Posted: January 9, 2014 | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Business, Banking, Law and Finance, Logo Reviews, Technology | Tags: Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Business Card Design, Custom Typography, Design For Print, Designed by Heydays, Designed in Oslo, Display Typography, Fluorescent Ink, Foil Blocking, Graphic Design Trends: Monolinear Illustration, Icon Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo News, Logotypes, Monolinear Typography, Norwegian Design, Purple Block Foil, Sans-serif Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, Stationery Design, The Best Business Cards of 2014, The Best Logo Designs of 2014, Typography, Website Design |
Intu is a Norwegian accounting and consultation firm and real-time technological solutions provider located in the town of Bodø. Design agency Heydays developed a new brand identity solution for Intu—which included naming, logotype, business cards, print communication, custom typography and website design—based around the link between the firm’s two key services and the software it uses to deliver these efficiently.
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Posted: December 5, 2013 | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Logo Reviews | Tags: Blind Emboss, Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding News, Brochure Design, Catalogue Design, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Designed by S-T, Envelope Design, Graphic Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logos, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Sans-serif Logotypes, Sign Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2013, The Best Logo Designs of 2013, Tote Bag Design, White Block Foil, White Ink | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Cemento is the UK distributor of an Italian lightweight concrete product that can be used for wall panelling and furniture. Inspired by brutalist design — a movement that grew out of early 20th century modernist architecture and described by Wikipedia as being “linear, fortresslike and blockish” — London based studio S-T developed a visual identity for Cemento that included logo, logotype, brand guidelines, tote bag, box tape, brochure, postcards and business card design.
Using geometric form, sans-serif typography, dyed material choice, white ink, a repeating pattern and limited colour palette, S-T establishes a robust and distinctive solution that reflects the modular and functional nature of concrete, the aesthetic qualities of the product, and its adoption by contemporary furniture and interior designers.
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Posted: November 29, 2013 | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Fashion, Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews | Tags: Bag Design, Black and White, Blind Emboss, Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Designed by Bedow, Designed in Stockholm, Fonts in Use: Circe, Fonts in Use: Maiola, From Scandinavia, Label Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logos, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Sans-serif Logotypes, Swedish Design, Swing Tag Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2013, The Best Logo Designs of 2013, Tote Bag Design | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Minna Palmqvist is described by Bedow, the studio behind her new visual identity as a “critical, Swedish fashion designer”. Following the completion of a masters degree at Stockholm’s Konstfack College of Arts in 2009 Minna launched her own label to further develop her ‘Intimately Social’ series, “an evolving constant challenging the traditional fashion seasons and exploring the obsession with the female body, by merging social commentary with fashion and art.”
Bedow created a new brand identity solution for Minna that reflected these themes by taking a ubiquitous and expected female symbol, splitting it into to two components and tieing it to the physical and functional details of the collateral and garments.
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