In response to a change in leadership and the acquisition of new staff, Norwegian architectural firm Ottar commissioned Tromsø and Oslo-based design studio Tank to develop a new name and brand identity—which would go on to include a logo, stationery set and responsive website—that would better reflect the quality, professionalism and scale of the firm’s work within the health and education sector, whilst...
Single Origin is a Sydney-based coffee specialist with a roast works in Botany and a cafe in Surrey Hills. Single Origin approached Maud to create a brand identity solution—which included logo design, stationery and packaging—that would reflect the low-key nature of the brand, the founders’ desire to avoid any notion of commercialism and help them expand into new markets. In a ‘category rife...
The Swedish History Museum is one of the country’s largest museums with a collection of over 10 million objects from a history that spans thousands of years. The museum also functions as a venue for lectures, concerts and a variety of activities. Stockholm-based design studio Bold were recently commissioned to develop a new brand identity for the museum that would...
Established in 1891 by Karl and Berta Fazer and located in Helsinki district of Kluuvikatu, Fazer began life as a French-Russian conditory that has grown to become one of Finland’s largest food companies, working within the bakery, confectionery, and work-place restaurant sectors. Summer 2013 saw the return of Fazer’s café chain to Helsinki with locations in the centre of the city and in the...
Giant Owl is a London-based independent production company that creates television programmes, commercials and short films for clients such as Channel 4 and Rimmel London. Design agency Alphabetical recently developed a new brand identity solution for Giant Owl—which included an animated logo, flat colour palette, glow-in-the-dark paper and bold illustrative detail—that leverages a simple observation to balance an expected technicality with a playful...
uBear is a high-end mobile phone, tablet and laptop accessories business located in Los Angeles, California. Their visual identity, developed by Hype Type Studio and Mash Creative, included a new logo, stationery set, packaging and responsive website. By utilising the bold graphic detail of diagonal stripes, sans-serif type, a bright and diverse colour palette, fine diagrammatic illustration, foils and varnishes and a simple bear...
MHM Architect is the studio of independent Canadian architect Maxine H. Marcovitch who, working with a team of professionals, trade and closely with clients, creates “beautiful, innovative, and unconventional architectural spaces.” The studio’s new brand identity, developed by 26 Lettres and which included a logotype, blind embossed business cards, portfolio with open stitch detail and website, delivers a familiar but appropriate...
Cerovski is a young Croatian print production studio that revels in the challenge of “nebulous finishing, microscopic editions, absurd materials and crazy deadlines”. Bunch worked with Cerovski to develop a new brand identity for the studio—which included a custom logotype and typeface, website, and a variety of printed collateral—that delivers a distinctive contrast of utility and creative flourish, technology and individualised service...
PÜR is a health-food store with two locations in the Finnish capital of Helsinki. Design studio Bond worked with PÜR on brand identity, from logo, iconography and art direction, to interior design, website, advertising and marketing materials. Using a blend of bold sans-serif characters and moment of typographical play, earthy material detail and a pastel colour palette, still life photography...
Bambudda is a contemporary Chinese restaurant, located in Vancouver’s Gastown district, with a menu that mixes Hong Kong and southern Chinese cuisine with a modern interpretation of Dim Sung. Design agency Post Projects recently developed a brand identity for the restaurant—which included a logo, menus, stationery and website design—based around a simple but unexpected logotype set in Timonium....
The Raiffeisen Rechenzentrum is a customised IT infrastructure service provider and subsidiary of Raiffeisen Landesbank with a modern, ‘high availability’ and maximum security data centre located in Austria. Design agency Moodley recently developed RRZ’s brand identity—which included a logo, business cards, brochure and website—based around a single sans-serif, a contrast of humanistic and technological imagery and a white, black and bright...
Puebla 109 is a three floor 20th century townhouse, located in the Roma Norte colonia of Mexico City, “where art, design and gastronomy converge” in the form of an evolving space utilised as a place to work in the morning, as a restaurant to eat lunch in the afternoon and as a bar to have cocktails in the evening. Puebla 109’s new brand identity—which includes...