andSons Chocolatiers by Base Design
Posted: June 24, 2019 Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Packaging Reviews, The Best of BP&O | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Blue Block Foil, Branding & Packaging of 2019, Chocolate Packaging, Coloured Paper, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Base, Foil Blocking, Fonts in Use: Domaine, From New Zealand, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Green Block Foil, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Material Thinking, Metallic Spot Colours, Modern Luxury, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Packaging Opinion, Red Block Foil, Structural Package Design, The Very Best of 2019, Type Foundry: Colophon, Type Foundry: Klim Type Foundry, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog Comments Off on andSons Chocolatiers by Base DesignOpinion by Richard Baird.
andSons is a second generation chocolatier and retailer run by Marc and Phil Covitz, two brothers who learned everything there is to know about fine chocolate from their mother. Seeking to offer something new to the world of artisanal chocolate, driven forward by Top 10 Pastry Chef Kriss Harvey who joins the brothers, andSons thrashes out a liminal space between their traditional European heritage and the contemporary creativity of Los Angeles where they are located. With this positioning in mind andSons commissioned Base Design to create an iconic graphic identity and packaging design that would capture the spirit of innovation founded on tradition that was refined and luxurious whilst also being playful and surprising. These intentions are woven together and expressed by way of a simple but elegant logotype, bold colourful forms set against white space, and using colourful foils in conjunction with interchangeable sleeves.
Salbini by Studio Brave
Posted: April 29, 2019 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.
StrangeLove Lo-Cal Soda by Marx Design
Posted: February 15, 2019 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Awards Finalists, Best Packaging Designs, Botanical Illustration, Box Packaging, Branding & Packaging of 2019, Copywriting, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Designed by Marx, Drinks Packaging, Fonts in Use: Calibre, From New Zealand, Guest Opinion, Handcraft, Illustration, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Packaging Opinion, Soft Drink Packaging, The Very Best of 2019, The Very Best Packaging of 2019, Type Foundry: Klim Type Foundry Comments Off on StrangeLove Lo-Cal Soda by Marx DesignOpinion by Richard Baird & Seth Rowden
StrangeLove is an Australian soft drinks brand that began with a four flavour range of energy drinks. Although mass-produced, each of these was created with the intention of evoking a taste of the homemade through carefully sourced and high-quality organic ingredients. The range was developed in response to energy drink brands who StrangeLove believed had failed to live up to their premium positioning.
Keen to avoid the tricks and tropes of the category and secure a witty, eye-catching and original look, New Zealand-based Marx Design worked with StrangeLove to improve on the illustrative character that had been used across the brand’s earlier bottles, developing simpler compositions surrounded by plenty of white space and paired with sharp and humourous copywriting. Check out the BP&O review of these here.
StrangeLove went on to create a range of mixers, organic soft drinks and source a mineral water, each with its own unique visual language. 2019 sees the brand continue to expand their range and explore and challenge the drinks market, further working with Marx Design, this time on a range of “Lo-Cal” sodas.
