.
January 21 2008
Casson Conder website is live
The website we designed for Casson Conder Partnership Architects is up and running here.
December 14 2007
One Hundred at 360ยบ
We have been featured in the new book from Laurence King showcasing 100 young graphic designers from around the world.
We have two projects—our poster for the Sonic Arts Network (shown below) and our awards book for the Association of Photographers—both of which can be seen on this website.
You can read a review and see some spreads here.
November 22 2007
Get arty
We have just completed another job for the National Trust, this time promoting a scheme called the School Arts Partnership aimed at 8–16 year olds. You can see more of the project in our work section here.
November 22 2007
New website
We are in the process of building an exciting new website for architects Casson Conder Partnership which we are striving to get up and running before the New Year.
November 21 2007
A client with bite
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We are delighted to be working with Man Bites Dog - describing themselves as "PR with teeth", they just won PR Weeks "New Consultancy Of the Year" award.
October 30 2007
A bright idea
We have just completed the design of a book promoting energy saving light bulbs for the Energy Saving Trust, you can see more here in our work section.
October 29 2007
Play Pen
The book we designed for Laurence King Publishing — Play Pen, New Children's Book Illustration — is now on book shelves. If you want to see more it is featured in our work section, here.
And it can be purchased from Amazon here.
October 19 2007
Energy Saving Week
Next week is Energy Saving Week and amongst other things we have designed posters to appear in East Enders' Walford Central and Corrie's Weatherfield as well as a banner for a photo call with none other than Gordon Brown.
Look out for them, and with us join the Commit to Save Your 20% campaign.
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/commit
September 24 2007
Tutoring at the National Portrait Gallery
We have been invited to work with the National Portrait Gallery’s Youth Forum in the coming week.
The Forum is a group of about 10 young people aged 14—21 who act as an advisory panel for the Gallery. Their aim is to come up with a logo that will sit alongside the Gallery’s, and we have been asked to advise on how to create one from research they've conducted themselves. Hopefully in the long-term we'll work with them to create a brand identity and literature for them to use.
August 29 2007
MARC&ANNA new website
Welcome to our new website. We hope it's nicer and easier to use than the last one. There's lots more work here, and the images are much LARGER. We can update it regularly, so no static website for months on end.
We'll be adding much more news in the near future, but for now we'll let you get on and look through all the new work we have.
August 20 2007
Laurence King Publishing
Following our previous two book projects for Laurence King we have been asked to design another, forthcoming, publication.
This time it is a hard-back, coffee-table book focusing on the homes of world-wide creatives. It is in the early stages but we will have the first draft available in the next month. Watch this space.
August 19 2007
The National Trust
We are in the process of completing another job for The National Trust. It consists of a poster that folds down to a booklet for a project entitled School Arts Partnership which is about bringing two different schools together to create a project, ranging from theatre to sculpture to film.
August 10 2007
Kayt Jones
We have completed the website for LA based photographer Kayt Jones, daughter of i-D magazine founder Terry Jones. To make navigating easier, and to 'hide' the enormous number of images on the site, we split it into categories and then pages of contact sheets. These then open into large pop up books to show the full range of stunning images in each series.
This, along with the stationery, is now featured in our work section.
http://www.kaytjones.com
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STUFF
July 15 2010 Posted by
Cold Christmas
It's always a bit weird working on Christmas projects in July. Especially when it's been as hot as it has recently. But in one corner of the M&A studio it's all Christmas trees and baubles at the moment.
So when I cycled past this road sign recently I couldn't resist taking a photo. Half a mile down the road is White Christmas...
May 20 2010 Posted by Marc
Mending Broken Hearts appeal
We were asked to design a progress-o-meter for the British Heart Foundation's Mending Broken Hearts campaign. It sits in the office, showing how much of the £50m target they have raised.
We designed a huge board, where they could fill in every £100,000 with a heart shaped sticker. A fully red heart means mission accomplished. For every £1m they get a gold sticker!
May 19 2010 Posted by Marc
Collect 2010
Although most of the work at this year's Collect – at the Saatchi Gallery – was just slightly out of my price range, there was still some great stuff to see. A real mix. Although technically a craft fair, it pushes the boundaries of what craft is. There was traditional craft, but then there were objects that verged on fine art, and sculpture.
The stools below, for instance, by Oskar Zieta, look as if they are made from plastic – resembling half blown up beach balls. Amazingly, they are almost exactly that, only with steel instead of plastic. Ultra-thin sheets of steel are welded together around their edges and inflated under high-pressure, meaning that each seat is unique, but also very strong.
Also on show was the Clock Clock by Humans Since 1982. I've only ever seen photos of this, so to see – and hear – the whole thing move around is just brilliant. Great fun. You would need a decent sized room though.
More fine art/sculpture than design, this chair (by Caroline Broadhead) sat quietly and mostly unnoticed in the gallery. A normal wooden chair, it had red piping around some of it. If you stood in the right position it looked as if the chair was outlined in red. From elsewhere there were just bits of red. In a room of people I seemed to be the only one bobbing my head up and down, left and right, to get into the right position...
Somewhere between craft and fine art were a selection of 'extended' spoons by David Clarke, represented by Gallery S O. I could only find this picture online, but there were many different ones – all witty in their own way. A spoonful of sugar never tasted so good.
And finally, some work by Margherita Marchioni. A necklace made from tiny chunks of coloured pencil, which was great fun, and a light made from empty Yakult bottles! Lovely.
All images courtesy of the artists.
February 8 2010 Posted by Marc
Decode at the V&A
Even though we rarely work in digital design it is always exciting to see what's out there. There are aesthetics and ideas that run through much of the work that we share, and then things that you would never have even considered possible!
This is well worth a visit. There's some great stuff on show, from the lovely Dandelion (below) by the always great Sennep to the incredible Weave Mirror by Daniel Rozin, which first makes you think 'how does that work' closely followed by 'how does that work?!'. And it's ony £5 entry!
V&A Decode:Digital Design Sensations
February 2 2010 Posted by Marc
BHF National Heart Month
We were all invited down to a boat on the Thames for the launch of National Heart Month last night. The London Eye was lit red and the BHF logo projected onto the building next to it in their honour.
BHF National Heart Month
January 14 2010 Posted by
Pete and Repeat in Grafik magazine
Featured in this months (January) Grafik magazine is our work for 'Pete and Repeat' – an exhibition at 176 Gallery featuring work from the Zabludowicz Collection. We've had a great response to the work and are really pleased with this recognition, for a project we feel rather proud of!
January 14 2010 Posted by Connie
Knitted banana cosy
Continuing with the fruit theme, I tackled a banana cosy. Five attempts, a lot of unpicking and several minor feats of engineering later and it's finished. Produced for our good friend Deborah Ridley and currently on show (banana included) at Prague Bar, Shoreditch.
December 22 2009 Posted by Jo
Postcards from Argentina
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Quite coincidentally, both Connie and myself took holidays to Buenos Aires throughout October and November. We both found time to visit the pretty port town of Colonia in Uruguay, and I escaped the city to stay in the beautiful Patagonia region further south. We both enjoyed an amazing adventure and fell in love with South America – from the beautiful architecture, spectacular scenery, delicious wine (and enormous steaks in my case!) to the antique markets, crazy drummers, street art and inspiring typography.
It has been fun to compare experiences and make the rest of the studio jealous. Though they did enjoy the selection of Argentinian biscuits we brought back between us (the malbec we kept for ourselves...).
October 16 2009 Posted by Marc
176 at Zoo 2009
The catalogue we designed for 176 / Zabludowicz Collection was launched at the VIP opening of Zoo Art Fair last night. It looked fantastic in all its glistening glory.
Worth a visit to see the work of a lot of up and coming artists, with a slightly more down to earth attitude than Frieze, and an uber cool bar run by Bistrotheque, of course.
September 28 2009 Posted by Anna
Marc & The Spanners do dodgy Dodgeball
On Friday we headed to Finsbury Park for the British Heart Foundation All Agency Dodgeball Tournament. Dressed in fancy new kit (homemade ampersand transfers on Primark's finest) we were determined to be treated with respect by the other teams.
Some of the lightning fast and fearsome moves:
Sadly, once we reached the quarter finals things took a turn for the worse as the opponents looked as if they were handpicked for Globo Gym Cobras... even the top players were getting worried.
We won't give you a blow-by-blow account of the match (blow being the operative word), but we did come away with the best injuries of the day: Anna and Chris (though this picture does not quite do his black eye justice).
Joe did win "Best catch of the day" though, and true to form, we were the last agency standing (sort of) in the pub afterwards.
September 4 2009 Posted by Joe
Dodge, dip, duck, dive, and... dodge
As part of the British Heart Foundation's 'Ultimate Dodgeball' campaign, we've been invited to take part in an agency championship event later this month.
We're currently in team strategy talks, strict training regimes and endless re-runs of the film and... the uniforms are on their way.
Watch this space.
July 31 2009 Posted by Marc
The Fourth Plinth
 Having applied, and then forgotten, I was more than a little surprised to be selected as one of the 2400 participants in Antony Gormley's comission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Amazing.
And so, on a rainy, but warm, evening on Wednesday 29 July, I was hoisted to my spot, along with an unopened toolkit and newly purchased Malm, flat pack 3-drawer chest of drawers, from Ikea. One task, one hour, lots of cheering.It was possibly the shortest hour of my life. I've had job interviews less pressurised than this. But hell, what an hour.
Thanks to everyone that turned up to cheer me on ("30 minutes left!", "you've got 7 minutes per drawer!", "Marcy Marcy show us yer drawers!") and those that watched live in the dry, and sent so many fantastic comments. For those of you that missed, you can also watch, and listen to, the whole thing again at oneandother.co.uk
Would I do it again? God yeah. Only this time I'd get something with less screws...
July 31 2009 Posted by Chris
Take (It) Away
A friend of Philippa (Part of the Take It Away team) snapped this hilarious misuse of the Take It Away identity on her honeymoon in Santorini.
Interest free credit on a chicken kebab, anyone?!
July 24 2009 Posted by Chris
Designs on Saying Hello
Our series of business cards are featured in the new publication, ‘Business Cards 3, Designs on Saying Hello’ published by one of our clients, Laurence King Publishing — Shown here is our spread, featuring an array of our collected ampersands – lovingly and personally stamped to each card.
April 17 2009 Posted by Joe
Air Orchestra
At the end of a long day shooting musicians 'playing' air instruments for the Arts Council's Take it away scheme, we felt it would be wrong for all of us not to get involved and give it a go. Then again, maybe its a good thing that we didn't make the final selection!
Photography by Jo Metson Scott
April 1 2009 Posted by Joe
Knit one, curl one...
On Friday we celebrated Connie's birthday (Happy Birthday Connie!) with a delicious studio breakfast cooked by Anna.
As it was her 25th we felt an 'over-sized' present was needed...
Apparently it's quite hard to knit with heavy 4ft long needles, but she's on track to finish all our thank-you jumpers by Christmas (2010).
March 21 2009 Posted by Jo
Ampersand
A wonderful new addition to our ampersand collection – courtesy of Scott Barwick. Connie, Joe and myself commissioned Scott to create this striking ampersand, which we then presented to Marc and Anna for their forth birthday celebrations.
March 20 2009 Posted by Joe
It may have taken until midnight...
but 6 hours of hard labour later (plus 7 eggs, 5 packs of butter, 4 boxes of icing sugar, 3 bags of flour, 2 fits of giggles, 1 knitting needle, a wooden palette, a telling off and some pink food die) and our slightly over-ambitious 4th birthday cake was complete!
Worth it? Definitely!
March 14 2009 Posted by Marc
We are four!
It feels like only yesterday that we were sat looking over the top of our laptops on our first day, wondering quite what to do with ourselves. Four years, 360 job folders and three employees on and there's no time for wondering.
Thanks to Connie, Jo and Joe for the amazing cake!
February 10 2009 Posted by Marc
Ampersand bag!
Our new friends at Cog Design – we're both on the new Arts Council roster, don't you know – sent us this fantastic bag the other day. You can't go wrong with a large ampersand on a canvas bag. Not that we're type geeks or anything (Bodoni?). They're avaliable to buy from alphabetbags.com if you fancy one of your own, or any other letter for that matter. Thanks again to Michael, and everyone else, at Cog!
February 3 2009 Posted by Marc
British Heart Foundation poster
When we were asked to design a poster for the British Heart Foundation's new campaign we all jumped at the chance. When we realised we only had five days from briefing to artwork we winced, a little bit – but we do like a challenge.
Our solution didn't exactly fall into the 'simple' category, but it did get us away from the computers for a day or so, and the scalpels and coloured paper came out. Below are some of the photos of the shoot we set up, in our studio – the finished poster will follow in the next week.
The finished poster was shot by Thom Atkinson.
January 15 2009 Posted by Marc
Christmas party
A brand new photocopier coinciding with a Christmas party is asking for trouble. But, a Christmas party wouldn't be a Christmas party if there wasn't a bit of photocopying, now would it.
Click here for more...
November 18 2008 Posted by Marc
British Heart Foundation
We have been working with the British Heart Foundation now for almost a year, and have been involved with many projects, two of which will be in our update soon to come.
Each year they have an online shop selling all sorts of Christmas gifts, with all profits invested into their ongoing pioneering work – a really good cause. Why not check it out.
bhf.org.uk/gifts
November 6 2008 Posted by Marc
Postcards
We have work featured in the new book, Postcard, designed by FL@33 and published by one of our clients, Laurence King Publishing.
October 21 2008 Posted by Marc
Wall to wall
The exhibition we're designing — Between the Covers — at the Women's Library opens on Saturday 1st November. We're cladding the brick walls, and graphics will then be applied. This is half way there, half brick, half white...
Updates to come.
October 6 2008 Posted by Marc
Origin opens
Origin opens at Somerset House with a Gala Reception tonight, after the finishing touches were being made to the pavilion over the weekend.
Above, the fairly large logo is going up on the front, with some careful kerning, by hand...
September 17 2008 Posted by Marc
Badge ampersand
With our new ampersands freshly made into rubber stamps (see below), Joe made a reproduction of one of them out of some of the 6,000 badges we had made for the Origin Craft Fair. Sometimes Fridays are made for exactly this.
(The floor has since been mopped).
August 26 2008 Posted by Anna
Thank you, dear voters!
A surprisingly large amount of people voted for their favourite ampersand in our competition (see below). The gorgeous numbers 2 and 3 came in joint first place and number 1 was also made into a stamp due to office politics (it was my favourite and I placed the order of the stamps, so there)
We are delighted with these addition to the M&A stamp collection.
See these stamped on an invoice near you soon!
May 29 2008 Posted by Anna
Which ampersand?
As you may know, we use several different rubber stamps to individually stamp ampersands to every item of our stationery.
We feel it is time for a new addition to the set, but which one? Help keep studio peace by voting for your favourite ampersand.
Vote here for your preferred number.
March 17 2008 Posted by Connie
Eat, Drink & Be Messy
It was all go here in the studio in December with our Christmas tea towel project. Several hours of ironing, stitching, stamping and folding later and we got these in the post to mop up those notoriously messy Christmas dinners.
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March 17 2008 Posted by Marc
More 3D letters
Connie brought these really cool letters back from Paris with her last week.
March 14 2008 Posted by Marc
How much?
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When we were asked to come up with a quick and cheap way of indicating how much money a group of people had saved through energy saving measures, for a photo call, we had to get thinking, fast.
Some foamboard, spray mount, a couple of scalpels and a lot of running about and cutting out later, and there we were!
March 3 2008 Posted by Marc
Jean-Jacques Perrey
Jean-Jacques Perrey (above, left) is a bit of a legend here at MARC&ANNA — his track 'Groovy Leprechauns' playing us out of the door at the end of many a week.
So while Marc was attending the AV08 festival in Newcastle this weekend he couldn't resist dropping in to a lecture given by the great man himself. At 79, once promoter of the Ondioline – one of the very first synthesisers – and collaborator with the likes of Edith Piaf and Salvador Dali, this man has a lot to tell.
If you do one thing this week, make looking up this man's music a part of it.
Pushed into a very closed second was a great talk from Dick Mills, of the BBC Radiophonic workshop, and creator of the now classic original Dr Who title music.
February 13 2008 Posted by Connie
Jo's ampersand
Jo brought us along a new ampersand stamp for the collection.
This one's Caslon. See it stamped here soon!
January 29 2008 Posted by Anna
Apple cozy
Connie has knitted an apple-cozy for me. Amazing.
November 6 2007 Posted by Marc
Signage
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Great signage. No lunch.
November 2 2007 Posted by Marc
Control | Print
We all went to the opening of Control | Print earlier this week, an exhibition at the SEA Gallery.
This is a research project sponsored by the Royal College of Art, investigating the world of digital print and its place in modern design. It's an interesting exhibition, with work contributions from Mark Wilson and Vaughn Oliver amongst others.
It's on until 8 November if you're in the area
SEA GALLERY
70 St John Street
London EC1M 4DT
October 30 2007 Posted by Marc
H&M go ampersand
OK, so we're not the only company with an ampersand in our name. But we're also not the only company who likes them, obviously. Here is an ampersand broach, and an ampersand swing tag direct from Hennes & Mauritz.
October 3 2007 Posted by Anna
Studio 46
I bet you have been dying to find out what our work space looks like. Well, here are some pictures. The ginger bloke is Marc and the brunette trying to hide behind her computer is Connie.
September 25 2007 Posted by Marc
Marco Y Ana
Thanks to Connie who found this shop on her trip to Seville.
Marco Y Ana!
This could start a whole new trend — MARC&ANNAs abroad!
September 24 2007 Posted by Marc
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Following on from their award winning radio production of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy, our client —Above The Title Productions—has just completed the dramatisation of series 1 of his second creation—Dirk Gently.
Entitled Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency it goes to air on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 3rd October at 6.30pm. A star cast of HARRY ENFIELD, OLIVIA COLMAN and ANDREW SACHS surely has to beat Hollyoaks for the teatime slot.
September 24 2007 Posted by Marc
Ampersand
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Thanks to David from Blast who sent us this ampersand he found.
We have a collection of 3D and printed ampersands that we've collected over the past couple of years, so anyone who has one and wants to send us the physical version, or even just a photo, we'd be happy to put it up on our blog.
September 21 2007 Posted by Anna
Connie photographing in the park
The sunny weather may seem like a distant memory now, but this picture was actually taken last week. This is Connie's set up for a shot she was taking for a project we are working on with the National Trust - Connie herself was precariously perched on the stool photographing the objects on the grass, footballs and frisbees narrowly missing her, and terrifying dogs running across the frame...
August 29 2007 Posted by Marc
MARC&ANNA stuff
This is the new section of our website. To the left we'll give you updates on our work, and here we'll just post stuff that interests us. Or that we like. Or that makes us laugh. Or that we find, like this box flap.
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