Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Logo Reviews, Property | Tags: Art Direction, Best Brochure Design 2020, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Corporate Identity Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Jack Renwick Studio, Designed in London, Fonts in Use: Calibre, Fonts in Use: GT Sectra, From the United Kingdom, Gold Foil, Gold Ink, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, New Logo, Property Development Logos, Sans-serif Typography, Stitch Detail, The Best Brand Identities of 2020, The Best Design for Print 2020, The Very Best of 2020, The Very Best of BP&O, Type Foundry: Grilli Type, Type Foundry: Klim Type Foundry, Typography, Visual Identity Design Blog, Wordmark Design | Text by Richard Baird.
In The London Borough of Southwark sits the Grade II listed building and former headquarters of the London Fire Brigade, the city’s first fire station and a site currently under development. This will see it transformed into residential apartments with period conversations of the original Victorian building alongside a modern new-build. It is a one-of-kind property development that offers a unique intersection of historic and contemporary city living. London-based Jack Renwick Studio (JRS) were commissioned to develop the name, visual identity and communications for this new development, and were challenged with the task of appealing to both local and international markets.
Under the concept “Traditionally Different”, JRS developed the name Brigade Court and a visual language of juxtapositions. These celebrate the distinctive contrasts that exist throughout the property. These juxtapositions move between the elegant and sophisticated materiality of the brochures, the intersection of modern and historic images, and then towards moments of playfulness throughout the property’s marketing suite, which also features a deli and cafe. The visual identity links a variety of different touch-points, from property and floor-plan brochures to custom framed photo-montages, coffee cups, menus and window decals.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Black Paper, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Colour in Use: Black, Confectionery Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bond, Designed in Helsinki, Finnish Design, From Scandinavia, Geometric Pattern, Gold Ink, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Metallic Spot Colours, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Silver Ink, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, The Best Packaging of 2016 | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Bond continue to work with Scandinavian confectionery brand Cloetta, owner of liquorish brand Allsorts, on the packaging for their Allsorts Black & White edition. The packaging for Allsorts’ originals range looked to bring the distinctive shapes and colours of the liquorice to the forefront using geometric forms and bright colour, enhanced by the black background of a simple card box. It was an approach rightly described by Bond as being bold and playful.
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Summos is an online platform that gathers together and shares the knowledge of the six best sommeliers of the Netherlands and offers a seasonal subscription service that sends out a selection of some of the country’s best wines once every two months. Sommos worked with graphic design studio Mucho to develop name, brand identity and packaging.
Based around the concept of group and innovation, and clearly informed by the curated nature of Sommos’ content, service and sommeliers, Mucho delivered a name and logotype with a simple corkscrew at its centre, a light and contemporary colour palette and the crafted and personable qualities of brush stroke patterns. This links subscription boxes, business cards, stationery, tags and tissue paper. This project was completed in 2015 but was documented and uploaded to Mucho’s site recently.
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