Make Bank's Print Project sees 20 designers create prints to fund arts education
Social enterprise Make Bank has released a collection of 24 prints by British creatives, including textile designer Donna Wilson and graphic designer Peter Chadwick, to help fund arts education for disadvantaged children.
The 24 print designs were commissioned by Make Bank, a social enterprise instigated by Kirsty Thomas, a designer and co-founder of Tom Pigeon, the creative studio set up with her husband Pete in 2014.
James D Wilson is one of 20 designers to contribute to The Print Project
Each artwork in the Print Project collection, which was launched at Designjunction during London Design Festival, reflects the creator's own characteristic style and relate to the broad theme of making and creating.
Designer Stuart Gardiner applied his infographic approach to colour theory, creating a matching set of rainbow artworks made up of all the words that can be associated with its different shades. Stuart Gardiner designed two prints for the collection
Other typographic interpretations of the theme came from Donna Wilson, who took her signature whimsical aesthetic to a slogan created with watercolours, and from Liverpool design studio Dorothy which hid a message within a Letraset sheet ? the transferable instant lettering sheets.
"'Make things happen' is a phrase we use in the studio," Make Bank's co-director Ali Johnson told Dezeen.
"If we're focusing on making things and being creative, then things tend to happen and that feels like a good message to share with...
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