Coiffure Duett by Bureau Collective
Posted: September 28, 2012 Filed under: Fitness, Health and Beauty, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding News, Business Card Design, Design Opinion, Die Cut Design Detail, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Logo News, Logo Opinion, Serif Logotypes, Swiss Design, The Best Logo Designs of 2012, Typography, Visual Identity Design Blog, White Ink Comments Off on Coiffure Duett by Bureau Collective 
Coiffure Duett is hair salon, located in the Swiss town of St.Gallen, owned by stylist duo Fabienne Meier and Nadine Loser. The salon’s visual identity, developed by graphic design studio Bureau Collective, reflects the dual partnership, a close client/hairdresser philosophy and a personal, individualised service-lead approach to contemporary style through a contrasting serif and sans serif logo-type, two tone colour palette and the comb-like, interlocking die-cut detail.
The Finnish Cultural Institute designed by Kokoro & Moi
Posted: September 27, 2012 Filed under: Art and Design, Logo Reviews | Tags: Belgian Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding News, Business Card Design, Charity & Noneprofit Logos, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Kokoro & Moi, Designed in Helsinki, Finnish Design, From Scandinavia, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo News, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Overprint, Sans-serif Logotypes, The Best Logo Designs of 2012, Typography Comments Off on The Finnish Cultural Institute designed by Kokoro & Moi 
The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux (Fins Cultureel Instituut, Institut Culturel Finlandais) is a non-profit organisation that promotes Finnish arts and culture to the Benelux countries of the Netherlands, France and Belgium, with the intention of fostering collaborative opportunities for artists and organisations within the fields of music, literature, design, cinema and the performing and visual arts. The institute’s visual identity, designed by creative agency Kokoro & Moi, juxtaposes the horizontal, modernist formality and contemporary professionalism of a broadly spaced, uppercase and geometric sans serif execution of one language with the slanted, stamp and craft-like treatment of another.
We Are Tonic designed by Blok
Posted: September 4, 2012 Filed under: Logo Reviews | Tags: Advertising, Brand Identity Reviews, Canadian Design, Designed by Blok, Graphic Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Logo News, Logo Opinion, Pastel Coloured Papers, Pastel Colours, The Best Logo Designs of 2012, Typography 3 Comments » 
We Are Tonic, formerly McDonnell Haynes, is a Toronto based advertising agency with an ‘innovative approach to solving business problems by harnessing the brainpower of an “idea collective”’. Independent design agency Blok were commissioned to develop We Are Tonic’s visual identity, following the name change, that would reflect the company’s repositioning as a big agency alternative.
