Obra Blanca by Savvy, Mexico
Posted: January 29, 2016 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Logo Reviews | Tags: Architecture Logos, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Commando Group, Designed by Savvy, Engineering Logos, Envelope Design, Foil Blocking, Folder Design, Fonts in Use: Univers, From Latin America, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logotypes, Mexican Design, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Modernist Brand Identities, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards 1 Comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Obra Blanca is an architecture studio, established in 2013, with offices in the Mexican city of Veracruz. The studio looks to transcend Mexico’s architectural landscape, remain independent and resistant to trends, and free to experiment and explore. It attributes a building’s value to its coherence, craftsmanship, materiality, functionality and context.
Obra Blanca represents the last step in construction, the stage at which a building stops being just a structure and gains character from, and is an extension and reflection of, its inhabitants. This informed the studio’s new brand identity, created by graphic design studio Savvy, and manifests itself in two parts, in structure and content, which runs across business cards, stationery and brochures.
4B Arkitekter by Commando Group, Norway
Posted: September 28, 2015 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews | Tags: Architecture Logos, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colour in Use: Red, Construction Logos and Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Commando Group, Designed in Oslo, Engineering Logos, Envelope Design, Foil Blocking, Folder Design, Fonts in Use: Gotham, From Europe, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Red Block Foil, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on 4B Arkitekter by Commando Group, NorwayOpinion by Richard Baird.
4B Architects is an architecture studio with offices in Oslo, Norway, an experienced team and a holistic approach. It has a particular interest in low energy and sustainable projects, and has built a portfolio of restorations, public, cultural and commercial buildings, private housing and outdoor spaces. The studio’s team of founding partners (from its inception in 1971) and a generation of younger designers allows the studio to balance a long-established professionalism with fresh thinking and innovation.
Scandinavian graphic design studio Commando Group recently worked with 4B Architects to redesign its visual identity in a way that would work across and unite a variety of print based and digital platforms, and would communicate its innovative and dynamic nature.
K. Apeland by Bielke&Yang, Norway
Posted: September 25, 2015 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colour in Use: Yellow, Construction Logos and Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bielke & Yang, Designed in Oslo, Engineering Logos, Envelope Design, Folder Design, Fonts in Use: Replica, From Europe, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Norwegian Design, Poster Design, PR Logos, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, Type Foundry: Colophon, Type Foundry: Lineto, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on K. Apeland by Bielke&Yang, NorwayOpinion by Richard Baird.
K. Apeland is a Norwegian independent civil engineering consultancy that specialises in construction technologies, and applies its experience to new builds, remodelling projects and renovation. It has a favour for steel-wood and concrete structures, which has won the consultancy a number of awards, and has a broad portfolio that covers public infrastructure, private offices and housing, as well as viewing platforms, roads, bridges and quays.
Alongside a name change, shortened from Dr. techn. Kristoffer Apeland AS, K. Apeland worked with Oslo based graphic design studio Bielke&Yang to create a new visual identity system. This extended to business cards, letterhead, folder, posters, envelope, notepad and grid paper design, with a new website to follow shortly.
