People in Mind

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.

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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.

Charity

People in MInd

Late last year we worked with oral historian Ruth Meyerowitz on a project marking 25 years of Mind in Bexley.

Ruth worked with people who attended Mind’s groups and services, to record their life stories, with a focus on their experiences of mental health and wellbeing.

In November 2011, the work was exhibited at the National Trust’s Hall Place .

Entitled People in Mind, the exhibition attracted almost 150 visitors in two weeks. Extracts from the life story interviews were grouped around the themes that had emerged during the project. These were exhibited with the portrait photographs of participants, taken by photographer and filmmaker Daniel Quinones.

Calverts worked on layout, production and display of the exhibition.

Read more about the project and hear extracts from the interviews on MIND’s blog.