Where fallow deer roam
Deer feel like unlikely ambassadors/ mascots/ PosterCreatures for olive oil, but it turns out they work brilliantly – when, that is, in the superlatively capable hands of a studio like SMLXL. Said olive oil is D’arbequina, a name which more broadly simply refers to the sort of plant from which the oil is produced: Arbequina is a widely cultivated olive...
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Packaging:
Illustrated Instincts
A guest article written by packaging expert Lisa Cain. BP&O Voices presents the opinions of industry experts on a wide range of topics....
Free your mouth
You don’t really hear the word ‘quip’ all that often – it feels somewhat antiquanted in a way, a little eccentric, somehow very English. The sort of thing gracing the cover of the sort of book someone bought as a gift for someone they don’t really know very well, nor particularly care about – maybe 101 of Oscar Wilde’s Wittiest...
Pink! pink! everywhere!
Wine company Nice started life in 2019, and ever since, has aimed to be a far more straightforward alternative to the wildly confusing, jargon-packed, somewhat stuffy world of wine. In Nice’s words, the whole idea is to “liberate drinkers from wine headaches” both literal and metaphorical, “whether it’s inflexible packaging, confusing labels or next day regret”… Now after more than...
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Fundación Vicente Ferrer by Futurebrand, 2026
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...
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Nertik by Mubien, 2026
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...
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Packaging:
Oat Standing
A guest article written by packaging expert Lisa Cain. BP&O Voices presents the opinions of industry experts on a wide range of topics....
Goofy, playful and knowingly a bit silly
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...
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Findem by Stitzlein Studio, 2026
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...
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Schwartzapfel Holbrook by Order, 2026
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...
An act of restitution
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...