Platform: 2016
Designed by James Brook for Edinburgh Art Festival, 2016
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: 2016, the second year of a new Edinburgh Art Festival initiative 'intended to showcase Scottish artists at the early stages of their career'. Six artists – Calum and Fraser Brownlee; Dorian Jose Braun; Paloma Proudfoot and Aniela Piasecka; and Jack Saunders – were selected from an open call by Rachel Maclean, Ross Sinclair, Mary Watson and Festival Director Sorcha Carey.
Platform: 2016 was on show at the Festival Kiosk, 9-11 Blair Street, Edinburgh EH1 1QR from 28 July – 28 August 2016.
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.