Designer's Republic

Sheffield-based Designers Republic is to both exhibit and speak at Plus 2008. Initially, Ian Anderson founded tDR to design flyers for the band Person to Person, which he managed at the time. His first ideas were inspired by Russian constructivism. From their beginning, the works were in contrast to the current understanding of design (Quote: tDR is a declaration of independence from what we perceive to be the existing design community[citation needed]). An early client was Leeds band Age of Chance, for whom they developed a series of striking record covers between 1986 and 1987. The sleeve of Don't Get Mad ... Get Even was one of Q Magazine's "100 Best Record Covers of All Time" in 2001.