Barmy about Beavers

Yes it’s true Derbyshire has reintroduced the Beaver! Si Homfray and Hammer Design have been harnessing their visual and communication skills to convey this great story for the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s tourist information packs and customer wildlife sponsorship boxes. Hammer Design were responsible for managing the project, providing detail, illustration, layout and full artwork in…

A new exhibition – The world’s first long distance railway

High Peak Junction, Cromford, Derbyshire is part of the world heritage site at Cromford Mills. Hammer Design teamed up with Rachel Costigan of Derwentwise, Catherine Croney – Heritage Interpretation Consultant, Rick Jillings and Mark Brailsford of Derbyshire County Council to deliver the brake vans interpretation project at High Peak Junction. We are proud to say…

Peak District Design – Point of Sale and Packaging…

The brief was to create a generic, environmentally sensitive packaging system built around a series of square images that can be flexed and adapted for economical reasons, to multiple shapes and sizes. The graphics will need to be used for Cube boxes, Tubes, Booklets, Brochures, Flyers and Exhibition display material. The visual work is shown…

Peak District National Park – infographic work

The Peak District National Park required graphic design and visual work to tell the story of how important 555 square miles of National Park are on a local, regional and global level. A great many visuals were created, the summary of which is shown below, that tethered a typical visitor to the landscape through the…

Finding the emotional connection in logo design

Sheffield Sling Surgery required a full corporate identity… I thought a few personal notes on the process behind producing this logo for the lovely people at Sheffield Sling Surgery might be interesting. The brief was unusual and in written form came along the lines of ‘I want something I will love’. My motivation was high…