Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Logo Reviews, Retail | Tags: Bag Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Mucho, Designed in Barcelona, Geometric Pattern, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Kraft Paper, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logos, Logotypes, Patterns, Retail Logos, Sign Design, Spanish Design, Swing Tag Design, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Ink, Wordmark Design | Opinion by Richard Baird.
DomésticoShop is online retailer of designer homeware which has grown to become the leader in the Spanish market. It stocks an array of items, from furniture and kitchenwear to textiles and lighting. To coincide with the launch of Doméstico’s concept store DomésticoMarket, and the opening of a new flagship store in Barcelona, the retailer worked with Mucho to revise its brand architecture and visual expression. This included a new logotype, a graphic identity of modern colour and form, and material assets that included bags, stickers, swing tags and signage.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Art and Design, Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Art Gallery Logos and Brand Identities, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Hey, Designed in Barcelona, Exhibition Logos & Brand Identities, Fonts in Use: Founders Grotesk, From Europe, Geometric Pattern, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Patterns, Poster Design, Spanish Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, Type Foundry: Klim Type Foundry | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Endgame: Duchamp, Chess, and the Avant-Garde was a temporary exhibition that took place at Barcelona’s Fundació Joan Miró between October 2016 and January 2017. It was curated by Manuel Segade, explored the history of modern art through the lens of its relationship to chess, and featured a variety of works by 20th century artist. These included Marcel Duchamp’s La Partie d’échecs, Max Ernst’s Chess Set, and Mercè Rodoreda’s Untitled (Composition IX), amongst many others. Fundació Joan Miró commissioned Spanish graphic design studio Hey to develop a visual identity for the exhibition. This linked a variety of printed materials, from large format posters, banners and indoor signage to opening night invitations and a programme set in four languages.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Publishing | Tags: Bookmark Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Business Card Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Spin, Designed in London, Editorial Design, Fonts in Use: Dada Grotesk, From Europe, From the United Kingdom, Geometric Pattern, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Graphic Design Shortlist 2017, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logos, Logotypes, Modernist Brand Identities, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Patterns, Publisher Logos, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Best New Logo Designs of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, Type Foundry: Lineto, Type Foundry: Optimo, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Ink, Wordmark Design | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Corps Reviver is a French publisher and revivalist, redesigning and reprinting classic literary works, the first of which is L’Heure du Cocktail, The Cocktail Hour, written by journalists Marcel Requien and Lucien Farnoux-Reynaud and originally published in 1927. L’Heure du Cocktail, at the time, revolutionised the cocktail book, approaching the subject in a new way. This 2017 bilingual edition, presented in French and English, designed by Spin and illustrated by Spin’s Tony Brook, also offers a new take, pairing expressionist image with a more formal and modernist approach to layout and type. The release of L’Heure du Cocktail coincides with the launch of Corps Reviver’s own identity, also designed by Spin. This similarly explores something of the modernist, in the choice of type and use of form and pattern which appears to be rooted in the military associations of name.
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