Logo and Branding: Bernard Boutique
Posted: September 25, 2012 Filed under: Fashion & Photography, Logos & Branding | Tags: bags, Bernard Boutique, Boutique, Bunch, design, fashion, graphic design, identity, logo, logo news, logo-type, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »Bernard Boutique is an award-winning fashion store with a thirty year history that mixes the latest collections from established brands such as Givenchy, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney with the work of new upcoming designers. The boutique’s new visual identity, recently developed by creative design agency Bunch and extended across signage, bags, boxes, tags and other in-store collateral, contrasts a bold and masculine logo-type solution with the tactile and feminine detail of the collaterals.
Packaging: Living Earth
Posted: August 15, 2012 Filed under: Agriculture, Packaging | Tags: Art, bags, character, compost, design, Fracture Media, garden, geomtric, graphic design, grass, illustration, landscaping, Marx, New Zealand, organic, packaging, plant food 1 Comment »Living Earth is a New Zealand based brand of organic compost created by collecting, recycling and ‘brewing’ green waste likely to have ended up in landfill sites. Digital design agency Fracture, working in collaboration with packaging specialist Ryan Marx, recently redeveloped the brand’s range of compost bags and bottles replacing a plain single and two colour economical design with a bright and playful resolution of vivid spot colours, simple plant illustrations, an expressive character style and a subtle sense of narrative.
Packaging: Hema Dekbed
Posted: April 12, 2012 Filed under: Packaging, Retail | Tags: Art, bags, bedding, bedroom, blue, canvas, Dekbed, design, graphic, grey, HEMA, home, illustration, monochromatic, Netherlands, news, packaging, packaging news, red, retail, review, screen print, Studio Kluif Leave a comment »HEMA is an international retailer established in 1926 with over 400 shops across the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxumberg and Germany. HEMA typically sells own brand products across a variety of categories including clothing, food, gardening tools, office supplies and homeware. Studio Kluif has been involved in the branding and packaging of these products since 2002 and this year was responsible for creating the packaging for the new bedding range ‘Dekbed’. Following the playful and loose illustrative style utilised across other Hema ranges, Studio Kluif has crafted a detailed ‘to-bed’ visual narrative confidently executed in a single colour.




