Declared on Bastille Day 1986 by director Ian Anderson, The Designers Republic is accepted as one of the world's most influential design agencies, famous for its persuasive aesthetic and philosophy.

Over eighteen years, TDR has developed a global business and brand, with an international client base and reputation for consistently reinventing design language and introducing new benchmarks in visual communication.

Initially renowned for groundbreaking work in the entertainment, music and games industry, their constant evolution has focussed newer work in a diverse number of fields.

Despite its international reputation, TDR is committed to providing an affordable - rather than an exclusive - service, and its client list has contained as many start-ups as it has global brands. TDR is also proud of the fact that several of these start-ups have gone on to become global businesses in their own right.

Recently TDR has worked on major re-branding projects for Nickelodeon (Europe), Hutchison 3G (Germany / Austria), NTT (Japan) and Telia (Sweden); developed advertising campaigns for Nokia (SE Asia), Orange and Faberge (both UK) and undertaken communications consultancy for Ecuador's capital city Quito and new EC member Slovenia.

TDR continues to work extensively, nationally and internationally, in the media, entertainment and advertising industries, as well as expanding its blue chip, art and academic client bases, working with fashion houses (Dior Homme / Issey Miyake etc) while running own label consumer brand 'The Peoples Bureau for Consumer Information' online from its Sheffield head office and via its first retail outlet in Tokyo, Japan.

To celebrate TDR's coming of age, 'Brain Aided Design' is being published in Spring 2005 by Laurance King (publisher of TDR's 2001 top-seller 3D-2D: Adventures In & Out of Architecture). Recent major TDR retrospectives have taken place in Barcelona, New York, Tokyo and Maribor etc, supported by an average of 20 major talks internationally a year.