With everyone back in the studio, fresh from their summer holidays, it’s been a good month to hunker down and work on some fresh concepts! We’ve been working hard on pitches for some very cool jobs, so hopefully in the coming months we will have nothing but good news to tell you on that front.

Things we can talk about though: this month Eden Mill launched their 2024 Art of St Andrews single malt whisky. The fourth in the series; each year we source a Scottish artist with a connection to St Andrews and collaborate with them on a bespoke piece of art for the box. This year we teamed up with linocut printmaker Babs Pease, who crafted a beautiful and endlessly interesting interpretation of the St Andrews harbour, depicting it in her unique style and peppering it with references to the town - crimson-cloaked pier walkers, a golfer in a bunker and the ruined cathedral on a hill. We’ll have a full piece up about this project soon, but for now you can read about previous editions here, here, and here. The 2023 edition even won a couple of design awards - let’s see if 2024 can beat the record.

While it doesn’t actually kick off until September 21st, the Homeless World Cup has been on our minds this month too - we’ve been working on a few pre-tournament projects for them while they've been busy joining forces with FIFA to broadcast the upcoming games, amongst other things! You can read more about this alliance here, if you missed it last month. We also got a glimpse of what the FIFA-supplied gold medals for the tournament look like! Very cool.

Our clients over at Perth Museum this month announced the theme of their upcoming exhibition, which will replace their debut collection, the award winning Unicorn. The new exhibition, Waters Rising, will trace “stories and objects connected to flooding from Scotland and abroad, from biblical accounts to Ancient Egypt to North America, and more recent events closer to home…putting the local experience in a global context.” Perth museum are inviting the public to submit photos of flooding in their local area to create part of a central display. If you have any such imagery, you can find details for submission here.

On a similar note, we’ve been working on exhibition collateral for the upcoming Towner Eastbourne exhibition Drawing the Unspeakable, curated by David Dimbleby and his daughter Liza Dimbleby. Client relationships are highly valued at Tangent so it’s brilliant to be able to continue working with Towner after our brand identity work on the Turner Prize, which they hosted in 2023.

Other client projects underway this month include ongoing work for Invictus Games (kicking off February 2025), a new rebranding project with engineering company James Ramsay, and Glasgow 850, which Glasgow City Council officially launched last month. The brand will begin to pop up around the city in the next few months ahead of the anniversary year in 2025.

We also celebrated Dahl’s birthday in August, happy birthday Dahl! September will see us welcoming intern Dylan for the month - welcome Dylan - and of course, the Homeless World Cup begins! Place your bets now!