DNA Development by Face, Mexico
Posted: March 14, 2016 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Logo Reviews, Property | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colour in Use: Grey, Copper Block Foil, Corporate Identity Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Face Creative, Estate Agent, Foil Blocking, Fonts In Use: Atlas, Fonts in Use: Austin, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Mexican Design, Mixed Fibre Materials, Modernist Brand Identities, Property Development Logos, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Business Cards of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, Type Foundry: Commercial Type, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Block Foil Comments Off on DNA Development by Face, MexicoOpinion by Richard Baird.
DNA development is a New York based, privately held and vertically integrated real estate investment and development business that looks to create beautiful, functional and liveable spaces. This intention is reflected throughout their new brand identity, designed by Mexican graphic design studio Face, across business cards, stationery, notebooks and website.
Assembly by Blast, United Kingdom
Posted: February 15, 2016 Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Property | Tags: Black Paper, Blue Block Foil, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Brochure Design, Business Card Design, Catalogue Design, Coloured Paper, Corporate Identity Design, Custom Typefaces & Logotypes, Custom Typography, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Blast, Estate Agent, Foil Blocking, Fonts in Use: Brown, Fonts in Use: Freight, Fonts In Use: Geometric Sans-serif, From Europe, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Trends: Clever Logos, Logotypes, Responsive Websites, Sans-serif Typography, Stencil Cut Logotypes, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, The Best Logo Designs of 2016, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Block Foil, White Ink Comments Off on Assembly by Blast, United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird.
Assembly is a new 250,000 sq ft. development project managed by Axa Real Estate, located in London’s Hammersmith, and comprised of 4 office buildings, 3 public squares, bars, restaurants and estate wide amenities. As a business hub the development is strategically positioned between Central London and Heathrow, with easy access to the Underground, road and river networks.
Working with Axa Real Estate, Bell Hammer, CBRE and Knight Frank, graphic design studio Blast, alongside naming, developed a cohesive visual identity system for the entire estate, its offices, retail spaces and public facilities with the intention of creating a sense of place. This was achieved through a stencil cut typographical direction that extends across brochures for the site but also individual buildings, as well as marketing campaign, film and responsive website.
Cooke Curtis & Co. by The District, United Kingdom
Posted: February 12, 2016 Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Property | Tags: Animated Logos, Black and White, Black Paper, Blind Emboss, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Brochure Design, Business Card Design, Catalogue Design, Coloured Paper, Custom Typefaces & Logotypes, Custom Typography, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Parent, Designed by The District, Duplex Business Cards, Estate Agent, Fonts in Use: Avenir, From Europe, From the United Kingdom, Glossy Paper Examples, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Graphic Design Trends: Monolinear Illustration, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Trends: Dynamic Logos, Logotypes, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Responsive Websites, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Business Cards of 2016, The Best Custom Logotypes, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, The Best Logo Designs of 2016, The Very Best of 2016, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Cooke Curtis & Co. by The District, United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird.
Cooke Curtis & Co. is an award-winning estate agent with an office in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It has a portfolio and a thorough understanding of properties throughout the city and in neighbouring villages. Although the business was established last year, its founders have over thirty-five years of industry experience.
Local graphic design studio The District were commissioned by the estate agent to develop a visual identity that would work across a broad range of printed and digital media, from business cards, letterheads, brochure and website to ‘for sale’ signs, vehicle graphics and key rings.
With the intention of delivering a distinctive and impactful solution sensitive to the heritage of the founders, and the will to cut through the hyperbole of the industry, The District took a bold typographic approach that discards photography in favour of a monolinear geometric sans-serif and underlines, emphasised by a black and white colour palette.
