Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Fashion, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Blind Emboss, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Folch, Designed in Barcelona, Fonts in Use: Maax, Form Language, Material Thinking, Minimal Design, Minimal Package Design, Modern Luxury, Paper Craft, Sans-serif Logotypes, Spanish Design, Structural Package Design, The Very Best Packaging of 2018, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Honom is a new “male-oriented” range from Barcelona-based DOIY, a product design company creating objects that move between the practical, the ornamental and the more whimsical. Honom veers heavily towards the former with objects that include a wallet, multitool, bottle opener, keyring and bike bell. In their design, materials and build these find a balance between everyday utility and premium positioning. This is expressed by the packaging of the objects, created by Spanish design studio Folch, through a confluence of material and form language, type and technical drawings.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Art and Design, Logo Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Folch, Designed in Barcelona, Fonts in Use: Maax, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Opinion, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimal Package Design, Minimalist Brand Identities, Paper Craft, Retail Logos, Sans-serif Logotypes, Spanish Design, Structural Package Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, Toy Packaging, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog | Opinion by Richard Baird.
DOIY is product design company creating playful objects that move between the useful and the more whimsical. These include items such as icepop socks, bicycle pizza slicer and unicorn scent. Much of this is firmly tongue-in-cheek but good quality, retailing in high-end and design-focused stores as well as larger chains.
With the introduction of materials such as ceramics, woods, metal and porcelain across its new ranges, and a desire to reach a wider market whilst retaining its current customers DOIY worked with Barcelona-based studio Folch to mature its brand identity. This included packaging and print communication that share a new and distinctive approach to photography; a collaboration between Folch, paper and set designer Raya Sader Bujana and photographer Leo García Mendez.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Food and Drink, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Essen International, Fonts in Use: Maax, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimal Package Design, Minimalist Brand Identities, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Sans-serif Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, Silver Ink, Smile In The Mind, Swedish Design, The Best Packaging of 2016, The Very Best of 2016, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards | Opinion by Richard Baird
Mathias Dahlgren Edition is a set of contemporary kitchen appliances which are the product of a collaboration between the Grand Hôtel Stockholm, its renowned Swedish Michelin starred chef Mathias Dahlgren, and kitchenware retailer Dafra. Scandinavian graphic design studio Essen International worked with the trio to translate the culinary vision and creativity of Mathias Dahlgren into a modern graphic expression and packaging solution that would be perceived as creative and timeless, whilst working across a variety of boxes as well as pan and pot inserts.
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