Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Cafes, Bars and Restaurants, Material & Print Specs | Tags: Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Buckram Embossed Paper, Colorplan Embossed Paper, Colorplan Papers and Boards, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, G.F Smith Papers & Boards, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logos, Material Thinking, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, Restaurant Logos, Sans-serif Typography, Typography | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Yumn is a casual luxury restaurant located within Croydon’s Boxpark, a pop-up mall for independent and global fashion and lifestyle stores, cafes and restaurants, housed within converted shipping containers. Yumn is a smaller and more intimate version of Yumn Brasserie with a similar approach to interior in its mix of blue pinned leather upholstered seating and high quality finishes, but shares something of Boxpark’s utilitarian build in its unpolished concrete walls, some of its fixtures and fittings and the industrial qualities of its brand identity, created by Brighton-based graphic design studio Filthymedia. This included menus and business cards, window graphics and signage.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Fashion, Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Material & Print Specs | Tags: Art Direction, Black Block Foil, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colorplan Embossed Paper, Colorplan Papers and Boards, Coloured Paper, Copper Block Foil, Custom Typefaces & Logotypes, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed in Leeds, Fedrigoni Papers & Boards, Fonts in Use: Pitch, G.F Smith Papers & Boards, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimalist Brand Identities, Responsive Websites, Swing Tag Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, The Very Best of 2016, Type Foundry: Klim Type Foundry, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Website Design | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Helbers is a Parisian menswear label created by Paul Helbers, the former Head of Menswear at Maison Margiela and ex-Menswear Director at Louis Vuitton. The label has a carefully curated lookbook of garments and footwear with an unpolished elegance, and feature a subtle contrast of materials. Helbers has secured early acclaim for his AW16 collection, and is due to appear in stores around the world in the coming weeks.
Paul worked with Leeds-based graphic design studio Only to create a brand identity that would clearly express the meeting of what the studio describe as the contemporary and the antiquarian, craftsmanship and utility. This is visually articulated in the simplicity and materiality of identity, type contrast and a limited colour palette that runs across a variety of assets. These included tags, labels, stationery, business cards, hangers, packaging, lookbook and responsive website.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Fashion, Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Bag Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Colorplan Embossed Paper, Colorplan Papers and Boards, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bibliothèque, Faces, Fonts in Use: Maison, Fonts in Use: Noe, From Europe, From the United Kingdom, G.F Smith Papers & Boards, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Design Trends: Clever Logos, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Sans-serif Logotypes, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, The Very Best of 2016, Tote Bag Design, Type Foundry: Milieu Grotesque, Typography | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Linden Stuab is a UK-based model agency challenging industry conventions with their mantra ‘Empowering Women’, and by acting as a mother agency to all of their models. The name Linden Staub, derived from the maiden names of the two founding partner’s mothers, is an expression of this, and alongside the agency’s strong human-focus, was the basis for their new brand identity, created by graphic design studio Bibliothèque. This links a variety of collateral, from stationery and business cards to model cards, tote bags and a new digital platform that takes a journal-like approach to content.
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