Richard Baird
The Stow Brothers by Build
The Stow Brothers is an estate agent working within the area of Walthamstow, a place where urban London meets the Epping Forest, and is described by the estate agent as a rapidly expanding community of like-minded people looking for a place with a strong sense of community, plenty of culture, good food and a decent pint. UK-based graphic design studio Build worked with The...
Pablo & Rusty’s by Manual
Pablo & Rusty’s is a small-batch coffee roaster, wholesaler, retailer and cafe with four locations in and around Sydney, and a company culture passionate about sustainability and the pursuit of perfection. San Francisco based studio Manual created a visual identity for Pablo & Rusty’s that would better reflect their values, was sensitive to local coffee culture and is described as having a level...
Hemslöjden by Snask
Hemslöjden is a non-profit organisation promoting craft across Sweden through courses, talks and activities. Set up as a response to the advance of industrialisation, Hemslöjden has a significant 100 year history, fostering strong relationships between culture and industry to ensure the survival and development of handicraft. It is also a publisher, events organiser and acts as an umbrella for Sweden’s handicraft societies with the understanding that these, and their activities, contribute...
Estampaciones Fuerte by Hey, Spain
Estampaciones Fuerte is a Spanish cold metal stamping and pressing business with over forty years experience producing a variety of components for the automotive, domestic appliance and construction industries, as well as providing welding, finishing, threading and set assembling services. This year Hey worked with Estampaciones Fuerte to develop a new contemporary brand identity that would better reflect their industrial experience and professionalism....
Signet 100 HB Pencils by Well Made Studio
Signet is a new pencil range developed by British home, outdoor and lifestyle retailer Pedlars, who applied their expertise to an own-brand product line following a lengthy international search for the perfect pencil. 100, the first of the Signet range and launched in November this year, is made from American basswood, finished in orange with a silver foil detail and crafted by a long-established family-run business...
The Best of BP&O — Business Cards No.6
The sixth collection of business cards reviewed and published on BP&O. Between them, these highlight how colour, type, form and texture contrast, delivered through a combination of graphic design, material choice and print finish, contribute to a distinctive and communicative brand identity. As with earlier sets, this selection includes uncoated and coated boards, papers from Colorplan and Arjowiggins, edge painted detail, surface embosses...
Mother Cold Pressed Juice by Mucho
Mother creates fresh cold pressed juices, milks, smoothies, cereal bars, snacks and detox systems from its location at the centre of Barcelona. Mother recently commissioned design studio Mucho to develop a name, visual identity and packaging treatment that would help express the love and care they put into crafting their range and the technological and industrial processes required to produce them....
Minke by Atipo
Minke is a Spanish print production studio that favours ‘analogue splendour’ over mass manufacture, providing its clients with a variety of small-scale, mechanical and handcrafted processes and print finishes. Their visual identity, developed by multidisciplinary design studio Atipo, reflects this philosophy and service through a mix of traditional and contemporary detail split across type, colour, material texture, print finish, pattern and die cut...
Arjowiggins Curious Matter x FIAC by The Bakery
FIAC is an annual contemporary arts fair where galleries from across the world gather and present work by the emerging artists they represent. The fair takes place at the Grand Palais in Paris and runs for four days during October. Paper merchant Arjowiggins, a longstanding partner, continued to support the event by providing material for FIAC’s catalogue and event guides. This year, these featured a distinctive bookmark...
John Lewis Spectrum by Pentagram
Spectrum is a recently redesigned consumer electronics range created by and sold through British department store John Lewis. The range includes DAB radios, alarm clocks, speakers and iPad covers. These are bound by a cohesive aesthetic of soft plastic, geometric forms, bright colours and a packaging treatment created by international design studio Pentagram, led by partner Harry Pearce....
Bildmuseet by Stockholm Design Lab
Bildmuseet is a centre for visual culture and a museum dedicated to the exhibition of modern international art, architecture, design and photography, as well as retrospectives, and is described as a place for experiences, reflection and discussion. Opened in 2012, Bildmuseet is part of the arts campus at Umeå University, Stockholm, and housed within a distinctive building designed by Henning Larsen Architects...
Bray & Slaughter by Mytton Williams
Bray & Slaughter is a UK based regional contractor with over 100 years of experience in the construction industry and an extensive understanding of the education, healthcare, commercial, heritage, conservation and residential sectors. Following industry and company changes, Bray & Slaughter commissioned design studio Mytton Williams to create a new visual identity that would better reflect their growth and move from ‘local builder’ to ‘regional...