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Studio Showcase: Blok

Opinion by Richard Baird Posted 8 May 2018

Studio Showcase: Blok

A continually updated gallery of graphic design work created by Canadian design studio Blok reviewed and published on BP&O. Blok was founded in 1998, and in their own words, seek out the normal, the abnormal, the mundane, the exciting, the current, the obsolete, the inspiring and the disheartening, and then use and develop these discoveries into compelling ways to move people.

BP&O has been following and writing about Blok since 2012. There is a clarity and communicate immediacy to their work. Form, colour and type coalesce to form striking and provocative visual expressions grounded in the essential truths of the brands they work with.

Highlights include their work for architecture studio Superkul. This began as a book in which to clarify and bring to light, through words, image and materiality, the values and philosophies that unit their broad portfolio of private homes and commercial spaces. Unwrapping the shrink wrapping, giving air to this book, sees it come to life as the french folds aerate. This was book serves as a strategic, emotional and occasionally philosophical foundation that went on to inform graphic identity.

Ascari

Studio Showcase: Ascari

Summerhill

Studio Showcase: Summerhill by Blok

Center for the Study of Political Graphics

Studio Showcase: Center for the Study of Political Graphics by Blok

Coalition for Engaged Education

Studio Showcase: Coalition for Engaged Education by Blok

Rain, Gravity, Heat, Cold

Studio Showcase: Rain, Gravity, Heat, Cold by Blok

Superkul

Studio Showcase: Superkul by Blok

Broadview Hotel

Studio Showcase: Broadview Hotel by Blok

The Playlist Co.

Studio Showcase: The Playlist Co. by Blok

Nota Bene

Studio Showcase: Nota Bene by Blok

F32

Studio Showcase: F32 by Blok

Modern Recreation

Studio Showcase: Modern Recreation by Blok

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