Made In Earnest

The Hans Koller triple LP is in and looking good. The sleeve features artwork by Liz Miller entitled Synaesthetic Score. The album itself features the German NDR Bigband, legendary bassist Steve Swallow, American saxophonist John O’Gallagher and Danish guitarist Jakob Bro, alongside an outstanding line-up of eminent UK jazz musicians. The album release is scheduled for April 15, […]

A sneak preview of the front cover artwork for the forthcoming triple (!) LP from Hans Koller. This is being released as a collaboration between Impossible Ark Records and Stoney Lane Records and will be out in early 2016.

A sneak preview of the artwork for the forthcoming James Allsopp Quartet LP ‘I’m A Fool To Want You’. It will be released on Impossible Ark Records as a limited edition vinyl soon.  

Another of our ongoing projects is the design for the annual Acland Burghley Visual Arts exhibition. Every year a students work is chosen to feature on both the poster and the invite that is sent out. Below is both the 2105 and 2014 posters.

A while ago we were asked by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) to design a new supplement to go with SPAB magazine. What we came up with is SPAB Briefing. It is smaller than the A4 magazine (it’s 189mm x 267m) so it sits neatly under the masthead of the magazine when they […]

The first issue of the redesigned Horticulturist magazine has arrived back from the printers and so far the feedback from the Chartered Institute of Horticulture has been extremely positive, which makes the hard work and long hours all worthwhile.

The Paris edition of The Secret List is getting a swanky book launch in December at the excellent Superfly Records. I’ll be there to talk to anyone about the design of the books, but more importantly than that, the author will be there to discuss the project. There will be a book signing session, a […]

Not long ago Dig A Little was born and as the promotional material says, ‘it’s a monthly excursion into the joys of vinyl’. Basically, it’s a record fair with DJs and thanks to it’s success so far it has grown into a monthly DJ night as well (called Revolutions). The first Dig took place at the Forest […]

New work for a new client; the Good Homes Alliance. This 24 page White Paper is a ‘primer for the Good Homes debate and ideas on a National Good Homes Plan’ and as such we decided to go for a very clean and simple design – hopefully convening some of the ideas within. Space, where possible, […]

New front wall being painted outside Made In Earnest headquarters