Understanding is Everything.
Everything is a Conversation.
AllThings®Unlimited.
About the Founder
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( present day — )
Jonathan Waring is a UK based graphic designer who is passionate about working with like-minds to create eye-catching brand identities & thought provoking design projects. With a career spanning three-decades - including nine-years of “thinking & doing” at The Designers Republic™ - Jonny continues to work in collaboration with agencies and direct clients, operating either on-site or remotely from his UK based AllThings®Unlimited studio. If that sounds like you, please get in touch.
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Various arts & music industry related projects, from identities, motion graphics and installations for performing artist’s & record labels and “gen z” brand creation & development for a major London based music events company and more recently working with Matthew Kenyon (SUR) & James Sommerville (OBE) on global brand projects for The Coca-Cola Company, a new identity for The King’s Trust and sleeve design for double MOBO (2025) award winning recording artist, Bashy.
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Career History
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( 2011 — 2020 )
Senior Designer at The Designers Republic™. TDR™ has shaped graphic communication for over thirty years through rule-defying music work, provocative self-initiated projects, and a fierce commitment to conceptual thinking over style” and is “the design group that has irrevocably changed the field of graphic design” credited with “defining the visual language of dance music, electronica and the Playstation® gaming generation”
In his time at TDR™ Jonny played a central roll in ensuring the quality of creative output and day to day management of the studio whilst working under the creative direction of founder Ian Anderson and together they created — A “New School” look, feel & environment for Manchester School of Art, a complete global brand restructure and identity system for Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon) directing & driving ongoing creative for key sub-brands Gulbenkian Música and Jazz Em Agusto while continuing to create contemporary, ground breaking design work, installations and exhibitions within the music business + arts & culture sectors, for the likes of The Design Museum, Universal Music and trail blazing artists & independents such as — Aphex Twin, Autechre, Rósín Murphy, The Orb, The Cinematic Orchestra, Thomas Fehlmann, Luke Vibert, Tressor Berlin, Ninja Tune, Play It Again Sam, Monika Werkstatt and Warp Records. In 2019 they finally completed the long awaited A-Z of The Designers Republic™ book — AZ-TDR™ with Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy (available from Unit Editions).
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( 1995 — 2011 )
Various Freelance & Perm contracts for leading agencies in the north of England, working on projects such as — Brand expression for Adidas (at Attik). McDonald’s campaign roll-out. FMCG brand development for Kit-Kat, Rolo, Aero and After Eights (at Nestlé Rowntree). Packaging design for ASDA (at Elmwood and Watt Gilchrist). Branding & in-game graphics (for Gamesauce and Sumo Digital ). Fashion for La Redoute. Brand strategy and realisation for Best Western Hotels (at Foundation Marketing Design). Product lines for Marks & Spencer (at Hallmark Cards) and animated stage visuals for Heaven17’s “Penthouse and Pavement 30th Anniversary Tour”.
History A-Z
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( People, Projects & Places — )
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174 Festival
1968 Records
24rpm Festival
A Bunch of Fives
A Man Called Adam
Aero
Adidas
Aim Low + Miss
All Things Electric
AllThings®Unlimited
Aphex Twin
Attik
Arcola Records
Argos
Asda
Attention CRM
Atlantis Audio
Audi
Autechre
Back of Beyond Festival
Barbera Morganstern
Best Western Hotels
The Blast Furnace
Bleep™
BMW
Body Works Records
Brahm
Brewery Wharf
Budweiser
Bupa
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Camel
Cheetham Bell
The Cinematic Orchestra
City Life
City Lofts
The Coca-Cola Company®
Collard Manson
David J Boswell
Declassé Records
The Designers Republic™
The Design Museum
De:tuned Records
Detroit Underground
Eastern Bloc Records
Elmwood
Empire Stores Evolution Print
EXD Lisbon
Farnell Electronic Components
Feeling Good Together
Fila Brazillia
Fluff
Formula Fusion
Foundation Marketing Design
Freerotation Festival
Gamesauce
Gatecrasher
Gondwana Records
Grapple
Guinness
Gudrun Gut
Gulbenkian Música
Hallmark
Halo Cyan Records
Heaven 17
Heineken
Hey Rube
Hope Works
Hostal La Torre
Indulge Festival
Jazz em Agosto Lisboa
Jochem Paap
Kintsugi
Kit-Kat
Knight Frank
La Redoute
Leeds College of Music
Levi’s
LFO
Lorenso Feliciati
Love Bytes Festival
London Film Festival
Low Profile RecordsLP Record Store
Luke Vibert
Made North
Manchester School of Art
Marks & Spencer
Martyn Ware
Mash Cinema
McCann Ericksson
McDonald’s
Me+U
Millennium Galleries
Mixed in Sheffield
Monika Werkstat
Nestlé Rowntree
Nightmares on Wax
Ninja Tune
No Bounds Festival
Nu Future
Olsson
The Orb
Pilocka Krach
P._nc
Plaid
Play it Again Sam Records
Plug
Polygraph Series
Pop Will Eat Itself
R&S Records
R8 Games
RGB 313 Gallery
Rósín Murphy
S1 Artspace
Scarper
Secret 7’s
Sheffield Design Week
Sheffield Doc Fest
Sheffield University
Shinsie Bank (Tokyo)
Showroom Workstation
Skrillex
The Solid Doctor
Sony Computer Entertainment
Speedy J
Spin
Steve Cobby
Subterania
Sumo Digital
The SUPERULTRARARE®
Syd + Mallory
Thomas Fehlmann
Tiger Print
Timothy FairPlay
Top Tens
Touched Music
Tressor
Typopassage™
Unit Editions
Universal Music
Universal Spirit
Vacancy Transmissions
Vileda
The Viper Rooms
Warp Records
We Are Fstvl
We Are Ibiza