Independent Venues Week 2019
Independent Venues Week 2019
Independent Venues Week promotes music at grassroots venues across the UK each year. We were approached to design posters and social media graphics for the 2019 schedule in Wales.
Independent Venues Week promotes music at grassroots venues across the UK each year. We were approached to design posters and social media graphics for the 2019 schedule in Wales.
Ctrl Alt Design have been working with Menter Caerdydd since 2012 on various projects. For their 2019-22 Corporate Plan, we took their brand colours and simplified a usually text heavy document down to a bitesize booklet. The aim was to showcase their core strengths and strategic objectives for the years to come in an eye-catching, easy to read document.
Pipe Down, aims to be an insight into the “stigmatised subject of addiction” while “bringing recovery into the world, and the world into recovery”.
Editor Araminta Jonsson said the magazine aims not only to target people who are in recovery, but also families of those in recovery or people who work in the sector, for example. The aim is to hook the readers with humour and then touch on something that can help with recovery.
For ‘Wales at London Book Fair’, Ctrl Alt Design created a brand to showcase the publishing houses and literary institutions in Wales. We created a logo and a gold embossed booklet to give out during London Book Fair, and worked with Ongl to create a unique, branded exhibition stand.
Since 2012, we have been working with Menter Caerdydd to visualise their annual Welsh Language Arts & Culture festival, Tafwyl. The event is held in Cardiff every July and on this page you can see the range of design and web services provided by Ctrl Alt Design.
Our work with Tafwyl ranges from print materials such as programmes, maps and street flags, to fully customisable, Wordpress integrated website.
Visit the website at tafwyl.cymru
This was a personal project where i documented all the gigs I attended in 2016 with my partner. It was an opportunity to remember the first year of our relationship together, and to explore the disciplines of 50’s and 60’s Swiss typography and geometric shapes.
All the posters have a similarity in style, mimicking the early Swiss design styles of Armin Hoffman and Emil Ruder (to name a few).
For The Gentle Good’s 4th studio album, ‘Ruins / Adfeilion’, Ctrl Alt Design created the artwork for vinyl and CD using the process of marbling. The theme has been built upon and various single covers have been created to mirror this artwork. Alongside this we created a responsive, mobile-friendly website and both an album launch and promo poster.
Its sister release, ‘Y Gwyfyn’, saw the theme developed to a new colour palette with a matching smokey purple vinyl pressing. The Welsh language EP featured additional tracks from the album’s recording session, as well as previously unreleased tracks.
Award-winning brand creation and vinyl template design for Recordiau Lliwgar.
Both ‘Y Record Goch’ and ‘Y Record Las’ were designed and illustrated as a series of Welsh language double 10″ records. The design and style pays homage to Romek Marber‘s ‘The Marber Grid’, which was used for Penguin books from 1962. The illustrations also mirror the designs at the time by Marber and Germano Facetti.
The aim was to create simple geometric patterns, limited to 3 colours and to hold true to the grid system designed by Marber.
Ctrl Alt Design received a Best of Welsh Design Award at Cardiff Design Festival 2012 for this bold and bright design. Record Collector and producer Dyl Mei described it as “The best Welsh album cover ever!”.
The brand for Recordiau Lliwgar needed to convey the idea of colour, but had to work in black or white, so it wouldn’t interfere with the colour of the theme. The final design was a Pinwheel, which is usually thought of as being a colourful object, whilst also being a geometric, simple object which complemented the design of the record sleeves.