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

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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'. 

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Little Press

Little letterpress machine

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.

Education

Food Junctions – Sale On!

Food Junctions Cookbook


Authors and publishers Marina Chang and Lukas Meusburger have reserved a small number of copies of The Food Junctions Cookbook to distribute at the discounted price of £9.50 / US$ 15.00 per copy (Amazon price £16.00) + £3.50 / US$ 9.00 post and packing. Please email us with your name, address and phone number to order one or more copies. Payment is by credit card over the phone.

 

Supported by University College London, The Food Junctions Cookbook project explores the complex relationships between food, human society and nature. Some 70 contributors share their ‘living recipes’ for things to cook, things to think about and above all things to do. It mixes practice, politics and pleasure and ties people together through a common interest in food.

 

The book takes the word recipe both literally and metaphorically, combining insights and inspirational stories from all round the world; how to taste wine, open up a catering co-op, deal with food waste, prevent childhood obesity, make delicious dishes from wild plants and grow food in the city.

The book was produced on our Heidelberg 5-colour B2 litho press using 120gsm Cocoon Offset for the inner pages, and 280gsm Revive 100 Uncoated for the cover (both premium 100% recycled white uncoated, FSC certified) with Bio vegetable oil based inks, under Calverts ISO14001 Environmental Management System.

 

Soft cover, 240mm x 170mm 200pp

ISBN 978-0-9570354-0-9