Northstar Film Alliance by Bond
Posted: Filed under: Film | Tags: Brand Book, Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Brochure Design 2020, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Coloured Paper, Condensed Logotypes, Condensed Typography, Corporate Identity Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bond, Film Production Logos, Fluorescent Ink, Fluorescent Paper, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Material Thinking, New Logo, Poster Design, Sans-serif Typography, tape bind, The Best Brand Identities of 2020, The Best Design for Print 2020, The Very Best of 2019, The Very Best of 2020, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Northstar Film Alliance by BondOpinion by Richard Baird
North Star Film Alliance (NSFA) is a joint venture between Estonia, Latvia and Finland. The Alliance intends to develop and promote themselves as one filmmaking region to international film and TV productions. It is a competitive marketplace, with other countries provide low tax rates and incentives to film big-budget spectacles on their stages using local crews. Together, the three countries offer a diverse and unspoilt nature, architectural diversity, political stability, cost effective production and infrastructure, as well as international travel hubs and the best drone pilots for arial footage. Design studio Bond recognised that the challenge lay, not only in developing an immediate and striking visual identity, but to establish a framework, codified in a new brand guidelines document, that could support and collectively raise the profiles of multiple cross-border partners in the Alliance.
Anton&Anton Kioski by Bond
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Anton&Anton (A&A) is an alternative to and antithesis of the large supermarket chains. Staff are described as relaxed, smiley and proud. Their ranges (mostly) organic, some homecooked and also available online for home delivery. With a desire to express an approachable, playful yet credible positioning, and a need to develop a cohesive set of packaging and communications assets A&A worked with Bond to create a new visual identity. This is characterised by an intersection of an elegant wordmark, simple shapes, multi-colour and distinctive structural designs that also move into a retail space designed by Futu Design. Alongside wordmark, iconography and packaging, Bond also designed signage, tote bags, aprons and sweatshirts.
Kape 24h by Bond, Finland
Posted: Filed under: Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Material & Print Specs | Tags: Art Direction, Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Colour in Use: Gold, Cooking Logos and Packaging, Designed by Bond, Edge Gilding, Finnish Design, From Scandinavia, Gold Foil, Print Finishing, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018 Comments Off on Kape 24h by Bond, FinlandOpinion by Richard Baird.
Kari Aihinen is a Finnish chef with a growing international reputation. Aside from creating exclusive pop-up Finnish dinning experiences for New Yorkers, working for Ravintola Savoy and developing one-off Nordic-Asian menus with chef Eric Neo in Singapore, he is also the co-founder and headchef of Helsinki restaurant Roster.
Roster is a distinct experience. It features an interior design of custom furniture with a vintage twist, raw and refined materials and hand-picked design objects. Although sophisticated, Roster is a casual rather than formal dinning experience. The restaurant’s graphic identity, designed by Scandinavian studio Bond, is an articulation of this, and the brisk, humorous and warm personality of Kari Aihinen. This is furthered explored in the design of Kari Aihinen’s new cookbook Kape 24h, also designed by Bond.
