Arco by Raw Color, the Netherlands
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Raw Color, Dutch Design, Fonts in Use: Brown, Furniture Design Logos, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Homeware, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Modernist Brand Identities, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Business Cards of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, The Netherlands, The Very Best of 2016, The Very Best of BP&O, Type Foundry: Lineto, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Arco by Raw Color, the NetherlandsOpinion by Richard Baird.
Arco is a family run contemporary furniture design and manufacturing company that currently rests in the hands of fourth generation family members, and has a respectable 110 year history. Arco has tables and chairs at the heart of its collection and specialises in woodwork, a reflection of its location in Winterswijk, an area of dense natural woodland in East Netherlands.
Eindhoven-based graphic design studio Raw Color worked with Arco Creative Director Jorre van Ast to revise the company’s brand identity, with a focus on its unique location and local production. This is expressed through the documentation of the surrounding area, the factory and its craftsmen. While the logotype remains the same, Raw Color delivered a compelling visual identity that juxtaposes solid colour and seasonal image, and uses contemporary type to deliver a collective tone of voice. This extends across and links a variety of print communication that includes business cards, leaflets, brochures, catalogues and postcards.
Elements by dn&co. United Kingdom
Posted: Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Brochure Design, Copper Block Foil, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by dn&co., Foil Blocking, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Handcraft, Homeware, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Elements by dn&co. United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird.
Elements is the latest spout and handle range from Brooklyn-based boutique brassware business The Watermark Collection. It features 15 metal finishes, 3 handle designs and 19 hand-crafted covers. These make up a potential quarter of a million possible combinations. The modularity, materiality and variety of Elements is drawn on and expressed through a visual identity created by British design studio dn&co, which then plays out across a range of distinctive brochure covers.
Learig by The District, United Kingdom
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Learig is a UK-based commercial and residential property developer managing projects end to end, from planning to design to build, and the financial considerations that link each of these stages. This end to end management, and Learig’s three tiers of expertise, is visually articulated by its new brand identity, designed by The District, through a logo of three stacked blogs which extend out to guide people through property, linking information and punctuating neutral white walls with a distinctive neon green. The project also included stationery, business cards, brand guidelines, interior signage and brochure design linked by bold colour and consistent type.