Ebbsfleet Citizen Archive is a community-led project by Cement Fields capturing and preserving the varied stories and histories of the people and places of Ebbsfleet, Greenhithe, Swanscombe, and Northfleet, as the area goes through a significant moment of change.

The website allows local residents and archivists to submit photographs, video and audio stories connected to specific locations in Ebbsfleet to create a historical record of the place that grows over time.

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Ebbsfleet Citizen Archive

Views From Convalescent Hill is an online public collection exploring the heritage of wellbeing, rest, and care in Felixstowe.

Through oral histories and research drawn from archives, objects, and residents, the project aims to uncover and share personal stories and memories of Felixstowe as a spa town and a place for convalescence, while considering what ‘health’ means to people today.

For the project’s visual identity we designed a typeface inspired by lettering found in archival photographs of Felixstowe and created a set of viewpoint symbols. The website design features pages that overlay each other and an archive that rearranges as you explore it.

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Views From Convalescent Hill

Leap Then Look create art works, participatory projects, workshops and events for people of all ages and abilities. Established by artists Lucy Cran and Bill Leslie, they believe that contemporary art practice should and can be made available and accessible to everyone. 

Our bold identity captures this spirit of curiosity and playfulness. It wiggles, twists and never stays still, creating an expressive graphic toolkit.

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Leap Then Look

Set to Stun: Designing & Filming Sci-Fi in West London was an exhibition celebrating the connections between Science Fiction for Film and TV and West London.

The exhibition featured props, prosthetics, costumes, visualisations and sets from many of the workshops and production companies based in the local area.

We designed the identity, printed material, wayfinding and merchandise for the exhibition.

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Set To Stun

And She Built a Crooked House was an exhibition by Gemma Anderson-Tempini installed in Burton Grange, a Victorian house in Leeds. It was commissioned by Artangel as part of Leeds Year of Culture 2023.

Through drawing, installation, sound, AI and sculpture, the exhibition invited visitors to imagine the fourth spatial dimension.

We designed the identity, wayfinding, a booklet and an activity sheet for the exhibition.

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And She Built a Crooked House

Metronome was an installation by artist Sarah Sze in the old waiting room above Peckham Rye train station in South London, commissioned by Artangel. 

We designed the exhibition identity, large window vinyls, wayfinding and printed material for the project.

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Sarah Sze

Play Interact Explore was an exhibition of interactive artworks by Leap Then Look at Towner Eastbourne.

The exhibition was developed through a series of workshops with four community groups in Eastbourne and Brighton with the goal of supporting and encouraging playful exploration and critical thought through art making. 

We designed a visual identity that referenced the artworks on display, exploring connection and collaboration through simple graphic shapes and playful typography.

Play, Interact, Explore

The Work is Gold Panda's fourth solo album. Starting with a photograph taken by Gold Panda during a 2007 stay in Japan, we designed an identity for the album campaign based on simple graphic icons relating to each track.

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Gold Panda: The Work

The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Positioned behind the camera, each of them directs Coates in a filmed restaging of particular episodes from their lives.

The five short films were screened across five locations in Pimlico, in and around the Churchill Gardens Estate, each within a short walking distance of the other.

We designed titles, printed material, signage and wayfinding for the project. Through a simple use of strong colour and clear typographic treatment, our identity focused on functionality without overshadowing the important subject matter of the work.

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The Directors

We designed a moving, colourful digital identity for the Upgrade Yourself Festival 2022 at Somerset House. 

For young people aged 16-24, the Festival aims to introduce emerging creatives to skills, mentoring and advice for working in the creative industries.

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Upgrade Yourself

This Must Be The Place is a three-year placemaking programme of research, artists residencies, and co-commissions created collaboratively with young people from Ebbsfleet.

The identity was developed through co-design workshops with students at North Kent College, in which we designed icons to describe the kind of towns we would like to live in.

The project website is an archive of the programme and a tool to encourage participation in upcoming activities and events.

This Must Be The Place is a Cement Fields project.

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This Must Be the Place

We created campaign graphics and an overall identity for Mozilla Foundation and Consumers International's research into personalised pricing for Tinder's premium platform. The report found that pricing varies considerably depending on who Tinder thinks you are. 

Our identity combined playful type and graphics with contrasting colour and texture to hint at the mysteries of the algorithms operating beneath Tinder's friendly interface. 

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Perfect Match – at a price

Sense Your Way is a workbook of creative prompts and ideas for young people. Made in collaboration with artists Leap then Look, the book offers creative strategies for making aimed at developing creative thinking and improving wellbeing. All ideas were developed and tested through a series of workshops with students from St Catherine's College, Eastbourne.

This project was supported by Sussex Learning Network and Towner Eastbourne.

Sense Your Way

Airspace is a collaborative, artist-led project in Stoke-on-Trent. Since 2006 it has worked with artists and the local community with a particular focus on its location and the socio-political landscape. 

We began working with Airspace on a new visual identity in 2019, through a workshop with local residents examining the variety of ways that typefaces can tell us something about a place, a person or an organisation. 

This led to the development of a set of custom letterforms that refer to the different aspects of Airspace's activities as a gallery, studios, project space and community organistion. 

A redesigned website uses these new letterforms in random variations to suggest new connections and unexpected conclusions.

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AirSpace Gallery

‘;-) :-& ;-o New Town Culture: Art for Young People’ was an exhibition held at Valence House Museum made by artist Rebecca Davies for young people to hang-out in and to show adults how to be creative. The work in the exhibition was made in art clubs with children, teenagers, and foster carers from across Barking and Dagenham.

We designed an identity around a set of parts that formed a custom typeface applied across the exhibition and publication. Colour and texture were used in the space to highlight each area of activitiy and to encourage interaction. 

The project was commissioned by New Town Culture, a programme of creative activity taking place in adult and children’s social care across the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It explores how artistic and cultural experiences can reframe the work of social care and support adults and children in need of social care services.

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Working with artist Sarah Carpenter, we designed an interactive website, Performing Metacognition, that used Sarah's artwork to explore ideas about agency and mental health.

The project was part of Mental Health and Justice, a 3 year research programme supported by Bethlem Gallery and the Wellcome Trust.

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Performing Metacognition

Jacqui Hallum is a painter and recipient of the John Moores Painting Prize.

The book documents the growth and change that occurs within her practice, and within the objects that emerge from her studio. The typography throughout the publication was produced using Processing to ‘grow’ combinations of organic shapes around skeleton letterforms, mirroring the visual characteristics of Hallum’s work. 

Co-published by Anomie Publishing and Kingsgate Project Space with writing by Dan Howard-Birt, Hettie Judah and Andrew Hunt.

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Hypersurface was a group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum London. The featured artists were invited to consider technology as a way to perceive new realities through surfaces and materials. 

With alternate pages printed either metallic silver or green-screen green, our design for the exhibition catalogue intersperses essays and shorter texts with interventions and proposals from Barbara Kapusta, Simon Mathers, Florian Mayr, Hannah Neckel and Stefan Reiterer.

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Building on a series of talks held between 2014–2017 in the Sculpture department of the Royal College of Art, Everything is Sculpture: Immaterial Constructions / Material Realities is a publication series that brings together a range of practitioners to explore new contexts and issues that concern the production and reception of sculpture today.

The range of subjects explored by each contributor, and the diversity of their approach is highlighted by contrasting type styles and sizes. The whole book is printed in a combination of metallic gold and black ink.

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Noit–4: Reflections is dedicated to writing by Noa Latham about his father’s art and ideas. A mixture of memoir, interpretation and critical analysis, the publication is illustrated throughout by personal photographs and exhibition images of John Latham’s work, as well as printed ephemera found in the Flat Time House archive.

A variety of typographic treatments throughout the publication support the content as it changes in tone from personal reflection to interview. The larger format for this special edition of NOIT Journal allowed for a more generous range of image sizes as the photographs shift from close details to wide angle installation views.

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Richard Slee is a British Contemporary Ceramic Artist who has been producing work since the 1970s that challenges conventional ideas of Ceramic Art with humour and irony.

For his exhibition Work and Play at Tullie House Museum and Gallery, Carlisle, we designed a monograph of Slee’s work produced over the previous decade. Contrasting yet traditional typefaces throughout the large-format book helped to emphasise the playful use of colour and personality in many of the pieces featured inside.

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