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Graphic Thought Facility (also known as GTF) is a London-based graphic design agency.

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The studio was founded in 1990 by Royal College of Art graduates Paul Neale, Nigel Robinson and Andy Stevens. Nigel left the practice in 1993 to pursue a solo career and was later replaced by Huw Morgan.

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Since its inception, the company has produced work for a range of clients such as the stores Habitat, the Science Museum, the Tate, the One the Little Indian Records and the influential art magazine Frieze.

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Graphic Thought Facility has been shown in numerous exhibition including GTF: 50 Projects (DDD, Osaka, 2006), The/Le Garage (with Paul Elliman, 15 éme Festival International de l’affiche et des arts graphiques, Chaumont, 2004) and Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties (Barbican Art Gallery, London 2004).

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An exhibition curated by Rick Poynor at the Barbican Art Gallery (2004) charting over 40 years of graphic design in the United Kingdom.

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