Jannuzzi Smith. We are a cross-media design consultancy based in London. We offer a range of communication design services, supported and enhanced by our innovative use of technology. Our aim is to help our clients communicate more effectively: improving the impact, consistency and efficiency of their online and printed output. This website outlines a number of the issues that we commonly address, and illustrates the thinking behind some of our solutions. http://www.jannuzzismith.com Film Festival Locarno unveiled the poster for this year’s events at the Solothurn Film Festival this month. The presentation has become something of an annual tradition, presenting the key visual motif of the years events, which will be incorporated in the Festival’s advertising, merchandising, and information, and marking the beginning of a series of events that will see the Festival touring Berlin, Cannes, Rome, London and Los Angeles ahead of opening its own event in early August. In an extension of last year’s major re-branding exercise, Jannuzzi Smith has created a poster featuring ‘Chota’, the new symbol of the Festival. Chota lives in a zoological sanctuary in the Oxfordshire countryside. Blind at birth, she was rejected by her mother, but under the care of a watchful keeper she regained her sight and now thrives – by turn playful and dangerous, always elegant. (Photography by Tim Flach) http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-61stlocarno-poster.html Jannuzzi Smith has entered two projects to the online contest at Behance.net: Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Film Festival Locarno. The contest will run from Monday the 5th of November Friday the 11th of November. To reward and highlight inspirational work by participants in the Behance Network. Three winning projects will be chosen in the Graphic Design and Film realms based on number of votes received. Then a panel of expert judges will chose one grand prize winner while 1st and 2nd runners up will receive a set of “Action” products and will be featured in Behance’s online magazine. http://www.behance.net/Contest/Be-Contest-Graphic-Design/31495/46612 The book explains how graphic designers use computers as a medium to combine word, image, motion, sound and user interaction for the internet, TV, promos, games, animation, CDs and exhibitions. Mapping the spectrum of career opportunities created by digital technologies in the industry, it also describes the attitudes, skills and knowledge needed to enter the profession and captures the flavour and excitement of working in this field. The authors’ broad perspective – taking in everything from photography and illustration to motion, environmental and wearable graphics – describes the growing importance of new media graphic designers in developing new experiences for the information and entertainment industries across the globe. Sections on online design and imaginary worlds – including virtual worlds, digital FX and games – map out recent and future technological developments and their implications for the designers of today and tomorrow. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-new-media-design.html Jannuzzi Smith has developed a new corporate identity for architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. The project included a review and changes to the practice name, logotypes and other brand collateral, brochures, website, posters, signage, and other promotional material. The practice – employing over 100 architects – was founded in 1978 by Richard Feilden and Peter Clegg and “... have grown quietly over the past ten years to become a major force in British architecture and, while their architecture cannot be stylistically pigeon-holed, it generally exudes a certain Britishness – well-crafted, contextual, respectful and gentle on the eye. They have also been environmentally conscious right from the start, way before it became expedient to be green.” Jeremy Till, Professor of Architecture, Sheffield University. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-feilden-clegg-bradley.html Jannuzzi Smith has won a creative pitch to re-brand The Institution of Structural Engineers. The project is planned to coincide with the organisation’s centenary in 2008. The Institution has some 21,000 members in 109 countries around the world, and is recognised internationally as the voice of structural engineering, and for the technical and professional excellence of its members. The commission includes a major redevelopment of the Institution’s website. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-istructe.html Jannuzzi Smith has designed and produced ‘Exploring Boundaries: The Architecture of Wilkinson Eyre’ by Kurt W Forster and Peter Davey, for the Swiss publisher Birkhäuser. Wilkinson Eyre Architects, founded in 1983, has been drawing attention since the 1990s with its wealth of innovative and imaginative designs – notably its spectacular and structurally ambitious bridges. The best-known and most highly acclaimed are the Gateshead Millennium Bridge (2001) and the Floral Street Bridge (2003). The firm has won many awards, and are unique in having won the RIBA Stirling Prize in consecutive years. This book covers the work of the practice since the year 2000, and offers detailed documentation of some 15 structures and projects, with special attention paid to the context of each design. Projects include the Magna Centre in Rotherham, UK; the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, UK; the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, UK; the Guangzhou West Tower, China; the Tensegrity Bridge in Washington DC, USA; and the Gatwick Airbridge, UK. Annotations by Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre run alongside the main texts, providing first-hand insight into the thinking behind the projects. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-wilkinson-eyre.html The Swiss government agency Presence Switzerland – responsible for the coordination of Switzerland’s activities abroad – has appointed Jannuzzi Smith to develop a visual identity and communication programme to mark the 60th anniversary of its recognition of India as an independent state. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-switzerland-india.html Jannuzzi Smith has created a new visual identity, including on-screen idents, logotypes, signage, street furniture, tickets and passes, merchandising, brochures, posters and other marketing material to mark the 60th edition of the event for Film Festival Locarno. The rebrand reinterprets the Leopard – the historical emblem of the Festival – to enable more dynamic and flexible brand implementation. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-festival-locarno-identity.html Jannuzzi Smith has produced and designed a website ‘Stock Exchange of Visions, Al Gore’, to coincide with the former US presidential candidate’s talk about climate change in Milan, Italy. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-fab-algore.html The Royal College of Art’s Great Exhibition 2007 website features the work of over 400 graduating students, and is the first stage of an ongoing redevelopment of the College’s website and intranet by Jannuzzi Smith. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-show-rca.html Central Saint Martins Innovation identity designed by Jannuzzi Smith. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-innovation-csm.html Jannuzzi Smith has designed ‘&fork’, a 444 page heavyweight hard-back that offers a comprehensive global overview of up-and-coming industrial designers. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-and-fork-phaidon.html The Jannuzzi Smith poster for the 59th Locarno International Film Festival has been selected for inclusion in the Chaumont International Poster and Graphic Graphic Arts Festival – and shortlisted for the final awards. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-chaumont2007.html Jannuzzi Smith has completed a three year cross-media marketing program for Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with the publication of Directory 2007–8. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-csm-marketing.html As is now traditional the Film Festival Locarno unveils its new poster to kick start a series of events that will see the Festival touring Berlin, Cannes, Rome, London and Los Angeles. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-60thlocarno-poster.html For a number of years the Film Festival Locarno has promoted artists and designers by inviting them to create the poster for the year’s event. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-59thlocarno-print.html Jannuzzi Smith have organised a presentation, discussion forum, and book launch to mark the publication of Richard Hollis’s new book, Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920–1965. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-swissgraphicdesign.html As part of the exhibition Britische Grafik seit 1960 at Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich Alan Fletcher, Lars Muller, Cornel Windlin and Michele Jannuzzi (chaired by Andres Janser) will discuss the role of ‘independent’ graphic designers in today’s industry. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-museum.html A documentary on Jannuzzi Smith by Cristina Trezzini and Stefano Knuchel was broadcast on Saturday 15 April 2006 on TSI1 (Swiss national television) as part of the cultural programme Buonasera. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-buonasera.html Jannuzzi Smith’s work is featured at the Barbican Art Gallery in London as part of the exhibition Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties. The exhibition focuses on 100 independent studios and is curated by Rick Poynor. It is open to the public from 16 September 2004 to 23 January 2005. http://www.jannuzzismith.com/p-barbican.html