Branding and Packaging: Popchips
Posted: June 18, 2013 Filed under: Food & Drink, New, Packaging | Tags: Art, branding, chips, craft, crisps, illustration, Marx Design, packaging, paper, Popchips, typography 1 Comment »
Popchips is a four flavour range of potato chips from Ping which have been popped – much like popcorn – rather than backed or fried to create a healthier snack. New Zealand-based Marx Design were responsible for developing a new mascot for Ping that could work across multiple products in the snack food category and a packaging solution for the Popchips brand that would “avoid the clichés of traditional chip packaging in order to achieve cut-through.”
Logo and Branding: Bindle
Posted: April 16, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, craft, design, gift box, graphic design, identity, logo, logo-type, swear words, typography Leave a comment »
Established by Catherine Blackford in 2012, Bindle is an Australian mail-order, gift-box service that bundles handmade artisanal food, drink, home and kitchenware products for occasions and individuals under labels such as ‘A Bit On The Side’, ‘Breakfast In Bed’ and ‘For The Hostess’.
Drawing on the name bindle, a folded canvas sheet carried as a small sack over the shoulder with a stick, the service’s identity, developed by Swear Words, utilises a printed textile pattern across the tactile, earthy textures of an uncoated, unbleached material choice and a string tied detail across the boxes alongside the high quality of a copper foil treatment to, like their work for Crabapple Kitchen, provide a contemporary finish to traditional, communicative craft cues but infused with the underlying theme of travel that conveys the delivered nature of the service.
Logo and Branding: Gomez
Posted: March 22, 2013 Filed under: Food & Drink, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, craft, design, electric blue, graphic design, identity, illustration, logo, logo-type, news, Print, typography Leave a comment »
Multidisciplinary design agency Savvy have just completed the identity and collateral design for Gomez, a San Pedro-based bar ‘where you can hear good music and drink well’. The bar’s visual language, a ‘reconciliation of the traditional and avant-garde’, delivers a youthful, friendly and expressive brand personality through quirky vector illustration, the contemporary art and craft sensibilities of a striking electric blue colour palette and tinted images, paper texture, plastics, light, uncoated wood and heat treatments. Alongside the more retrospective tone of serif and italic typefaces, the diamond structure of the pattern work, the ribbon of the logo and black and white portrait photography. The result feels intentionally ‘silly’ yet is appropriately underpinned by a professional, experienced coherency that conveys quality.
Logo and Branding: Marks
Posted: March 21, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, Business Card, craft, design, graphic design, identity, logo, logo-type, Marks, news, stationery, typography, uncoated, visual identity Leave a comment »
Marks is a Geneva-based multidisciplinary design studio that specialises in delivering contemporary graphic communication solutions to corporate business, institutions and the luxury goods and industrial art sectors. Their visual identity, a reverse, uppercase italic logo-type with a consistent line weight, humanistic sans-serif detail, decent spacing and neat parallel diagonal strokes. Now features across a new stationery set that, through a really nice combination of weighty, warm and cold grey, uncoated material choices with a contrasting, high quality, gloss black foil print treatment, large point size and plenty of space, deliver an urban and subtle craft backdrop to the confident consistency and slightly unconventional qualities of the type.
Logo and Branding: Parlor Textiles
Posted: February 28, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, Business Card, craft, design, graphic design, identity, logo, logo news, logo-mark, logo-type, monochromatic, news, opinion, Parlor Textiles, stationery, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »
Parlor Textiles is an independent, North Carolina-based textile company that produces ornate yet contemporary products with an eco-friendly, hand-made philosophy. Their visual identity and stationery solution, developed by design studio Face, is described as reflecting an attention to detail through the use of ‘classic, elegant elements, the quality of the materials and an overall design that displays a modern sensibility.
Logo and Branding: Level Improvements
Posted: February 19, 2013 Filed under: Architecture & The Built Environment, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, Branding News, Business Card, craft, design, graphic, graphic design, Hi Ho, identity, Level Improvements, logo news, logo-type, news, opinion, stationery, typography, uncoated, visual identity 2 Comments »
Level Improvements is a small-scale builder that possesses, in the words of Hi Ho – the studio responsible for their new identity – a characteristic often lacking in others in their field — a high level of craft and attention to detail. To reflect these values, Hi Ho developed a ‘easily managed and straight talking’ visual identity solution that leverages the similarities between an uppercase L and a carpenter’s square – a measure of straightness and a steady hand – and isolates it with a typographical quirk to convey both continued consistency and a sense of individuality that distances it from other unreliable services.
Logo and Branding: Minke
Posted: February 14, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, Atipo, branding, Branding News, Business Card, craft, design, emboss, graphic, graphic design, identity, logo, logo news, logo-mark, logo-type, monochromatic, news, Print, print-finish, production studio, spain, stationary, texture, typography, uncoated, visual identity Leave a comment »
Minke is a Spanish print production studio that favours ’analogue splendour’ over mass manufacture, providing its clients with a variety of small-scale, mechanical and handcrafted processes.
Their visual identity, developed by multidisciplinary design studio Atipo, reflects their services and philosophy through a union of traditional and contemporary material textures, print finishes and die cut detail across the collateral. A sharp juxtaposition of an abstract, geometric mark layered with subtle, slightly reaching brand expressions, the editorial flourish and friendly informality of an all lowercase, italic logo-type, the technological sensibilities of the iconography and the creative detail of the pattern work. Elements united by the restraint and timelessness of a monochromatic colour palette and the more recent energy of bright, spot colour highlights.
Logo and Branding: Massproductions
Posted: February 13, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, Branding News, Britton Britton, Business Card, Chris Martin, craft, design, graphic, graphic design, identity, industry, logo, logo-type, Magnus Elebäck, massproductions, modernist, news, opinion, packaging news, review, stationary, typography, uncoated, visual identity Leave a comment »
Massproductions is a Stockholm-based furniture company – established in 2009 by designers Chris Martin and Magnus Elebäck – that develops ”high quality, tactile furniture in a modernist spirit’. The firm’s visual identity, developed by creative branding and communication agency Britton Britton, neatly mixes a structural, typographical authority with craft textures and confidently appropriates an upholstered colour palette of the past.
Logo and Branding: NB Flowers
Posted: February 7, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, Branding News, Business Card, craft, delivery, design, events, flowers, foil, functions, graphic, graphic design, identity, Karoshi, label, labels, ligature, logo news, logo-type, London, monogram, NB Flowers, news, opinion, review, stationary, typography, UK, uncoated, visual identity Leave a comment »
NB Flowers is a florist – founded by Neil Birks and located at London’s New Covent Garden Market - that specialises in corporate and private events, delivering value through a combination of ‘beautiful flowers, creativity, and a personable service’.
Multi-disciplinary design agency Karoshi were commissioned to ‘rebrand and reposition NB Flowers as one of London’s leading luxury event florists and capture the essence of the brand – classic with a contemporary twist’. In response the agency created a visual identity solution that, through a serif monogram, sans-serif by-line, purple and white substrates and a block foil print finish, delivers a simple and consistent communicative contrast that successfully draws out the organic detail of the photography utilised across NB’s collateral and website.
Logo and Branding: Madeleine Blanchfield Architects
Posted: February 5, 2013 Filed under: Architecture & The Built Environment | Tags: architect, architecture, Art, branding, Branding News, Business Card, craft, design, graphic, graphic design, identity, logo, logo news, logo-type, melbourne, news, opinion, sans serif, stationery, typography, uncoated, visual identity 2 Comments »
Madeleine Blanchfield is a Sydney-based architectural firm described by A Friend Of Mine, the design studio behind their new identity, as having a tactile and understated approach with an appreciation of light and detail. Qualities reflected through the subtle but tactile combination of material, print finish and ample space across the firm’s stationery.
