The chintzy rose; the bright but slightly dusky pink; the multifarious wordmarks; the apparently haphazard, painterly decorative flourishes; an approach to letter sizing that’s borderline unhinged – the branding for Makan has the potential to be all kinds of terrible. Instead, it’s absolutely the opposite, thanks to the deft hands at Foreign Policy (Park Bench Deli, Project Send, Critical Mass)....
A guest article written by packaging expert Lisa Cain. BP&O Voices presents the opinions of industry experts on a wide range of topics....
London is awash with convenience stores – from the acrid yellow signage of Nisa to the misleadingly named ubiquity of Costcutter to the countless independents named things like Ben’s, despite the fact they have nothing to do with anybody called Ben. Such shops – reliably there at most times of day, reliably overpriced (hence the convenience I suppose, like an...
With years of mergers and acquisitions, new technologies, and private equity growth, Usalco had moved beyond aluminium manufacturing, positioning itself as an essential catalyst for clean water. A decade of expansion and mergers vastly increase the functional requirements of a logo – from large format building signage, to vehicle liveries and down to corporate stationery. Finding the balance between simplicity,...
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Aptos Foundation is dedicated to the adoption, decentralisation and advancement of the Aptos ecosystem, providing funds, programs and support that turn ideas into impact. This means offering grants to spark innovation, education to grow new talent, research to strengthen the Aptos protocol, and community programs that connect local builders to global opportunities. Basically it’s about generating innovation, connection and education...
If you had to guess what 3TEMP is and does, it’s hard to imagine many people would come up with the right answer: with no prior knowledge of the company, it sounds like the sort of thing a half-arsed episode of Black Mirror could come up with – some kind of temping agency but everyone is actually AI, or perhaps...
Elevant is an Australian personal loans business that sought a new brand narrative that would elevate the company beyond lending and, instead, build a brand that focused on enriching lives through education, support, and empowerment. The identity design, created by Percept, intends to express a sense of elevation, progress, and the pulse of life — capturing the brand’s forward-thinking spirit and...
A guest article written by packaging expert Lisa Cain. BP&O Voices presents the opinions of industry experts on a wide range of topics....
There’s so much to love about this logo. Designed as part of a general refresh, the new logo for AI website builder Network Solutions adds a bit of energy to a rather generic web redesign. A set of networked shapes–rotating an S to also create an N–combine to form a radiant star. This really flies as the basic N/S letter...
Kanal is a museum-to-be with an admirable yet bold raison d’être that defies much of what we think we know about the nature of highbrow cultural sites: not a “finished institution, but a cultural project in motion,” as its general director Yves Goldstein puts it. Based in Brussels, Kanal will – somewhat surprisingly – become the city’s only museum of...
The Huntington, a century-old cultural and research institution known for its gardens struggled to communicate the breadth of what it actually is: a research library spanning ten centuries, an art museum with nearly 50,000 works, and botanical collections spread across 200 acres. Base Design describes one of the central aims of the rebrand was to highlight The Huntington’s “360° nature...