Established by Goldsmiths graduate Holly James earlier this year, Feral Sphere is a UK-based fashion label that creates simple, colourful and comfortable clothing and accessories made from organic cotton using 100% renewable solar and wind energy. The label’s brand identity and packaging solution, created by Mind Design working in collaboration with illustrator Lenia Hauser, was “inspired by Japanese Shinto spirits...
“No. Six Depot is a family owned, small-batch coffee roaster and café nested in the beautiful Berkshires. Located in a historic train station on 6 Depot St, they serve teas, salts and coffee from small farms and roast on location. Their identity [designed by Perky Bros] juxtaposes a mix of unique rural and modern elements — drawing inspiration from their own backyard railroad...
Creagent is a Finnish ‘design broker’ that provides a “unique pool of talented designers from all fields and a wide range of expertise to match various business needs.” Creagent’s new brand identity and website, developed by multidisciplinary design studio Bond – currently on a roll with new work for Allsorts and the University of the Arts Helsinki – utilises a bold, brightly coloured set of pictograms and...
Food Studio is a group of food professionals, designers and photographers that come together to create unique and unconventional shared, natural and Nordic food experiences, table talks and workshops where “food becomes conceptualized through physical and mental experiments”. Design agency Bielke&Yang, who have been part of Food Studio from the beginning, recently worked with a team of copywriters, film producers and photographers to...
Lovely new packaging design by Helsinki based studio Bond for liquorish confectionery brand Allsorts that brings the “distinctive shapes and colours of the liquorice into the forefront of the design” with simple, iconic geometric illustrative detail and a bright colour palette, enhanced by the black background of a card box structural solution. An approach described by Bond as resulting in a “bold...
Cocktails & Bitter is the identity of professional Swiss bartender Philipp Grob whose service is described by Bureau Collective, the design agency behind his new visual identity, as a “special and individual bar experience” “for gourmets, connoisseurs and explorers.”...
Stoats is a Scottish oats company that began life in 2005 as a converted American hot dog sales stand serving porridge at summer music festivals around the UK, and now has a range of packed, ready to eat retail products that include flavoured porridge and porridge bars. Stoats recently commissioned Leeds-based independent design studio Robot Food, as part of a complete rebranding exercise,...
Jealous Sweets is a gelatine and gluten-free confectionery range made with natural fruit juices and no artificial flavours or colours. Design agency B&B studio were recently commissioned to develop a new visual identity and packaging solution for the range that would focus more on its premium position and purity of ingredients. Developed under the theme of ‘covetable candy’ – “a concept...
Fika is a bar and kitchen located on London’s Brick Lane with a rustic menu prepared on site and to order, all of which can be taken away. Created by Designers Anonymous, Fika’s visual identity, which extends on-line, in-print and as signage, is an illustrative and photographic mix of characters, cartoons and quirky compounded imagery bound by a consistent logo,...
Popchips is a four flavour range of potato chips from Ping which have been popped—much like popcorn—rather than backed or fried to create a healthier snack. New Zealand-based Marx Design were responsible for developing a new mascot for Ping that could work across multiple products in the snack food category and a packaging solution for the Popchips brand that would “avoid the clichés...
Launched by natural chewing gum brand Peppersmith, Tingz is a new, two flavour confectionary range that uses Xylitol, a natural wood sugar, to add plaque reducing properties to the sweets. Developed by London-based B&B Studio the packaging for Tingz builds on the quirky personality of the Peppersmith brand by illustrating two wide-mouthed characters, a contrasting white and bright colour palette and subtle texture to establish a healthy...
The Tokenhouse is a gastropub – run by hospitality brand Fuller’s – located on London’s Moorgate road. Designers Anonymous – the agency behind the branding of Fuller’s King’s Cross pub venture The Parcel Yard and fair-trade coffee range Brewer St. – developed a visual identity for the venue that appropriates 17th century history, gives it a contemporary vector treatment, a creative but cohesive diversity...