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A Time Out London magazine cover featuring Queen Elizabeth II in a gold frame over a Union Jack background. The text reads “Time Out London” and “DIAMOND JUBILEE”.

Marking the Queen's Big Day with a bumper round up of creative Jubilexcellence - bring on the bunting

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Date
4 June 2012

We Brits are a strange bunch. 99% of the time if you asked the average person in the street almost nobody would even really have an opinion on the monarchy – maybe, maybe the odd grumble about taxes or a vague blathering about history and tourism. But offer us a couple of days off on their behalf and suddenly we’re all bunting-bedecked, foaming-at-the-mouth uber-Royalists, prepared to lay our red, white and blue bodies on the line to protect our glorious leader, her family members and their funny little dogs. Naturally whenever such a fever grips the nation, the creative community are quick to join in and we’ve seen all manner of right royal responses. Here’s some of the work that’s rolled in. Merry jubilee everyone!

Oh, and just in case your appetite isn’t sated by our selection, check out two run-downs of Jubilee products on The Guardian and the New Statesman and a slightly more tenuous but still excellent list of royal-related advertising and design on D&AD.

A pair of silver drop earrings featuring rectangular pendants. Each pendant displays a purple postage stamp with a profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Jubilee Stamp Jewellery by OwleyesUk

A pair of drop earrings made from red postage stamps featuring a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. The stamp on the left is marked with black ink lines, while both are set in white frames with silver hooks.
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Jubilee Stamp Jewellery by OwleyesUk

A high-contrast print of a figure against a black background. The figure is rendered in white, holding a pole topped with a bright red and yellow mask.
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Dearlove: Horseguard Lucha Libre

A collection of large, brown cardboard blocks of varying heights and widths are arranged on a grey floor. The blocks are positioned in a loose, geometric cluster against a plain white wall.
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Sarah Ward: Buckingham Palace Pizza Box model

Several large, modular blocks made of brown cardboard are arranged on a grey floor in a white room. The blocks are various sizes and shapes, some forming L-shapes or clusters.
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Sarah Ward: Buckingham Palace Pizza Box model

An illustration of various British icons in red and white on a dark blue background. The pattern includes a red telephone box, a crown, a teapot, cupcakes, and Union Jack bunting.
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Cherry Wynn-Williams: Diamond Jubilee

An illustration of various British icons in red and white on a dark blue background. The objects include a red post box, a crown, a teapot, teacups, a street lamp and bunting featuring the Union Jack.
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Cherry Wynn-Williams: Diamond Jubilee

A colourful illustration of a stylised crown set against a background inspired by the Union Jack. The image uses a bold, neon palette of pink, blue, yellow and green with thick black outlines.
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Jason Walton: Print (website)

An illustration for “The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee” featuring a figure in a red tunic and bearskin hat. A corgi stands beside a teapot and a plate of cakes. Text at the bottom reads “60 Years” and “June 2nd–5th 2012”.
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Katharina Haeberle: Jubilee Artwork (@curl1982)

A repeating pattern of the Union Jack flag in red, white and blue. Two ornate crowns are placed over the design, one in the top right and one in the bottom left.
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Victoria Jayne Guy – Jubilee wallpaper

An illustration of two crowns and a sceptre. The crowns are ornate with gold and silver detailing and embedded jewels, while the sceptre is topped with a cross.
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Francesca Pecqueur – Jubilee Work

A collection of party supplies with a red, white and blue colour scheme. The set includes paper plates, cups, napkins, plastic cutlery and cupcakes topped with small decorative flags.
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Francesca Pecqueur – Jubilee Work

A screenshot of The Telegraph website from 01 June 2012. The lead headline reads “Markets fall on fears for global economy on dismal US jobs growth”, alongside a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales, wearing a pink outfit and a wide-brimmed hat.
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The Daily Telegraph website

A close-up of a pale yellow print featuring a floral pattern and a small grey emblem. Large grey text reads “BURSTING PO”, with smaller text below stating “William Morris on the Queen’s Jubilee, 1887”.
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Bracketpress – William Morris on The Queen’s Speech poster

A close-up of a printed page with a pale yellow floral pattern. Grey serif text is laid over the pattern, including the phrases “TOMFOOLERY”, “ONE’S INDIGNATION SWELLS” and “BURSTING POINT”.
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Bracketpress – William Morris on The Queen’s Speech poster

A close-up of a printed sheet featuring various quotes and phrases in a mix of bold, serif and sans-serif typefaces. Central text includes the Roman numerals “MCMLII MMXII” and the phrase “I myself prefer my eggs for breakfast”.
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Better Brand Agency – The Queen’s Speech

A close-up of a printed document featuring bold, decorative typography and a pink circular stamp. The text includes phrases such as “old islands”, “I declare” and “better future”.
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Better Brand Agency – The Queen’s Speech

A Time Out London magazine cover featuring the Union Jack flag. Two gold-framed portraits of Queen Elizabeth II are set against the flag, with the words “Diamond Jubilee” printed between them.
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Sir Peter Blake: Time Out cover

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Rob Alderson

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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.

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