Hop House Design

Graphic design, advertising and creative services serving clients across the UK and beyond.

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

Graphic design / illustration from another age. Not better, not worse, just lovely!

[Design Reviewed | Graphic Design History @DesignReviewed]

Poster design from the 1950s designed by Tom Eckersley for Hartley's Garden peas scanned from Graphis Annual 1958|59 https://t.co/GatOFoXo4O #tomeckersley #posterdesign #midcentury #mcm #graphicdesign

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

We're chuffed to have helped @TreBluebirdsFC with their new club badge. Even though the old badge (pretty much identical to the Cardiff City 70s one) had strong historical ties to the club, it was time to move on and this new design signals a progressive future!

[Trethomas Bluebirds AFC @TreBluebirdsFC]

News Update👀

Trethomas Bluebirds is ecstatic to announce the new design of our club crest. Taking inspiration from our history as coal miners and a contemporary take on our mascot, the bluebird. A huge thank you to Mike Goode at Hop House Design for modernising our club crest👏🏻

[Creative Review @CreativeReview]

As @LanceWymanNews begins sorting out his archive, he tells CR why our strange new reality is the perfect opportunity to look back at both the good and the bad.

[DesignObserver @DesignObserver]

Watch Charles and Ray Eames ‘Solar Do-Nothing Machine’ because ‘toys and games are the prelude to serious ideas’. https://t.co/jquSSyAUq0

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

OMG! Schwartz were one of our clients for many years. How did we not know this before?

[Steve Doherty | stevedoherty.bsky.social @SteveDoherty1]

Here’s a curious fact about Roy Hudd that not many know. He trained as a graphic artist before going pro as a comic and designed the iconic S logo of Schwartz spices.

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

The little corner shop museum in Talgarth has a display of the die-cast collection of Great British Buses that we worked on a few years ago!

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

Is today the day our oldest existing client website finally bites the dust? Hand coded in HTML it has proved very resilient over the years. We think it's close to 15 years old! The client has been bought out ~ otherwise it’d probably be going in another 15 years!

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

@jphillips140 @PodcastPeldroed @Cymru @OfficialPanini Perfect! Come on Panini, seize this opportunity. We were based in TW less than two years ago, we know what good guys you are.

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

A day of experimenting with Facebook ads to promote a client’s new US e-commerce website (which we’ve also created). Lots of tweaking yet to do but the site is already seeing increased traffic from across the pond.

[Lubalin Center @lubalincenter]

Figured out what the wood type used in the “No More War!” poster by Lubalin is. It's shown in Morgan Press’ wood type catalog. Face identified by @19cWT as Clarendon Italian (cc: @FontsInUse @stewf)
https://t.co/GC2EkItS9i
https://t.co/HIP4ywdiRn

[Creative Review @CreativeReview]

The newly unveiled @Paris2024 logo combines two iconic symbols associated with the Games – a gold medal and the Olympic torch – with an image of Marianne, a female figure representing the French Republic https://t.co/3XVrWhtiDH

[Creative Review @CreativeReview]

A deliberate retreat from social media mayhem, @nickcave is forging meaningful connections through his website, The Red Hand Files. @patrickburgoyne dives into its stories https://t.co/tfTzGVAEeY

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

@gashead @MGGoode What a great strip that was… and still is!

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

@MOPrinting @sbf1891 @MaddySmith1804 @brit_print_soc @PrintHistory @stbridelibrary Thank you so much! All of those followed… and will be visited. I miss the smell of ink and the sounds of printing… the graphic design industry has changed so much. And not, for the better!

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

This looks like a marvellous museum. I wonder if there’s something similar in the UK? #printing #litho #graphicdesign #typography #lithoprinting #hotmetal #typesetting

[Museum of Printing @MOPrinting]

🎃With the push of a button or motion activation, the skeletal hand emerges and types furiously for about 6 seconds before retreating out of sight. The typed message reads “it was a dark and stormy night.” Battery operated. While supplies last.
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[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

Been a while since we fired up Quark, which we did earlier. A strange experience tbh… a mix of nostalgia and OMG at how dated the UX is. It just aint 1995 anymore. Times have moved on.

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

Artwork for The Green Ray's latest album, Five Points of Light has just gone to print. Really enjoyed working on it, a retro Decca/Island Records vibe for the cover with a slightly more contemporary twist for the labels. Looking forward to seeing it printed and freshly pressed!

[Hiut Denim @hiutdenim]

A brand is not a logo.

#IdeasFactory

[Creative Industries Council @CreativeIndsUK]

Our new charter aims to increase diversity in the UK's creative industries. It include eight pledges aimed at ensuring our work - and the
people who make it - are fully representative of the richness, depth and diversity of the whole of the UK https://t.co/qg5MUGS8cn

[Hop House Design @HopHouseDesign]

We keep discovering so many inspirational creative people in this area. Thanks to Sue Milne and to @bmc_college for today. We could have stayed there all day!!!