X=D+AD

Some great news: the poster I created with Thomas Manss for last year's "Illuminating the Alphabet" exhibition has been selected for the 2005 D&AD Annual.

Long-time readers may remember that Thomas and I worked on the poster for the letter X, which formed part of a set of 26 posters about the alphabet. The exhibition was shown at the British Library in the latter part of last year.

Naturally I'm thrilled to have my work in the Annual, but I can't crow too much: it's been selected in the typography category, so Thomas's design skills deserve the major praise. Mind you, I did spend an afternoon in his studio, tinkering with the copy to make the lines fit. Which is a sort of typography I suppose.