Logo: Musical Theatre Network
Posted: November 19, 2012 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Music, TV & Film | Tags: Art, branding, Business Card, design, geometric, Glad, graphic design, grid, identity, logo, logo news, logo-type, Musical Theatre Network, sans serif, stacked, stationary, visual identity 1 Comment »
Musical Theatre Network is a London-based organisation created to support and champion the development of new British musical theatre. The organisation’s visual identity, created by brand and design agency Glad, ‘expresses the essence of the network; connecting individuals or groups to create something new and exciting’ through an identity solution that cleverly leverages the length of the name to build a series of simple but communicative anagrams. These are appropriately drawn from a grid-structured sans-serif logo-type built from wide and slim humanist, geometric letterforms, consistent diagonals, a contemporary single line weight and square terminals – similar to 19th century London transport signage achieving a sense pure information and communication which resonates well with theatrical expression – contained within a blackboard reminiscent of classic illuminated theatre and cinema hoardings. The result delivers conceptual and expanding richness with subtle modernistic sensibilities through smart observation and a visually straightforward combination of letter-forms.
Packaging: Healgel
Posted: October 9, 2012 Filed under: Health, Fitness & Beauty, Packaging | Tags: branding, clinical, cosmaceuticals, cosmetics, design, effective, graphic design, grid, Healgel, opinion, packaging, packaging news, pastel, Pentagram, typography Leave a comment »
HealGel is a range of high quality skin care products, originally created to aid the repair of post-operative scarring, developed by actress Natascha McElhone – a dermatological biochemist – and a team of cosmetic surgeons. Taking its cues from what looks like medical forms and stat charts, international design agency Pentagram, led by Domenic Lippa, developed a new packaging treatment that delivers a sense of ‘pure information’, fact and clinical effectiveness through grid-based layouts, boxes, a geometric sans serif and slab serif combination softened by a pastel colour palette across a white substrate. It is a distinctive and unique design solution that avoids cosmetic conventions in favour of hard science, a direction that manages to resolve the themes of technological and scientific systems, medical processes and everyday routine with a reductionist, communicative and utilitarian functionality.
Logo and Branding: Ideo Architekci
Posted: May 25, 2012 Filed under: Architecture & The Built Environment, Logos & Branding | Tags: architecture, Art, Artentiko, branding, design, graphic, grid, identity, Ideo Architekci, logo, logo-type, news, opinion, Poland, review, typography Leave a comment »
Design studio Artentiko has recently published images of their latest visual identity project commissioned by Wrocław based architectural studio Ideo Architekci. Based around a modular and dynamic grid based framework, modernistic typeface and a bright industrial colour palette, Artentiko’s solution manages to capture the fundamental aspect of architectural planning and a consistent but expansive approach.
Logo and Branding: Modhouse
Posted: May 18, 2012 Filed under: Architecture & The Built Environment, Logos & Branding | Tags: a friend of Mine, animation, architecture, Art, blocks, branding, Branding News, building, construction, design, graphic, grid, identity, logo, logo news, Modhouse, modular, opinion, review, sans serif Leave a comment »
Modhouse is an Australian design and building firm that specialises in sustainability, modular construction techniques and interior design. The company’s visual identity, created by holistic design studio A Friend Of Mine, visualises their specialist approach with a set of elemental and geometric containers, bold sans serif typography and a colour palette that juxtaposes bright creative colours with warm architectural greys.
