Rimowa by Commission
Posted: September 27, 2018 Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Leisure and Tourism | Tags: Bag Design, Black Block Foil, Blind Emboss, Branding & Packaging of 2018, British Design, Designed by Commission Studio, Foil Blocking, Manufacturing Logos, Material Thinking, Minimal Design, Minimalist Brand Identities, Stationery Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Best Logo Designs of 2018, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2018, The Very Best of 2018 Comments Off on Rimowa by CommissionOpinion by Richard Baird
Rimowa is a Cologne-based manufacturer of luxury luggage. It has a significant history, beginning in 1898 as a travel and leather goods maker known for its innovative approach, and growing to become an international brand with a line of polycarbonate and aluminium products with a distincive ribbed relief.
Commission worked with Chief Executive Alexandre Arnault and Chief Brand Officer Hector Muelas to create a timeless and stylish graphic identity to help support the company’s future activities and deliver a considered and cohesive brand experience for Rimowa customers. Commission introduce a monogram, new typographic style, colour palette and pattern motif alongside a wordmark designed by Munich-based Bureau Borsche. And through graphic identity, material language and mechanism link a variety of touch points. These include packaging, retail experience and in-luggage items, as well as giftboxes, retail bags, owner manuals, guarantee cards, luggage tags, dust bags and liquids bags.
Rimowa’s new graphic identity was launched at the beginning of 2018. Since then, Commission has continued to work with the company, integrating the graphic identity across its ranges but also in the introduction of posters, stickers and illustration by Japenese illustrator Yu Nagaba. These begin to layer in a playful component, to create an interesting dialogue between tangible craftsmanship and utility and the more intangible and visceral components of travel, family and lifestyle.
REVOLT by Paul Belford Ltd.
Posted: May 31, 2018 Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Blind Emboss, Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, British Design, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Paul Belford Ltd, Editorial Design, Fluorescent Ink, Foil Blocking, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, The Very Best of 2018 Comments Off on REVOLT by Paul Belford Ltd.Opinion by Richard Baird
REVOLT is described as an instruction manual, tool-kit and practical guide for any business seeking to do more with their brand, or for individuals looking to get more out of life. The central premise is that having people on your side, and that the ability to form and activate a group is the secret to success, and essentially leverages and intends to help channel any feeling of disenfranchisement and anger into affirmative action and movements of change. Content feels very much of its time, although the visual and form language of action and disruption, revolution and dissent employed by Paul Belford Ltd. is an enduring and fairly universal one. Conflating political and societal struggles with corporate (or charitable) interest or self-help is bold and provocative, as is its visual expression.
Lukas/Markus – Kalle Sanner by Lundgren+Lindqvist
Posted: May 22, 2018 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Graphic Design Reviews, Material & Print Specs, Photography | Tags: Blind Emboss, Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Lundgren+Lindqvist, Editorial Design, Fabric Covers, Fedrigoni Papers & Boards, Foil Blocking, From Scandinavia, G.F Smith Papers & Boards, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Swedish Design, The Very Best of 2018 Comments Off on Lukas/Markus – Kalle Sanner by Lundgren+LindqvistOpinion by Richard Baird
Lukas/Markus is a decade-long photographic project by Kalle Sanner shot with a large format camera and exploring the mirrored and connected chapels of Saint Lukas and Saint Markus designed by architect Sven Brolid. The structure was built during the 1960s, a period when Swedish functionalism was at its height, and is located in the Western Cemetery of Gothenburg.
The book, released May 2018 and co-published by ll’Editions and Blackbook Publications, exists in two versions. The first is an 82 page cloth-bound hardcover trade edition that measures 200 x 223 mm and the second is a special edition housed within a handmade clamshell box that includes an embroidered handkerchief and one of three c-prints signed and numbered by the photographer. Both of these books were designed by Scandinavian studio Lundgren+Lindqvist.
