For the last couple of years we have been working extensively with intermission, a coffeeshop and roastery in business to change the rhythm of the world.

This has been such a delight to work on, when we joined the project in 2019 the business was just an idea that Founders Misha and Kunsang wanted to create a coffeeshop that does right by people and planet.

Throughout the course of the project we came up with a strategy that places emphasis on time rather than fetishising the provenance of coffee... we named the business, developed the brand identity, contributed to the interiors, developed packaging and digital presence etc... It’s been incredible to get involved in all aspects of this business, from supply chains to point of sale.

And what a journey it was to get there too. For me personally I had never ever even drank a cup of coffee before taking on this project, from drinking my first ever coffee to taking barista training to better understand the world of speciality coffee.

The projects a-ha moment actually came in Greenwich Maritime Museum. Located at the Greenwich Meridian Line the museum has a small time exhibition: The visual iand verbal identity really came together when I heard the ‘beep beep beep’ of the old talking clock; the three dots above the ‘i’s... transformed into an ellipsis (which in literature denotes the passage of time) and became really the driving force behind the verbal identity.

This is a brand we are very proud of. You can read the case study of the project here:

Design Week interviewed us about the project which you can read here.

There’s another lovely interview with me over on The Brand Identity.

The project also had a great review in Brand New.

It’s great to see a new and expanded edition of London is a Forest out in the wild (and on bookshelves). Conceived as a series of forest trails and designed by us originally back in 2019 and we updated it a little earlier this year.

More here.

The first 2022 Fieldwork Facility project has gone live!
We’ve designed the pedestrian wayfinding for Brent Cross Town.

Billed as a Park Town for future London – Brent Cross Town is a multi-billion pound development with the aim of becoming the place in London to participate in sport and play. The development is a joint partnership between Argent Related with Barnet Council. Argent is the developer behind Kings Cross & Related behind Hudson Yards, NY.

This is the first part of a wider FF project. We have been looking after the experience of a ten-minute walk from Brent Cross tube station to the new development. The project includes wayfinding, curating and commissioning public art, design interventions along the route, a parade of shops and general hygiene improvements too.

We had some lovely press for this project; here’s an interview in Creative Review:

Across the pond it was covered in Communication Arts:

Over on The Future Laboratory’s LSN Global.

And over in Spain it was also covered in Gràffica.

2022 let’s go. 🚀