Branding and Packaging: Fisix
Posted: May 23, 2013 Filed under: Health, Fitness & Beauty, Packaging | Tags: Art, branding, cosmetics, design, Fisix, labels, logo, Mucho, packaging, sport Leave a comment »
Multidisciplinary design agency Mucho have recently published their branding and packaging work for Fisix, a line of cosmetic products that includes shower gels, shampoo and hydrating skin balms, developed by four marathon running friends who ‘couldn’t find a range that met their needs as sportsmen’. Mucho’s design solution unties the diagrammatic, geometric forms and typographical, sans-serif utility and neutrality of the pharmaceutical and sports science industries with the subtle fashion and on-trend design sensibilities of a tightly spaced, lowercase serif logo-type, italics, and a flat, economical, unisex grey and pastel colour palette.
Logo and Branding: Cocolobo
Posted: May 22, 2013 Filed under: Fashion & Photography, Logos & Branding | Tags: anagrama, Art, beauty, branding, design, fashion, heat, logo, logo-type, Print, typography, visual identity 4 Comments »
Cocolobo is described by Anagrama – the multidisciplinary design agency behind their new visual identity – as a ‘high-end shopping boutique that caters exclusively to strong women with a confident and in vogue fashion sense’. For the name, Anagrama played with the patrons’ ‘characteristic duality’, with a ‘catchy and fun’ compounding of ”Coco” (coconut in Spanish) and “lobo” (Spanish for wolf), which helped to define the ‘Cocolobo woman’ as ‘not only feminine and sweet, but also independent, aggressive, sensuous and daring’
The agency captured and conveyed this duality in print through the combination of a black and white colour palette ‘portraying the elegant, sober aspect of the brand’, a red highlight to represent ‘all that is feminine and chic’, and the contrast of the logo-mark’s playful familiarity and the logo-type’s sense of exclusivity.
Logo: Apolosophy
Posted: May 20, 2013 Filed under: Health, Fitness & Beauty, Logos & Branding | Tags: Apolosophy, Apotek, Art, branding, BVD, design, Health, logo, logo-type, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »
Based around their philosophy of health and well-being, Swedish drug store chain Apotek Hjärtat have recently developed Apolosophy, a new, carefully formulated cosmetic line that includes products from the skin and hair care, makeup and sunscreen categories. The range’s visual identity and packaging solution, created to be perceived as tactile, timeless and trustworthy by design agency BVD, unites the on-trend accessibility of a near consistent single line weight, soft curves, rounded terminals, all lower-case and well spaced letter-forms and a simple repetition of form through the ‘a’, ‘o’ and ‘p’, with the classic sensibilities of a black and white colour palette, the quality of a matt surface texture and the restraint of a logo-type only solution across the packaging. The result, while pared-down, really emphasises, compliments and unites the colours and textures of the products with a subtle utility often associated with professional grade cosmetics.
Logo and Branding: Saxa
Posted: May 6, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, books, design, gallery, graphic design, graphical house, identity, logo, logo-mark, logo-type, Saxa, typography Leave a comment »
Saxa is an independent on-line dealer, publisher and commissioner of original and editioned works from international artists with differing perspectives and cultures, and taking a curatorial and collaborative approach to making these available to collectors, galleries, institutions and the general public.
Saxa’s visual identity, created by UK-based design agency Graphical House and inspired by crystalline structures, conveys the idea of buyer and artist networks through the coalescing and interconnected forms of an abstract logo-mark which has been applied to a wide range of stationery, packaging and marketing materials as well as a responsive website.
April’s Top 5 Projects
Posted: May 1, 2013 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Top Five | Tags: Art, branding, design, graphic design, logo, logo-type, Print, top 5, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »
These are the five projects I reviewed during April that I felt really stood out and wanted to give them another opportunity to be seen and shared. I have ordered these from five to one with my favourite project presented last. Do you agree with my choices?
Logo and Branding: Dalaco
Posted: April 22, 2013 Filed under: Fashion & Photography, Logos & Branding | Tags: accessories, Art, Believe In, branding, design, fashion, graphic design, logo, logo-type, typography 1 Comment »
Dalaco is a UK-based family run cufflink and accessory business that has been designing for and marketing to jewellers for over 30 years. Their new visual identity, developed by design agency Believe In, marks the passing of the business from one generation to another through the contemporary rendering of a lark, a songbird that signals the dawn of a new day, that was inspired by the heritage of the family name and acts, much like a craftsman’s monogram, as a symbol of pride, care and a guarantee of quality.
Packaging: Australia Post Domestic Parcels
Posted: April 17, 2013 Filed under: Packaging, Transport & Logistics | Tags: design, graphic design, Interbrand, mail, packaging, post, utility 1 Comment »
Interbrand’s Melbourne office have recently completed the design for Australia Post’s new domestic parcel range. Developed to aid the continuing increase in on-line shopping the solution provides a more ‘straightforward, hassle-free’ design language that builds on AP’s new identity system – also created by Interbrand – by taking an expected but well executed utility of ample white space, large stretches of flat colour, a clear, consistent and communicative format, iconography and simple language choice and fusing these with the subtle, proprietary detail and contrasting sizes of a custom sans-serif typeface.
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: Les Market
Posted: April 12, 2013 Filed under: Fashion & Photography, Logos & Branding, Retail | Tags: Art, branding, design, identity, Les Market, logo, logo-type, monochromatic, Planet Creative, stationery, visual identity Leave a comment »
Les Market is an on-line fashion boutique, with a store in Stockholm, that offers a curated collection from brands such as Rick Owens, Kris Van Assche, Alexander Wang and Raf Simons. The store’s visual identity, developed by Planet Creative, establishes – through a bold sans-serif logo-type, a tape, paint and black marker aesthetic, typewriter slab-serif and a monochromatic colour palette – an urban and industrial quality that frames the detail and distinctive style of the garments.
Logo and Branding: Highpark
Posted: April 10, 2013 Filed under: Architecture & The Built Environment, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, Branding News, Business Card, design, development, Face, Highpark, logo, logo news, logo-type, luxury, Mexico, monogram, property, visual identity Leave a comment »
Highpark is a new residential project located in the middle of San Pedro Garza García and described by Face – the agency behind the development’s visual identity, print work and website – as ‘arguably one of Latin America’s most affluent municipalities’ and widely credited as an “architectural masterpiece”.
Face go on to say that the ”project needed to speak volumes about the brand’s commitment to creativity, sophistication, and quality of lifestyle. It was conceived by superstar Mexican architect Michel Rojkind, and envisioned as an urban development of luxury residences in northern Mexico’s most exclusive corner.” As such Face created a “clean, polished, unobtrusive aesthetic designed to beautifully showcase the project, using sharp, classic typography, and the fool-proof duo of black and gold.”
