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Imaginative, expressive and accessible creations, specialising in web and book design
Working with us
We delight in serving up visually effervescent, always inventive and structurally enduring solutions. We endeavour to think that little bit deeper and to go that little bit further with each and every design morsel of our work—from websites to books to branding to who knows where?!
The wonderful people we work with often include:
- Writers, artists and multidisciplinary practitioners
- Small publishing presses, record labels and other creative enterprises
- Charities, nonprofits and radical organisations empowering change around us
Our work with writers
We’ve developed into somewhat of a writer’s website connoisseur over the years, thanks to the unique briefs that arrive at our digital desk from these often polymathic individuals. We’ve worked with authors, poets, translators, lecturers, mentors, editors, theatre-makers, and frequently many of these all at once.
The whole process of working with Oliver and Patrick was seamlessly smooth. They were thorough, professional and proactive to a standard that surpassed all my expectations.
Firstly and foremost, their designs are clean and beautiful with great attention to the UI/UX. I wholeheartedly recommend working with them.
I really appreciated their approach to accessibility: the interest in this was genuine and never an afterthought.
Ecommerce
An online shop can be many things, and we’ve been lucky to work on a plethora of ambitious incarnations of the humble ‘webstore’ concept in our time. From innovative juxtapositions of the standard virtual boutique, to functionally diverse solutions in clean and serene surrounds, each of our efforts retains the key focus on creating a seamless and intuitive experience for our clients and their customers alike.
Oliver and Patrick are a pleasure to work with. Their proposed solutions not only fully realised our aspirations, but did so in an elegant and commercially effective manner.
Small presses
Working with small and micro presses has been the very foundation of our book design practice, and it’s through these collaborations with so many talented, passionate and independent voices within the big old world of publishing that we’ve forged an ongoing body of dynamic, always-adventurous and visually-articulate work.
Working with Frontwards Design has been an absolute dream. Our journal is treated with great care, attention and unmatched craft. Patrick always surprises us, so we look forward to every new issue with much excitement.
I’ve worked with Frontwards Design on fifteen publications, and each time, the results always take the work beyond the printed page. By creating a delightful visual world for Makina Books, they have made something integral to our ongoing work.
They were the ideal collaborator, steering us in the right direction and pushing us to make bold choices whenever we were being cowards. The finished book is astonishingly beautiful and a really meaningful “artefact”.
Visual identity
From expressive yet cerebral logos, to refined typographic blueprints, to vivid and accessible digital exhibitions, in recent times we’ve undertaken more and more projects that have required the rewarding conception of an entire aesthetic arc, as part of the process of shaping a client’s visual language.
Patrick dealt with the task of developing our visual language with immense skill and care. We couldn’t recommend Frontwards Design enough.
Working with Frontwards on All Bound Together? was a genuinely exciting and collaborative process. The show would not be the same without them!
Poetry
From chapbooks to pamphlets to collections, designing poetry offers a myriad of idiosyncratic and enthralling challenges that are invariably unique to the form. These result in an expressive and often collaborative response to the author’s words, with every typesetting decision one which can help to aesthetically-reaffirm or ornament the depth of intention within the original text.
Patrick turned a simple short collection of poems into a beautiful object that is as pleasurable to hold in your hands as it was to make. A wonderfully positive experience.
Patrick’s careful attention, extensive experience and artistic eye were invaluable. We have already commissioned Frontwards Design to work on our next book and would recommend them enthusiastically and without reservation!
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