The Garrison Gallery, Maker Heights
Stories from the edge of things
Fieldnotes from Maker is a collaboration between Neasden Control Centre and Tetley&Partners, developed as a series of prints and exhibited at The Garrison Gallery on Maker Heights in Cornwall.
Prints and booklet available at A38 Projects
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Art Direction
Creative Collaboration
Exhibition Design
Graphic Design
Print Design
Typography (Experimental)
The project takes its cue from the landscape itself — not by documenting it, but by responding to it. Using fragments of invented folklore, the work builds a loose narrative around the site: stories of strange occurrences, quiet rituals and moments that feel just out of reach.
Each piece pairs short-form text with abstract graphic forms, expressive colour and typographic interventions — all held within a consistent poster framework. The system is deliberately simple, allowing the content to shift while the structure remains steady.
The typography plays a central role in the work. Using Kibitz from Colophon Foundry as a foundation, we pushed it into something more expressive — combining it with Neasden Control Centre’s contemporary, experimental typographic approach and a layer of abstract forms. The result sits somewhere between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Partly grounded in a recognisable typeface, but disrupted, stretched and reassembled to create something less fixed. That tension — between something real and something imagined — mirrors the nature of the stories themselves. A visual language that feels just about rooted in reality, but never fully settled there.
Rather than explaining the place, the work creates a version of it. One that feels familiar, but slightly altered. Something shaped as much by imagination as by observation. The result is a body of work that sits between design and storytelling — using graphic language to explore mood, memory and a sense of place.
