Hello Ruby by Kokoro & Moi, Finland
Posted: 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 Comments Off on Hello Ruby by Kokoro & Moi, FinlandOpinion 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.
Bubu by Bob Design, Switzerland
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews | Tags: Bob Design, Box Tape Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colour in Use: Red, Corporate Identity Design, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Edge Painted Detail, Envelope Design, Fonts in Use: Maax, From Europe, Geometric Pattern, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Notebook Design, Sans-serif Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, Stationery Design, Swiss Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Bubu by Bob Design, SwitzerlandOpinion by Richard Baird.
Buchbinderei Burkhardt, now shortened to Bubu, is a family-owned binding specialist established in 1941. It is now run by third-generation family members and has locations in the Swiss cities of Zürich and Mönchaltorf.
Bubu provides consultancy and prototyping services, curates an extensive binding library of over 2000 books, and offers a wide variety of soft and hardcover binding techniques. These include the familiar and utilitarian such as comb, staple and glue, and extends to the more traditional crafted processes of thread, thread and knot, and lock stitch.
Bubu worked with London and Zürich based graphic design studio Bob Design to revise its visual identity and link digital and print based communications. Assets included logotype, business cards, envelopes, packaging, signage, vehicular graphics and web design. This post was updated 13/05/16 with a bunch of new project images.
