The Designers Republic

The Designers Republic, Founded in 1986 by Ian Anderson and known for their anti-corporation aesthetics whilst still managing to acquires briefs from such major corporations as Coca Cola and Orange and created album work for such artists as Aphex Twin, Pulp and Supergrass These companies have both approached tDR and Non Format with work.


The Designers Republic and Non Format have both applied similar graphic treatments within their portfolios of work. Whilst Non Format tends to have more of a hand rendered approach The Designers Republic provide a digital collage style which tends to have a simliar vibe to the work produced by Non Format. M/M Paris' broken photography feel is obvious in there to.

This is extremely strong evidence to the similarities that are noticeable between Non Format and tDR. Each image containing sharp shapes and what seems to be a disregard for placement. Though I think the decisions made on the layout for both images would probably have been painstakingly hard to make. Both companies hold qualities of Russian Constructivism with bold strokes and vibrant colour use. The Swiss Design comes into play not only with MM Paris and Non Format but tDR also.

I doubt the link here could be any clearer with this evidence....

The Designers Republic seem to give themselves alot more freedom when it comes to design, less formal than the Non Format style. The use of image and type are similar but the decisions and executions couldn't be further apart. Unfortunatly The Designers Republic have now closed their doors but they will always be an inspiration for design.