Old Spike Coffee by Commission Studio, United Kingdom
Posted: Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Bag Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Coffee Logos and Packaging Design, Coffee Shop Branding, Creative Packaging, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Commission Studio, Designed in London, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logos, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Packaging Shortlist 2017, Sculpted Emboss, Structural Package Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Best New Logo Designs of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, The Very Best Packaging of 2017, Tote Bag Design, Typography, Unbleached Materials Comments Off on Old Spike Coffee by Commission Studio, United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird
Old Spike is a coffee roastery, subscription service and wholesaler, cafe and social enterprise working with the homeless, located in South East London. It is situated on the site of a former workhouse, a place where the poor would break rocks over metal spikes for food and lodgings, and where the roaster gets its name. With a desire to separate the roastery’s commercial and social activities Commission Studio worked to develop a retail and subscription packaging design that avoided the conventions of the market, and worked together a sense of the artisanal and wholesome and the eye-catching and luxury.
The Dayrooms by Two Times Elliott, United Kingdom
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The Dayrooms is a multi-label womenswear store, located in the London district of Notting Hill, created by Aytan Mehdiyeva and Zumrud Mammadova. The store gives a UK platform to emerging Australian designers and is an expression of Aytan and Zumrud’s shared passion for fashion and travel, and Aytan’s love of photography, textiles and Australian craftsmanship. This is reflected throughout The Dayroom’s graphic identity, developed by Two Times Elliott, not only in the simple but carefully crafted intersection of reductive graphic expression and material detail, but in the concept of curated moments, expressed through language, image and objects.
Building on their work for The Dayrooms’ retail space, Two Times Elliott also went on to develop graphic identity, spacial creative and brand direction for The Dayrooms Café, an Australian-inspired organic café located in the London boroughs of Holborn and Notting Hill. Assets included loyalty cards, coffee cups, takeaway bags, branded tissue paper and website.
Artek Helsinki by Tsto, Finland
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Retail | Tags: Bag Design, Black and White, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Tsto, Designed in Helsinki, Finnish Design, From Scandinavia, Furniture Design Logos, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Homeware, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimalist Brand Identities, Modernist Brand Identities, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Packaging Company, Packaging Design Resource, Retail Logos, Sans-serif Logotypes, Spot Colours, Swing Tag Design, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography Comments Off on Artek Helsinki by Tsto, FinlandOpinion by Richard Baird.
Artek is a Finnish furniture and product design business and retailer with a flagship store in Helsinki. It was founded in 1935 by architect Alvar Aalto and wife Aino Aalto, the arts promoter Maire Gullichsen and art historian Nils-Gustav Hahl.
Artek grew alongside and shared many of the qualities of the 20th century modernist movement, blending art and technology, and making the most of improved technical expertise in mass manufacturing to produce well-crafted and functional products from good quality materials for everyday living. The company has remained true to these values, and its 2nd cycle initiative, a platform for reselling Artek furniture, is a testament to the aesthetic and material longevity of its products.
Artek worked with Scandinavian graphic design studio Tsto to build out the visual identity system of their flagship store, Artek Helsinki. The studio’s approach layers this system with additional type, illustration created from the partial forms of Artek’s product range and establishes a new set of visual guidelines. This runs across and links tags, stationery, business cards, packaging, magazine covers and shopping bags.
