Summerhill Market by Blok, Canada
Posted: April 13, 2017 Filed under: Logo Reviews, Packaging Reviews, Retail | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Canadian Design, Colour in Use: Pastels, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Blok, From Toronto, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Pastel Coloured Papers, Pastel Colours, Patterns, Retail Logos, Stationery Design, Supermarket Logos & Branding, The Best Business Cards of 2017, The Best Logo Designs of 2017, The Best Packaging of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, The Very Best Packaging of 2017, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards 3 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Summerhill Market is a family-run business, managed by the third generation, with premises on Toronto’s Summerhill Avenue and a smaller location—a floral boutique—on Mt. Pleasant Rd. The store has 200 employees, a butchers, bakery and deli, a BBQ in the summer and offers a variety of catering services.
Summerhill Market is admired for its high quality products, and its ability—since 1954—to consistently redefine what it means to be a boutique grocery store. Its commitment to quality is reflected in its extensive range of own-brand products, developed by an in-house executive chef and a team of 80.
With the intention of giving the store a more contemporary voice whilst maintaining its warmth, Canadian studio Blok developed a new brand identity of pastel colour, sans-serif type, moments of illustrative texture and a labelling system that links an extensive line of own brand products. As well as this, Blok also delivered assets that included business cards and stickers, packaging, branded tote bag and notecards.
Collect by Spin, United Kingdom
Posted: March 24, 2017 Filed under: Art and Design, Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Art Gallery Logos and Brand Identities, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Condensed Logotypes, Condensed Typography, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Spin, Designed in London, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Lettering, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, Type Foundry: Lineto, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Ink, Wordmark Design 1 Comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Collect is an international art fair that this year took place between the 2–6 of February at London’s Saatchi Gallery. Presented by the Crafts Council, Collect gave visitors the chance to see and buy museum-quality and contemporary ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metal and textiles created by established and emerging artists and makers represented by over thirty of the world’s best galleries.
Collect’s brand identity, designed by Spin, draws character, play and visual interest from an economical use of a single and fairly austere font, and a black and white colour palette, and went on to include a variety of print communications including leaflets and catalogue, art direction, animation, advertising, signage and environmental graphics.
The Dayrooms by Two Times Elliott, United Kingdom
Posted: March 22, 2017 Filed under: Fashion, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Retail | Tags: Bag Design, Brand Identity Blog, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Canadian Design, Colour in Use: Pink, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Two Times Elliott, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Label Design, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Newsprint, Sans-serif Logotypes, Tag Design, Typography, Unbleached Materials, Uncoated Papers & Cards 2 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
The Dayrooms is a multi-label womenswear store, located in the London district of Notting Hill, created by Aytan Mehdiyeva and Zumrud Mammadova. The store gives a UK platform to emerging Australian designers and is an expression of Aytan and Zumrud’s shared passion for fashion and travel, and Aytan’s love of photography, textiles and Australian craftsmanship. This is reflected throughout The Dayroom’s brand identity, developed by Two Times Elliott, not only in the simple but carefully crafted intersection of reductive graphic expression and material detail, but in the concept of curated moments, expressed through language, image and objects.
