Platform: 2018
Designed by James Brook for Edinburgh Art Festival, 2018
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
Now in its fourth year, Platform is an annual opportunity for artists in the early stages of their careers to make and present new work as part of the Festival. The artists were selected from an open call by artists Jonathan Owen and Hanna Tuulikki, the 2018 edition brings together four female artists: Renèe Helèna Browne, Annie Crabtree, Isobel Lutz-Smith, and Rae-Yen Song. The selected practitioners, drawn from across Scotland, reflect a wide range of approaches to art making.
This is the fourth year that I have designed the leaflet, using the logo and identity that I originally developed in 2015. Each iteration has a different arrangement of the cover elements; this year introduces a new cover colour, sampled from the imagery within.
Platform: 2018 ran from 27 July – 26 August at the City Arts Centre, 2 Market Street,
Edinburgh, EH1 1DE.
Edinburgh, EH1 1DE.
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.