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The designers Republic is a graphic design studio created by Ian Anderson in Sheffield. The design republic is known for its anti-establishment aesthetics, while simultaneously embracing brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands, such as Orange and Coca-Cola.
An early client was Leeds band Age of Chance, for whom they developed a series of record covers between 1986 and 1987. The sleeve of the 1987 12" "Don't Get Mad... Get Even! (The New York Remixes)" was selected as one of Q's "100 Best Record Covers of All Time" in 2001. In 1994, Emigre magazine devoted a whole issue to the Designers Republic, a copy of which was bought by NY MoMA. This issue is still Emigre’s best-ever seller and is now sold out - copies having fetched in excess of $750 in auction. The Designers Republic was introduced to a larger audience by their record covers for the English electronica label Warp Records (also based in Sheffield). In addition to designing the covers for much of Warp's roster of artists, such as Autechre, Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada, tDR has also created covers for other label artists such as Fluke, Funkstörung, The Orb, Pulp (and Jarvis Cocker), Pop Will Eat Itself, Supergrass and Towa Tei. Outside of the musical sector, tDR created the visuals, packaging and manual for the PlayStation/Sega Saturn game Wipeout (1995), the interface for the PC game Hardwar (1998), and packaging and posters for the first Grand Theft Auto (1997). They cooperated with the Swatch company in 1996 to design their own watch. They also designed the packaging for Sony's AIBO.
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[Wipeout Playstation cover]
The reasons i particularly like the designers republic are because they did the covers and alot of the design for the wipeout games on playstation 1, although when playing the game i years ago i had no idea who designed it and wasn't too bothered but recently it came back and ive now discovered who made it. What i like about it is it is designed in a way to stand out from other designs and designers. To me it looks like they are designing the future and if the futures going to look like this then it'll be pretty cool.
[Wipeout team logos]
The designers republic use bright colours to make a bold statement about their work, the way the media throws anything at us from every direction possible is how i see their work. I feel with the bold colour schemes which are alot to do with advertising and gaining attention make their work seem like a advert even with the japanese text or symbols running down some of their work it looks like there should be information there. True they are a design company and do work for huge corprate clients, but to me their work also looks like art and possibly other people to, and some of their work has been shown in art gallerys.
[album cover]
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