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.
Chaos by Socio Design, United Kingdom
Posted: May 24, 2017 Filed under: Fashion, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Colorplan Papers and Boards, Colour in Use: Green, Coloured Paper, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed in London, Fashion Store, G.F Smith Papers & Boards, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Minimal Design, Minimal Package Design, Packaging Company, Packaging Design Resource, The Best Packaging of 2017, The Very Best Packaging of 2017, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Leave a comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Inspired by fashion’s current fascination with customisation, technology and a “sense of light-hearted fun”, creative duo and stylists Charlotte Stockdale and Katie Lyall created Chaos, a new UK luxury lifestyle brand producing limited edition and personalised tech and travel accessories.
Through form and finish, materiality and graphic design, Chaos products, which include phone cases and charms, zips and luggage tags, express the brand’s take on practicality and stylistic desirability, the meeting of technology and fashion, utility and individuality. These are high quality, with a price tag to match (between £76-214), and a favourite with actors Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie.
London-based studio Socio Design were commissioned by the team at Chaos to create packaging for their collection of deerskin phone cases and luggage tags, gold-plated charms and zips. Using contrasting colour and high quality production detailing, and playing with a tension between the modern and traditional, the digital world and the analogue, these reflect the brand’s playful and “anarchic” approach, and commitment to challenging contemporary luxury standards.
Superfly by B&B Studio, United Kingdom
Posted: April 21, 2017 Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Botanical Illustration, British Design, Cocktail Packaging, Creative Packaging, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by B&B Studio, Designed in London, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Illustration, Logo Designs, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Packaging Company, Packaging Design Resource, The Best Packaging of 2017, The Very Best Packaging of 2017 6 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Superfly is a new limited edition non-alcoholic cocktail, and collaboration between celebrated mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana, aka Mr Lyan, and naturally revitalising UK juice drink brand Firefly. The cocktail blends redcurrents, aronia berries and grapefruit with botanicals that include green coffee, angelica, wormwood, kola nut and cascara. It features a unique packaging design by London-based B&B Studio that wraps Firefly’s distinctive structural design with bespoke botanical illustration. Superfly will be rolled out in April, initially as a Selfridges exclusive and through Mr Lyan cocktail bars, followed by a wider UK release in May.
