Co-operatives Fortnight

design.coop is the creative website of Calverts, the communications co-operative.

We design and produce integrated print and web based media. Our studio teams deliver effective and striking visual identities, outdoor visuals and exhibitions, marketing campaigns, websites and high quality, sustainable, cost effective print.

+44 (0)20 7739 1474
info@calverts.coop
9-10 The Oval
Bethnal Green
London E2 9DT

our approach

Design for the real world

What kind of designers are we? Sensitive, creative, expert, attentive and absolutely professional, say clients.

When you work with Calverts, you're not buying a Calverts house style. You're tapping into a flexible resource of experience, creativity and project management know how which will deliver your visuals, campaigns, publications, websites and marketing collateral on time, on budget and on brand.

Designing for the real world means developing solutions that are not just beautiful and engaging, but also mindful of resources and people. We work with our clients to deliver printed and electronic communications that are financially and environmentaly sustainable. To us, this means no wasted words, no wasted materials and no wasted effort; or, as someone once said, designing on the principle that 'less is more'.

we like this

Little Press

Take some cast metal type, add parts of a radio cassette player, a wooden block, some assorted rods, a little copper, and a large helping of creative nous to get this fantastic little letterpress machine. Click here to see a short video on the project or here for more detail.

Design

Client: Co-operatives UK
Project: Campaign

- Co-operatives UK has just launched the theme and visual brand for Co-operatives 2011.

Graphics and campaign collateral will be designed by Calverts, and we were delighted to win the work for a second year of what is fast becoming the no.1 event in the co-op movement calendar.

'Yours to Share' is a simple message which chimes with the public's perception of co-operatives as ethical businesses that trade for the benefit of their members and the communities in which they operate.

Key audiences for the 2011 campaign are consumers, members of co-ops, policymakers, co-operative staff and business groups, and the 'share' motif will be developed both as a descriptive theme, and the basis for a number of clear asks.

The brief was to create a set of strong but simple graphical messages, which can be implemented by a wide variety of activists, in a range of settings - from retail environments to schools, the street to the web.