Studio Special

Studio Special is an award winning creative design studio based in Farringdon in London, and we were given the privelage to visit them on Monday 1st March.

David Lovelock took time out to talk to us about our work in detail, so for that we were very grateful.

We showed him examples of our work, and because he has been working with typography and has lots of experience in that particular subject, he enlightened us on a few things including how important it is to make sure everything is right when using typography in print. The subjects he brought up were balance and kerning, as because he observes typography everyday, he noticed little adjustments to be made instantly. I tended to use home made type or bold headlines and not so much body copy and so there wasn't much for him to correct.

When showing him my work for The Manchester Literature Festival he said he liked the bracket that was turned up to represent a book. This idea is one that does well in quite a few portfolio visits, so it was good to know that someone so deep in the field also liked it. Here is a reminder of that piece of work..

I also showed David my current 'Tolerance Awareness' work which is still work in progress, as I have found the brief quite difficult and know it is not quite there yet.

He said that the colours worked really well together, and that 'public displays of affection' was his favourite which is interesting because it seems to be either the most liked or one that doesn't work. The Tolerance still needs working on, as it is still taking viewers quite a while to understand the concept, and as David Lovelock said just needs that extra element to get the idea across. You can view the Tolerance work on the visit with Red Brick Road post.

Ovarall a successful visit!