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.
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: Rafaela Abrahao
Posted: April 30, 2013 Filed under: Fashion & Photography, Logos & Branding | Tags: blackletter, Blog, BR/Bauen, branding, Business Card, graphic design, identity, logo, monogram, Print, Rafaela Abrahao Leave a comment »
Brazilian fashion blogger Rafaela Abrahao recently commissioned design agency BR/Bauen to develop a new visual identity that would extend across her website and stationery. Drawing on Rafaela’s favourite brands, Prada, Versace and Hermes, and an interest in English nobility for inspiration, BR/Bauen developed a solution that unites the fine illustrative detail and typographical flourish of a blackletter monogram executed with a contemporary and consistent single line weight, an uppercase neoclassical Didone logo-type, duplex material textures and the finish of a foil, hand stamp and emboss. It is a combination which works well to convey the personal aspect of blogging, garment texture and a clear relationship with high fashion.
Logo and Branding: Daniel Hopwood
Posted: April 9, 2013 Filed under: Architecture & The Built Environment, Art & Design, Logos & Branding | Tags: architecture, Art, branding, Daniel Hopwood, design, graphic design, interior design, landscaping, logo, logo-type, monogram, Print, two times elliot, typography Leave a comment »
Daniel Hopwood is a small bespoke London-based multidisciplinary design studio – working within the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and interior design – that offers its clients a creative, practical and personal service.
The studio’s identity, created by Two Times Elliott, takes the often ornamental detail of monograms of the past – a traditional distillation of a craftsman’s pride in product quality and individualised service practice – and gives it a very contemporary, geometric resolution with a solid sense of structure – through a simple consistent line weight and negative space – and a duality that mixes an H with what looks like a table and chair pictogram. Set alongside the broad, generously spaced characters of a sans-serif logo-type and a striking economical single red spot colour, the identity achieves a nice but subtle thematic union of layout, build, furnishing and functionality while the use of an uncoated, mixed-fibre, recycled substrate and a blind deboss across the collateral add a crafted, sustainable undertone that conveys an appreciation for material and material texture.
Branding and Packaging: Vitalkost Shift
Posted: April 8, 2013 Filed under: Health, Fitness & Beauty, Logos & Branding, Packaging | Tags: branding, Health, logo, logo-type, monogram, packaging, Print, QR Codes, serif, Shift, supplements, typography, Vitalkost 2 Comments »
Shift is a Norwegian brand of high quality supplements from Vitalkost that aims to alter category convention and perception with a clearer and more open presentation of information and encourage a more critical consumer approach to supplement choice. Based around the concept of shifting perspectives, design agency Ghost developed an identity and packaging solution that delivers a new and unusual pharmacological/technological utility alongside more retrospective undertones to convey traditional values, contemporary quality and information accessibility.
Logo and Branding: The Town Mouse
Posted: April 3, 2013 Filed under: Food & Drink, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, bar, Business Card, design, graphic design, logo, logo-type, melbourne, menu, painted, Print, restaurant, typography, visual identity Leave a comment »
The Town Mouse is a new Melbourne-based bar and restaurant owned by Christian McCabe and located in the space formerly occupied by the Embrasse Restaurant. Developed by A Friend Of Mine, the bar’s visual identity delivers impact through the ‘big city’ and slightly retrospective dimensionality of tall, slim, skyscraper-like, uppercase characters of the logo-type set within and alongside the grids of the collateral. A local crafted quality through the shared, brushed surface relationship between digital artwork and the physicality of gold painted window signage. And a daytime night-time duality – perhaps a reference to the bar/restaurant proposition – of a black and cream colour palette, enhanced by the really neat use of photo-luminescent ink across their business cards.
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: Solis
Posted: March 27, 2013 Filed under: Art & Design, Fashion & Photography, Logos & Branding | Tags: Art, branding, Business Card, design, fashion, graphic design, identity, logo, logo-type, Print, richard baird, Solis, stationery, typography, visual identity 7 Comments »
Solis is the fashion label of Tel Aviv-based Lisa Grishakova, a women’s clothing designer who balances texture, colour and pattern to create her collections. The label’s new identity draws together and subtly conveys the high quality detailing of Lisa’s garments, the warmth and radiance of the brand name and familiar fashion sensibilities, through the combination of a weighty material choice, surface treatments, foil print finish and light, consistent, single line weight letters and illustration.
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: Fogg
Posted: March 19, 2013 Filed under: Logos & Branding, Technology | Tags: Art, branding, Bunch, design, graphic design, identity, kurppa hosk, logo, logo-type, mobile, mobile data, news, Print, stationery, technology, typography Leave a comment »
By purchasing overcapacity from international telecom networks, Fogg Mobile provides a fixed cost mobile data traffic service for people who want to avoid unexpected roaming bills when travelling abroad. Through the animate and evolving qualities of computer generated imagery and a combination of unbleached paper, stitching, flat coated colour and silver polypropylene, Fogg’s visual identity, created by Kurppa Hosk and developed by Bunch, delivers an interesting physicality and travel utility to a digital service alongside the more conventional technological cues of recurring geometric typographic form.
