If you\u2019re based in London, you\u2019ve probably walked past one of Sean Thomas\u2019 meticulously hand-painted designs. Whether that was grabbing a sandwich at Dom\u2019s Subs, dining in at Forza Win (an Italian restaurant in Peckham that the designer has shaped the visual identity of over the last three years), or picking up a copy of Hoxton Mini Press\u2019 new book on Britain\u2019s best bakeries at your local bookshop. The designer\u2019s work is entangled with the city\u2019s food scene, but after a twelve year stint in the UK\u2019s capital he recently moved to Milan in search for a whole host of new inspirations and flavours.<\/p>\n
What defines Sean\u2019s unique approach to branding projects for food spots or fashion brands like Carhartt WIP, is his background in sign painting. The designer spent the early years of his creative career working meticulously on murals and signs across the UK \u2013 a part of his practice that has long contributed to a detailed study of typography and painting. \u201cI think there\u2019s no better way to understand letters and typography than drawing and painting them day in, day out,\u201d he shares.<\/p>\n
The designer still balances working by hand and working digitally depending on the projects that come his way, but he\u2019s certain that the look and feel of traditional sign painting is a trick brands will still want to have up their sleeves. \u201cIncreasingly in the creative industries, people think they can achieve everything using AI, for me it makes the things we do by hand and the relationships we forge in real life even more powerful,\u201d he ends. \u201cThat\u2019s why my covers for Hoxton Mini Press are completely hand drawn with brushes and ink, because I want to show it can still be done, even commercially.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re based in London, you\u2019ve probably walked past one of Sean Thomas\u2019 meticulously hand-painted designs. Whether that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-269331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}