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
Posted: Filed under: Art and Design, BP&O Publications, Graphic Design Reviews, Publishing | Tags: Branding Agency, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, From Europe, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Design Trends: Clever Logos, LogoArchive, Logos, Minimal Logos, Typography Comments Off on LogoArchive ExtraIssue – Past & Present 
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.
Sequential, Performative & Temporal Thinking
Posted: Filed under: Texts | Tags: Branding Agency, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Typography Comments Off on Sequential, Performative & Temporal Thinking 
This post is a provocation to think more about sequence, time and space within packaging design. To draw a joy from the often overlooked and banal necessities of packaging, to elevate details such as the mechanism of opening into a spatial and performative moment or the sequencing of information as a mediation of time by the designer to build to a product, to layer it with an intangible value.
