Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Colour in Use: White, Coloured Paper, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bedow, Distillery Logos and Packaging, Fonts In Use: Geometric Sans-serif, Gin Branding, Gin Packaging, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Material Thinking, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Packaging Opinion, Structural Package Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2020, The Best Packaging of 2020, The Very Best of 2020, Type Foundry: Colophon, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog | Text by Richard Baird.
Atop of Croatia’s Istria peninsula, just where the land slips into the Adriatic sea sits the tiny small-batch gin distillery of Monachus. Stone shores, botanical covered hillsides, the smell of pine and scattered pin cones characterises the landscape. Drawing on this, the natural history of Istria and the name Monachus, borrowed from Monachus Monachus an endangered Mediterranean monk seal, Swedish design studio Bedow created a visual identity and labelling for the distillery.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Logo Reviews, Technology | Tags: Banner Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bleed, Fonts In Use: Geometric Sans-serif, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Norwegian Design, Sans-serif Typography, Supergraphics, Swedish Design, The Best Design for Print 2020, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2020, The Very Best of 2020 | Text by Richard Baird.
Avo is a Nordic technology and management consultancy with offices in Norway and Sweden. Since its founding in 2016 it has seen rapid growth, expanding from 5 to 85 employees in three years. It has done this through a strategic rethinking of the way in which consultancy services are delivered, removing the buzz words associated with the industry, solving business problems and then helping to make the necessary changes easy. The Avo Consultancy culture is described as having a unique and playful philosophy. It is this, and the ambiguity of the AVO name (often assumed to be an acronym, or initials with an embedded meaning) that was the foundation of a new visual identity design created by Bleed. This playful philosophy and ambiguity is expressed predominantly as an A, followed by two characters from “Avodings”, a custom typeface of unique dingbats. This links the Avo Consultancy website, alongside colour and Neue Haas Unica, with interior supergraphics, tote bags, banners, posters employee generated e-mail signatures and other communications.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Banner Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Catalogue Design, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Design Blog, Design for Cultural Institutions, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio fnt, Fluorescent Ink, Foil Blocking, Fonts In Use: Geometric Sans-serif, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Holographic Block Foil, Korean Design, Material Thinking, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, Supergraphics, The Best Design for Print 2020, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2020, The Very Best of 2020, Typography | Words by Richard Baird
Both Sides Now, a title borrowed from Joni Mitchell’s famous song, is a solo exhibition of Argentinian contemporary artist Leandro Erlich’s work that took place at the Seoul Museum of Art between December 2019 and March 2020. Erlich’s installations, often receiving international acclaim, mirrors, reflective surfaces, water and other various materials to create optical illusions to transform familiar, everyday spaces such as an elevator, staircase or swimming pool.
South Korean designers Studio fnt worked on the creation of a visual identity for the exhibition that would link a variety of surfaces, from supergraphics, to programmes to posters to banners and digital displays by drawing on one of the artist’s pieces to convey recurring ideas, proposals and motifs found throughout Erlich’s work.
Structure, holographic foil and distorted typographical elements are woven together to express the transience and subversiveness of a reflection or shadow, as well as the blurred boundaries between the the material objects that make up our subjective experience.
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