Tangent GC Soap by Carl Nas Associates, United Kingdom
Posted: Filed under: Fitness, Health and Beauty, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Colour in Use: White, Cosmetic Packaging, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Carl Nas Associates, Designed in Stockholm, Fonts in Use: Akkurat, From Europe, From Scandinavia, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimal Package Design, Organic Packaging, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Sans-serif Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, Skincare, Tangent GC, Type Foundry: Lineto, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Tangent GC Soap by Carl Nas Associates, United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird.
Tangent GC is a Scandinavian organic garment and shoe care company developing products that intend to ensure longevity. The company’s brand identity, a simple utilitarian typographical expression, designed by Essen International, delivered a sense of informational immediacy through the absence of superfluous stylistic detail and colour, dividing content in the arrangement, orientation and typesetting of Akkurat Mono.
Venturing into organic personal skincare, Tangent GC worked with London-based Carl Nas Associates to build on the visual language laid down by Essen International, with a similar approach to packaging, whilst introducing a beta version of Akkurat Mono Bold and a launch campaign of dynamic image that makes a connection with the brand’s beginnings, visualising fragrance as swirling fabric. This post was updated October 2017 with more campaign and packaging images as TangentGC launch new products.
Casa Bonay by Mucho, Spain
Posted: Filed under: Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Leisure and Tourism, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, D&AD Award Winners 2017, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Mucho, Designed in Barcelona, Fonts in Use: Brown, Fonts in Use: Grouch, From Europe, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Hotel Logos, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Spanish Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Business Cards of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, Tote Bag Design, Type Foundry: Lineto, Typography, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Casa Bonay by Mucho, SpainOpinion by Richard Baird.
Casa Bonay is a unique hotel destination in the neighbourhood of Eixample Dret, Barcelona, housed within a historic nineteenth century building with a neo-classical façade. Although the setting has a strong historical value, inside and out, the hotel experience makes a connection with the creative talent that populates the city today. This is achieved through collaboration with pioneering chefs, young designers, renowned furniture brands and an independent publisher to create menus, interiors and books.
Casa Boney’s brand identity, created by graphic design studio Mucho, is a visual articulation of the hotel’s free-spirited attitude and the coexistence of disparate personalities and styles. Where the hotel’s interior features classical masonry, period furnishings and darker hues alongside areas of modern restraint, utility and light, Mucho’s brand identity is colourful, eccentric and playful. This reaches across coasters, packaging and a variety of other printed materials.
Collect by Spin, United Kingdom (Preview)
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Art Gallery Logos and Brand Identities, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Condensed Logotypes, Condensed Typography, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Spin, Designed in London, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Lettering, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, The Best Logo Designs of 2016, Type Foundry: Lineto, Type Play, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Ink, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Collect by Spin, United Kingdom (Preview)Opinion by Richard Baird.
Collect is an international art fair that will take place between the 2–6 of February 2017 at London’s Saatchi Gallery. Presented by the Crafts Council, Collect will give visitors the chance to see and buy museum-quality and contemporary ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metal and textiles created by established and emerging artists and makers represented by over thirty of the world’s best galleries.
Collect’s brand identity, designed by Spin, draws character, play and visual interest from an economical use of a single and fairly austere font, and a black and white colour palette, and went on to include print communication, as documented here, art direction, animation, advertising, signage and environmental graphics.
