The Stone Twins

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The Stone Twins - Declan (left) and Garech Stone - photographed by Krijn van Noordwijk. A homage to the David Bailey portrait of the Kray twins, 1965. Photograph of The Stone Twins.jpg
The Stone Twins – Declan (left) and Garech Stone – photographed by Krijn van Noordwijk. A homage to the David Bailey portrait of the Kray twins, 1965.

The Stone Twins is a creative branding agency based in Amsterdam. It was founded by twin brothers Declan and Garech Stone (born 8 November 1970, Dublin), graduates of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

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The Stone Twins have a reputation for ideas-based, engaging and strategic design solutions. [1] [2] Their body of work is quite eclectic, with no fixed visual style - as it equally embraces the palettes of graphic design, art-direction and copywriting. [3] The firm's award-winning work includes a coveted Dutch Design Award, [4] several European Design Awards [5] and 13 D&AD Pencils. [6] [7] Their work forms part of the permanent collections of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

The Stone Twins regularly write for trade magazines, including Communicatie (Wolters Kluwer) and Eye magazine: the International Review of Graphic Design. [8] They are authors of the book Logo R.I.P. (A Commemoration of Dead Logos); [9] [10] [11] [12] the updated 2nd edition was launched in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York in 2012. [13] [14] They are keen educators, and were Head of the ‘Man and Communication’ department at Design Academy Eindhoven from 2008 until their resignation in 2013. [15]

Books

The Stone Twins have written the following books:

Magazine Articles

Selected articles written by The Stone Twins:

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions:

Controversies and criticism

Since 2020, the agency has been responsible for questioning the fearmongering around COVID-19 and the proportionately of the measures/restrictions. [30] [31]

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  30. "A project on the fearmongering about COVID-19". Product-fear.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  31. "A Campaign of Fearmongering Propaganda". Garechstone.medium.com. 16 May 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
TA-2 poster series at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2014. Poster series 'TA-2, Toneelgroep Amsterdam' by The Stone Twins, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2014.jpg
TA-2 poster series at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2014.