GTF logo on concrete wall
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GTF

Brand identity and web design for a Dublin skatepark built to earn it.

Dublin · Arts & Culture · 2015

Client

GTF, Dublin

Role

Brand & Web Designer

Location

Dublin, Ireland

Sector

Arts & Culture

The Brief

Dublin's skate
scene, given
a real identity.

Branding and web design for GTF (Grahams Training Facility), a Dublin skatepark tucked inside an industrial complex — produced while freelancing at Unthink. The brief was deceptively simple: make something the skate community would actually respect.

The logo mark is hand-lettered and deliberately raw — spray-paint rough, no polish. But the supporting typeface is Alpha Headline, a heavy industrial slab chosen because GTF sits inside a factory park. The tension between the loose mark and the hard type is intentional: one says skate culture, the other says this place is built to last.

Applications ran across merch, print and a live WordPress site. Photography by Richard Gilligan.

Brand Identity Logo Design Web Design WordPress Print Merch
GTF brand identity system — colours, type, logo

Identity system — logo, colour palette and typography

GTF logo explorations — rejected directions

Early explorations — six directions explored before the final mark

GTF primary mark on concrete wall

GTF — Primary mark

Skater at GTF, Dublin — photography by Richard Gilligan
GTF Skatepark exterior, Dublin industrial complex

GTF Skatepark — Dublin industrial complex. Photography by Richard Gilligan.

GTF sticker
GTF t-shirt

Sticker · T-shirt

GTF poster
GTF A5 flyer

Poster · A5 flyer

GTF website — designed and developed in WordPress

Website designed and developed in WordPress. Photography by Richard Gilligan.