Calm & Collected's super collection of hand-drawn school inspired graphics
No matter how long it is since you left school, Monday morning can still bring back that sense of academic-induced dread. The Exercise Book by South London design agency Calm & Collected may well inspire similar reminiscence but all being well it’ll be of the warmly nostalgic kind rather than the “haven’t-done-my-homework-forgotten-my-PE-kit” pit of the stomach variety. The publication accompanied the group’s recent show LEARN and features hand-drawn graphics inspired by education across black and white, colour and risoograph pages.
It’s a fun little title with some brilliant imagery and more than a few moments that’ll whizz you back into the classroom before you can say double biology.
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
Calm & Collected: Exercise Book
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

