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Launch at the Haunch

The Editors — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:17:58 +0000

Unit Editions held its launch party at the Haunch of Venison in central London. This temple of contemporary art was invaded by a few hundred graphic designers – you can see some of them here:

Haunch of Venison

(l-r) Patrick Burgoyne, Neville Brody, Tony, Adrian, Rick Poynor

(centre) George Hardie, Roderick Mills

Paul Bowman (LCC)

Georgina Lee, Adrian Shaughnessy, Michael C Place

Book signing

It’s official – Unit Editions is launched. Thanks to the generosity of the Haunch of Venison we were able to announce our arrival in high style. We were also helped by a glittering array of talent from all ends of the design spectrum – the great, the good and the just plain brilliant.

On a night when London was full of design and art events, it was wonderful to see so many friends and well-wishers. To everyone who came – a big thank you.

Thanks also to everyone who bought a copy of Studio Culture – and to everyone who helped make the night a success. Check Flickr for more photos of the night.

Unit Launch Party

The Editors — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:07:30 +0000

22 September 2009, 6–8pm
Haunch of Venison, 6 Burlington Gardens
London W1S 3ET

Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy would like to invite you to the launch of Unit Editions – we’ll be signing copies of the limited edition and would love to meet you. If you want to come along please RSVP to Natasha.

Welcome to Unit Editions

The Editors — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:05:27 +0000

Unit Editions is a new, progressive publishing company dedicated to producing high-quality, affordable books about graphic design and the visual arts. As well as superlative visual content, Unit books will have insightful texts, and offer the highest standards of design and production.

This website is the place to find information about current and forthcoming titles. From time to time, we’ll post samples of content and additional material not contained in the books. And of course, visitors to the site will be able to buy books. Some of the books bought from here will have added extras that won’t be available in the shops.

But this site isn’t just about Unit books. We’ll also post reviews, comments and articles about design and the world of visual culture. We hope to make this an important destination for design fans, book lovers and anyone who has ever had a tremor of excitement after seeing a bit of nicely kerned Akzidenz Grotesk, a record sleeve by Vaughn Oliver, or a Herb Lubalin ligature.

Unit Editions is a collaboration between Tony Brook (Spin) and Adrian Shaughnessy (ShaughnessyWorks). You can see our growing archive on Flickr; we’re also on Facebook.