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OK-RM creates beautiful, effective Antenne Books identity

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Date
22 March 2016

A beautiful identity for a beautiful bookstore, OK-RM’s designs for Antenne Books manage to combine pared-back modernity with an established, refined look and feel. The bold typographic approach enhances Antenne Books’ products existing reams of superb imagery, drawing on its bank of publications on art, photography, design, illustration, theory, writing, fashion and culture.

The identity is used across physical touchpoints, such as stationery and packing materials, as well as a refreshingly beautiful and easily navigable website. “The main objective of the project is to provide Antenne with a clear and functional platform for displaying and offering its publications to a growing audience,” says OK-RM. “The expression of this function is rooted in primary simplicity, evident in the colour palette and navigational devices. This same attitude inspires the new acronym AB.C deriving from ‘Antenne Books’ and also the ‘dot com’ – a signal to the digital-centric offer.”

Three yellow printed cards of different sizes, each featuring the bold black text “AB.C”. The largest card includes the address and contact details for Antenne Books in London.
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OK-RM: Antenne Books

A book with a speckled white cover lies on a cardboard surface. A collage is laid over the front, featuring a person’s smiling face, a green card, and bold yellow text that reads “AB.C”.
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OK-RM: Antenne Books

Four cards are arranged in a grid. They feature a person on a bicycle, a pink card with text about Daido Moriyama’s photobook “Color”, a close-up of a face, and a red and white striped pattern.
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OK-RM: Antenne Books

Four printed cards arranged in a grid. They show a close-up of a person smiling, the rear of a white car, a black-and-white abstract image, and a pink card with text. The pink card reads “A detail from page 25 of Lucas Blalock’s photography book Towards a Warm Math, published by Hassla Books in 2011.”
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OK-RM: Antenne Books

A stack of white cardboard boxes sits on a cobbled street next to a white van. Each box is printed with the bold black text “AB.C”.
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OK-RM: Antenne Books

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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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