Logo and Branding: City Gallery
Posted: October 26, 2012 Filed under: Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, bold, branding, City Gallery, contemporary, design, Designworks, gallery, graphic design, identity, logo, logo-type, sans serif, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »
City Gallery is a non-collecting exhibition-based public gallery established in 1980, located on Wellington’s Civic Square and dedicated to contemporary visual arts, architecture and design. The gallery’s visual identity, created by Designworks, draws together the multifarious nature of its content through a simple bold logo-type and single image combination that replaces a previously eclectic and inconsistent solution with one easy to manage.
Packaging: NZ Post Simplified Sending
Posted: August 16, 2012 Filed under: Packaging, Transport & Logistics | Tags: Art, Box, design, Designworks, economical, illustration, monochromatic, NZ Post Simplified Sending, packaging, parcel, postage, typography, utilitarian Leave a comment »
Simplified Sending is a complete package and post solution from New Zealand’s postal authority that simplifies the process of sending parcels to anywhere in the country. Created by Designworks the result is an interesting mix of utilitarian functionality, contrasting illustrative flourish and a monochromatic colour palette that takes the expected black on white print treatment and confidently inverts it.
May’s Top 5 Projects
Posted: May 31, 2012 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Packaging, Top Five | Tags: branding, designers united, Designworks, identity, logo, logo-type, may, Oak, packaging, Quarterly Co., Reflect Lights, San Miguel 1516, Size, Spritmuseum, Stockholm Design Lab, top 5, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »
These are the five projects I reviewed during May that I felt really stood out and wanted to give them another opportunity to be seen and discussed. I have ordered these from five to one with my favourite project presented last. Do you agree with my choices?
Packaging: DB Draught
Posted: April 13, 2012 Filed under: Food & Drink, Packaging | Tags: alcohol, Beer, bottle, Box, can, clydesdale, DB Draught, design, Designworks, graphic, horse, illustration, insight, label, lagar, New Zealand, news, orange, packaging, packaging news, review Leave a comment »
DB Draught is an award winning New Zealand draught ale produced by Singaporean and Dutch owned DB Breweries, an Auckland based company that also brews for popular beer brands such as Heineken, Amstel and Tiger. This year DB Draught underwent a rebranding exercise, conducted by international studio Designworks, to develop the brand’s 80 year heritage and remain relevant to today’s customer.
