Hello Ruby by Kokoro & Moi, Finland
Posted: September 16, 2015 Filed under: Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews, Technology | Tags: Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Custom Typefaces & Logotypes, Custom Typography, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Kokoro & Moi, Designed in Helsinki, Fonts in Use: Maax, From Europe, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Illustration, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Monospaced Logotypes, Monospaced Typography, Sans-serif Typography, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Business Cards of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards 2 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Hello Ruby is a Scandinavian company that offers an accessible and playful way for children to learn about technology, computing and coding, guided by Ruby, an illustrated character, and her animal friends. Founded in 2009, with the intention of being a small art project, and initially limited to a book, Hello Ruby has rapidly grown into a popular and comprehensive children’s computing brand, following a Kickstarter campaign in 2014.
Hello Ruby is a natural progression from the limited brick building tools of early learning and the spontaneity of drawing, to the infinite possibilities and creative freedom of the digital world. This step, and connection, proliferates Hello Ruby’s brand identity, developed by Finnish graphic design studio Kokoro & Moi, through brightly coloured blocks, hand cut paper-based type and pictograms, hand drawn illustration, and monospaced font. These unite work books and folders, business cards and website.
STRP Biennial 2015 by Raw Color, The Netherlands
Posted: September 2, 2015 Filed under: Art and Design, Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews, Technology | Tags: Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Raw Color, Dutch Design, Festival and Event Brand Identities, Fluorescent Ink, Fonts in Use: Apercu, From Europe, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Monospaced Logotypes, Monospaced Typography, Poster Design, Responsive Websites, Sans-serif Typography, Spot Colours, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Netherlands, Tinted Photography, Type Foundry: Colophon, Typography 1 Comment »Opinion by Richard Baird.
STRP brings together art, technology and experimental pop culture, and connects these to a broad audience, and through its light art, interactive art and robotic performances, lectures, workshops, music and film events, offers a glimpse into the future. This culminates with the STRP Biennial, an indoor art and technology festival that provides visitors with an opportunity to experience the extent to which new technology reaches into popular culture, the arts, and their everyday lives. This year’s biennial took place in Eindhoven, hosted over 29,00 guests, and featured a visual identity created by graphic design studio Raw Color which covered a variety of print communication including brochures, posters and business cards.
Sushi & Co. by Bond, Finland
Posted: April 2, 2015 Filed under: Cafes, Bars and Restaurants, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colour in Use: Pink, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bond, Designed in Helsinki, Finnish Design, Fonts in Use: T-Star, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Monospaced Logotypes, Monospaced Typography, Pastel Coloured Papers, Pastel Colours, Patterns, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, Restaurant Logos, Spot Colours, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards 6 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
Sushi & Co. is a restaurant and cafe on-board a cruise ship taking guests to destinations along the Baltic Sea. It has a modern interior design that mixes dark and light wood furniture, features warm low hanging lights, organic patterned upholstery, cool grey walls, exposed brick panels, slate floors and a visual identity developed by Helsinki based graphic design studio Bond. Extending across menus, napkins, uniforms and signage, Bond’s visual identity leverages association, familiarity and the unexpected, through colour, form and type, to introduce a current Scandinavian simplicity to a more detailed but equally precise interior.
