Mall Galleries in London will have its brand new Threadneedle Space ready for The Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, which in its fifth year has become the largest prize in the UK for a single work of art. We’ve brought some of that sense of possibility into the call for entries materials.

But design for an art prize is more than that. It spans months: show publicity, invitations and for the show, the catalogue. What will we do? Watch this space.

A design company is its people so to understand the brand, we’ve needed to understand the team as well as the service and the market. A design practice’s identity should feel like its work.

The bold, condensed, tightly-spaced typography and block colour reflect themes in the work. Colour in the identity is dynamic and can be both adapted for particular messages and updated over time.

A practice working internationally, Wingate Design Partnership’s most important communication medium is the web, so the core identity has been built for the website, designed in collaboration with Tutti Communications, with strategy by Rossana Tich PR. That approach has been extended to stationery, a mini-portfolio, branding for the practice’s drawings and presentations and badging for its social media communications.

This was taken at the excellent Design Museum Danmark. More pictures here.

A light touch has been needed for Land Securities’ community liaison newsletters for people around its Victoria and Victoria Circle developments. We’ve simplified, economised, given the design a gentle nudge towards editorial style and brought in a change of paper to make the colours on this picture-led publication sing out.

Unable to resist the typographer’s urge to do something festive with the letter X, we looked it up to see if it might be a bit lazy.

Not so, it seems, the dictionary definition being “X representing the initial chi of Greek Khristos ‘Christ’.”  According to Webster’s dictionary, its first known use was in 1551.

So here it is: a greeting to friends of many faiths and none – and, of course, to typographers.

Well, there are few things more excitingly-designed than nature. You’ll often find Lydia out poring over petals. And all that form, light and hue finds its way back into the work. So that’s the theme of this year’s studio book.