TDR RIP
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- Tyler
After 23 years, The Designers Republic closed their doors last Tuesday. Ian Anderson explains...
- abettertomorrow0
:-(
- bjm0
^^ That's not the impression I got for the article.
Ian put a positive spin on the closing, but it's still sad news. I discovered graphic design in high school and was so inspired by everything tDR did.
- when you lose business & pitches and can not collect your money, called running into the groundutopian
- Melanie0
I wish I was there to help him chuck out all those paper samples. DR was an inspiration to me.
- invo0
Wow, I´ve got a limit edition TDR poster lying around. Wonder if it will be worth somethin ;)
- gramme0
Sad news, I was once quite enamored with their work. Now it seems a bit quaint and ecstasy-fueled when I look back on it, but it did spawn Build, for whom I have quite a lot of respect.
I wonder if Ian became less hands-on involved as time went on, thus leading to the creative downslide. Less than perfect clients are not an excuse for poor design.
- 'Its spawned Build'
Sounds like he is some kind of devil brood ;)tank02
- 'Its spawned Build'
- dibec0
bummer. they have some tres rad work.
- Anders0
work, buy, consume, die..
- forcetwelve0
RIP indeed tDR. thanks for the lift — it was a hell of a ride!
- combustion0
Man, so sad. TDR is one of the companies that inspired me to really get into the business long time ago.
- kalkal0
Great, now Sheffield is shit again.
- WeLoveNoise0
was a dark day for design
- Stylus0
Was there just 9 designers working at tdr or nine employees all up ? I don't understand how a company that small with such big clients could go under unless it's a engineered out on the founders part
- I thught the same thing.ItalianStallion
- they got a lot bigger recentlytrooperbill
- Lose a client, Have a client not pay, loomimg recession, huge overheads, designers’ wages. boom!
MrOneHundred - It is a lot easier than you thinkgradiate
- a salary for talent is no small thing.itsmitch
- Ranger0
We'll always have wipeout.
- kodap0
I'd like to see a new tDR just like they were at the beginning...
Demands became big, expectations big, account depts grew...
working methods and graphics became standard and common as in a big design company / agency...
(as far as i could notice from reading and checking their work)
- 23kon0
ive got a 1 of 50 tDR tshirt up for sale now
:P
- 23kon0
that is sad news likes.
they were a big influence on me too as they were just emerging when i was doing my HND then Degree at Art College.
:(
- jimzyk0
awwwww shucks!
ironically, it looks like working for big clients in order to keep the studio going, ended up killing tDR... hopefully they'll bounce back with a smaller team, smaller clients and the same old great work.
- neue75_bold0
I wonder if the written letter of rejection I got from them years ago will be worth anything more than knowing that if they had hired me back then, maybe this never would have happened...
- ;)neue75_bold
- Hahahahaha!uncle_helv
- Mwhanahahahaahaha
frame it, sell it on ebay.
give the proceeds to them, it'll get them going again.jimzyk - *Waits for The Partners, Pentagram, Turner Duckworth, Lewis Moberly to go underDancer
- Ha ha ha , I have one and was thinking the same thing!DaveO
- you must be REALLY good to get a rejection letter, I usually just get cold air.zarkonite
- i got one of them years ago too! now if i can find it...forcetwelve
- dnt think theres a designer on this planet who didnt apply for that jobWeLoveNoise
- I friggin' dodn't. Why? Because my design is no way near that of tDR. Plus my style is nothingDancer