The Beaufort designed by The Company You Keep
Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Cafes, Bars and Restaurants, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Design News, Design Opinion, Designed by The Company You Keep, From Australia, Graphic Design, Illustration, Label Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logos, Monogram Design, Overprint, Packaging Design, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, Serif Logotypes, The Best Brand Identities of 2013, The Best Logo Designs of 2013, Tinted Photography, Typography, Wine Label Design | Comments Off on The Beaufort designed by The Company You KeepDesign agency The Company You Keep (TCYK) have recently finished working with bartender Dave Kerr on the naming, branding, collateral design and signage for The Beaufort, a themed dive bar located on Melbourne’s Rathdowne St. The agency’s visual identity solution, a combination of a quirky, well rendered, bespoke logo-type – built from unusual but original uppercase characters inspired by iron dock cleats and American sporting insignia of the 50’s and 60’s – set along a classic curved baseline and executed with a more recent single consistent line weight and rounded terminals.
Alongside a neat anchor monogram, type heavy collateral layouts and retro imagery -with an on-trend watery blue tint and a red overprint treatment across a simple white substrate – delivers a distinctive and nautical personality with a sporting undertone and a contemporary simplicity.
The Honours designed by Touch
Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Cafes, Bars and Restaurants, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Business Card Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Designed by Touch, Foil Blocking, Food Logos and Packaging Design, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logos, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Monogram Design, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, Restaurant Logos, Scottish Design, Serif Logotypes, The Best Brand Identities of 2013, The Best Logo Designs of 2013, Typography | Comments Off on The Honours designed by TouchThe Honours is an Edinburgh-based and Parisian-influenced brasserie owned by two Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur Martin Wishart. The brasserie’s visual identity, developed by creative agency Touch – also responsible for the branding of Martin’s other establishments, combines a well-spaced logo-type, a creative monogram, black and cream colour palette, tactile material textures and a block foil print finish to communicate a traditional crafted approach to food, the use of high quality ingredients and personal service practices set within a contemporary environment.
PizzaLuxe designed by Touch
Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Cafes, Bars and Restaurants, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding News, Business Card Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Touch, Designed in London, Fluorescent Ink, Fluorescent Paper, Food Logos and Packaging Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Logo News, Logo Opinion, Logos, Logotypes, Pizzeria, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, Sans-serif Logotypes, The Best Brand Identities of 2013, The Best Logo Designs of 2013, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog | Comments Off on PizzaLuxe designed by TouchPizzaLuxe is a restaurant located on London’s Brick Lane that hand makes good-value, freshly baked pizzas using locally sourced, ‘deluxe’ ingredients. To coincide with an expansion into the Westfield centre, Stratford, the brand approached Edinburgh-based design studio Touch to develop a new visual identity that would communicate their core values within a more ‘polished’ environment.