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D&AD Annual 2020

The Whole Wealth
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  • Graphic DesignWriting for Graphic Design

Country

  • United Kingdom

Client

  • British Library

Creative Director

  • Tom Sharp

Writer

  • Tom Sharp

Designer

  • Kate Bates

Design Agency

  • Tom Sharp

The British Library needed to create emotion around what can often be seen as a purely functional repository of information. After spotting a billboard by St Pancras, Tom Sharp wanted to create a piece of writing that specifically worked with the design format, using a service offer list with a long sentence in the middle. It’s also a hat tip to Jeff Stark’s V&A ads. Photos of the billboard were shared and liked between 20,000 and 30,000 times on social media.