London's Kerning [Poster] NB Studio

Comission: International Society of Typographic Designers
Design: NB Studio
Date: 2013, Limited Ed.
Size: 1520 x 1010
Print: Offset
Condition: (A) Occasional minor crease to surface, very slight tanning to bottom left corner.

NOTE: This print is a ‘proof edition’, marginally oversized from the specified dimensions above, with trim guides and colour calibration keys in the channels. The print within the listing images is not that which will be dispatched.

NB Studio was commissioned by the International Society of Typographic Designers to create an exhibit for My City, My London, part of the London Design Festival 2006. The exhibition highlighted graphic design’s role in contemporary visual culture and explored typography within the capital’s urban landscape.

Inspired by the iconic 1936 London A–Z map—where place names are tightly squeezed and kerned along streets and roads—NB Studio stripped away all non-typographic elements. The result is a striking skeletal map composed purely of lettering: a poetic typographic reflection of how words, like people, fit intricately into the fabric of the city.

This work is now held in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).

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