BCN MCR Exhibition & Contacting Dave Sedgwick

BCN MCR Exhbition & Contacting Dave Sedgwick

Over the past few weeks I have been in contact with a graphic designer called Dave Sedgwick from a Manchester studio. I have received invaluable advice about approaching designers and he has give me so many good resources for inspiration and information into upcoming events. I will be arranging a studio visit when I have a better body of work together so I guess I'm making some progress nice and early. 

Having recently contacting him again he told me about an exhibition he is organizing over at TwentyTwentyTwo in Manchester, a graphic design exhibition featuring a selection of Design, illustration and typographic studios from Barcelona. I was lucky enough to receive one of the limited runs of the letterpress invites he was creating for other graphic designers so I felt extremely privileged to receive one of these.

The exhibition 

Went down to manchester to see the exhibition, really annoyed with myself for not going on the opening night as I missed the opportunity to buy some 1 off prints from so many great designers and agencies. 

I have to point out how much I love the promotion behind the event ranging from the invite card I received to the simple mass produced flyers scattered around with details on how to purchase prints.

Dave has a very unique style mixing bold use of block colours and ornate decorative type to draw lots off attention in, theres a lot of contrast that goes on in this flyer making a simplistic layout appear quite complex. Gives off the illusion theres a lot more going on. 

Another designer I have started to follow after this exhibition is Laura Mesequer, a freelance type designer based in Barcelona who had strong involvement in producing the BCN MCR type that was used to brand the whole exhibition. Here are large scale one off prints of these letterforms, so beautifully and accurately created with a whole different range of styles and aesthetics showing off her versatile design style. I especially like the "2", its contrast in weight is so drastic working alongside sharp angles and smooth curves I feel this contrast is what causes the high impact aesthetic. 

An agency I have been interested in for a while now also had some work up, these are the ones I would have liked a print from. Brosmind are an image based duo who are so playful and care free in there work. You can tell there style a mile off, so uplifting and humorous. This example here is one of the original drawings before digital production, the level of craft and detail in there analogue drawings is amazing.

 Here are some other examples of type design I liked in the event. This use of signage on the way in sort of sets the scene for the quality of the design work inside the building. 

Love this example, the 3D effect from a flat image and simple use of 2 colour is cool. Love how type can be so image based while remaining relatively simple.