We received this email today from Australia, we’re glad to see our posters traveling the globe! Hi Brighten the Corners, My friend bought me the Inbox prints for my birthday and got them shipped to Australia. I got them framed this week and I just wanted to pass on this photo to show you how rad they look. I just love them. Thank-you! Kind Regards, Tara

We designed the logo and visual identity for KASAPI Hellas, an organisation based in Athens, dedicated to improving the lives of Philippine migrant workers in Greece. Drawing on the rich cultural heritage of the Philippines and the participatory nature of the organisation, we used a system of overlapping colours to develop illustrations and a set of different logos.

We recently designed the poster, invitation, programme, and winners’ brochure for the 2010 Allianz Business to Arts Awards, an annual event recognising collaboration and creativity in business and arts partnerships in Ireland. Click here to visit the Business to Arts website.

Pavement (the band) played Brixton Academy on May 13th, a few metres down the road from our studio.

We’ve contributed work and bold predictions about the future of Graphic Design to the latest issue of Idea magazine: Idea No. 340: Forms of Practice. Other contributors include APFEL, A2/SW/HK, Sara De Bondt studio, Anthony Burrill, Hyperkit, Mind Design, Music, James Goggin and others.

Show Down, 12 hours of conflict, is an exhibition with projections, sound, films and performances designed and organised by 22 students of the Faculty of Design, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (Germany). The exhibition was developped in a workshop Frank did with his students and in collaboration with Matthias Görlich and Jörg Stürzebecher.

“THANK YOU — YOU’VE MADE MY DAY! I don’t care anymore that I am not going on holiday! Many kisses.” Inbox, our anniversary poster set with incoming emails from the last ten years of our practise, was selected for The Creative Review Annual 2010.

D&AD Award 2010 (In-Book) in the category Book Design Typography for ‘3 Minutes’, a collection of ten diverse and extremely powerful 3-minute interviews about the effect of the Tibetan conflict. Our contribution to the collection was a typographical interpretation of a 3-minute interview with Tenzin Lose into a 16-page booklet. Other contributors to the project included Bibliotheque, Stefan Gandl (NeubauBerlin), Nick Hard (Research Studios), Jeff Knowles (Research Studios), Abbott Miller (Pentagram), and Un.titled. For more information about DAHRA (Designers Against Human Rights Abuse) or to buy the book click here. All proceeds go to the Tibet Relief Fund.

We’re very happy to have contributed a new, typographically-illustrated story involving Susie and an angry yellow flower, to the latest issue of Okido. Click here for an article about Okido on the Guardian website, and here to buy the latest issue.

Eat the cow! Sauté the onion! We developed the logo, stationery, promotional literature and website for Chez Vous, a complete home dining experience in Athens created by French chef Tony Mordelet and hospitality professional Eirene Kollintza. Our design plays with the idea of cooking as an art that brings different elements together. For more information email info@chezvous.gr.

Bitte laßt die Blumen leben! (Please let the flowers live!) is a publication Frank and Matthias Görlich developped with students during a workshop at the Faculty of Design, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (Germany). The publication deals with the question of what is good, bad and ugly design and whether one can give answers of that kind.

We designed the invitation for ‘Version’ an exhibition featuring work of: Christina Christoforou by Yann Brien, Mark Oliver by Clayton Junior, Yann Brien by Mark Oliver, Clayton Junior by Mark Long, Gabriele Herzog by Christina Christoforou, and Mark Long by Gabriele Herzog. The private view is on Tuesday 9 March, 6pm, at Medcalf, 40 Exmouth Market, London Ec1R 4QE. The show ends on 30 April 2010.

The ‘Learn German’ concertina we designed for the Goethe-Institut London is going out to UK schools this month. Developed with parents and carers in mind, it outlines the commercial, professional and cultural benefits of learning German.

Our 3 books (“Victor & Susie”, “Stanley & Marvin”, “Susie & Edward”) which we wrote, illustrated, designed and produced have won a TDC Tokyo Type Directors Club In-Book Award 2010 in the category Experimental Work. For more information about the books, please go to our Shop.

The posters and postcards we designed for the DAAD’s 2010 Loanword Competition just came back from the printers. The concept was based around the saying “Don’t give me that spiel”. Visually the posters and postcards refer to old bill posters.

Our compliment slip “edited” by 5 year old Gabriel – lovely.
A happy new year to everyone!

In December we printed INBOX, three posters with a selection of our incoming emails from the past 10 years. Here are some of the email responses we received:

Yay! Congratulations. 10 years! And your work still looks great! @ Absolutely love our post this morning... Fantastic! I think I recognise an email or two in there though... @ Die Geburtstagsposter sind gestern bei uns angekommen und haben heute morgen beim Frühstück für etliche Lacher gesorgt. Wir sind ein wenig neidisch, dass ihr es in 10 Jahren geschafft habt auch ein Poster mit Lob zu füllen. Respekt! @ Thank you for your posters! They are very nice. @ Thank you very much for your mail — I like the idea of an email-history over ten years, brilliant! Especially the slightly aggravated stuff is intriguing ;-) All the best to Brighten the Corners for the next ten years! @ Got the posters, they cheered our living room, thanks a lot! @ Vielelicht magst du uns ja auch bei den Reviews verlinken. Wenn du irgendetwas geändert haben möchtest, gib mir Bescheid. Ich finde die Idee echt klasse... ich finde, das ist ne sehr typische Arbeit von dir :) @ Μόλις έλαβα τα ποστεράκια σας και η μέρα μου ξεκινάει με πολύ χαρά. @ Thanks for the posters — I love these, brilliant idea — in particular the red one ‘I am sorry but this poster...’ has a particular resonance for me. It’s going to take pride of place in my studio. @ I loved the celebratory posters. Good luck with the next ten years. @ Got the lovely posters at the RCA — thank you @ Billara! Just got your inbox posters. Thanks for sending. Excellent! Read some of them to my sister (she of the broadcast design company) and she was weeping and crying all at the same time. Very emotional. @ I received the posters on the last day I was in London actually. It’s a really nice idea, thank you for sending them over! Some of them are so absurd I was laughing all the time. @ Thanks for the lovely prints – they caused familiar sighs and chuckles all over the studio. @ Well you certainly gave us a good laugh. It is a shame if you have grown up, children usually behave better than adults... Glad to see we are not the only fussy ones. I can just imagine you saving these emails over the years. Congratulations on 10 years and all the very best for the future. @ Thanks, the posters are great! Nice to brighten up the corners of my office. @ Έφτασε ένα ωραίο πακετάκι με δύο μικρές φωτογραφίες της queen. Πόσο νέα δείχνει! My compliments. Έκανες ωραία δουλειά μεγάλε. Θα στολίσω το δωμάτιο του μπαμπά. @ Just got my set of posters — and am sitting at my desk laughing to the point of tears. Everyone in the office is looking a little concerned on my behalf. @ Just received my copy from the german partner. Spent half an hour reading and enjoying every one of the messages! Great stuff. @ Thanks so much for the set of posters that arrived today. Very nice surprise. A brilliant project — like it a lot. Saw them online on your new (and also nice) website and CR. Congrats all around! 8)