Corps Reviver & L’Heure du Cocktail by Spin, UK
Posted: June 1, 2017 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Publishing | Tags: Bookmark Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Business Card Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Spin, Designed in London, Fonts in Use: Dada Grotesk, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Modernist Brand Identities, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Publisher Logos, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, Type Foundry: Lineto, Type Foundry: Optimo, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Ink, Wordmark Design Leave a comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Corps Reviver is a French publisher and revivalist, redesigning and reprinting classic literary works, the first of which is L’Heure du Cocktail, The Cocktail Hour, written by journalists Marcel Requien and Lucien Farnoux-Reynaud and originally published in 1927. L’Heure du Cocktail, at the time, revolutionised the cocktail book, approaching the subject in a new way. This 2017 bilingual edition, presented in French and English, designed by Spin and illustrated by Spin’s Tony Brook, also offers a new take, pairing expressionist image with a more formal and modernist approach to layout and type. The release of L’Heure du Cocktail coincides with the launch of Corps Reviver’s own identity, also designed by Spin. This similarly explores something of the modernist, in the choice of type and use of form and pattern which appears to be rooted in the military associations of name.
The Best of BP&O — May 2017
Posted: May 30, 2017 Filed under: The Best of BP&O | Tags: Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Design Reviews, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Designs, Logo News Leave a comment »Selected by Richard Baird.
May’s highlights included Requena & Capdevila’s campaign work for Sant Jordi Festival 2017, Socio Design’s packaging for luxury accessory brand Chaos, Band’s custom typeface for restaurant Hill Of Grace and Lundgren+Lindqvist’s continued work with O/O Brewing. There were, however, five projects that stood out, and have made it into BP&O’s Best Of Series. These typically balance a strong singular concept, or an appropriate confluence of ideas, with a compelling aesthetic and clear communicative intention that appropriately plays with form, colour, type and layout, as well as material, texture, image and print finish.
Throughout May, BP&O also continued to expand on its collections series as another way to jump through to older posts on the site. New additions include Brand Guidelines, Business Cards No.15, and Pastels in Branding.
O/O Long Boil Barley Wine by Lundgren+Lindqvist, Sweden
Posted: May 26, 2017 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Alcohol Packaging, Best Packaging Designs, Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Craft Beer Logos, Craft Beer Packaging, Craft Brewery Logos, Craft Brewery Packaging, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Lundgren+Lindqvist, Designed in Gothenburg, Fonts in Use: Druk, From Scandinavian, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Microbrewery, Minimal Design, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Sans-serif Typography, Swedish Design, The Very Best of BP&O, Type Foundry: Commercial Type, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards 2 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
O/O Brewing is a craft brewery set up in 2011 by Olle Andersson & Olof Andersson. They presently operate out of the facilities of Stigbergets Bryggeri in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, but are due to open their own brewery in the Autumn of 2017, with the intention of increasing volume and gaining further control over quality.
O/O worked with Scandinavian graphic design studio Lundgren+Lindqvist, who have created labels for a variety of other O/O beers, to develop labelling for a new series of limited editions that will be sold once a year. The first of these will be Long Boil Barley Wine. Despite the name, Long Boil Barley Wine is a beer and, unlike O/O Brewing’s other products, will be aged, allowing it to develop a new complexity in a similar way to wine.
Rather than collaborating with artists and designers, an approach that characterised much of the labelling of O/O’s previous ranges, and with a desire to express something of the higher price point and ageing of the beer by making a connection with Champagne and wine, Lundgren+Lindqvist developed a typographical system of condensed characters for impact, provides room for date, sets these within a grid, and compliments this with playful but communicative art direction of product photography.
