All Change at Reading, by Adam Sowan
Two Rivers Press
All posts by Nadja Guggi
Jenny Halstead: An Artist’s Year in the Harris Garden
Adam Sowan: Believing in Reading
Caversham Court Gardens
Caversham Court Gardens: A Heritage Guide
Friends of Caversham Court Gardens
Caversham Court Gardens is a public garden on the bank of the river Thames near Caversham Bridge, Reading, for over 500 years the site of a private house.
This richly illustrated heritage guide reveals glimpses of the lives of its owners against a backdrop of local and national events as well as details of the architecture and landscaping of the house and garden.
Robert Gillmor: Birds, Blocks & Stamps
Birds, Blocks & Stamps: Post & Go Birds of Britain
Two Rivers Press
Robert Gillmor, one of the UK’s most prolific wildlife artists, has been commissioned by Royal Mail to produce a series of linocuts for four sets of Post & Go stamps featuring native birds of Britain.
Birds, Blocks & Stamps reproduces these prints together with Gillmor’s own account of the process by which his linocuts are made.
Visiting the artist at his Norfolk home to and seeing the studio where is all happens was the highlight of our summer.
Christopher Smart: Cat Jeoffry
Keble College signage
Keble College, Oxford, needed signage to direct external visitors in a way that respected its Grade 2 listed status, famous brickwork architecture and existing features and fittings – and that was sensitive to the fact that to most of its staff and students, Keble College is home.
Working with London signmakers The Signworks, we designed a modular signage system consisting of a wall-mounted back plate and a face place that dovetails on it.
The signs were spray-painted in a dark grey to match existing metalwork such as drain pipes and gates around the college grounds.
Rubbings of the brickwork taken at each sign location provided templates for custom-located fittings to align with the brick courses. The signs are easy to take down for maintenance, and holes and wall plugs are then covered with specially-painted caps that match the brick joints.
Adam Sowan: A Much-Maligned Town
A Much-Maligned Town: Opinions of Reading 1126–2008, by Adam Sowan. Illustrations by Peter Hay.
Two Rivers Press
‘the whiff or boredom, wretchedness and despair’
Find out what Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Wilde, Cobbett, Betjeman, Branagh, Graham Greene, and many others had to say about Reading – the town that everybody loves to hate.
The World in Reading
The World in Reading
Reading Museum
The World in Reading is a thematic introduction to the rich and diverse collection at Reading Museum. The brief for this museum guide was to convey the sense of inspiration and enjoyment that can be derived from studying and handling real objects, whether they relate to Reading’s local historical and natural environment or other cultures around the world.
The design combines a contemporary palette, clean sans serif and flexible grid to show off the collection at Reading. Juxtaposition of different image treatments provides variety of colour, texture, shape, and scale.
The cover illustrates the breadth of the Museum collection and provides ‘teasers’ which hint at the treasures to be discovered.
Messrs. Dash & Dare 