Salbini by Studio Brave
Posted: Filed under: Fonts in Use, Home and Garden, Logo Reviews, Material & Print Specs | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Condensed Logotypes, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio Brave, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Sans-serif Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Brand Identities of 2019, The Best Business Cards of 2019, Type Foundry: Klim Type Foundry, Visual Identity Design Blog Comments Off on Salbini by Studio BraveOpinion by Richard Baird
Salbini, formerly Fesal, is an online retailer of premium European furniture and appliances based in southern Italy and shipping internationally. It deals in both one-off purchases and tailoring for large commercial projects, offering both local and global brands. Fesal comissioned Studio Brave to rename and refresh its brand and overhaul its online store. While the project features revisions to type and the introduction of colour, it is the combination of cropped imagery shot by Traianos Pakioufakis and high quality material choices that stand out as a simple and compelling of articulation of craft, quality and elegance. These images link printed materials such as post cards, business cards, letterhead and certificate sleevers with a redesigned e-commerce website.
Christopher Hall Somata Collection by Two Times Elliott
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Home and Garden, Interior Design, Logo Reviews | Tags: British Design, Coloured Paper, Designed by Two Times Elliott, Designed in London, Furniture Design Logos, Gold Foil, Interior Design, Material Thinking, Patterns Comments Off on Christopher Hall Somata Collection by Two Times ElliottOpinion by Richard Baird
Christopher Hall is an internationally renowned furniture and interior designer from New Zealand with studios in London and Istanbul, with a third due to open in Barcelona soon. His interiors and bespoke furniture collections are characterised by a sensitive integration of the classical and the contemporary, a material refinement and sculptural elegance. Somata, his latest collection of 32 handcrafted pieces, is an allusion to the metamorphisms of mythology. This manifests itself within the forms and surfaces of stools, tables and cabinets, which often transition between the functional and sculptural.
Two Times Elliott, the studio behind Christopher Halls graphic identity, worked to develop promotional boxes and individual product sheets. Taking inspiration from the bespoke nature and conceptual foundation of Somata and the craft of Christopher Hall’s work at large, Two Times Elliott blend a detailed graphic pattern with a bespoke material and structural elegance.
Garden 13, Graanmarkt 13 by Base
Posted: Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Home and Garden, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2018, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Creative Packaging, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Base, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2018, The Very Best Packaging of 2018, Typography Comments Off on Garden 13, Graanmarkt 13 by BaseOpinion by Seth Rowden
Graanmarkt 13 is a restaurant, high-end concept store and apartment in Antwerp. It is described by Base, the studio behind its graphic identity, as a special house, a crossover place full of surprises. This was articulated through a story that positioned Graanmarkt 13 as a haven for people in search of objects and experiences with soul and meaning.
Garden 13 is a series of plant-based products and an online shop inspired by Graanmarkt 13’s rooftop garden philosophy. These products intend to develop the brand outside of its physical location, to reach an international audience.
In their packaging design for this new range, which builds on their initial identity work for Graanmarkt 13 Base tease the reader’s curiosity. They translate the feeling and sensory experience of using each botanical product into microcopy expressed as a single sentence over a variety of surfaces.
A pared-back but well-intentioned material language, a robustness that implies value, and a structural design that sees the cylindrical and simple link a breadth of products, serve as useful surfaces for emotive communication. This materiality is thoughtful and beautifully constructed, yet it is the words that are the real highlight. Copywriter Seth Rowden offers his opinion.
