I'm Thomas Dabner, a freelance designer with my focus being graphic identity design, this ranges from marks & symbols to full business identity work including stationery, packaging and signage. Here is what I do...
Shop Fronts of Sheffield
An identity, blog and print materials for a user contributed photo blog which is run by myself.
Shop Fronts of Sheffield began in January 2011 as a simple photo blog (run on tumblr) with inspiration taken from London Shop Fronts. For the first few weeks I uploaded my own photographs of shop fronts I found interesting during my final year of University.
After a couple of months, through inviting visitors to the blog to submit their own photographs, the blog had gathered a fair amount of attention and there is now a wide variety of people sending in their photos.
I have since designed and put on sale an A2 print of the best of January—June 2011 and a set of 5 postcards available to buy online. Both are limited runs and function as both promotion and a means of generating revenue to build on the blog and its printed counter parts.
http://www.shopfrontsofsheffield.tumblr.com
Logo & Masthead for the blog
A page from the blog
The poster was produced in a run of 10 and was sold exclusively at The Old Sweet Shop in Sheffield
Cards found in the postcard packs feature the shop address overlaid in the centre. Photographer name and blog address on the back
Shop Fronts of Sheffield | 2011