The Playlist Co. by Blok, Canada
Posted: May 17, 2016 Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Music | Tags: Blind Emboss, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Canadian Design, Colour in Use: Green, Colour in Use: Pastels, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Blok, Fonts In Use: Geometric Sans-serif, Fonts in Use: Montserrat, From Toronto, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Sans-serif Logotypes, Spot Colours, Stickers, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards 2 Comments »Opinion by Richard Baird.
The Playlist Co. is a Canadian business providing music management and consulting services, AV construction, live music and playlists for a wide range of spaces and events, nationally and internationally. They are renowned for their encyclopaedic knowledge of music, and have collaborated with a some of Canada’s top hospitality brands, as well as local bars such as Buca, Canoe and Bar Raval.
The Playlist Co. worked with Toronto based graphic design studio Blok to develop a new brand identity that would work across a variety of touch points. These included business cards, posters, stickers and a soon to launch website, linked by a concept described by Blok as having a musicality that mimics the company’s highly curated playlists.
This concept manifests itself subtly in the typesetting of the wordmark and in the blocks of spot colour, inspired by jazz and soul album covers of the past. These blocks are given subtle shifts in tonality and hue as a way to express the power of music, and its ability to transform space and influence emotion.
Ridley designed by RE:
Posted: September 19, 2014 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Fonts in Use, Logo Reviews | Tags: Animated Logos, Architecture Logos, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Brochure Design, Business Card Design, Catalogue Design, Coloured Paper, Colourful Business Cards, Corporate Identity Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Re:, Designed in Sydney, Envelope Design, Fonts in Use: Circular, Fonts in Use: Montserrat, From Australia, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Opinion, Minimal Logos, Modular Logos, Sans-serif Logotypes, Stationery Design, The Best Architecture Logos, The Best Brand Identities of 2014, The Best Business Cards of 2014, The Best Logo Designs of 2014, Type Foundry: Lineto, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog 13 Comments » 
Ridley is a pioneer of digital architectural services and operates as a central hub from which builders, developers and architects can collaborate. Originally established, and continuing to operate as an architectural documentation specialist, Ridley, from its premises in Australia and the Philippines, has also grown to become a leader in Virtual Design Construction. This is a practice that involves attaching live data to every aspect of a 3D model in order to provide a comprehensive overview of a structure, the process of its construction and significantly reduce the cost of its development.
Designed by RE:, Ridley’s new brand identity is based around the concept of seeing the bigger picture through a variety of individual elements, the character, culture and people of its business, and its architectural practices. This is visualised as a variety of cropped, cut sans-serif logotypes, animated logo, a bright colour palette, human-centric data, and type that runs across multiple planes.
