LogoArchive Extra Issue: Standards Manual
Posted: November 1, 2021 Filed under: BP&O Publications | Tags: Book & Magazine Cover Design, Creasing in Print, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Editorial Design, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Magazine Design, Magazine Review, Magazine Spreads, The Best Design for Print 2021 Comments Off on LogoArchive Extra Issue: Standards Manual 
LogoArchive and Standards Manual are delighted to launch an Extra Issue dedicated to Federal logo design, which includes some of the States’ most iconic symbols. Designed by Order and featuring texts by Bill Shaffer, Valerie Pettis and Lance Wyman, this Extra Issue tells the little-known story of the Federal Design Improvement Program (FDIP). This program links some of the country’s most recognisable symbols and involved designers such as Rudolph de Harak, Tom Geismar and Raymond Lowey. The booklet is the first to bring these symbols together, and through the words of Bill Shaffer, Lance Wyman and Valerie Pettis, brings a uniquely personal insight into the program and its ambitious outlook for Federal design throughout the 70s in the United States of America.
LogoArchive Extra Issue: Standards Manual can ordered at logoarchive.shop
Vessel Floats by Order
Posted: Filed under: Fitness, Health and Beauty, Logo Reviews | Tags: American Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Business Card Design, Design Blog, Design by Order, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed in New York, Fonts In Use: Untitled Sans, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Opinion, new, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, The Best Brand Identities of 2020, The Best Custom Logotypes, The Best Design for Print 2020, The Very Best of 2020, The Very Best of BP&O, Tote Bag Design, Type Foundry: Klim Type Foundry, Typography, Visual Identity Design Blog Comments Off on Vessel Floats by OrderWords by Richard Baird
In the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Greenpoint sits Vessel Floats, a new flotation and deprivation therapy spa that draws on the continuing interest in concepts such as mindful living and wellness.
Through considered interior design and visual identity, the latter developed by New York-based studio Order, Vessel Floats intends to further develop and bring to modernity an experience that has been around since the 1950s, and create a holistic experience that supports and builds out and around the central experience of flotation.
For those unfamiliar with flotation or deprivation therapy, this involves a weightless experience inside a tank filled with water with a high salt content, absent sound and any external distractions. This can be augmented by soothing lights, sounds and vibrations. People can expect an experience that disentangles them from their busy present, with some experiencing hallucinations within a safe and managed environment.
Studio Showcase: Studio Hi Ho
Posted: Filed under: Studio Showcase | Tags: Branding Agency, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Typography Comments Off on Studio Showcase: Studio Hi HoSelected by Richard Baird.
Studio Hi Ho is a Melbourne-based branding and communication consultancy co-founded and led by Wesley Waddell and Patrick Scanlan. BP&O has been following and writing about Studio Hi Ho since 2013 . Their work covers a variety of industries, however, it is their work with property developer Milieu that has often found its way on to BP&O. These projects can be characterised as being both creative and strategic, often visually elegant and nuanced.
Studio Hi Ho’s visual communication work often takes on a similar approach to architectural practice; existing, not only as sales materials, but also as enquiries and interrogations of space, structure, materiality and context. This can be seen in the dual brochure formats for both Nth Fitzroy and Whitlam Place. The former is a sophisticated exploration of the relationship between living structure and neighbourhood, nature, the passing of time and architecture, and the latter, an expression of an extended period of contextual reflection followed by a considered material response.
What marks the studio out is its restraint. Ideas exist both on and below the surface of their material outcomes. This is less about immediacy, and more about intellectual engagement, and an invitation to discover further meaning in materials and finishes and the dialogues formed between seemly independent (but ultimately interrelated) documents.
LogoArchive Extra Issue: pLAy by Sutherl&
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LogoArchive launches its most pLAyfuL issue to date. Designed by Jim Sutherland, Studio Sutherl&, and featuring a story by poet and creative Director Tom Sharp, this latest LogoArchive Extra Issue presents an enquiry into work and play in graphic design practice and offers a new way to look at old things. Using a unique perforated grid the LogoArchive booklet becomes an involving series of games that seek to evoke in the reader aspects or work (regulated and goal-orientated) and play (intuitive and self-directed).
LogoArchive Extra Issue: pLAy can ordered at logoarchive.shop.
LogoArchive – Logo Redux by Darren Leader
Posted: Filed under: BP&O Publications, Graphic Design History, Publishing | Tags: Book & Magazine Cover Design, Creasing in Print, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Editorial Design, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Magazine Design, Magazine Review, Magazine Spreads, The Best Design for Print 2021 Comments Off on LogoArchive – Logo Redux by Darren Leader 
LogoArchive returns with its fifth collaborative Extra Issue: Logo Redux, dedicated to the fascinating theme of Renaissance printers’ marks. These marks, many drawn from the 15th century, appear somewhat modernist in nature. As such, this Extra Issue functions as a “prequel” to previous LogoArchive issues, and positions printers’ marks as a precursor to the modernist corporate trademarks of the mid-century.
Conceptualised by designer, educator and researcher Darren Leader, working in collaboration with Unlocking The Archive, the University of East Anglia and editor Richard Baird, this Extra Issue intends to revive interest in printers’ marks and the inventive typography of renaissance publishing.
Logo Redux is a Limited Edition run, these can be ordered at logoarchive.shop.
