Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Art and Design, Music | Tags: Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Colour in Use: Green, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Heydays, Designed in Oslo, Fluorescent Ink, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Trends: Monolinear Illustration, Icon Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Design Trends: Dynamic Brand Identities, Logo Design Trends: Dynamic Logos, Logo Designs, Norwegian Design, Responsive Websites, Sans-serif Logotypes, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography, Website Design | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Fosnavåg is a city on the island of Bergsøya, situated off the west coast of Norway not far from the Altantic Ocean. It is home to a variety of maritime businesses including fishing, logistics and shipbuilding, and now the location of Fosnavaag Cultural Centre, a new concert hall founded by the local community.
Fosnavaag Cultural Centre’s brand identity, created by Scandinavian graphic design studio Heydays, explores the relationship between Fosnavåg and the Atlantic Ocean—the foundation of local industry and culture, the point at which old weathered buildings meet a precise and contemporary structure, technology and innovation, and the convergence of sea and music. This was visualised as an identity system that included dynamic animated logo and interactive signage, illuminated interior displays, t-shirts, badges and business cards.
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Skovin is Norwegian, high-end, solid wood floor specialist that combines ancient craftsmanship with modern technologies. By mixing a wood veneer business card and a traditional name drawn from the old word Skøyen, the area in Oslo where the company was founded, with geometric shapes and die cuts, panels of flat colour and sans-serif typography, Skovin’s identity, designed by Heydays, intends to express the company’s fusion of past and present process.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Business, Banking, Law and Finance, Logo Reviews, Technology | Tags: Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Business Card Design, Custom Typography, Design For Print, Designed by Heydays, Designed in Oslo, Display Typography, Fluorescent Ink, Foil Blocking, Graphic Design Trends: Monolinear Illustration, Icon Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo News, Logotypes, Monolinear Typography, Norwegian Design, Purple Block Foil, Sans-serif Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, Stationery Design, The Best Business Cards of 2014, The Best Logo Designs of 2014, Typography, Website Design |
Intu is a Norwegian accounting and consultation firm and real-time technological solutions provider located in the town of Bodø. Design agency Heydays developed a new brand identity solution for Intu—which included naming, logotype, business cards, print communication, custom typography and website design—based around the link between the firm’s two key services and the software it uses to deliver these efficiently.
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