George + Powlett by Studio Brave, Australia
Posted: May 15, 2017 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Property | Tags: Black Block Foil, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio Brave, Designed in Melbourne, From Australia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Modernist Brand Identities, Property Development Logos, Sans-serif Typography, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, Type Foundry: Lineto, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Wordmark Design Leave a comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
George + Powlett is a residential property development of 11 apartments, created by ICON Developments, and located in East Melbourne. ICON’s properties are described as having a precision and balance, and this continues through to their latest project, which was designed by acclaimed architectural practice Powell & Glenn. The development is set within an environment of what is described as a place of elegant contrasts. This can bee seen in the strong geometric forms of structure, and the surrounding leafy suburb of East Melbourne. Balanced contrast informs brand identity, designed by Studio Brave, with each element said to express the seamless connection between environment and structure. This connects brochure, material sample pack, foldout floor plan and website.
Rocket by Here Design, United Kingdom
Posted: April 28, 2017 Filed under: Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Business Card Design, Catering Logos, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed in London, From Europe, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Here Design, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Business Cards of 2017 1 Comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Rocket began in 2000 as a small family-run catering company, implementing other people’s plans, and has grown to become a multifaceted enterprise with its own ideas, creating culinary worlds in partnership with some of the country’s most prestigious institutions and brands. Rocket worked with London-based Here Design to express this bold new position throughout its brand identity, in logo design, and across its stationery, business cards, print communications, van livery and website.
Disrepute by Two Times Elliott, United Kingdom
Posted: April 24, 2017 Filed under: Cafes, Bars and Restaurants, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Arjowiggins Papers, Bar Logos and Brand Identities, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Business Card Design, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Two Times Elliott, Designed in London, From Europe, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Business Cards of 2017, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, Typography 2 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Disrepute is a members-only bar, located in London’s Soho, described by Two Times Elliott, the design studio behind its brand identity, as having a heritage of “establishment and scandal”. The bar features a rich interior design of high quality material detail that elegantly plays with shape, pattern and symmetry, solid colour and texture, the geometric and the organic. There is an element of period theatricality, yet a contemporary eye for unique character, comfort and continuity throughout.
Two Times Elliott’s brand identity takes these qualities and focuses them into a quieter but distinct brand identity expression that favours commonality and, taking inspiration from Soho’s “most notorious eras of concealed communications and discrete symbols”, layers this with a narrative component that calls to light the loves, intimacy and people of the venue’s past, alongside a historical notoriety, one of secrecy, seduction and the clandestine.
