Background on the project KateMustSew is a self-made quilting business based in Reading, specialising in workshops, trunk shows and quilted artwork. Kate required a profile-raising… Read more

Context We had the privilege to work alongside the Reading Museum and the English Department to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane… Read more

Overview Each year the department of Typography and Graphic Communication hosts a graduation show to celebrate the work the graduating students have made during their… Read more

Background Baseline Shift welcomes industry experts and Reading alumni alike, to the University of Reading, to give inspiring talks to students of all years, allowing… Read more

Context Designed by Luke Dyer and Jack Swain, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) was looking for branding deliverables for… Read more

Background/overview Inspired Earth Design is a landscape and garden design company that orchestrates and produces beautifully constructed garden layouts. They carefully curate landscape designs to… Read more

Overview Bethan Miskell is an artist who’s planning to open an online shop where she can sell her artwork. She creates pressed flower pieces that… Read more

Background The Global Goals, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are a set of 17 goals established by the United Nations in 2015.… Read more

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Background The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in the University of Reading had held the exhibition Locus Ludi: Anyone can play! from 5th September –… Read more

What are the Connectedness reports? A set of three reports summarising past conferences taking place at Manchester University that will be given out at the… Read more

Background Universal Voices is a free community choir for children aged 7-12 at the Institute of Education (IoE), run by Dr Rebecca Berkley and a… Read more

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Overview    The client for this project was the Manuel Bravo Project, a free legal representation for asylum seekers and refugees based in Leeds. The organisation… Read more

Introduction   This real job involved creating weekly posts of the departments events and students’ projects throughout the year. This year we wanted to change the… Read more

Background Taking over Baseline Shift for the 23/24 calendar, myself, Habibah, and Ben had new ideas from our experience on the previous year. As with… Read more

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Background Neil Cocks is an English Professor for the University of Reading. He had previously published a textbook called Student Centred: Eucation Freedom and the… Read more

Background The Canvas Magazine is a student led University arts publication. The client was looking to build on the existing website to enhance reading experience,… Read more

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Background Our client, Dr Patrick White, received a PhD in Social Sciences from Cardiff University. Since then, Patrick has written various books and journals for… Read more

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A team of third-year students took on the branding and promotion for this year’s degree show. Read more

Background Georgina Rivers has been in the nail and beauty industry for over 18 years and is a qualified educator, teaching courses for Cuccio ltd… Read more

Overview This Real Job comes in the form of a contest, something fairly unusual for these briefs. Following a recent social trip to Carter’s Steam… Read more

Overview True Food Organics, originally named True Food Co-operative, is a zero-waste, organic food and grocery store based in Emmer Green, Reading. It is run… Read more

Introduction After joining the instagram team in our first year of University, we (Emily and Rio) began to co-lead the Instagram at the beginning of… Read more

Redesigning Odeon Brief Joby Carter is a signwriter and fairground artist who owns Carter’s steam fair and he set up a competition whereby as the… Read more

Background Oyster outcomes LTD is a consultancy business which offers several different services. These include multi-disciplinary management, governance and assurance, coaching, mentoring and coach supervision,… Read more

Background Jamal Harewood is an activist who sets out to share his vision of race and identity through workshops around England. He is currently undergoing… Read more

Overview This real job entailed designing three film posters for the independent film Fresh Out. The client is part of an independent distribution team at the National… Read more

Real Job: Bethan Williams designed a journal highlighting Reading’s focus on racial justice. Read more

Real Job: Hanorah entered a design contest promoting make-up as a route to addressing mental health issues. Read more

Real job: A team created illustrations and branding for this local initiative to encourage creativity amongst young people. Read more

Real Job: A team of designers created branding a social campaign for the latest ‘drop’ from a community interest fashion brand. Read more

Real Job: Chloe Yau branded an innovative graduate development scheme enabling SMEs to attract, recruit and nurture top-talent graduates from across the region. Read more

Real Job: Salma Adelwahab worked on a brand launch for a local beauty academy. Read more

Real Job: Lamar Kaki worked for the Psychology department at the University of Reading to create an animation promoting a career as a Psychological Wellbeing… Read more

Background This Real Job required us to design a publication for the PLACEing objects exhibition that ran in March 2020. The exhibition was part of… Read more

Background The biennial International Conference on Polyphenols and Health is the most important international forum to discuss the latest developments in the field of polyphenols,… Read more

Designing a publication to exhibit a client’s exhibition as part of her Ph.D. is one of the greatest projects I have ever completed! Read more

Group collaborations: Generating ideas-Logo, branding, PowerPoint palette, website Individual jobs: (Kaylee) Website images, Diagram for ‘intervention’ services, ‘What we do’ and ‘An Evolving market’ illustration.… Read more

Background This branding project was for a new and upcoming module established by Daniela Standen, which will be part of what the University of Reading… Read more

Background My client for this real job was an independent publisher based in Reading. The client is writing and publishing a new book that details… Read more

Background The client for this project is Willemijn Doedens, a PhD student in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of… Read more

Background Young adults with a learning disability may struggle to go to university, not due to a lack of skills but due to confidence issues.… Read more

Background Longhaul Endurance is an up and coming brand, which aims to provide athletes with high quality performance food. Co-owners Staale and Amelia both saw… Read more

Background A group of volunteers had set up a Facebook page called ‘Mature Engagement’ during the first Covid-19 Lockdown in the UK, the initial idea… Read more

Background The Head of the School of Arts & Communication Design at the University of Reading, Professor John Gibbs, required a student to design issue… Read more

Chloe Ball and Romy Chessells worked with a group of senior film executives who have formed an film company with a difference. The clients were… Read more

Brief: The brief for this project was a bit different from the ones I have previously worked on; this was a two-week turnaround project to… Read more

Overview Third year students Ruth and Maya and second year students Lucy and Grace were selected to form the ‘Undergraduate Recruitment team’ to increase applications… Read more

Background The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation was set up to allow economically disadvantaged black students to attend UK universities and with the foundation being very new… Read more

Background The student-led Instagram has been operational since 2018 when a group of students rightfully decided that it would be a great tool to promote… Read more

Background In their second term, Part 1 students take on a website project where they are given the logos and brand guidelines in order to… Read more

Background Whilst in Covid-19 lockdown, the client wrote an illustrated children’s book aimed at 6–9-year-old children where all profits will go to Heads Up, a mental… Read more

Background Hampshire RFU covers 32 rugby clubs in Hampshire with different membership types, e.g. paid members club, representative rugby, 7’s teams, women’s rugby, a LGBT+… Read more

Background Our client Ilaria Mezzogori is involved with a Community Kitchen, a communal and social place where free community-based programmes are run so people can… Read more

Background Founded in 2011, The Art Therapy Agency is a membership based group of art therapists. The agency was set up to raise awareness of… Read more

Background The Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading building wayfinding needs some refinement. The department needs a distinctive sign to… Read more

Background Charles Mozley was an English artist whose paintings, illustrations and lithography was influenced by the style of French post-impressionism. After his death in 1991,… Read more

Background The COVID-19 knowledge e-learning platform is a website created by the data science club at the University of Reading to help the general public… Read more

Who are Dizzy Milk? Our clients; Jack Gillespie and Ash Stedman, were beginning a new business venture of brewing their own range of craft beers… Read more

Background Sgt. Lee Tomas, Chief of the RAF’s air staff campaign set out to create striking visuals that broke conformity of the old and invigorated… Read more

Background This catalogue celebrates the life and work of Professor Anthony Betts, who was a Fine Art professor at Reading University during 1933 to 1963,… Read more

Background Baseline Shift is a series of design talks, events and workshops organised by a team of students for students at the department of Typography… Read more

Baseline shift – our series of design talks – is student-led. Find out what this entails. Read more

Background James Mosely is an expert in the field of typography and the history of letterforms and printing types, he has lectured at the University… Read more

Background Alana House women’s centre, a charity in Reading that provides a safe space for women to express themselves and strive towards their goals, approached… Read more

Background The clients for this project are from the Department of Pharmacy and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Reading, where they… Read more

Background Longhaul is a company which strives to create savoury performance food for endurance athletes. Currently they have one product on the market, a pouch… Read more

Real Job – A group of Part 2 students create new packaging for Longhaul – an early stage start-up sports food company, specialising in savoury… Read more

Real Job: Do you like Owls? Liselot, Immy and Joanne worked on new wayfinding and interpretation boards for Turbary Woods Owl Sanctuary near Preston, with… Read more

Real Job: Couldn’t end the year without at least ONE of our undergrads designing a typeface. Connie Worthington unpacks her excellent work in this report.… Read more

Real Job: The task of designing degree show invitations is a hallowed tradition in many design schools, and our students have been doing it for… Read more

Real Job: Editors Marianne and Aanand are putting the finishing touches on Issue 3 of @UniofReading’s arts diversity zine. Publication this summer! 🤞🏿🤞🏾🤞🏼🤞🤞🏻 @UniRdg_Diverse Read more

(Almost) Real Job: We encourage our students to let us know when they are entering their work for awards, as the experience can count towards… Read more

Background David Woodward, the head of the Dunsden village hall charity needed a website redesign. The goal was to drive traffic and promote the many… Read more

Real Job: Tim Greaves reflects on his experience designing an interface for a data management firm @TrueSwiftLtd, based next door to Typography in the University… Read more

Real Job: Angie Bacallan explains how our graduates designed and managed the promotion of their degree show this year: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthanatoz/ https://greater-than-a-to-z.co.uk Read more

Real Job: Our students asked if they could build and manage an Instagram account for the Department. https://www.instagram.com/uortypography/ @_timwatkins @UniofReading Read more

This is a progress update report for a project being completed for University of Reading’s SportsPark, which is still ongoing at the time of writing.… Read more

Real Job: Izzy Bahrin developed an information poster to raise awareness of issues around the prescription antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients. The project supported the… Read more

Real Job: Amrita and Chia-yi created the site at https://greater-than-a-to-z.co.uk . Their report makes clear the value of learning how to communicate effectively with IT… Read more

Real Jobs: Chris Lewis and James Ollig worked infographics for a PhD student researching the Human Gut Microbiome on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Group… Read more

Background The English Department at the University of Reading required full size A1 laminated posters which addressed feedback and assessment issues in English Literature. The… Read more

Real Job: Charlotte Frost created a typographically complex leaflet to outline a series of events led by staff from @UniRdg_Art #ReadingAssembly Read more

Real Job: Working with Dr Madeleine Davies and three student editors – Libby Bushill, Zoë Kyle and Maddie Bazin – from @UniRdg_EngLit, Katy Smith designed a… Read more

Real Job: We created a set of Happy Family styled cards designed to promote the diverse nature of the Pharmacy professions. Read more

Background This blog post will be discussing a project which was carried out for the site management department and course at the university of reading.… Read more

Real Job: Students designed a campaign booklet and postcard to raise awareness about the work EAPPI carry out in Palestine and Israel. #EAPPI @eappiukireland @eappi Read more

Real Jobs: Seniz Husseyin and Martha Macri led a team of students from @UniofReading in promoting diversity and individuality in the arts at @TateExchange. Read more

Background I am, We are… Different by Design is a student-led group from the School of Art and Communication Design advocating for diversity and inclusion… Read more

Background Michael Twyman is retired Professor of Typography at the University of Reading. The founder of the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, Michael has… Read more

Real Job: Seniz Husseyin led a team of Part 2 students to brand the University’s gold medal winning display at the Chelsea Flower Show. See… Read more

Background #mygreenstudy is a student-led project, run by three third-year BsC students at the University of Reading, supervised by Associate Professor of Botany, Alastair Culham. … Read more

Background and briefing Impact TwentySeven is a new charity start-up which is looking to harness the huge market potential of the beauty industry. The aim… Read more

Real Job: Siobhan Bailey and Chloe Ball designed, built and ran our new stand at UCAS fairs in London and Manchester. See more on typography.network Read more

Real Job: A team of Part 2 undergraduates designed a commemorative wall graphic for the Department of Chemistry to mark the 150th anniversary of the… Read more

Movie: a journal of film criticism. Issue 8 Background Professor John Gibbs, head of the School of Arts & Communication Design at the University of… Read more

Real Job: Alex Ganczarski worked on a campaign to help students get to grips with the way their grades are presented to them. See more… Read more

Real Job: Arianne Cantwell and Aanand Tank created branding and publicity materials for a departmental event on letterforms and ephemera. See more on typography.network Read more

Background Each year, Penguin opens their Student Design Award competition, which provides participants with an experience of dealing with real cover design briefs first-hand. From… Read more

Background This is a project to design for the Reading Assembly. The Tate Exchange includes responses, workshops, talks and events, where you can join the… Read more

Background: Introduction: The project was initiated in the first semester of 2017 by two groups of second year geography students who required a brand identity,… Read more

The brief Publicity was a real job within our department and consisted of myself, Laura Marshall, Elliot Ellis, Jess Downie and Jason Yung. As a… Read more

The context Our client is a working artist and art lecturer at the University of Reading, Christine Ellison had a continuing interest in exploring the… Read more

Background I will be working with two different teams in this project. This project is to help the clients create a professional image for their… Read more

Background: Mona Jibril and her business partners wanted to start a company that would provide a high quality line of nightwear and lingerie for women… Read more

The Brief Anastasia Rattigan from the Online courses team at the University of Reading develops Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) alongside the FutureLearn platform to… Read more

Summary Second Sight is a book publication of Margaret Atwood-inspired works done by Part 3 English Literature students of University of Reading. I worked alongside… Read more

Background The client is an Art PHD student at the University of Reading who set out to create a ‘document’ that visually supported and demonstrated… Read more

Background In the beginning of part 2, myself and other students that ranged across the three-year groups started, alongside staff, the I am, We are… Read more

This Real job is aim to redesign Environment Europe website into a clean, fresh new appearance to attract a wider audience and their existing participants… Read more

Background The typography applicant gift was a project created to make a more personal means of communication with successful applicants, when congratulating them on getting… Read more

BACKGROUND SPVRO is a startup fashion company that take pride in sourcing from ethical manufacturers and promote social responsibility. They provide fashionable items to consumers… Read more

Background The Soil Science project was a university-lead project which required several flow charts and tables in order to explain information and educate individuals about… Read more

Background The MERL is a museum, library and archive dedicated to farming and the English countryside, aiming to maintain their relevance. Its collections span objects,… Read more

The Brief My second real job was to design posters with numerous illustration for Empiribox Ltd, a nationwide primary school science provider. My team was… Read more

The Brief My third real job was to design the Daily Hazard Assessment for the Met Office, which is the national weather provider in the… Read more

Brief The purpose of this Real Job was to create a visual brand for the degree show for the Undergraduate students of the Art Department… Read more

Background This blog post covers a project we carried out for HMP Huntercombe Prison in Oxfordshire. Huntercombe is a Category C adult male foreign national… Read more

Background Kaffee Haus advertise themselves as ‘proprietors of amazing Artisan Coffees expertly roasted in Nottingham’. The company is owned by Daniel Wright and Alexei Lambley-Steel… Read more

Background The British Eating Disorder Society is a new organisation aiming to improve awareness of eating disorders, and the care and treatment of people with… Read more

Group members: Bryony Horne, Cherise Brooker and Lauren Quinn Clients: Cherie McBride,  Ann Westgarth and Deborah Jenkins This reflective report aims to explain the process and how… Read more

Background Gareth Mills from the English Department at the University of Reading and Tabitha Stanmore from the University of Bristol set out to create an… Read more

The brief The department of Typography & Graphic Communication asked for two banners that will identify key areas of the department. The topics for the… Read more

Our Client Mrs Myrtle is an independent events company based in London, a small business enterprise which offer their clients a styling service for premium… Read more