2016 Brand Nieuwe Conference, Amsterdam
Posted: April 4, 2016 Filed under: Art and Design, Logo Reviews | Tags: American Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Festival and Event Brand Identities, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Grids and Guides, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Poster Design, Stencil Cut Logotypes, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, Type Foundry: Grilli Type, Typography 2 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Brand New, a division of UnderConsideration, is one of the first and foremost design blogs to offer opinion on corporate and brand identity work. It has amassed a huge following, often quoted by international press, and provokes frequent and heated debated. Complimenting the site is an annual conference that draws speakers and designers from across the globe
Rather than just the one conference, this year will see a European two-day event take place, prior to Brand New Nashville, between the 20th and 21st of June in the city of Amsterdam, and fittingly renamed Brand Nieuwe Conference. Total Design legend Ben Bos, as well as representatives of studios that have featured on BP&O will be speaking at the event. These include Brian Collins of Collins, Marko Salonen of Bond and Pablo Juncadella of Mucho.
MOS Architects by Studio Lin, United States
Posted: September 17, 2015 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews | Tags: American Design, Architecture Logos, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Coloured Paper, Custom Typography, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio Lin, Fonts in Use: Akzidenz Grotesk, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Grids and Guides, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Minimal Design, Modernist Brand Identities, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, Stationery Design, The Best Architecture Logos, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, Type Foundry: Berthold, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Website Design Comments Off on MOS Architects by Studio Lin, United StatesOpinion by Richard Baird.
MOS is an American architectural practice that mixes playful experimentation with serious research. The practice, as it exists now, following two years of what seems to be an informal approach, was established in 2005, and has worked through a range of design experiments it describes as a make-believe of architectural fantasies, problems, and thoughts on what the practice would be building in the future. MOS now has a broad portfolio that includes institutions, housing and retail, installations, furniture, essays, software and film.
MOS Architect’s brand identity, developed by New York based Studio Lin, has a stripped down aesthetic with an intentionally generic quality that uses on-demand printing processes to cover promotional pieces, request for quote documents, publications, stationery and business cards.
Basement Theatre by Studio Alexander, New Zealand
Posted: August 24, 2015 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews, Theatre | Tags: Best Awards: Winners, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colour in Use: Blue, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio Alexander, Fluorescent Ink, Fonts in Use: GT Haptik, From New Zealand, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Graphic Design Trends: Cobalt Blue, Grids and Guides, Illustration, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Rotalic Typography, Sans-serif Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, Type Foundry: Grilli Type, Typography, Unbleached Materials, Uncoated Papers & Cards 1 Comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Basement Theatre is an independent, underground, community theatre located on Auckland’s Lower Greys Avenue. It was established in 2008 as a place to showcase new voices, fresh perspectives and emerging young talent, and to provide these with the space to develop their performances. The theatre has played host to dancers, visual artists, poets, musicians, comedians and everything in between.
Taking their cues from the unique basement location, and a brief that called for a bold, playful and edgy identity, Studio Alexander built a system around a simple but smart logotype with a step component, the impact of fluorescent inks, tinted photography, rotalics and plenty of contrast.
