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This Friday closes a sad week for all of us, included in the advertising & design industry. After 23 years of brain-aided communication, the much-admired, much copied studio, The Designers Republic closed for business on Tuesday.
“I’m looking out the window and it’s a lovely sunny day – as it always is in Sheffield – and I think there are a lot of plus points. The Republic is dead… long live the Republic”
Visit CR for the whole article.
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Read more Add ShareMade & Sold charts the efforts of designers outside the usual 9 to 5 bill paying work. Published by Laurence King and edited by FL@33 towards the end of last year; FL@33 have built themselves a reputation for editing ...
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Read more - 1 Comment Add SharePapercraft is the fourth book from Gestalten documenting the growing trend of hand crafted creations. Following on from Hidden Track , Tactile and Tangible, Papercraft focuses on paper as a means of creation and expression of ideas through this common ...
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23rd Jan 2009
4:53 pm
Long live the Republic indeed!
Neil
23rd Jan 2009
5:35 pm
Here here.
I see the CR site is taking a battering now.
Gil
23rd Jan 2009
5:37 pm
Just saw this and yet again beaten to the post. Truely a historic day for graphic design and the industry.
RIP TDR you will be missed.
Christopher Cox
23rd Jan 2009
6:00 pm
Wow. One of my most favored shops of all time. What a bummer. Damn.
Iain
23rd Jan 2009
7:07 pm
Lets hope Ian Anderson gets on better with the Job Centre than I did…
Long live the Republic!
mark rushworth
23rd Jan 2009
8:20 pm
yep sad times. i hope ian and the guys all come through ok in their respective industry. ive been following tdr since my student days back in the 90’s and even have one of the 100 tees from the newsgroup era
Llyod
23rd Jan 2009
10:51 pm
Your work sucked, thanks for screwing over all of your dedicated sheep.
God Bless QBN!
Greig
24th Jan 2009
2:31 am
Indeed sad news, good luck to all involved and hopefully new and exciting opportunities will come of this.
Words are Pictures
24th Jan 2009
11:57 am
I suggest a wake. We\’ll get Messrs Place and Anderson along and all get drunk and cry.
Mark
24th Jan 2009
8:36 pm
A sad day/week indeed.
M.
MilkToday
25th Jan 2009
12:17 pm
No way!!
web design leeds
23rd May 2009
9:25 am
Project 112c
4th Aug 2010
4:20 pm
Looks like the DR Emigre #29 is up for auction on ebay this week.