Platform: 2017
Designed by James Brook for Edinburgh Art Festival, 2017
Leaflet | 210 x 148 mm – flat size 210 x 592 mm | 8 pages
Printed by Allander, Edinburgh, on Cocoon Offset 100% Recycled Paper
Printed by Allander, Edinburgh, on Cocoon Offset 100% Recycled Paper
This is the leaflet and logo I designed for Platform: 2017, the third year of an Edinburgh Art Festival initiative offering ‘a dedicated opportunity for artists at the outset of their career to make and present new work in the festival programme’. The artists – Uist Corrigan, Rebecca Howard, Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte and Adam Quinn – were selected from an open call, accessible to artists working across Scotland, by artists Jacqueline Donachie and Graham Fagen.
This is the third year that I have designed the leaflet, using the logo and identity that I developed in 2015. This iteration has a different, centred arrangement of the cover elements and introduces a new cover colour for 2018, Pantone 2052 UP.
Platform: 2017 ran from 27 July – 27 August at The Fire Station, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh.
Sorcha Carey, Director, Edinburgh Art Festival: We have worked with James Brook on a number of different festival design projects since 2014, ranging from substantial exhibition catalogues, smaller interpretation booklets and leaflets, through to devising bespoke identities for discrete projects and initiatives. He has a wealth of knowledge of typography, graphic design, print and book production, is incredibly thoughtful and considered in his approach, and always responds to a brief with creativity and rigour in equal measure. I can’t recommend him highly enough.