NOW was a free exhibition presented by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation that took place throughout May at Taidehalli in Helsinki. The exhibition unveiled the six shortlisted proposals for a Guggenheim museum in the capital, visualised, analysed and interpreted data drawn from the 1,715 projects submitted, and was also a chance to view the fifteen designs that received an honourable mention. The exhibition was extended to...
島の土 / Island of Soil is an organic fertiliser created to help develop good quality soil and draw out and compliment the natural power of the land. The range is made using livestock feces and processed vegetable scraps from animals raised and produce grown on the Japanese island of Awaji. It comes in two varieties, a poultry manure and sawdust mix, and a rapeseed...
UMFF is a film festival that takes place at the Ulju Arts Centre located in the South Korean city of Ulsan, and draws its name from the Ulju mountains to the west. Studio fnt worked with the film festival to develop a new visual identity treatment, which went on to include logotype, iconography, business cards, stationery, t-shirt design and signage, based around a contemporary...
Zuzunaga is a homeware and fashion accessory business founded in ’07 by London and Barcelona based artist and designer Cristian Zuzunaga. Zuzunaga’s products, which include towels, tech covers, cushions, shawls, shoes and upholstery fabrics, are informed by contemporary living and seek to find a charm, warmth and humanity within the digital world. Products are characterised by lines, pixels, geometric abstractions and a...
The Mansion on Marylebone Lane will be a 22-unit high-quality residential development in Central London with lower ground, ground and seven upper floors, roof terraces and two basement levels. It will feature reflective glazed terracotta external cladding with a subtle variation in colour and shade to achieve an element of interest and complexity, while the reverse will be a white reflective glazed terracotta...
Panini Internazionale began life as a small delicatessen in 1990 and since then has grown to become a chain of fast food stores with 19 locations in and around the city of Stockholm, Sweden. Panini Internazionale delivers good quality healthy food quickly and conveniently, is a family run business, and features a name and brand identity treatment developed by Stockholm Design Lab. This included logo,...
Visser & Smith Marine Contracting is the market leader for subsea power cable installation in Europe. It provides and lays grid-to-grid connections for offshore wind farms and similar facilities. Following investment from and partnership with dredging and marine experts Boskalis, Studio Dumbar worked with VMSC, now named VBMS (VolkerWessels Boskalis Marine Solutions) to provide strategy, brand identity and creative direction that would help launch...
Vocation is a UK microbrewery, established and run by John Hickling, with a range of craft beers that have distinctive and punchy flavour profiles, and a visual identity, packaging design and naming convention created by Leeds-based studio Robot Food. This draws on the tropical, fruity, floral and hoppy characteristic of the range, and the brewery’s fearless, daring and renegade attitude. This post was updated March...
Enea is a contemporary furniture manufacturer with a site in the Basque Country. Collaborating with designers Josep Lluscá, Gabriel Teixidó and the trio Lievore Alhterr Molina, Enea has developed a catalogue of versatile, comfortable, durable and functional products for the private and commercial markets. Seeking to differentiate itself from its competitors and with a desire to avoid cliches of the...
David Ryle is an internationally recognised and award-winning photographer with a studio in London. He has a portfolio of work that includes shots for The Sunday Times Magazine, JWT and Saatchi & Saatchi, and is represented across Europe and America by management agency The Peter Bailey Company. Drawing on his attention to detail and relentless pursuit of quality, design studio S-T developed...
Finchtail is dedicated to the design and manufacture of simple, useful and sustainable solutions to everyday problems. Its first product, a low-cost, flat-packed card tablet and mobile phone stand, features a distinctive brand identity and packaging design treatment developed by UK based graphic design studio Believe in. Monospaced type and corrugated card sit alongside die cut detail, white ink, a bold pattern...
The National Institute of Dramatic Art is a national education and training organisation for the performing arts in Australia, and is responsible for developing the talents of some of the country’s biggest stars. With the continued democratisation of performance through digital platforms such as Youtube, and concerns that this had the potential to undermine NIDA’s conservatoire approach, NIDA pursues a...