We’ve created a new identity for one of our favourite photographers Peter Dibdin. His business card was the first tangible piece of print to feature the new identity. The guys at Glasgow Press kindly invited us down for a sneak peak at the cards on press, and, as always, Govan’s very own Aladdin’s Cave of typographic treasures, proved too tempting an opportunity for us not to take some pictures! (more…)

O Street were approached by fab.com, the everyday design marketplace, who wanted to stock our pictogram toilet tiles—an O Street classic! Naturally, we jumped at the chance to spread our toilet humour a little further than the confines of OHQ.

Fab.com’s mantra, ‘Smile, you’re designed to’, echoes the sentiment with which these tiles were designed, nearly 20 years ago now, David reluctantly reminds me! Fab.com say their mission is ‘to help people better their lives with design.’ While we can’t claim that our tiles are capable of this, hopefully they at least provide a bit of light relief, when you’re in need of a bit of light relief!

Our tiles have made us smile over the years and we’re glad they made the folks over at fab.com smile too! The full range of tiles is available for a limited time through fab.com, and for an unlimited time though our very own shop.

Spent a bit of time down at Glasgow Press this week to see a new project on the press. We’ve been working with acclaimed photographer Kieran Dodds to produce the first in a series of A5 postcard sets called ‘little shots’. These shots are of the boxes in production, which have been letterpressed on two shades of Materica from Fedrigoni. We needed to work closely with Dan and Larry to make sure the colour had just the right amount of contrast and they’ve turned out a treat…

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We just received our Scottish design award ruler in the post for the winning ‘O Here’s To‘ project. None of us could make it to the actual black-tie do, so Neil got out his felt tips to re-enact the magic ‘marker’ moment right here in the studio. He scrubs up well… (more…)

We can finally announce the project win we have been keeping under wraps for the last month or so. The rebrand of the newly merged Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company (LTC) with our new partners Creative Concern in Manchester.

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