A to Z of TDR – Launch Party with The Designers Republic™ and Ian Anderson

The Designers Republic™ bring it home! Join us to celebrate three decades of trail-blazing Sheffield graphic design studio with their new monograph ‘A to Z of The Designers Republic™’; the first book to tell the whole story of this hugely influential design agency.

Ian Anderson (founder of The Designers Republic⁠™) will be in conversation with Craig Oldham (designer, educator, Office of Craig Oldham). In addition the studio will be launching a new print (TBC) as well as launching the book and signing copies.

This is going to be a big one, upstairs at The Hideaway, and everyone is invited! A limited number of signed copies of the book will be available to purchase on the night, you can pre-order the book now to secure your copy (worldwide* shipping available).

About the book:

Led by founder and born rebel, Ian Anderson, The Designers Republic⁠™ has shaped graphic communication over the past thirty years through rule-defying music work, provocative self-initiated projects and a fierce commitment to conceptual thinking over style. Anderson explores the studio’s output, and its influence on a generation of graphic designers.

AZTDRTM spans over three decades of work – from the studio’s earliest designs for the FON label in the mid-1980s and sleeves for Age of Chance, Chakk and Cabaret Voltaire, right up to its recent projects for The Cinematic Orchestra, Led Bib and the Gulbenkian Foundation. Alongside classic self-initiated TDRTM projects, the 512-page book features an A to Z of everything from campaigns for Evolution Print, Coca-Cola and Nike, through to the studio’s celebrated designs for video games such as Wipeout and Formula Fusion.

The book includes 250 different album and single covers; 140 prints, posters and flyers; over 130 images of TDRTM print-based and editorial projects; 23 DR Angryman variants; five Coke bottles; four badges; one Swatch watch; a T-shirt, a mug and much, much more.

Spanning over three decades of work – from the studio’s earliest designs for the FON label in the mid-1980s and sleeves for Age of Chance, Chakk and Cabaret Voltaire, right up to its recent projects for The Cinematic Orchestra, Led Bib and the Gulbenkian Foundation  – the book is a stunning design work in itself, featuring a Fluorescent yellow cover with foiled type, three special colour wrap, CMYK + one special colour throughout.