Maven by Design By Toko, Australia
Posted: August 11, 2017 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment | Tags: Architecture Logos, Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colour in Use: Red, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Toko, Designed in Sydney, From Australia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Graphic Design Shortlist 2017, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logos, Logotypes, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Monolinear Typography, Overprint, Sans-serif Typography, Stationery Design, The Best Architecture Logos, The Best Business Cards of 2017, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Best New Logo Designs of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Maven by Design By Toko, AustraliaOpinion by Richard Baird
Maven is described by Design By Toko, the Sydney-based design studio behind its recent rebranding, as a top-tier architecture recruitment agency operating worldwide. Drawing on the built environment and with the intention of expressing the agency’s prominence within the architecture industry Toko developed a brand identity of simplicity and impact through bold solid form and single colour that links business cards, brochure and soon to launch website. This use of form and colour, its dominance across each touchpoint, establishes a strong continuity, yet is softened using lighter colour and over-print in its implementation across Maven Publishing’s Chasing the Sky, a book that showcases twenty of Australia’s leading women in architecture.
Highlights by Studio fnt, South Korea
Posted: June 26, 2017 Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Art Gallery Logos and Brand Identities, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Catalogue Design, Colour in Use: Red, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio fnt, Exhibition Design, Exhibition Logos & Brand Identities, From Asia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Poster Design, Sans-serif Typography, Silver Block Foil, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, Tote Bag Design, Typography Comments Off on Highlights by Studio fnt, South KoreaOpinion by Richard Baird
Highlights is an exhibition of works from French contemporary art museum The Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). The exhibition runs from May 30th to August 15, 2017, features work by artists such as Ron Mueck, David Lynch and Sarah Sze, and also includes commissioned pieces and major artworks by Korean artists.
Highlights is curated by Fondation Cartier and SeMA, set over three floors with spaces for discovery, contemplation and wonder, and features a visual identity by South Korea graphic design firm Studio fnt. This is characterised by a mix of bright colour, silver block foil print finish and a linear graphic device that connects Korean and English. This is used to link posters and exhibition brochure, catalogue, banners, signage, super graphics and tote bag.
Corps Reviver & L’Heure du Cocktail by Spin, UK
Posted: June 1, 2017 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Publishing | Tags: Bookmark Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Business Card Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Spin, Designed in London, Editorial Design, Fonts in Use: Dada Grotesk, From Europe, From the United Kingdom, Geometric Pattern, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Graphic Design Shortlist 2017, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logos, Logotypes, Modernist Brand Identities, Monochromatic Brand Identities, Patterns, Publisher Logos, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Best New Logo Designs of 2017, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, Type Foundry: Lineto, Type Foundry: Optimo, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Ink, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Corps Reviver & L’Heure du Cocktail by Spin, UKOpinion by Richard Baird.
Corps Reviver is a French publisher and revivalist, redesigning and reprinting classic literary works, the first of which is L’Heure du Cocktail, The Cocktail Hour, written by journalists Marcel Requien and Lucien Farnoux-Reynaud and originally published in 1927. L’Heure du Cocktail, at the time, revolutionised the cocktail book, approaching the subject in a new way. This 2017 bilingual edition, presented in French and English, designed by Spin and illustrated by Spin’s Tony Brook, also offers a new take, pairing expressionist image with a more formal and modernist approach to layout and type. The release of L’Heure du Cocktail coincides with the launch of Corps Reviver’s own identity, also designed by Spin. This similarly explores something of the modernist, in the choice of type and use of form and pattern which appears to be rooted in the military associations of name.
