The Vicente Ferrer Foundation is a non-governmental development organisation based in India committed to the process of transformation, and the empowerment of the poorest and most discriminated rural areas. The organisation was founded in 1969 and its new logo, designed by Futurebrand, could have easily come from the same decade, no shade, just in that it embodies the modernist logo...
Nertik is a Spanish energy consulting firm. Mubien worked with Nertik to develop a new strategic direction and visual identity to better convey its offering of helping businesses understand, manage and reduce their electricity and gas costs. The new Nertik logo combines a lighting bolt and an ‘N’, using positive and negative space to find a harmonious resolution of the...
A guest article written by packaging expert Lisa Cain. BP&O Voices presents the opinions of industry experts on a wide range of topics....
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Design systems are often spoken about in terms of those moments of ‘surprise and delight’, but often, there’s little either surprising or delightful to be found. Blurr Bureau’s new brand identity for Yes! Apples, however, is so brimming with surprise and delight that those moments become the entire timeframe here: the Easter Eggs absolutely abound here, for the brand design...
Findem is an AI-powered talent acquisition company. It intends to make recruitment frictionless and deliver higher quality results. People used to go out and find then support people in the hiring process, due to the numbers, diversity of experience and skill levels, augmenting this through artificial intelligence seems obvious, but it can be perceived as a cold and utilitarian way...
Schwartzapfel Holbrook is a New York-based personal injury law firm. Since their founding in 1981, they have secured some of the state’s most notable settlements. Design studio Order developed an identity system that reflects the firm’s expertise, longevity, and tenacity by leveraging the visual vernacular of Pro-Union ephemera across the decades. Part of this included the design of a new...
Caffè Nazionale is a historic bar on Piazza Libertà in Arzignano, a small city in Veneto, Italy, which was the social heart of the town – a place for conversation, card games, billiards, and the daily ritual of an espresso at the bar – for generations, before falling into closure and decline. Having first opened in the 1950s, the Caffè...
Building Common Ground is a collective of three studios. These span design, community engagement, and project realisation, and are united by a shared commitment to rural places and the people who live in them. Their work sits at the intersection of planning, construction, and community-building, creating resilient infrastructure that reflects the specific character of the places it serves. Threes, intersections,...
A guest article written by packaging expert Lisa Cain. BP&O Voices presents the opinions of industry experts on a wide range of topics....
Wickside is a new canal side neighbourhood in the heart of London’s Hackney Wick. The development will include residential spaces, studios, shops and workspaces that’ll sit alongside leafy gardens, waterside walks and tucked-away courtyards. It’s described as being a place where everyday life and creative energy come together, it’s also part of the continued gentrification of East London and the...
It’s always confusing, surprising and slightly disappointing when you come across art or design-focused brands, agencies, platforms, publications or organisations that seem to have a total disregard for what they look like – as though their own central premise and raison d’etre is at odds with their look and feel. I won’t name names, because that feels both mean and...