March’s Top 5 Projects
Posted: March 29, 2013 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Top Five | Tags: branding, design, graphic design, logo, logo-type, news, opinion, packaging, Print, review, stationery, top 5, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »These are the five projects I reviewed during March 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: Boabel
Posted: March 20, 2013 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Music, TV & Film | Tags: Art, Book, branding, design, graphic design, identity, logo, logo-type, Maud Boabel, news, opinion, review, screenwriting, storytelling, typography Leave a comment »Multidisciplinary design studio Maud recently developed a new visual identity for screenwriter Belinda Nowell’s new publishing venture Boabel. Based around an open book / B monogram, a business card that uses orientation to draw out this duality and a weighty, ‘book-bound’, triplex material combination the solution places storytelling at the very centre of communication with a contemporary simplicity.
Logo and Branding: Agricola
Posted: March 14, 2013 Filed under: Food & Drink, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, food, graphic design, identity, logo, Mucca, news, opinion, restaurant, typography Leave a comment »Agricola is a restaurant recently opened in Princeton, New Jersey, that offers simple, rustic American cuisine – created by Executive Chef Josh Thomsen – based around fresh seasonal flavours, local produce from their own 112 acre farm and regional beer. Multidisciplinary design agency Mucca was responsible for translating the ‘farm-to-table’ concept into a visual identity, website, signage and printed collateral solution that would compliment the earthy materials and intimate lighting of Seed Design’s interior design.
Logo and Branding: Sancy & Regent
Posted: March 12, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Fashion & Photography, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, design, fashion, graphic design, identity, jewellery, logo, logo-type, OK-RM, opinion, UK, visual identity 3 Comments »Sancy & Regent is a UK-based online boutique retailer of limited edition jewellery created by young international designers. Their visual identity, developed by independent design studio OK-RM, combines classic type, proprietary quirk and subtle embellishment with tactile material choices and a hidden high quality print finish, to convey small-scale craft with consistent, curated quality.
Logo and Branding: The Cannonball
Posted: March 11, 2013 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Music, TV & Film | Tags: Art, branding, Branding News, Business Card, Cannonball, design, graphic, graphic design, identity, Lo Siento, logo, logo-type, opinion, review, stationary, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »The Cannonball is a Spanish production studio that develops ‘creative and sophisticated audio-visual narratives’ within the fields of broadcast television, photography, social media, fashion films and motion graphics. Their visual identity, developed by Barcelona-based brand and graphic design agency Lo Siento working in collaboration with Dave Sedgwick, utilises a ball bearing, grid-based concept to give the associated force of the name a precision and a practical sense of creativity.
February’s Top 5 Projects
Posted: March 1, 2013 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Top Five | Tags: Art, branding, Business Card, design, Designers Anonymous, Face, graphic, graphic design, Hi Ho, identity, logo, logo-mark, logo-type, Longton, Neue, news, opinion, packaging news, richard baird, stationary, typography, visual identity 1 Comment »These are the five projects I reviewed during February 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: 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: Tegn_3
Posted: February 26, 2013 Filed under: Architecture & The Built Environment, Logos & Branding | Tags: architecture, Art, branding, Branding News, Business Card, design, graphic, graphic design, identity, logo, logo news, logo-type, Neue, news, Norway, opinion, Print, review, stationary, structure, typography, uncoated, visual identity Leave a comment »Tegn_03 is a Norwegian, multidisciplinary, architectural design studio that, through inclusive methods, process-oriented and competent project management, deliver holistic solutions that encompass the fields of architecture, planning and landscape, to large clients across Scandinavia. Their visual identity, developed by Neue, draws together the themes of technical knowledge, structure, connections, collaboration and creativity through neutral typography, a modular and expanding geometric pattern, tactile and reflective print finishes, ample white space and the more unusual, playful addition of colour and the engagement of an interactive image generator.
Logo and Branding: Manor Studio
Posted: February 22, 2013 Filed under: Architecture & The Built Environment, Logos & Branding | Tags: architecture, Art, branding, Branding News, Business Card, design, development, graphic, graphic design, identity, logo-type, manic, news, opinion, spatial design, stationery, typography, uncoated, visual identity Leave a comment »Manor Studio is a Singapore-based architectural and spatial design practice serving both commercial and residential clients, while its sister company, Manor Properties, specialises in development and investment. To accommodate this duality design agency Manic created a visual identity solution that fuses a set of logo-types – ‘subtly accented by the mathematical symbol for exponentiation’ – with a grid-based pattern device, two uncoated, dyed material choices and a reflective print finish across the stationery.
Logo and Branding: Guy Bauer
Posted: February 20, 2013 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Music, TV & Film | Tags: anagrama, Art, branding, Branding News, Business Card, design, graphic design, identity, logo, logo news, logo-mark, logo-type, news, opinion, stationery, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »Guy Bauer is a Chicago-based video production company ‘committed to creating stories that elicit feelings’. Their new visual identity, based around a quill logo-mark – conveying their story-telling philosophy – a stationery solution that references film and a deep green color palette designed to convey depth and reliability, was recently developed by independent design agency Anagrama.











