Against Type

London's Anti-Design Fest­ival Auck­land Outpost

Fol­low­ing on from our pre­vi­ous post on Wel­ling­ton designer Josh Barr, his Blogroll and the Anti-Design Fest (ADF) in Lon­don, we're happy to announce that Anti-Design has another local connection.

Newly returned from NYC, New Zea­l­and designer Philip Kelly has, in con­junc­tion with the ADF, erec­ted three text/type bill­boards to be included in the Lon­don fest­ival this Septem­ber. You can check them out on Symonds Street, Pitt Street and New North Road (more images after the jump). Kelly says, "The bill­boards con­sist of ori­ginal text and typo­graphy … that engage with the nature of lan­guage, visual com­mu­nic­a­tions, and the media infused urban landscape."

Kelly's work in visual com­mu­nic­a­tions encom­passes art dir­ec­tion, graphic design, typo­graphy and pho­to­graphy. He says he spent a dec­ade in New York, join­ing JWT as type dir­ector, before going on to launch thompsondesign. Con­cur­rently, he designed for inde­pend­ent record labels and pub­lish­ers, includ­ing the mono­graph of acclaimed design stu­dio Socio X for Graphis Books. In 2006 he foun­ded his own stu­dio Pkwy, based in New York and Shang­hai. Kelly's ori­ginal type and art dir­ec­tion have appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, Paper Magazine, Big Magazine, and the Graphis Design Annu­als. After over a dec­ade in New York and Shang­hai he is now based in Auck­land. This pro­ject was kindly sup­por­ted by Omni­graph­ics and OTW Bill­boards.

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