British Art Medal Society’s Student Medal Project

Art direction and catalogue design for the 2026 Student Medal Project, published by the British Art Medal Society at the British Museum.

Art Direction
Catalogue Design

Background

The Student Medal Project, run by The British Art Medal Society at the British Museum, encourages and promotes the art of making medals throughout art colleges in the United Kingdom and from international partners. Each year over one hundred student medals, from as many as fifteen art colleges, are submitted for judging for prizes and selection for exhibition.

The Project acts as a forum for students and academic institutions to contribute to the ongoing discourse on the creative medium. Medals are often cast in bronze and submitted from sculpture students and those studying metalwork and jewellery but, the Project is open to other disciplines and creative interpretations of the form as well.

Catalogue Design and Art Direction for the Student Medal Project for the British Art Medal Society at the British Museum

Design Creative

The design utilises a foundation of typography with Bureau Grotesque, designed by David Berlow, for headings set in all caps, mixed with Signifier, designed by Kris Sowersby, for the body text.

Bright contemporary colours support a brighter, fresher publication, selected to add vibrancy and punch. Working with our photographer we developed a photographic style with sharp contrast maintaining the shadows. This is very important for describing the physicality of the objects and allows us creative freedom in how the medals are presented.