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Packaging:
The Extraction Economy
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on tube keys and skincare products....
Exemplary brand collabs don’t compromise: the joyful designs for Midnight Hotdog ‘dog fur mist’ by SMLXL
Back in February, we covered a project that was so delightful I still think of it often (not least thanks to its utterly ridiculous, ingenuously earwormish jingle): HotDog, with its branding by SMLXL. There was, and is, so much to love about this identity: there’s the logo formed of two dogs, one sniffing the other’s bum, reduced to its most...
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Si Maclennan Studio
2022, South Africa, 2022
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Benifex
For Different
2026, UK, Employment
If you’ve visited an off-licence, you’ve heard of Lebara – now thanks to Verve, the brand finally makes sense
Lebara. Le-ba-ra. It’s a word that’s become so familiar to many of us, sonically at least, as to have become almost part of the wallpaper. But semantically, conceptually, literally – do many of us really know what it is? If you’re anything like me or the very small sample of around five to six people who just happened to be...
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Packaging:
Wild Herbs, Wilder Ambitions
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on Herman-Scheer‘s branding and packaging for herbal tea brand Stash....
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How & How takes a smart, bright collage-based approach to overhauling Bristol Dockyards
For those outside of Bristol, it’s all too easy to assume that the city is merely a place where Triphop and Dubstep were born; a Mecca for trustafarian types on a perennial ‘gap yahhh’ wearing those trousers that make people look as if they’ve had some sort of toilet issue; a place where the streets are paved with ketamine and...
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HIUT
Pentagram
2026, UK, Fashion
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Xerox
In house
2026, USA, Technology
Base’s brand for smalltown ’80s seafood spot Ray’s is a masterclass in earnestness done well
It’s always a joy to see an international design agency lavish the same respect, care, and craft on a relatively unknown, thoroughly local, but much-beloved brand as they would on, say, a household name product or world-renowned institution. And that’s exactly what Base Design (Kanal, 4P’s, The Huntington) – which has outposts in New York, Brussels, Melbourne, Geneva, and Saigon...
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Packaging:
A New Kind of Black Gold
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on Smörgåsbord’s branding and packaging for Coaltown Coffee....