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More weird and wonderful work from Wonder Room

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Date
27 June 2016

Based in Manchester, Wonder Room is an agency that certainly isn’t short on wonder-inducing work. Whether applied to online posters (more on those here), beer cans, CDs or T-shirts, the work is bold, expressive and delightfully odd. In our latest update of the studio’s work, we’ve been very much enjoying its painterly approach to poster design and its scrawled CD imagery, forming a nice counterpart to the more stripped back and minimal graphic design it uses for posters for the likes of Stop Making Sense, or across T-shirts. Headed up by Steve Hockett, Wonder Room has created printed matter, artworks, illustration, designs and ideas for clients including Vans, The British Library, Manchester Art Gallery, London Short Film Festival and Indy-Man-Beer-Con.

A pink and black poster for an event featuring a large, smiling pink face in the centre. Bold text above and below the face reads “Pariahs” and “Hupendi”. The top banner lists the date “Thursday 17th Dec.” and the venue “Soup Kitchen”. A list of music genres, including “Post-punk” and “Hiphop”, runs along the bottom.
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Wonder Room: Posters

A black and white typographic poster reads “STOP MAKING SENSE – PEDDLING HIPSTER BULLSHIT SINCE 2007”. Smaller text along the side lists a website and the event time at Common.
A list of names printed in red, textured type on a white background. The list includes “David Lunch Time”, “Alan Partridge Projekt”, “Heatsick” and “Bathu Mutsi Drama Group”.
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Wonder Room: Posters

A black and white poster featuring a distorted, high-contrast image of a person’s head and shoulders. Hand-drawn, scribbled text laid over the image reads “STUPID MAKING SENSE”. Smaller text at the bottom reads “EVERY THURSDAY 9pm TILL 2am AT COMMON BAR”.
An abstract poster featuring thick, gestural black brushstrokes on a white background, accented by two strips of pink tape. Text at the top reads “Grey Lantern & The Beauty Witch Present”, while the bottom lists a “Soup Kitchen” event on 12 May 2016. The names “Quilt + Douga” appear in the bottom right corner.
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Wonder Room: Posters

A graphic poster for the “Max Graef Band” featuring bold, black brushstrokes layered over intersecting pink geometric shapes. The text “+ Guests” appears in the bottom right corner. Small text at the top and bottom provides event details, including the date “Friday 10th June 2016” and the venue “Soup Kitchen, Manchester”.
A white T-shirt against a black background. Bold black text on the front reads “INDY”, “– MAN”, “– BEER” and “– CON”.
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Wonder Room: T-shirt

A white T-shirt set against a black background. Black text on the front reads “CONTEMP- ORARY LIFE IS RUBBISH”.
A person holds a white CD featuring a black ink drawing. The artwork consists of chaotic, angular scribbles and a small, simple face.
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Wonder Room: CD Design

An animation in which two vinyl records slide in and out of their sleeves. The cover art is an abstract painting in grey, yellow and red, with the text “Adele 25” in the top left.

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Emily Gosling

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Emily joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in the summer of 2014 after four years at Design Week. She is particularly interested in graphic design, branding and music. After working It's Nice That as both Online Editor and Deputy Editor, Emily left the company in 2016.

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