Mark Richardson Creative Director

ABOUT

Established in 1990 The Tricycle Foundation is a nonprofit educational organisation, dedicated to making Buddhist teachings and practises broadly available. In 1991 they launched Tricycle, the first magazine intended to present Buddhist perspectives to a Western readership. They approached Superfried to develop the cover for their 30th Anniversary issue.

Predictably the cover would need to convey the number 30. Initial thoughts were immediately drawn to the spiritual symbol Om, since this already looked very similar. An alternative idea was to literally represent the Tricycle, but as a typographic illustration with the wheels representing the numerals. A third route was to simply make use of lotus flower petals to render the 3 + 0.

After careful consideration, the Tricycle was selected and taken forward for further refinement. This involved the addition of styling to emphasise the Buddhist content via the triple Ying + Yang wheel nuts and Dharma wheel style spokes. A palette of gold, white and black had been previously selected, so numerous permutations were tested. After the illustration was complete, additional simplified logo versions were developed to be used at smaller scale for marketing the birthday issue.

MADEIT CREDITS

  • Tricycle magazineClient
Annual 2016 JudgeTypography Contributor:

Mark Richardson has been a Contributor since 28th May 2019.

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30th Anniversary magazine cover

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