1: Repton 12X3 Boxing clubs
This famous historic boxing club and Repton head coach, world Olympic and British Champion Ryan Pickford’s 12X3 gym, both inexorably imbue the rich culture of East End, world beating boxing culture and Dockland E2 typeface design.
Working closely with the clients across type design, walls, tiles, glass, concrete and canvas these wayfinding and inspirational hand painted missions, resonated with my own arts/sports based culture allowing a close empathic bond to colour the final project.
2: Woolwich works
What was once the armament foundry and munitions factory of London has been transformed into a multi facing and cultural arts stage in S E London.
With an aim to embed wise, echoing words into the walls of WW, and as part of The Chase award winning architectural/creative team (Silver for ‘The Drum’), we shaped the 9 heavily worn and distressed cultural wall art inspirations quotes that feature around the centre.
The typeface was retuned with a contemporary weight (Regular/Demi bold) and faintly swashed terminals, to infuse a ‘time-hung’ stencil cut, sans serif form.
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Request came in from a major construction company to match 4 new to old panels in range of areas including central dining hall of RHC.
The Royal Hospital Chelsea was established over 300 years ago, during the reign of King Charles II, to provide a home for soldiers “broken by age and war.” In 1682, the King commissioned Sir Christopher Wren, one of Britain’s most celebrated architects, to design this sanctuary for veteran soldiers with original lettering dating back to its absolute origins.
Our task was to make observations of all inscriptions and identify possible era writers and hands for us to emulate when adding updates and restoring faithfully to the original inscriptions.
By identifying the hands of William Sharpington and Richard Apps we were able to create a family of revival fonts and vary by hand each character by will and according to the particular panel and setting.
