Turner Prize 2008

Exhibition Graphics, Printed Material and Publication

In its 25th year, Tate felt it was time to commission an identity for the Turner Prize that represented the artists’ work and reflected its reputation as the UK’s foremost contemporary art prize. The identity combines an adapted ‘Prize’ version of the Tate typeface, and a logo is used in combination with images of the four nominees’ work. A visitor’s comments room featured cork walls for visitors to post their comments, and badges featuring the name of each artist were available free in the exhibition so the public could take their favourite as a way of casting their own vote.

2008 Turner Prize nominees: Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga, Cathy Wilkes

Credits: Furniture design by Michael Marriott

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Designs of the Year 2012

Exhibition Design

The Designs of the Year awards celebrate outstanding, innovative and progressive contributions to design across a broad spectrum of disciplines. For the 2012 Awards exhibition, we designed a flexible display system which allowed changes to be made easily and at short notice as announcements were made. Our designs built upon the graphic lines of the existing logotype, creating a signage system which could be altered by Design Museum staff; object labels were digitally printed onto beermat board to accommodate last-minute changes whilst giving a warm and modest feel. For the walls, we worked with the exhibition's curators to design information graphics drawn from previous years’ data, contextualising and reinterpreting the awards and their history.

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Turner Prize 2009

Exhibition Graphics, Printed Material and Publication

The second year of our work on the Turner Prize continued the identity we had created for Tate in 2008.

2009 Turner Prize nominees: Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer, Richard Wright

Credits: Furniture design by Michael Marriott

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Turner Prize 2010

Exhibition Graphics, Printed Material and Publication

In 2010, our 3rd year of working on the Turner Prize exhibition, Tate wanted to move the comments room for Turner Prize into the digital age. We collaborated with associates Hellicar & Lewis to create a ‘Twitter wall’ in the gallery. The original cork notice board became a live comments feed projected onto the gallery wall from visitor’s SMS messages or ‘tweets’ that continually updated and scrolled as you watched, sometimes creating comments and debate among visitors in real time.

2010 nominees: Dexter Dalwood, Angela de la Cruz, Susan Philipsz and The Otolith Group

Credits: Furniture design by Michael Marriott

Twitter wall in collaboration with Hellicar & Lewis

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