Zebra Dream by TCYK, Australia
Posted: January 26, 2018 Filed under: Food and Drink, Logo Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Branding & Packaging of 2018, Designed by The Company You Keep, Foil Blocking, Food Logos and Packaging Design, Food Packaging, From Australia, Holographic Block Foil, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging Opinion, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best Packaging of 2018 Comments Off on Zebra Dream by TCYK, AustraliaOpinion by Richard Baird
Zebra Dream is a range of organic, soy and dairy-free coconut based ice-creams made from fair-trade ingredients. With a desire to capture a larger portion of the market whilst retaining its die-hard following, Australian design studio The Company You Keep (TCYK) reimagined the brand from the ground up, redesigning Zebra Dream’s graphic identity and packaging, taking it from a dark pack with a conventional and expected zebra pattern, to a light and airy treatment with an individual character and a surprising material flourish.
St. ERHARD by Bedow, Sweden
Posted: January 24, 2018 Filed under: Food and Drink, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Alcohol Packaging, Amber Glass and Plastic Packaging, Best Packaging Designs, Blue Block Foil, Bottle Label Design, Branding & Packaging of 2018, Coaster Design & Beer Mats, Craft Beer Packaging, Craft Brewery Packaging, Designed by Bedow, Drinks Packaging, Foil Blocking, From Scandinavia, Green Block Foil, Lettering, Modernist Brand Identities, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging Opinion, Red Block Foil, Silver Block Foil, Swedish Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best Packaging of 2018 Comments Off on St. ERHARD by Bedow, SwedenOpinion by Richard Baird
With a desire to stand out, and in response to the extensive saturation of heritage-related visual cues throughout the German beer market, brewery St. ERHARD worked outside of the country with Swedish studio Bedow to develop a modern graphic identity for three of its brews. Farmer, Mayflower and Saison are premium beers, each of which are crafted, brewed and bottled by St. Erhard in the Bamberg area of Northern Bavaria.
Bedow’s work is characterised by a strong use of contrast, a graphic simplicity and immediacy. This can be seen in the meeting of curvy traditional structure and rectilinear labelling, in the mix of black ink, white substrate and colourful foiling, in the reductive typographical form of the range and the more conventional logotype of St. ERHARD, and finally, the systematic nature of the collection yet the irregularity and playful character of each label.
Hüngry Beast by Savvy, Mexico
Posted: January 23, 2018 Filed under: Food and Drink, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Bottle Label Design, Bottle Packaging, Designed by Savvy, Die Cut Design Detail, Mexican Design, Monospaced Logotypes, Monospaced Typography, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Best Logo Designs of 2018, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2018 Comments Off on Hüngry Beast by Savvy, MexicoOpinion by Richard Baird
Hüngry Beast is a cafe and juice bar located in Mexico City’s Roma Norte neighbourhood, a place of recent cultural and gastronomic development. It is a modern and casual experience with a focus on simple, high-quality cold-pressed and gluten-free products creatively prepared from healthy organic ingredients.
The urban, natural and creative positioning of the cafe is expressed materially throughout an interior design of light wood surface, glass blocks and concrete grey walls that create a natural flow between interior and street, and by a graphic identity made up of splashes of colour and organic shape inspired by the work of John Baldessari, an artist who was born 15 minutes from the Mexican border. These shapes are used across and are cut into the white surfaces of bottle labels and intersect food photography online, and implemented alongside a variety of inspirational quotes from scientists, artists, sportspeople and inventors. Interior and graphic identity intersect in different ways, and developed in tandem by multidisciplinary design studio Savvy.
