The Stone Twins

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.[1][2][3][4]

The Stone Twins specialises in areas such as brand strategy, naming and brand identity (both visual and verbal).[5][6] The firm is best known for the branding of MassiveMusic and A'DAM Toren,[7][8][9] as well as the design of several Irish commemorative postage stamps.[10][11][12][13] The Stone Twins' award-winning work includes a coveted Dutch Design Award,[14] several European Design Awards[15] and 13 D&AD Pencils.[16][17] Their work forms part of the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.[18]

The Stone Twins regularly write for trade magazines, including Communicatie (Wolters Kluwer) and Eye magazine: the International Review of Graphic Design.[19] They are the authors of the critically acclaimed book Logo R.I.P. (A Commemoration of Dead Logos);[20][21][22][23] the updated 2nd edition was launched in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York in 2012.[24][25] They are keen educators, and were Head of the ‘Man and Communication' department at Design Academy Eindhoven from 2008 until their resignation in 2013.[26]

  1. ^ "Profile: The Stone Twins". by Clare Dowdy, Design Week, 11-11-2010.
  2. ^ "Design: Do the Logo Motion". by Lisa Godson, The Sunday Times, 07-03-2004.
  3. ^ Seghers, Dirk; Puttaert, Hugo. "We Like to Engage – The Stone Twins". Addmagazine, Issue 6/2008.
  4. ^ "Double Dutch / Irish Blarney – The Stone Twins". Irish Design 2015, www.irishdesign2015.ie. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015.
  5. ^ "The Stone Twins winnaar bij de D&AD Awards – Verbal Identity". By Nils Adriaans, Adformatie, 31-05-2021.
  6. ^ "The Stone Twins: A'DAM Toren". Dutch Design Daily, 11-07-2016.
  7. ^ "Interview: The Stone Twins over de A'DAM Toren". by Bram Delver, VICE, 21-10-2015.
  8. ^ "The Stone Twins verzorgt branding A'DAM Toren – Het Amsterdamse bureau is verantwoordelijk voor de totale creatieve visie". Adformatie, 30-08-2015.
  9. ^ "Amsterdam North – The current "it" neighbourhood of Amsterdam's design scene". by Enya Moore, ICON, Issue 150, December 2015. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015.
  10. ^ "Culture is ordinary: an (incomplete) history of Irish graphic design, 1950-2020". by Linda King – ‘Irish Art 1920-2020: Perspectives on Change’, Edited by Catherine Marshall and Yvonne Scott – Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2022. ISBN: 9781911479826.
  11. ^ "Dublin UNESCO City of Literature stamp by The Stone Twins". by Amy Frearson, Dezeen, 26 May 2013.
  12. ^ "An Post issues new stamps to mark centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses". An Post Media Centre, 7 January 2022.
  13. ^ "A Stamp for Ireland". An Post Media Centre, 25 February 2019.
  14. ^ "SoundCircus". Dutchdesignawards.nl. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  15. ^ "Gold – 'Songtradr' Motion Logo, by The Stone Twins". European Design Awards.
  16. ^ "D&AD Awards: The Stone Twins". D&AD (British Design & Art Direction), www.dandad.org.
  17. ^ "The Stone Twins: List of Awards". thestonetwins.com.
  18. ^ "Jaarverslag Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-5006-180-3, © 2010" (PDF).
  19. ^ "Eye Magazine". Eyemagazine.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  20. ^ "Logo R.I.P." BIS Publishers. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  21. ^ "A Tribute To Dead Logos From The Past". Fastcodesign.com. 26 September 2012. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020.
  22. ^ "Logo R.I.P." by Viveka van de Vliet, Items Magazine (NL), 08-09-2012.
  23. ^ "Ode to the Logo: Rest in Peace to the Logos of Yesteryear". Design Indaba, 31-10-2012. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013.
  24. ^ "Eye Magazine - Blog - 'Shake hands with the devil'". Eyemagazine.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  25. ^ "Presentatie 'Logo R.I.P.' van The Stone Twins - Bijzondere Collecties". Bijzonderecollecties.uva.nl (in Dutch). Universiteit van Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018.
  26. ^ "The Stone Twins to Leave Design Academy Eindhoven". By Gabrielle Kennedy, design.nl (Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam), 27-06-2013.