Northstar Film Alliance by Bond
Posted: Filed under: Film | Tags: Brand Book, Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Brochure Design 2020, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Coloured Paper, Condensed Logotypes, Condensed Typography, Corporate Identity Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bond, Film Production Logos, Fluorescent Ink, Fluorescent Paper, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Material Thinking, New Logo, Poster Design, Sans-serif Typography, tape bind, The Best Brand Identities of 2020, The Best Design for Print 2020, The Very Best of 2019, The Very Best of 2020, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Northstar Film Alliance by BondOpinion by Richard Baird
North Star Film Alliance (NSFA) is a joint venture between Estonia, Latvia and Finland. The Alliance intends to develop and promote themselves as one filmmaking region to international film and TV productions. It is a competitive marketplace, with other countries provide low tax rates and incentives to film big-budget spectacles on their stages using local crews. Together, the three countries offer a diverse and unspoilt nature, architectural diversity, political stability, cost effective production and infrastructure, as well as international travel hubs and the best drone pilots for arial footage. Design studio Bond recognised that the challenge lay, not only in developing an immediate and striking visual identity, but to establish a framework, codified in a new brand guidelines document, that could support and collectively raise the profiles of multiple cross-border partners in the Alliance.
Norwegian Banknotes by Metric Design
Posted: Filed under: Business, Banking, Law and Finance | Tags: Brand Identity Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Currency Design, Design For Print, Designed by Metric Design, Designed by Snohetta, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, New Logo, Reviewed by Josh Nychuck Comments Off on Norwegian Banknotes by Metric DesignOpinion by Josh Nychuk.
If you consider all the tangible expressions of a country’s brand, money, with its essential function as a measure of value, could easily be considered one of the most important touchpoints. In this sense a country’s banknote is often the first point of physical contact with that place prior to travel. The shape, feel, colour, language, security features, artwork and heritage of currency informs the senses and begins to build perceptions. Norway understands this, and is about to show us all a little more of their personality, history and cultural identity through their new banknotes. This article was originally posted in 2014, reposted with new photography from Metric Design.
LogoArchive ExtraIssue – Past & Present
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The distinctive smaller format of LogoArchive–a zine on mid-century symbols that channels the independent spirit of niche publishing–has created a space for experimentation and collaboration with those who also share a similar interest in symbols and corporate identity programmes of the past. BankerWessel is one such studio. Their brand identity work brings the spirit of mid-century form language into the present and then carries it forward into the future. This becomes the foundation of LogoArchive’s third Extra Issue; Past & Present, the eight release in the series and the first for 2020.
In the dialogue between booklet and insert (symbols past and present), two unique cover variations with symbols from 1976 and 2010) and the chronological sequence of BankerWessel’s own design process, this issue intends to be a small bookmark in time and a provocation to think about the iterative and cyclical nature of graphic design.
LogoArchive Zines are available to order from LogoArchive.Shop.
