I went to the launch of the exhibition of Craig Oldham's Hand Written Letter Project the other day. It's a great project and a good exhibition. Worth a visit.
It's the one where Craig wrote to lots of well know designers and asked them to send him a letterhead. They did that, and being designers, the sent back lots of "creative" responses. Full of "jokes" and "ideas".
He's had a brilliant response, look there's one from the Sag.
Wim - all your favourites are in there.
There's even one from me, from The Design Conspiracy days.
There's a book too, which is limited to 175 editions. It's limited because he's asked all the studios to send him actual letterheads and then he's bound all the actual (real) letterheads into the book.
The advantage of this is that you get to see all the funky paper sizes and the fancy foils and embossing and effects that designers love.
In fact, probably the thing that strikes me most from the exhibition is just how crap designers are at designing letterheads. Sometimes it's like playing 'spot the address'. Often there's too much graphic design and not enough letterhead. But anyway.
Here's Bob Gill.
And here's Craig.
Craig deserves credit for starting this project a few years ago, for bothering to get all these letterheads, for organising the exhibition and for getting a book published. Nice work Craig.
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