MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday – SI Special

Jun 24th, 2011
33 Comments

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday SI Special

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MadeThought: Ten Years Yesterday
— An Exhibition of Curiosity Cabinets Presenting our Thoughts, Work and Craft at Woodbridge & Rees

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A 30 minute film showing 23 pieces of work for the exhibition ‘Ten Years Yesterday’

This is contemporary graphic design at its very finest. Period.

All I’ll say before I leave with you with a link to much larger versions of the images above – is appreciate this while you can because it will probably be another 10 years before we see anything like this again… FYI: For SI’s international readers and those of you who won’t be able to make it, this is the exhibition photographed in its entirety with video footage to come shortly ;)

www.madethought.com

Big thank you once again to Ben @ MadeThought for making this feature possible. If you (dear reader) are still reading this, expect another exclusive feature from MT soon…

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33 Comments

  1. Jun 24th, 2011

    Nick Riley

    Beautiful and inspiring work — as always. Thank you for this one SI!

  2. Jun 24th, 2011

    James

    Adidas Fall winter typography is spot-on, absolutely fantastic body of work – awesome to see how it’s matured over the past 10 years.

    Congrats for hitting an amazing milestone @MadeThought

  3. Jun 24th, 2011

    Dave S

    Every single piece of work is here is quite literally lovely…An example of how going that extra mile can make such a difference in the quality of the finished product. Brilliant.

  4. Jun 24th, 2011

    Simon

    All they need to do now is put this lovely stuff in a book that I can buy.

  5. Jun 24th, 2011

    Simon @ Progress

    Looks absolutely amazing , especially seen as a group of work. Love working with the guys at MT, here’s to the next 10 years.

  6. Jun 24th, 2011

    steve

    It’s enough to drive anyone to a bloody inferiority complex, thats how good it is!

  7. Jun 24th, 2011

    Jonathan Davies

    Excellent posting as always. Truly outstanding body of work and a great inspiration. Great to see unseen work alongside the more well known pieces.

    MT set the real benchmark for British graphic design. Looking forward to the next exclusive.

  8. Jun 24th, 2011

    Oscar de Castro

    Thanks for bringing the exhibition to people who do not live in London; great pictures, great resolution, and obviously great work!

  9. Jun 24th, 2011

    Dominic

    I have always been a massive fan of the work of Made Thought since becoming aware of them through Grafik magazine. Favorite pieces include the ‘Cutting Room’ identity, Est & Sons and of course their job on transforming Graphics International to Grafik but what were they thinking with the cliched falling type on the Stella Mccartney fall winter piece. That however is my only criticism of a fantastic body of work.

  10. Jun 24th, 2011

    David

    @Nick – You’re more than welcome :)

    @Simon – Amen to that ;)

    @Oscar – That’s one of the main reasons why I wanted to do this feature in the first place – promoting exceptional work on an international (not just national) stage :)

  11. Jun 24th, 2011

    brian

    made thought just have to be the masters of absolute simplicity, capturing only the essence of what is necessary! thanks for such a great post:)

  12. Jun 24th, 2011

    Neil

    I’ll echo Oscar and say thank you for posting the exhibition. Living in the States makes it difficult to see some of these great exhibitions going on in the UK. Always inspiring and such lovely work.

  13. Jun 24th, 2011

    J

    What I love about MadeThought aside from their work of course is their attitude. They just (seemingly) quietly get on with their work not making a big song and dance and then suddenly, bam! They shove some genius in our faces and we all cry a little in realisation that we will never have a batch of work so good.

    Benchmark = Set. Can’t see how it can be raised until the next time MT rock up.

  14. Jun 24th, 2011

    Matt

    Such fantastic work. Thanks for sharing.

  15. Jun 25th, 2011

    Branding / Identity / Design

    Really superb work.

    The video hurt by brain by being so awesome.

  16. Jun 25th, 2011

    James Greenfield

    Hats of to MT for ten years of incredible work and not one dud in the pack. Real talent on show.

  17. Jun 27th, 2011

    georg

    quick question:
    does anyone have a little more info on what MT are up to these days?
    the projects on their site are a couple of years old and i had a hard time finding out a little more about those guys.

    thanks in advance!

  18. Jun 27th, 2011

    David

    @Georg Patience is a virtue my friend. All I’ll say now is you’ll be the first to know about new work and the new site… ;)

  19. Jun 27th, 2011

    georg

    haha — thank you, sir!

  20. Jun 27th, 2011

    Nina

    I love all of their work, but the stuff made for Established&Sons is my favourite… Beautiful exhibition!

  21. Jun 27th, 2011

    Oscar de Castro

    You’re doing an incredible job with this blog, thank you so much for it!

  22. Jun 28th, 2011

    Bjorn Kusoffsky

    C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !
    S D L

  23. Jun 30th, 2011

    Bela Ferrer

    Can’t wait for the visit!

  24. Jul 4th, 2011

    John

    Don’t get me wrong I am a fan of made thought. Big fan. But it makes me cringe when people say “genius” and “makes my brain hurt” because lets face it Made Thought is style over substance. There are no real ground breaking ideas in a body of work that stretches over ten years.

  25. Jul 5th, 2011

    Nik

    Popped in to the exhibition on Thursday, stunning work from MT. Was a little disappointed there was no supporting literature to take away, but beautiful work on show.

  26. Jul 13th, 2011

    Ayana

    all the work in the video was absolutely stunning.

  27. Jul 17th, 2011

    Ben

    @John

    How would you classify ‘ground-breaking’?

    There is always an idea behind MT’s work. For example: the 60° line used in the Design Miami ⁄ mark references the link between the show’s two locations, Miami and Basel.
    The point is, these ideas are crafted with such rigor and consideration that even the oldest work looks as contemporary and relevant as the latest.
    To me, that in itself is ground-breaking.

    Maybe you’re into more obvious smile in the mind approach though?

  28. Jul 27th, 2011

    John

    @ ben

    I wouldn’t say that. I have an appreciation for all graphic communication. I just don’t see how a style that has remained the same as you have put it is ground breaking.

    What’s ground breaking about that? There not the first design studio to do that?
    North, Spin, Sea, Why not associates, Designers Republic.

    Landing on the moon is ground breaking, being the first to do something that no-one else has done is ground breaking. Check these guy’s out

    http://www.northkingdom.com

    They are ground breaking. Neville Brody is ground breaking, I feel that studios that push the boundries of design to break into new factions are ground breaking.

    Maybe your to into move it to the left two tabs, No no move it back a tab jump on the mac and make it look nice approach?

  29. Sep 22nd, 2011

    Guy

    Nice blog, which reveals the work of all walks of life. Regarding the above works are really interesting, especially in typography.

  30. Oct 18th, 2011

    Rhys

    Can anybody help me with the typeface used for the ESTABLISHED & SONS piece. The seventh image down?

  31. Oct 19th, 2011

    David

    @Rhys A bit of specificity would be nice ;) The typefaces used for the Est & Sons work are: Helvetica Neue and Didoni

  32. Oct 19th, 2011

    Rhys

    @David i thought everyone knew what helvetica neue looked like :P

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