Frameline 41 by Mucho, United States
Posted: June 13, 2017 Filed under: Film, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: American Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Copy Opinion by Seth Rowden, Corporate Identity Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Mucho, Designed in California, Designed in San Francisco, Fonts in Use: Avenir, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Design Trends: Clever Logos, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Package Design, Modernist Brand Identities, Poster Design, Sans-serif Typography, Smile In The Mind, The Very Best of 2017, Ticket Design, Tote Bag Design, Typography Comments Off on Frameline 41 by Mucho, United StatesOpinion by Richard Baird & Seth Rowden
Frameline is an American nonprofit arts organisation and the world’s longest running LGBTQ film festival. Frameline continues its mission, since its founding in 1977, to change the world through the power of gay cinema, and to connect filmmakers with audiences locally and internationally. Graphic design studio Mucho worked with Frameline on its visual identity and campaigns for its 40th and 41st LGBTQ film festivals, delivering a system based around a framing device. This links membership cards, stationery and business cards, as well as campaign specific materials such as individual event invitations, posters and tote bags.
O/O Long Boil Barley Wine by Lundgren+Lindqvist, Sweden
Posted: May 26, 2017 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Alcohol Packaging, Best Packaging Designs, Bottle Label Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Craft Beer Logos, Craft Beer Packaging, Craft Brewery Logos, Craft Brewery Packaging, Creative Packaging, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Lundgren+Lindqvist, Designed in Gothenburg, Fonts in Use: Druk, From Europe, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Microbrewery, Minimal Design, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Sans-serif Typography, Swedish Design, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, Type Foundry: Commercial Type, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on O/O Long Boil Barley Wine by Lundgren+Lindqvist, SwedenOpinion by Richard Baird.
O/O Brewing is a craft brewery set up in 2011 by Olle Andersson & Olof Andersson. They presently operate out of the facilities of Stigbergets Bryggeri in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, but are due to open their own brewery in the Autumn of 2017, with the intention of increasing volume and gaining further control over quality.
O/O worked with Scandinavian studio Lundgren+Lindqvist, who have created packaging design for a variety of other O/O beers, to develop labelling for a new series of limited editions that will be sold once a year. The first of these will be Long Boil Barley Wine. Despite the name, Long Boil Barley Wine is a beer and, unlike O/O Brewing’s other products, will be aged, allowing it to develop a new complexity in a similar way to wine.
Rather than collaborating with artists and designers, an approach that characterised much of the labelling of O/O’s previous ranges, and with a desire to express something of the higher price point and ageing of the beer by making a connection with Champagne and wine, Lundgren+Lindqvist developed a typographical system of condensed characters for impact, provides room for date, sets these within a grid, and compliments this with playful but communicative art direction of product photography.
Chaos by Socio Design, United Kingdom
Posted: May 24, 2017 Filed under: Fashion, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Colorplan Papers and Boards, Colour in Use: Green, Coloured Paper, Creative Packaging, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed in London, Fashion Store, From Europe, From the United Kingdom, G.F Smith Papers & Boards, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Minimal Design, Minimal Package Design, Packaging Company, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging Shortlist 2017, Structural Package Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best Packaging of 2017, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Chaos by Socio Design, United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird.
Inspired by fashion’s current fascination with customisation, technology and a “sense of light-hearted fun”, creative duo and stylists Charlotte Stockdale and Katie Lyall created Chaos, a new UK luxury lifestyle brand producing limited edition and personalised tech and travel accessories.
Through form and finish, materiality and graphic design, Chaos products, which include phone cases and charms, zips and luggage tags, express the brand’s take on practicality and stylistic desirability, the meeting of technology and fashion, utility and individuality. These are high quality, with a price tag to match (between £76-214), and a favourite with actors Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie.
London-based studio Socio Design were commissioned by the team at Chaos to develop a packaging design for their collection of deerskin phone cases and luggage tags, gold-plated charms and zips. Using contrasting colour and high quality production detailing, and playing with a tension between the modern and traditional, the digital world and the analogue, these reflect the brand’s playful and “anarchic” approach, and commitment to challenging contemporary luxury standards.
