Finland 100 by Kokoro & Moi, Finland
Posted: April 11, 2017 Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Business Card Design, Coloured Paper, Custom Typography, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Kokoro & Moi, Designed in Helsinki, Finnish Design, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logos, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography 1 Comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
This year Finland celebrates its centenary and will mark the occasion with a broad programme of events created and supported by a wide range of stakeholders. Based around the theme of “Together”, and with the intention of creating a cohesive and useful system to unite events and initiatives from local councils and independent organisations and businesses, Scandinavian design studio Kokoro & Moi created “Finland’s Faces”, a brand identity made up of an extensive and diverse library of faces, drawn in a variety of styles.
With a desire to be inclusive Kokomo & Moi also developed an online platform and complimentary app with developer Great Apes as a strategic part of brand identity. This invites Finns and friends of Finland to participate and edit selfies into unique cartoons, to share these via the social media or submit these to be part of the ‘Finland’s Faces’ collection. These will be used as part of event communications throughout the year.
Alongside print communications and packaging, Kokoro & Moi also developed advertising and several other projects that make up Finland 100. These included product, spatial and interactive design, working in collaboration with Miltton Creative.
Hello Ruby by Kokoro & Moi, Finland
Posted: September 16, 2015 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews, Technology | Tags: Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Custom Typefaces & Logotypes, Custom Typography, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Kokoro & Moi, Designed in Helsinki, Fonts in Use: Maax, From Europe, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Illustration, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Monospaced Logotypes, Monospaced Typography, Sans-serif Typography, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Business Cards of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards 2 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Hello Ruby is a Scandinavian company that offers an accessible and playful way for children to learn about technology, computing and coding, guided by Ruby, an illustrated character, and her animal friends. Founded in 2009, with the intention of being a small art project, and initially limited to a book, Hello Ruby has rapidly grown into a popular and comprehensive children’s computing brand, following a Kickstarter campaign in 2014.
Hello Ruby is a natural progression from the limited brick building tools of early learning and the spontaneity of drawing, to the infinite possibilities and creative freedom of the digital world. This step, and connection, proliferates Hello Ruby’s brand identity, developed by Finnish graphic design studio Kokoro & Moi, through brightly coloured blocks, hand cut paper-based type and pictograms, hand drawn illustration, and monospaced font. These unite work books and folders, business cards and website.
Poseidon Helsinki by Kokoro & Moi, Finland
Posted: June 3, 2015 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews | Tags: Architecture Logos, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Kokoro & Moi, Designed in Helsinki, Envelope Design, Finnish Design, Folder Design, Fonts in Use: GT Walsheim, Fonts in Use: Stanley, From Europe, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Grids and Guides, Letterhead Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Poster Design, Script Logotypes, Stationery Design, The Best Architecture Logos, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, The Very Best of BP&O, Type Foundry: Grilli Type, Typography, Unbleached Materials, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Poseidon Helsinki by Kokoro & Moi, FinlandOpinion by Richard Baird.
Poseidon Helsinki centralises the tasks of architect and builder with the intention of delivering higher quality construction projects based around visionary and uncompromising design solutions. Poseidon’s values are deeply rooted in a love for Helsinki, a belief in aesthetically ambitious architecture and expansive urban spaces, and improving the capacity and quality of the city through sensitive renovation and attic conversions.
Poseidon’s visual identity, inspired by the colors, grids and shapes of modernism, and the architecture and art of Le Corbusier and the masters of geometric abstraction, was developed by Finnish design studio Kokoro & Moi, and went on to include business cards, stationery, posters and website.
