The Dayrooms by Two Times Elliott, United Kingdom
Posted: Filed under: Fashion, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Retail | Tags: Bag Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Cafe Logos, Canadian Design, Coffee Cup Designs, Coffee Logos and Packaging Design, Coffee Shop Branding, Colour in Use: Pink, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Two Times Elliott, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Newsprint, Sans-serif Logotypes, Swing Tag Design, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, Tote Bag Design, Typography, Unbleached Materials, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on The Dayrooms by Two Times Elliott, United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird.
The Dayrooms is a multi-label womenswear store, located in the London district of Notting Hill, created by Aytan Mehdiyeva and Zumrud Mammadova. The store gives a UK platform to emerging Australian designers and is an expression of Aytan and Zumrud’s shared passion for fashion and travel, and Aytan’s love of photography, textiles and Australian craftsmanship. This is reflected throughout The Dayroom’s graphic identity, developed by Two Times Elliott, not only in the simple but carefully crafted intersection of reductive graphic expression and material detail, but in the concept of curated moments, expressed through language, image and objects.
Building on their work for The Dayrooms’ retail space, Two Times Elliott also went on to develop graphic identity, spacial creative and brand direction for The Dayrooms Café, an Australian-inspired organic café located in the London boroughs of Holborn and Notting Hill. Assets included loyalty cards, coffee cups, takeaway bags, branded tissue paper and website.
Lundén Architecture Company by Tsto, Finland
Posted: Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Animated Logos, Architecture Logos, Black and White, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Tsto, Finnish Design, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logos, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Modernist Brand Identities, Sans-serif Typography, Stationery Design, The Best Business Cards of 2017, The Best New Logo Designs of 2017, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Lundén Architecture Company by Tsto, FinlandOpinion by Richard Baird.
Lundén Architecture Company is a Helsinki-based design studio developing innovative structures, infrastructures and spaces. The studio, through their knowledge of strategic development, experimental building technology and urban design, drawn from their collaborations with experts from different fields, offer proposals that affect the future of the built environment. Projects have included a new school and community complex that inspires learning during the day and functions as a meeting place, workshop area and community space during the evening, and an infrastructure proposal that reconsider airport terminal systems for Finland’s air transportation network.
Lundén Architecture Company’s brand identity, developed by Finnish graphic design studio Tsto, is based around a logotype that acknowledges the fragility of structure and the notion that its deterioration begins as soon as it is completed. This is expressed through the breaking apart and reassembly of logotype. This runs across business cards and stationery in a static but transitory state, and in motion online.
Blå Bär by BVD, Sweden
Posted: Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Retail | Tags: Animated Logos, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Colour in Use: Blue, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by BVD, Designed in Stockholm, Fonts in Use: Brown, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Graphic Design Trends: Cobalt Blue, Homeware, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Logos, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Retail Logos, Sans-serif Logotypes, Spot Colours, Swedish Design, The Best New Logo Designs of 2017, Type Foundry: Lineto, Type Play, Typography Comments Off on Blå Bär by BVD, SwedenOpinion by Richard Baird.
Blå Bär (Swedish for blueberries) sells a variety miscellaneous goods from Scandinavia from its store in Osaka, Japan. These include, but are not limited to, glass and kitchenware, soft furnishings, ornaments and jewellery. Many of these could be described as having something of a shared Scandinavian simplicity of form, lightness of colour, natural material quality and cheerful character in pattern and imagery. These are displayed within a well-lit space that blends white walls and shelves, a light wood floor and storage, with the blue of its brand identity, created by Stockholm-based graphic design studio BVD. This appears as a solid matte colour wall, glossy counter, pattern detail and display case, and runs across the store’s packaging.
