dn&co. journal

Environmental graphics D&AD award for dn&co.

dnco — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:15:41 +0000

We are really pleased to have received a D&AD in-book award for our studio environmental graphics, against the toughest competition in the world. If you’re ever on Wigmore Street, make sure to look up and see if you can spot us. In the meantime, we’re going to celebrate! More on the award here.

Let it snow – more fun with post its

dnco — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:33:57 +0000

We had such fun with post-its in our windows back in July that we decided then and there to reprise the concept with a snowy theme for the holidays. We couldn’t have known then that the weather would be this mild, but we like the sentiment anyway. Happy holidays from all at dn&co.

AirW1 featured in Grafik blog

dnco — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:18:33 +0000

It’s always a lovely compliment to be featured in the design magazines – we know how high their standards are! Our identity and production work for AirW1 has been written up on Grafik’s blog. Praise included: “an increasingly rare example of a beautifully designed corporate brochure”. Click here to read the article. The bespoke Air Deco font will feature in the hard copy magazine too. We’ll keep you posted.

A6 series 002: new dn&co website

dnco — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:47:23 +0000

A while back we decided that our mailers would always be A6, and recently we began numbering the series. So, officially number 002 is our client mailout announcing the new website. The homepage is printed onto 40gsm bible paper – so thin that it gives it a translucency and ethereal feel that gets print closer to digital. It is also an odd shape that folds in a unique way down to A6. The QR code at the bottom was a last minute inspiration.

dn&co celebrates 5 years

dnco — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:06:36 +0000

We celebrated our 5th birthday by throwing a party in the new studio and announced our age via a giant helvetica 5 made from green post-its in the windows. Click here to view a film of the making of the big 5.

Our new studio in the West End

dnco — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:59:59 +0000

We’re settled into the new studio on Wigmore Street and have made it our own with a coat of paint, wall graphics, bespoke furniture, wall-mounted bike racks and running sheets from press runs mounted to birch ply. Come by to say hello. Click here to see more photos of the studio.

An iPad app with purpose

dnco — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:13:36 +0000

What do you do when you have a complex 17-storey building to walk around, where every floor is different and ranges from 1,500 to 30,000 sq ft? We proposed to our client that we build a bespoke iPad app and docking station in the marketing suite – prospective occupiers pick up one of ten iPads and use it to interact with information on a bespoke app as they tour the complex building. Purpose, not gimmick. See more of this project here.

We’ve moved

dnco — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:52:54 +0000

We’ve just posted our change of address cards – black screen printed onto moving box cardboard. We first noticed that dn was ‘up’ when turned over when we set out our logotype. It took 5 years to find a good use for it.

End of year gifts: grow your own tree

dnco — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:58:27 +0000

Every year we send a few quirky presents around to say thank you. This year we have sent around a kit to ‘grow your own christmas tree’. Enjoy the holidays. We’ll post photos of any thriving trees on our twitter site, here.

New corporate identity for EA Shaw

dnco — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:24:34 +0000

We are delighted to have created a total rebrand for London estate agency EA Shaw. The brief was to create a relevant corporate identity that showed them as both contemporary and established, and showed off their various competencies. What resulted was a graphic icon based on a door, facade, or wall – totally relevant to their business – combined with a strapline to firmly underline they have been established since 1899. Our involvement ran from concept to all print materials, template design, signage, office graphics, corporate website, and the final induction of the new brand to the entire company (shown below). To see our work, click here.