Farrow Design is a design studio founded in 1991, lead by the creative director Mark Farrow, specialized in design, branding, and art direction. Its clients range from museums and galleries to pop music and retail, product designers and architects to restaurateurs and artists.
It plays an important role in music packaging, working with artists such as Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue, Burt Bacharach, Manic Street Preachers and Spiritualized. Farrow’s wide range of clients also includes The Design Council, DNA Films, Channel Five, Harvey Nichols, Jonathan Glazer, Levi’s, MTV Europe, Oliver Peyton, Rankin, Sadie Coles HQ, Samsung, The Science Museum, Uniqlo and Wilkinson Eyre Architects among many others.
Mark Farrow gained its initial acclaim in the early 1980s for his experimental sleeves and posters made for Factory Records and The Haçienda, which placed him at the forefront of contemporary music graphic designwork. This has since continued with a longstanding creative partnership with Pet Shop Boys. Mark Farrow was named Designer of the Year in the Creative Review Peer Poll in 2004, voting him “the most important graphic designer working today”. In 2009 he received the honour of RDI (Royal Designer for Industry) by the RSA.
The limited edition vinyl box set for Yes by Pet Shop Boys, received a 2009 nomination for Brit Insurance Design of the Year. The studio has received nine D&AD pencils, two Grammy nominations, 10 Music Week CAD awards, and two Art Directors Club of Europe Gold awards.
The studio’s works have been included in exhibitions and museums internationally including the Barbican and the Design Museum. Farrow’s work is also part of the permanent collection at the V&A. The studio’s work is regularly featured in publications including Typography Now (Booth-Clibborn) and Dictionary of Graphic Design (Thames and Hudson).
