Originally established in 1929 as the Newark Nut Company, Nuts.com is a family owned on-line retailer of nuts, dried fruit, snacks, chocolate, tea and coffee. Following a recent url change, international design agency Pentagram, lead by partner Michael Bierut, created a new visual identity and packaging solution ‘that would help establish Nuts.com as a distinctive brand’. Based around a bright and distinctive colour palette,...
Caramela is a Monterry-based chocolate boutique and caterer that creates traditional treats inspired by European pastries. Their identity, designed by independent design agency Anagrama, is an unusual but striking mix of a sweet neon pink and clinical white, a subtle 80’s retro-fashion polkadot pattern, the practical/industrial and craft aesthetic of an unbleached and uncoated substrate, adhesives and white screen print, finished with a simple but...
Kinetica is an international industrial design studio located in Santa Catarina, Mexico, that specialises in non-standard architectural projects. Their new visual identity, created by ‘supermodernist’ design agency Face, utilises a bold black and yellow colour palette, a straightforward sans-serif logo-type, plenty of space and a grid based collateral layout to establish a restrained and contemporary interpretation of heavy industry infused with subtle architectural cues....
Mi&Mall is an online shopping destination and resource that brings together and supports small to medium designer brands for people interested in fashion, trends and exclusive collections. Based around a simple logo-type, ampersand, a pale colour palette and a tactile print and material choice, Mi&Mall’s visual identity, created by Spanish multidisciplinary design studio Atipo, mixes high fashion and boutique craft...
Minke is a Tokyo homeware store that stocks hard to find designer objects and furniture. The store’s identity, created by New York based design firm Studio Lin, neatly resolves the classic and the contemporary, the structured and the anarchic, creativity and practicality through a union of bold serif, modernistic structure, random geometric detail and a bright but restrained primary colour palette....
Nostalgi is a hat and shoe rack, now considered a Swedish furniture classic, designed by Gunnar Bolin in 1937 and manufactured by Essem. Taking its cues from Essem’s functionalist past and artisanal manufacturing processes, Stockholm based graphic and product design studio Bedow, developed a packaging solution for Nostalgi that contrasts two vastly different sizes of Futura, reflecting the products bold,...
Casa Bosques is an initiative, founded by Mexico based design studio Savvy, to develop a variety of seasonal and sustainable products through a collaborative process across multiple disciplines. The initiative’s first product line, a range of 12 chocolates inspired by the months of the year, were created by master chocolatier Jorge Llanderal using high quality Ecuadorian cocoa fused with spices...
Olvi is Finnish independent brewery that produces a broad range of beers, waters, juices, and soft drinks. Their latest range of dry, light and sweet ciders, branded and packaged by Helsinki based design studio Bond, working in collaboration with Stina Persson, were developed to have ‘a strong shelf impact with natural and pure design which stands out from competitors green bottles’....
Polish design studio For Brands (formerly Artentiko) have published images of their latest visual identity project commissioned by Wrocław based architectural studio Ideo Architekci. Based around a modular and dynamic grid based framework, modernistic typeface and a bright industrial colour palette, Artentiko’s solution manages to capture the fundamental aspect of architectural planning and a consistent but expansive approach....
Spritmuseum (formerly Vin & Sprithistoriska Museet) is a Stockholm based art gallery, museum, tasting room, meeting-place, bar, restaurant and open-air café with a unique spirit theme. Its new identity, developed by multidisciplinary design agency Stockholm Design Lab, is based around a bold word-mark constructed from a typeface now synonymous with the Absolut brand (and Swedish design) and pairs it with a simple but iconic four stroke...
Modhouse is an Australian design and building firm that specialises in sustainability, modular construction techniques and interior design. The company’s new brand identity, created by holistic design studio A Friend Of Mine, visualises their specialist approach with a set of elemental and geometric containers, bold sans serif typography and a colour palette that juxtaposes bright creative colours with warm architectural greys....
Privacy International is a UK based non-profit organisation established in 1990 to monitor the security intrusions of governments and business, increase the awareness of data protection concerns and establish ‘new forms of privacy advocacy’ at an international level. Made up of computer professionals, academics, lawyers, journalists and human rights campaigners the organisation has worked on initiatives across fifty countries and is...