FranklinTill by Commission
Posted: June 12, 2018 Filed under: Art and Design, Logo Reviews | Tags: Blind Emboss, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Business Card Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Commission Studio, Designed in London, Fonts in Use: GT America, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Paper Marquetry Business Cards, Sans-serif Typography, Stationery Design, The Best Business Cards of 2018, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Best Logo Designs of 2018, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2018, The Very Best of 2018, Type Foundry: Grilli Type, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Wordmark Design Comments Off on FranklinTill by CommissionOpinion by Richard Baird
FranklinTill is a futures research agency working with lifestyle brands, design-orientated businesses and organisations in a variety of sectors to explore and implement design, material and colour innovation. Their services include conducting, analysing and communicating research and bringing this to life through strategic insights, publications and experiences.
FranklinTill’s clients essentially turn to them for insight into form, colour and material, and their innovative and sustainable outlook. This, in turn, informed the development of their new visual identity, created by London based Commission. This is characterised by a critical coalesce of form, colour and material composition that serve to link business cards, stationery set and pin badges. Online, colour and form is explored, absent the tactile qualities of print, through the abstraction and diffused quality of imagery.
CareerTrackers by Garbett
Posted: June 4, 2018 Filed under: Education, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Annual Report, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2018, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Colour in Branding and Packaging, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Garbett, Designed in Sydney, Form Language, From Australia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on CareerTrackers by GarbettOpinion by Richard Baird
CareerTrackers is an Australian nation-wide charitable organisation that addresses Indigenous disadvantage by developing professional career pathways, internship programs and links with private sector employers for Indigenous university students. It does this through a model adapted from an African-American internship program which has a proven legacy of 45 years. This is based on an approach that sees students intern with sponsoring companies with the intention of converting them into full-time employees following their university degree.
Sydney-based studio Garbett worked with CareerTrackers to develop a visual identity for the organisation’s report and Gala Awards evening which included banners, information cards and awards. These are united by a striking and modern yet referential coalescence of form and multi-colour, and an element of the structural.
Essem Design Product Catalogue 2018 by Bedow
Posted: June 1, 2018 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.
