The Hugo is a new residential property development, made up of 23 apartments, located in the Melbourne suburb of Foostcray. It is a hi-tech building with a distinctive perforated façade, and a design that leverages natural light and air flow. Its apartments were designed to be flexible and secure, with a particular focus on livability, functionality and beauty, and feature interiors...
Bier Bier is located on the ground floor of a striking Art Nouveau building in the centre of Helsinki, and part of The We Are Group, alongside wine bar Vin Vin, restaurant Story and wine importer and wholesaler Viinitie. It has over 100 different types of beer and an interior of dark wood panels and carved frames, ocean green walls, light wood...
Spanish graphic design company Atipo recently worked with Madrid based architecture and interior design studio Mamen Diego to create a new brand identity treatment that would extend across and unite a variety of print and digital assets. These included business cards, stationery, brochure and website. Although there is not much information about the philosophies or positioning of Mamen Diego—their new website is yet to launch...
Johnny Roxburgh is an entertainer and party designer working with the rich and famous nationally and internationally. He has over thirty years of experience and has held a royal warrant for the last nine. In the words of The Scotsman, Johnny is capable of turning the whims and fancies of the world’s wealthiest one percent into glittering realities. These have included, but are certainly not limited...
Bottura is an Italian restaurant and food store with space in Singapore’s Suntec City Mall. It has a contemporary interior of exposed utilities painted black, white suspended ceiling and surfaces, dark wood and steel furniture, glass, concrete and steel counters, warm spot and low-hanging lights and an open kitchen working from authentic family recipes rooted in the owner’s hometown of Bologna. This interior is punctuated...
The Hyundai is a well-known, well-thought-of and well-established South Korean department store that this year will celebrate its 44th anniversary. To coincide with this, The Hyundai launched a new brand identity system developed by Seoul graphic design company Studio fnt. This builds on the logotype and colour palette created by New York’s Base Design earlier in 2015, and introduces a Korean logotype, patterns,...
Park is a bar, restaurant and distillery located in the Canadian resort town of Banff, within the Banff National Park, and the province of Alberta. It is a region of diverse natural beauty which includes mountains, prairies, forests and desert badlands, and that attracts walkers, campers and skiers locally and internationally. The restaurant is a celebration of Banff’s alpine history and lifestyle. This runs...
Studio Una is graphic design business, run by Sebastian Hager and Sebastian König, with an office in the German city of Hamburg. The duo works within the fields of visual communication and brand identity design, online and in print, and describe themselves as attaching great importance to the aesthetic effect of design, alongside strong concepts and strategic decisions. This positioning is conveyed...
Twice Fashion is a Chinese luxury accessory brand established by Tina Tian and Dr Mirko Wormuth in 2007. Since then it has grown to become one of the country’s top accessory brands, with stores in Beijing, Tianjing and Chongqing. Twice Fashion is described by SocioDesign, the London based graphic design studio behind its rebrand, as having helped shaped China’s ‘fast’ fashion industry....
Vinoteca is a group of London based restaurants, founded by business partners and friends Brett Woonton and Charlie Young, that were inspired by the wine bars of Spain and Italy. Aside from the restaurant experience, and as a testament to the quality of their wine list, these restaurants also operate as local wine retailers. dn&co. were commissioned to refresh and formalise Vinoteca’s brand identity. With...
Tina Frey is an American homeware designer with a studio in San Francisco. She is inspired by the fluid lines of the sea, the curves and contours of nature, objects picked up while traveling, and the translucent colour of ice lollies and jelly beans. The design of each of her products—which include plates, bowls and utensils—is rooted in simplicity and functionality. These are sculpted...
Working with manufacturers in Italy, Korea and Taiwan EDL provides high pressure laminates for architects and interior designers throughout Asia, and is dedicated to anticipating trends, adopting the latest technologies and introducing its own break-through innovations that amome from a decade of industry experience. To coincide with EDL’s tenth anniversary, and a push further into the international market, the company worked with Singapore and New York...