Essem Design Product Catalogue 2018 by Bedow
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Art Direction, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Brochure Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bedow, Fonts in Use: Dala Moa, From Scandinavia, Furniture Design Logos, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Illustration, Sans-serif Typography, Stencil, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018 Comments Off on Essem Design Product Catalogue 2018 by BedowOpinion by Richard Baird
In 2014 Bedow worked with Essem Design, a Swedish manufacturer of artisanal hallway products and furniture, to develop a new graphic identity. This included logotype, adverts, catalogue, product sheet and stationery design. The concept was based around the simple gesture “Hej—Hej då”, hello and goodbye in Swedish and a reference to the most common phrase used in the hallway.
This verbal gesture was visualised using Commercial Type’s Dala Moa, paired with Futura, and played out across a brochure and stationery set of white and unbleached papers. The result balanced a playful and personable expression with the functional and crafted. This is expanded on and further explored throughout Essem Design’s 2018 product catalogue, also designed by Bedow, in the approach to art direction, colour, form and illustration.
Shakespeare In The Park 2018 by Pentagram
Posted: Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews, Theatre | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Campaign Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Pentagram, Festival and Event Brand Identities, Fonts in Use: Knockout, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Paula Scher, Poster Design, Sign Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best of 2018, The Very Best of BP&O, Theatre Logos, Type Play, Typography Comments Off on Shakespeare In The Park 2018 by PentagramOpinion by Richard Baird
Shakespeare In The Park is an annual event and series of free performances presented by New York’s The Public Theatre that will take place at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park during May and throughout June. This year will see performances of Othello and Twelfth Night. These are being promoted by a campaign developed by Pentagram’s Paula Scher, with assets such as signage being designed and deployed by Public’s in-house team. This builds on the enduring identity Paula Scher designed for the theatre in 1994, revised in 2005 and 2008, maintaining its impact and dynamic qualities whilst working in a new and distinctive colour palette of bright gradients, contrasting solid blocks of black and a strong sense of the systematised and the architectural. Alongside the tagline “Be In The Park” this links signage, static and dynamic posters and billboards, t-shirts, tote bags and newspaper advertising.
Näsby Slottspark by Bedow
Posted: Filed under: Logo Reviews, Property | Tags: Black Block Foil, Blind Emboss, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2018, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Coloured Paper, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bedow, Designed in Stockholm, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logotypes, Print Finishing, Property Development Logos, Sans-serif Typography, Serif Logotypes, Serif Typography, Swedish Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2018, The Very Best of 2018, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Näsby Slottspark by BedowOpinion by Richard Baird
Näsby Slottspark is a residential property development located in Täby, a municipality situated north of Stockholm. The development is built around a 17th-century castle and its gardens, and is made up of three distinct structural groupings, Södra Parken, Norra Parken and Strandängarna. Each of these is characterised by a Scandinavian simplicity, lightness and truth to materials inside and out and by their surroundings, a landscape of natural grasses, hedgerows and parkland. This mix of regional legacy, natural beauty and modern structure is expressed by the development’s visual identity, designed by Bedow, through logo design, type choice, illustration and photography online and in the material composition, finish and layout of brochures.
