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About

Fieldwork Facility is a design studio for uncharted territories.
We work in the intersection of communication, innovation and place.

Our work spans designing campaigns, branding and experience design, we also invent products and we innovate services. With our clients and collaborators we use communication and technology to create projects that invite a near future closer.

Profile:

Since starting the studio in 2010 we have worked across the cultural, educational, hospitality, design, Sport R&D and place sectors; our work has been featured in Bloomberg CityLab, WIRED, What Design Can Do, Creative Review, FastCo, Design Week and the Guardian.

We have been awarded several times by D&AD, Creative Review’s Annual, the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers) and Design Week who nominated Robin Howie our Founder and Creative Director as a Rising Star in British design.

It’s our belief that design can create conversations and have an effect in the social fabric that we live in. The studio doesn’t have a ‘house-style’, instead our work is underpinned by rigorous research, a conceptual integrity and crafted execution.

Through our projects we aim to create dialogues between people, objects, ideas, materials and places, the aim of these dialogues is to create impactful communications that not only deliver on a briefs objectives but create a public good in the process.

In a recent article AIGA’s Eye on Design said ‘Fieldwork Facility’s definition of design citizenship is changing the way we live in cities’.

Selected Clients:

Culture:
Tate Modern
Academy Films
The Courtauld Institute of Art
William Morris Gallery
Chatsworth House
Quadrille Publishing
Dubai Design Week
Ashley McCormick Projects
Royal College of Art
Simon Beattie Books
Red Mansion Art Prize (UK / China)
Agora Arts (Taiwan)
NTNU (Norway)
Nice Shirt Films
Revival Retro
Us

Place:
Argent/Related
National Park City Foundation
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
New London Architecture
LSE Cities
Centre for London
The Architecture Foundation
Outer London Fund
Design for London
Dartford Borough Council
Brent Council
Waltham Forest Council
Hammersmith & Fulham Council
Southwark Council
Brenchley Gardens Management Association
East Architects
Superfutures
Andy Martin Architects
Erect Architects

Innovation:
Team Ineos
UK Sport
Mibelle Group (Switzerland)
Design Council
Low Carbon Hub
IDEO
Mayk Collective
Nirvana CPH
Actant

Education:
Millfield School

Hospitality:
Intermission
Bó Drake
Bouillabaisse
Pizzaiolo (Scotland)
Crowne Plaza Group

Press & Publications:

  • Creative Review
    CR Annual: Brent Cross Town wayfinding
    May 2023
  • Creative Review
    CR Annual: Lineage for a Phantom Zone
    May 2023
  • Communication Arts (USA)
    Studio Profile
    May 202    3
  • Creative Review
    How wayfinding could make us happier and healthier
    April 202    3
  • It’s Nice That
    Studio Profile
    November 2022
  • Creative Boom
    Lineage for a Phantom Zone feature
    October 2022
  • Design Week
    Lineage for a Phantom Zone feature
    October 2022
  • The Brand Identity
    Intermission Branding showcase
    June 2022
  • Brand New
    Intermission Branding showcase
    May 2022
  • Design Week
    Intermission Branding feature
    May 2022
  • Creative Review
    Brent Cross Town wayfinding feature
    January 2022
  • Communication Arts (USA)
    Brent Cross Town wayfinding feature
    January 2022
  • Graffica (Spain)
    Brent Cross Town wayfinding feature
    January 2022
  • LSN Global (Future Laboratory)
    Brent Cross Town wayfinding feature
    January 2022
  • Good by Design – Ideas for a better world (Book)
    Museum of Us and Nest Project features
    November 2020
  • AIGA Eye On Design magazine – Utopias issue
    Interview on responsible design / climate emergency
    November 2019
  • AIGA Eye On Design
    Brainteasers project showcase
    October 2019
  • What Design Can Do
    Brainteasers project showcase
    September 2019
  • Creative Boom
    Museum of Us showcase
    June 2019
  • Design Week
    Plants not Pollution feature
    June 2019
  • Creative Review
    Plants not Pollution showcase
    May 2019
  • Flora & Fauna book (Hong Kong)
    Mark Spencer Identity showcase
    October 2018
  • Page magazine (Germany)
    Mark Spencer Identity showcase
    February 2018
  • Communication Arts (USA)
    Mark Spencer Identity showcase
    February 2018
  • AIGA Eye on Design
    Mark Spencer Identity feature
    January 2018
  • Brand New
    Mark Spencer Identity showcase
    January 2018
  • Creative Review
    Mark Spencer Identity feature
    January 2018
  • Grafik
    Mark Spencer Identity / interview
    January 2018
  • Creative Review
    Cautionary Tales (mention)
    January 2018
  • Logo Design Love
    Mark Spencer Identity feature
    January 2018
  • AIGA eye on design
    Interview / Studio profile
    May 2017
  • Creative Review
    Low Carbon Hub feature
    April 2017
  • Design Week
    Low Carbon Hub feature
    April 2017
  • Design Week
    A magazine feature
    March 2016
  • Design Week
    Fantasy Dinner Party showcase
    December 2015
  • The Atlantic (City Lab)
    The Nest Project feature
    November 2015
  • Pop Up City
    The Nest Project feature
    November 2015
  • WIRED (UK)
    The Nest Project feature
    July 2015
  • The Guardian
    The Nest Project feature
    July 2015
  • Fast Company (FastCoExist)
    The Nest Project feature
    July 2015
  • Design Week
    The Nest Project feature
    July 2015
  • GraphicsRCA: Fifty years and beyond
    Monuments project feature
    November 2014
  • Design Week
    Rising Star Award nomination
    May 2013
  • D&AD Awards Annual
    Food for Thought & Short List 5
    March 2013
  • Lets go out! (Gestalten)
    Food for Thought project feature
    August 2012
  • Creative Review (CR Blog)
    Food for Thought project feature
    Feb 2012
  • Grafik Magazine (193)
    Fontbook feature. Nov 2011
  • Grafik Magazine (blog)
    Communication Curiosities. Article
    August 2011
  • ARC Magazine. Talk to Me
    (Paola Antonelli interview). Article
    June 2011
  • Grafik Magazine (187)
    Showcase of Revival Identity. Jan 2011
  • Creative Review (CR Blog)
    Team GB Monuments project feature
    Feb 2010
  • Creative Review
    The And, Never End book feature
    Jan 2010
  • Grafik Magazine (179)
    Group interview for ‘Passion for Print’
    May 2009
  • Passion for Print. RCA (London)
    Contribution. March 2009
  • Trace Magazine (New York)
    Profile of Work. Feb 2008
  • In Search of the Perfect Portfolio – Represent
    Contribution. Jan 2008
  • Pictures of Walls
    Contribution.     July 2006

Awards & Achievements:

  • Creative Review
    CR Annual: Brent Cross Town wayfinding (Winner)
    May 2023
  • Creative Review
    CR Annual: Lineage for a Phantom Zone (Honourable mention)
    May 2023
  • 2018 – 2022 we took a little hiatus from entering awards
  • ISTD Awards. Premier Award
    (International Society of Typographic Design Awards)
    Simon Beattie - Short List 6
    October 2014
  • ISTD Awards. Premier Award
    (International Society of Typographic Design Awards)
    Simon Beattie - Short List 5
    October 2014
  • Creative Review Annual
    The Scots Pine Cloud Observatory
    April 2014
  • Design Week Awards.
    Rising Star Award.
    Nomination. June 2013
  • D&AD Awards. In-Book.
    Food for Thought. May 2013
  • D&AD Awards. In-Book.
    Simon Beattie - Short List 5 May 2013
  • ICOGRADA/ADAA Design Achievement Awards.
    Finalist. November 2009
  • Varley Memorial Award.
    Royal College of Art. June 2009
  • 4Talent Award.
    Shortlist. August 2007
  • RSA Design Direction Awards. Shortlist.
    March 2007

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