Old Spike Coffee by Commission Studio, United Kingdom
Posted: July 27, 2017 Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Bag Design, Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Coffee Logos and Packaging Design, Coffee Shop Branding, Commission Studio, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed in London, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Sculpted Emboss, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography, Unbleached Materials 1 Comment »Opinion by Richard Baird
Old Spike is a coffee roastery, subscription service and wholesaler, cafe and social enterprise working with the homeless, located in South East London. It is situated on the site of a former workhouse, a place where the poor would break rocks over metal spikes for food and lodgings, and where the roaster gets its name. With a desire to separate the roastery’s commercial and social activities Commission Studio worked to develop retail and subscription packaging that avoided the conventions of the market, and worked together a sense of the artisanal and wholesome and the eye-catching and luxury.
The Living Food by Francesc Moret Studio, Spain
Posted: July 12, 2017 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Creative Packaging, Deli Logos and Packaging, Design For Print, Designed by Mucho, Designed in Barcelona, Fonts in Use: Freight, Food Logos and Packaging Design, Food Packaging, Graphic Design Blog, Health Food Packaging, Organic Packaging, Packaging Company, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Poster Design, Spanish Design, The Best Packaging of 2017, Uncoated Papers & Cards Leave a comment »Opinion by Richard Baird
The Living Food is a Barcelona-based grocery store and deli stocking organic and vegan foods. Francesc Moret Studio worked with the store to develop packaging for its range of nine vegan cheeses. Drawing on the brand’s established visual identity of silhouettes, the studio built a visual language with a bold graphic style, typographical detail, and a modern and distinctive colour palette, with the intention of conveying an honest and conscientious brand position and expressing the crafted quality and full flavour of the range.
Pepe Raventós Natural Wines by Mucho, Spain
Posted: July 6, 2017 Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Alcohol Packaging, Best Packaging Designs, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Designed by Mucho, Graphic Design Blog, Label Design, Material Thinking, Minimal Package Design, Packaging Company, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Spanish Design, The Best Packaging of 2017, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Wine Design, Wine Label Design, Wine Packaging Leave a comment »Opinion by Richard Baird
Bastard Negre, Xarel·lo and Ancestral are a small batch natural wine collection created, with minimal intervention, by Spanish vintner Pepe Raventós. Although Pepe is in charge of a vineyard that has been in his family’s hands for over 22 generations, and maintains the philosophies of his father and grandfather, this small collection was produced in the garage of his house, with the intention of crafting the highest quality wine from unrepeatable terroir.
Natural wines Bastard Negre and Ancestral, and sparkling wine Xarel·lo, are unfiltered and made without additives or sulphites, and have been produced from vines that around 50 years old. The land in which these have been grown are located at different heights and geographical positions, and made up of a variety soil compositions. This is expressed, alongside a process of minimal intervention, in the design of the wine label, created by Mucho, through the layering of paper, the use of colour and form, and material texture and composition.
