As part of the marketing for this legendary pre-war Alfa Romeo, Kidston commissioned author and marque enthusiast, Mick Walsh to write a profile on the German Grand Prix winning Italian thoroughbred and Vegas Design to put together an appropriate looking 48 page book. To reproduce a period magazine feature, the hardbound, digitally printed book had a unique half-page section printed on uncoated stock inserted.

When first-time author Paul Griffin needed his debut designing and producing, he contacted Vegas Design. Apart from putting together the critically acclaimed 420 page book, we also helped to find and liase with a printer who could not only produce it, but fulfil customer orders as well.

To celebrate their return to the Paris based Salon Retromobile after the COVID induced sabbatical, Kidston put together a stunning display of seven McLaren F1 supercars, from pre-production prototype to long-tailed Le Mans racer. As a record of the occasion, we designed a limited run, souvenir show catalogue describing each car and a brief history of its manufacture and the marques un-intended career on the race tracks.

This lavish 460 page epic is one mans appreciation of the unique silver racing cars built by the German company between 1948 and 1965. Using many unseen photos from the Porsche factory archive, Vegas designed the book using a special, fifth-colour, metallic silver throughout, reflecting the car’s distinctive liveries. On publication, it was deemed Book of the Month in Classic & Sports Car magazine, “nothing but a true masterpiece” by fortheloveofporsche.com and has since been christened Book of the Year in Germany by Motorworld Buchpreise.

With the bringing to market of the 1957 Mille Miglia winning Ferrari 315 S, Vegas Design created a limited edition, short-run, digitally printed, 40 page, casebound book detailing the car and its charismatic driver. The package featured a die-cut card slipcase with spot-varnished MM logo.

Continuing a 40-year working relationship with the multi-talented singer/songwriter, Tot Taylor, Vegas created a CD and vinyl package for his universally lauded album, Frisbee using a Polaroid photograph of his neighbour’s cat.

When the Kidston Miura book was first initiated, it had been the intention for both the story and the register to be a two volume set cased in one slipcase, but both titles grew to such an extent and complexity that it was rightly decided to produce them as two separate books. The register is a remarkable piece of work with entries on everyone of the 762 Miuras built. Again, the focus was on period photographs and 95% of the images, many from the car’s first owner’s scrapbooks, are from the sixties.

This history of the Ferrari Testa Rossa is the second book created and produced by Vegas Design for American collector Chip Connor. Packed full of wonderful, charismatic photographs, both black and white and colour, sourced from the world’s best libraries, the title, written by marque expert Keith Bluemel, tells the tale of how the TR finally won the prestigious Le Mans 24 hour endurance race in 1960. The layout and design reflect the era of the car as well as incorporating neat touches such as reproductions of the factory build sheets on contrasting paper stock.

When this stunning Italian beauty was offered for sale by Kidston SA, they approached Vegas Design to create a limited edition, 40 page book to tell the history of the car. Featuring a combination of historic and contemporary photos these books have become an important tool in the sale of such highly prized automobiles.

After many successful years producing A5 brochures for Fiskens, we recently overhauled the format and design of their ‘News from the Mews’ brochure. The larger page size was Swiss bound and packaged in a bespoke mailing carton complete with tartan branding.

Vegas was fortunate enough to be involved with the book of this fabulous car, not once but twice, updating it when it came to market for the second time. New text and photographs were added to the 44 page book telling Kidston’s prospective buyers all they need to know about this glorious Ferrari.

Designed and picture edited by Vegas Design, this book is a collection of evocative colour photographs covering the golden era of motor racing, from the 1950s to the 1970s. With images captured by arch-enthusiast and photographer Brian Joscelyne, the lavish, 400 plus page production, published by Palawan Press and written by David Tremayne is another visual treat.

Vegas Design was charged with the considerable responsibility of designing this 456 page, definitive history of the world’s first super car, the Lamborghini Miura, for arguably the cars biggest fan, Simon Kidston. He had been collating interviews and material for nearly 15 years before Balme and his team set about realising his vision. Limited to 762 copies - the same number of cars built - it was met with universal acclaim, garnering ‘book of the month’ awards in the specialist press and consequently sold out within a week of its publication.

For many years, Vegas has designed the London-based company’s show-stopping stand at this annual Parisian institution. Accommodating as many as 14 of the world’s finest classic cars as well as a working office and storage room, the layout set the bar and is now emulated by many of Fisken’s competitors. Along with the show stand, each year we also produce marketing material to attract consignments both through advertising and brochures.

We were absolutely delighted to be commissioned by singer songwriter Ellie Moon to produce images for her debut EP and single releases. Entitled Moonisms, Ellie was looking for a more handcrafted approach using Xerox machines, collage, paper and glue rather than the usual computer generated imagery associated with todays pop music.

Having not created any music for over two decades, Tot Taylor recorded a number of new songs under his own name and with both Virna Lindt and Bob and Roberta Smith before releasing them as a series of limited edition singles on The Campus imprint. Vegas are proud to have worked with the songwriter, gallery owner, author and all round force of creative energy for nearly 40 years, these records being the latest chapter in an ongoing working relationship.

Renowned British photographer, Chris Clunn has been setting himself personal projects since the nineties and with this series of photographs - taken over a period of 6 years during the Spanish holy week - has self-published what is intended to be the first in a series of books designed by Vegas.

This 400 page book is made up primarily of fabulous photographs found in the companies extensive archive taken by their in-house photographer between 1947 and 1955. Along with designing this sumptuous book we also edited the 300 plus photographs. Not only is it a favourite of ours but also C&SC and Octane who both made it their book of the month, and the Historic Motoring Awards who declared it, Publication of the Year. 

We were delighted to be re-united with Mari Wilson who asked us to design a package for her latest CD, Pop Deluxe. We created her very first sleeve, Loveman way back in 1980 and went on to produce numerous album and single covers for ‘Miss Beehive’ including the hit “Just What I Always Wanted’. The predominantly orange sleeve graphically referenced two of her early singles with both the crop and use of a coloured wash.

Limited to just a 100 copies, this 48 page, digitally printed book was produced for Fiskens as part of their marketing of this iconic pre-war thoroughbred. With text by Mick Walsh and a combination of evocative photos created by Jamie Lipman and period shots culled from the Zagari archive, we designed this clothbound hardback to echo the production values and era of its subject matter.  

The sleeve for the band’s 3rd album, Drive Train was inspired by the automotive content running throughout the lyrics and is based on a worn workshop manual for a 1950s American car. This is also our 3rd CD package for the band - which features two of the country’s leading experts on film, Mike Hammond and Mark Kermode - the previous two albums being The Sun Set, recorded in Memphis at Sun Studios and their debut, Louisa & The Devil.

Created with long time ally and work accomplice, Kosmo Vinyl, these posters were designed to be given away by US shops participating in the annual celebration of independent vendors, known as Record Store Day. The first featured a number of favourite record sleeves as chosen by artists and commentators. The second was based around the idea of a board game whereby participants could challenge each other to be the best record store, whilst on the reverse a collection of posters from around the country celebrated the day.

Although an extensive book had been published on this remarkable car, Fiskens required a more personalised brochure for this landmark Jaguar when they brought it to market as part of their annual display at Retromoblie in Paris. Using primarily period photos and early 60s typography, the 32 page, A5 booklet perfectly reflected the era and spirit of this historic E-type.

To celebrate the restoration and sale of this fabulous motor car, Geneva based company Kidston SA asked us to design a book for themselves and the new owner. It features evocative period racing shots as well as details of the painstaking renovation carried out by the original manufacturers in Maranello, Italy.

Simon Draper of Palawan Press commissioned us to design a limited edition, 54 page book of paintings by the artist Stephen Farthing on the occasion of his exhibition Museums of the World staged at both his and the Candida Stevens Gallery in Chichester.

Trading primarily in classic air-cooled Porsches, Sports Purpose - a name derived from literature produced by the German manufacturer’s own competition department - James Turner and John Brewer’s company, based at Bicester Heritage, required a logo that reflected its roots. Inspired by car club radiator grill badges of the late 50s/early 60s, we came up with this identity along with a range of stationery for the company’s launch

This is the third book we designed for the benchmark publishing company and is considered one of their most popular titles - the cloth edition selling out in record time. Apart from design we also contributed editorial ideas and assistance on further picture research following the author’s death midway through the books production. Octane magazine declared it their book of the month on publication, “Its creamy pages exude an air of sheer quality, not just of design and production but quality of research too.” 

This book was commissioned by collector Chip Conner III who owns the car at the centre of this riveting tale written by Giles Chapman with material sourced by world renowned expert Clare Hay. With only 8 contemporary pictures of the car available, we designed the 250 page book around rare, some of which had never been seen before, period photographs.

Simon Kidston and his team were involved with the sale of another GTO and again decided to produce a book to accompany the exclusive car. It is the same size and number of pages as our previous book, the two volumes making the perfect pair. 34 more to go!

The Whitechapel Gallery asked Vegas to design a book to accompany the first of their joint exhibitions held at Windsor in Florida to coincide with Art Basel. Although put together in London, it was actually printed without drama in the USA. The artist was so pleased with the result that she bought extra copies from the gallery to give out as Christmas presents to friends and family.

We were commissioned to design and produce a book for Swiss Jaguar collector, Christian Jenny using his own manuscript, along with studio studies by Michel Zummbrumn. Backed up with historical and contemporary photographs, all 13 of his truly significant British sports cars were extensively profiled in the self published edition, printed in the UK and overseen by ourselves.

Once James Mitchell had secured premises at Bicester Heritage for his new business, he engaged Vegas Design to create his identity. The unique and historic building - the Blast House - with its distinctive green tiling, inspired not only the company’s logo but fuelled the marketing material as well, from adverts to brochures.

Vegas founder, Julian Balme started working for the Clash in 1980, designing their last two albums along with countless singles. For more than 30 years after the band split up, he oversaw the vast majority of the re-packaging for new formats such as CD and Mini Disc along with numerous special re-issues. Due to the record company having lost all the original artwork, his archiving culminated in the singles box set whereby Vegas re-created every single sleeve and label for 7 inch vinyl and CD.

Vegas designed two brochures for Pendine, the landscape, post friendly format being based on a sixties Corgi toys catalogue. One told the story of the company, the other a stocklist featuring available cars. 

Located on Soho’s Beak Street, Riflemaker quickly became the London gallery the art world were all talking about and right from the beginning we were involved, creating all manner of print items including their highly collectable pocket size books. Starting with the script from above the shop window to produce their identity, we went on to design all their print items, from business cards to countless invites.

After leaving Bonhams Europe, Simon Kidston commissioned Vegas Design to create the identity for his new Geneva based company. The logo - part 80s New Romantic pop group, part Bond villain - has since been seen in association with some of the world’s most exotic classic cars. Over the years Balme has handled all the company’s advertising along with various aspects of their marketing, from stationery to books.

Designed as part of a planned series of books by unlikely photographers, this first effort showcased the stark black and white photography of the actor Steven Berkoff. Taken during the early seventies, the reader could be forgiven for thinking they were taken at least 30 years earlier.

Governed by a modest budget, Vegas came up with a simple quarter page advert design for the UK wire wheel specialist to show their product’s wide range of applications. Seen throughout the classic motoring press, the visuals were based around the theme of 30s cigarette cards which translated perfectly into promotional pieces that were given away at shows and events.