“Manchester is a city of stories and storytellers. It’s also a city of activism, protest, pioneers and radicals,” says design studio MARK. “With this in mind, the Manchester Literature Festival 17 identity is based around the theme of ‘PROTEST’ and ‘ACTIVISM’, where simple, elegant typographic applications are subverted / vandalised with spray paint graffiti lending a spontaneous, anarchic, ambiguous spin to all the campaign applications and messages.”

View all the winning work from The Annual 2018 here.