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A grid of black and yellow graphic illustrations depicting various East London landmarks, shops and pubs. Recognisable signs include “Old Spitalfields Market E1”, “The Ten Bells” and “Broadway Market”.

Graphic Design: Telegramme Studio dazzle and delight with ace protfolio

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Date
15 July 2013

There are few people who create gig posters which are as aesthetically pleasing as they are timeless, but London-based studio Telegramme’s screen-printed gig posters and prints tick all the boxes. Not only are they beautifully designed and their style instantly recognisable, but the imperfections and flaws which are inherent to the nature of printing mean they preserve something of the original charm of the poster, from the days when they would have been Sellotaped up, stuck over, ripped down and then tacked to a bedroom wall, instead of copy-and-pasted onto somebody’s page. What’s more, their work is so consistently brilliant that their portfolio becomes a kind of wonderful time-wasting black hole.

A graphic poster featuring a cluster of overlapping circles in yellow, pink, and white against a black background. A small crescent moon sits in the dark sky above, with a silhouette of a palm tree and a car at the bottom. Text at the base reads “Minus the Bear” and “Heaven, London August 17th 2012”.
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Telegramme: Minus the Bear

A book cover for “Night Woods” by Charles Frazier. A dark silhouette of a house and trees is set against a large, pale moon and a starry purple sky. Below, pink stylized clouds flow across the bottom half of the image.
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Telegramme: Night Woods

An illustration of a dense city street scene in a limited palette of purple, yellow and orange. Various signs and shopfronts feature fragmented text, including “The”, “Image”, “Alone” and “Veg. Food Emporium”. At the bottom, a silhouette of a person walks past a “Tourist Booking Centre” and a parked bicycle.
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Telegramme: Illustration for Granta magazine

An abstract illustration in orange, brown and grey featuring geometric shapes, a ladder and industrial scaffolding. Text on the right reads “Hannah Barry Gallery”, “Fabric-ators”, “Jan 28 – Mar 3 2012” and lists four artists.
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Telegramme: Fabricators

An isometric illustration of a stylized city in black, white, pink and yellow. Signs on the buildings read “THE”, “WELCOME”, “COMMITTEE” and “BONNAIRE”.
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Telegramme: The Welcome Committee

A graphic poster for the “Beacons” festival, featuring a stylised landscape of tents, trees and a rising sun in green, yellow and white. The bottom of the poster lists the location as “Funkirk Estate, Skipton, The Yorkshire Dales” for August 2012. Headliners include “Wild Beasts”, “Toots & The Maytals”, “Roots Manuva” and “Patrick Wolf”, followed by a dense list of other performing artists.
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Telegramme: Beacons

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Maisie Skidmore

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Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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