About

A Practice for Everyday Life is a design agency working with some of the world’s most successful companies, galleries, institutions and individuals. We create a diverse range of work including brand identities, art direction, signage & wayfinding, exhibition design, print, editorial & publishing and websites from concept to production.

We investigate, explore and experiment to draw together stories which can translate and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. This approach has always led to thoughtful and inspired design solutions, and earned us a reputation for crafting intelligent, beautiful and innovative work.

We have established an exceptional reputation through work for Architects’ Journal, British Council, Phillips de Pury, Tate Modern & Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum and Wellcome Trust and are an increasingly sought after partner for collaborations with architects, curators, creative directors and photographers.


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A Practice for Everyday Life

Unit 16, 5 Durham Yard
Teesdale Street, London E2 6QF

T +44 20 7739 9975

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Employment

If you are interested in doing an internship with us please email a PDF of your work and CV to js-replace


Clients & Associates


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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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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