PIONEERING POP CULTURAL DESIGN STUDIO HITS THE ROAD FOR 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONVERSATIONS IN PUBS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
- Ian Anderson, founder of The Designers Republic™, brings tales of four decades of creating with musicians, labels, architects, gamers, fashionistas and global brands
- From the visual identity of dance music, to the bottles of Coca-Cola, via Aphex Twin, Adidas, Issey Miyake, Pulp, The Orb, Pop Will Eat Itself, Sony, Warp and WipEout
- Collectable Tour Special: Bespoke Verdant pale ale with can design featuring ten new pieces of TDR work
- To book tickets please visit https://tdr.brewingfolk.co
This autumn, forty years of inspirational design and the trailblazing times of one of the UK’s most transformative designers will be celebrated across eleven nights of conversation. 40 Years of TDR is a new collaboration between Cornish brewer Verdant and The Designers Republic™ (TDR), whose founder Ian Anderson, will bring tales of a life spent influencing pop cultural design to pubs across the country, in conversation with musician and writer Matthew Shaw. Verdant has brewed a new pale ale specially for the tour; DR:ink will carry bespoke labels, featuring ten new and collectable pieces of TDR work.
To book tickets please visit https://tdr.brewingfolk.co
40 Years of TDR Tour
23 September – Falmouth, The Seaview Inn; 24 September – Bristol, Small Bar;
14 October – Brighton, The Prince Albert; 15 October – London, The Mary Wollstonecraft;
2 November – Glasgow, The Old Toll Bar; 4 November – Todmorden, The Golden Lion;
9 November – Manchester, Port Street; 10 November – Birmingham, Dark Horse;
11 November – Sheffield, Shakespeare’s; 19 November – Newcastle, Mosaic Tap
25 November – Leeds, Cardigan Arms.
The Designers Republic™ began in 1986 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire (dubbed SoYo, North of Nowhere by Ian Anderson). Forty years – and thousands of record sleeves – later, TDR has redesigned Coca-Cola bottles, shaped the aesthetic of computer games and become synonymous with some of the UK’s most exciting music and musicians. Its hand-in-glove work with Warp Records, video game visuals, cartoon characters, slogans, attitude, humour and use of eye-widening colours are instantly recognisable as TDR and are also extremely collectable. The 40 Years of TDR conversations will roam over all of these and more, including notable collaborations with the likes of Coca-Cola, Adidas, Comme des Garçons, Pringles, E4 and MTV.
Musician, writer and 40 Years of TDR host, Matthew Shaw, said, “Forty years after it began, TDR’s signature aesthetic and provocative slogans feel no less urgent and arresting. Its work for Warp Records, Pop Will Eat Itself and the WipEout video game series defined the look of a generation and its dizzying array of logos, icons and geometries challenged the norms of branding and commercialism. If you love music, design and pop culture, our pub evenings with Ian Anderson will be right up your street, whether you were there while it was all happening or didn’t realise that TDR’s designs were all over your favourite things.”
EVENT INFORMATION
To book tickets and if you have a question for the night, please visit https://tdr.brewingfolk.co
About Verdant: BEER, COMMUNITY & GOOD TIMES It’s as simple as that. Make beer we love, for everyone to enjoy. Good times for all. It all started in Autumn 2014 with “Let’s try making some beer”, on the sidelines of a five-a-side football match. Over ten years later, with all the successes and failures along the way, we couldn’t have imagined what Verdant has become. The love, support, and community we share is what drives us, with everything stemming from that first batch, brewed in a shed on the Cornish coast. www.verdantbrewing.co https://verdantbrewing.co/blogs/brewing-folk/the-designers-republic
About The Designers Republic™
Founded by Ian Anderson in 1986, The Designers Republic™ is an internationally renowned pop-cultural hyper-creative design studio focussing on graphic design and brand communication across all media, fuelled by strategic thinking, problem solving (thinking and doing) and strong narrative. www.thedesignersrepublic.com
About Ian Anderson: Born before England won the World Cup, in Croydon, London’s erstwhile orbital city of the future. He went to school in Bracknell New Town. He studied Philosophy at The University of Sheffield 1979 – 1982. As a designer he is self taught. He declared The Designers Republic™ on Bastille Day 1986 in Sheffield, the city he dubbed SoYo™ North of Nowhere™. TDR™’s work is credited with defining the visual language of late 20th century dance music, techno and the post Playstation WipEout gaming generation. Ian has collaborated with architects (publishing a book with Sadar + Vuga), branded locations with environment developers Urban Splash and RREEF, worked with fashion designers such as Issey Miyake and Commes des Garçons, and has developed global branding campaigns, identities and Special Projects for the likes of Coca-Cola, Sony (including Aibo), Nokia, Telia, MTV, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, The University of Sheffield and Manchester School of Art.