Murray & Sorrell FUEL ©
Design & Publishing
33 Fournier Street, London E1 6QE
+44 20 7377 2697
fuel@fuel-design.com
Fuel is a registered Trade Mark in the UK.
About
FUEL design group was founded in 1991. From the outset we combined varied commissions with projects of our own, including a self-published magazine - often containing thought provoking messages, these bold graphic statements served as a developing manifesto. Pure Fuel and Fuel 3000 followed in 1996 and 2000. Far from being monographs these books examined the accepted notions of graphic design, illustrating ideas and preoccupations to explore themes of authorship.
As well as our work in print we have produced and directed short films, idents, film titles and TV commercials.
In 2005 FUEL Publishing was formed within the group. This process involves close collaboration with the authors on content together with our experience in book design to produce a broad range of beautiful and distinctive books.
In 2009 FUEL founded the Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive. The collection consists of 739 original drawings by Danzig Baldaev and the exclusive rights to the photographs of Russian prisoners taken by Sergei Vasiliev.
Damon Murray & Stephen Sorrell
Press
Murray and Sorrell’s realisation that they possessed the transferable skills and instincts to publish thought-provoking books with editorial depth, has allowed them to create a publishing venture that offers a fresh take on visual culture.
—Adrian Shaughnessy, Design Observer, 2007
FUEL have always been keen to keep a broad interest in the world beyond contemporary graphics, always ready to consider new ideas, new subject matter, and it’s led to an increasingly diverse portfolio of commercial work including books, catalogues, press and TV ads, TV idents, animated 3G ringtones and title sequences.
—Grafik, 2007
FUEL is responsible for some of the best-looking books around, combining a real understanding of what makes a lovely object with excellent content.
—Time Out, 2006
In their films and publishing projects, FUEL are starting to produce new forms of communication that can withstand scrutiny outside the inward-looking enclave of design.
—IDEA, 2000
Fuel 3000 is in a genre of its own. It has a quality of professionalism that instantly locates it as a mass-market product, yet at the same time its poetic fusions of image and text, achieved with cool precision, are like nothing you usually see in a magazine or book.
—Rick Poynor, The Independent on Sunday, 2000
News
The launch of Home-Made Europe is at Paul Smith in Milan, 18 April 2012. The author Vladimir Arkhipov will be signing copies.
Damon is in Detroit giving a FUEL talk at Cranbrook Academy of Art, 5 – 8 April 2012.
Russia Beyond the Headlines feature on the Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive.
Review of Drawings from the Gulag in The Moscow Times.
The next Russian Criminal Tattoo Exhibition now showing at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, 28 April – 23 June 2012.
Our books are included in Graphic Design: Now in Production at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis until 22 January 2012 and will then move to the National Design Museum, New York.
FUEL have contributed a poster to Designers for Japan: British Red Cross relief for Japan. Our poster ‘Blood is thicker than water’ is available from: www.designersforjapan.com
