Arnolfini: New Rules

Arnolfini: New Rules

Bristol

A temporary typographic installation for one of Bristol's leading cultural institutions

Client: Arnolfini

Arnolfini has been a place for imagination and bold new ideas in Bristol since 1961. As Arnolfini entered a new chapter in 2018, they wanted to tear up the rulebook of what a centre for contemporary arts should be or look like.

Image shows the foyer area of the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol featuring a poster installation of text based posters designed by Smith & Lewarne, called Arnolfini: New Rules.
Image shows the foyer area of the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol featuring a poster installation of text based posters designed by Smith & Lewarne, called Arnolfini: New Rules.

New types of arts organisations are being imagined to respond to the ways in which culture is being produced and experienced. Arnolfini commissioned Smith & Lewarne to design a typographic installation based on a set of new rules for the entrance foyer of the centre.

Image shows the foyer area of the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol featuring a poster installation of text based posters designed by Smith & Lewarne, called Arnolfini: New Rules.
Image shows the foyer area of the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol featuring a poster installation of text based posters designed by Smith & Lewarne, called Arnolfini: New Rules.

We designed and installed our own set of typographic rules for this installation by over lapping each of them to open up a dialogue of how these rules could be re-interpreted by visitors to the centre.

Image shows the foyer area of the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol featuring a poster installation of text based posters designed by Smith & Lewarne, called Arnolfini: New Rules.