Make books

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'.

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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.

Identity design

Make book front

Make book reverse

Work Jotters

We designed these Make-Your-Own postcards books, work books and jotters for an arts event.

Their production was partly an experiment to see how digital colour inks print on coloured paper stock.
By composing a single colour digital ink and printing onto various coloured paper stock we achieved some interesting colourways as the semi-transparency of the ink allowed the paper to show through.

With a few gift and craft shops in and around London stocking them the Make postcard books in particular are great fun for kids of all ages. Take one with you, affix some mementoes of a journey, add some doodles plus a stamp and hey presto - an original mixed media artwork is in the post.

If you would like one, or a set, let us know. They're reasonably priced if you can collect. Maybe we can barter. What have you got?