Haverstock by Spy

Haverstock is a UK based architectural practice that specialises in public-sector projects with a strong humanistic approach that enables “clients and the people who use the buildings to have a voice, and to shape the way their building ends up”. Following the retirement of Haverstock’s founding partners design studio Spy was commissioned to develop a new brand identity for the firm—which included a...

Brae by Studio Round

Brae is a restaurant, located in the Australian town of Birregurra, that describes itself as having a menu of unique and contemporary dishes built around a respect for nature and seasonality, and crafted from organic ingredients both locally sourced and grown on its own 30 acre site. Brae’s new brand identity—which included a new logo-type, menu, stationery set and website developed...

Intu by Heydays

Intu is a Norwegian accounting and consultation firm and real-time technological solutions provider located in the town of Bodø. Design agency Heydays developed a new brand identity solution for Intu—which included naming, logotype, business cards, print communication, custom typography and website design—based around the link between the firm’s two key services and the software it uses to deliver these efficiently....

Olive & Sesame Oil by Lo Siento

Design agency Lo Siento have recently completed their packaging design work for Spanish olive oil producer Olis Bargalló‘s new Olive & Sesame variety. Lo Siento’s use of condensed sans-serif typography, stacked vertically, and printed with a single black ink makes great use of the tall tin and its warm gold colour. Typography, structural choice and straightforward language share a similar commercial...

Maréna Beauté by We Are Bold

Maréna Beauté is a new Swedish cosmetics brand, founded in 2013 by make-up artist Diarry Maréna, that creates high quality products for people with dark skin types. Stockholm-based design studio We Are Bold were commissioned by Maréna to develop a brand identity solution for her range of foundations, powders and blushers—which included a monogram, logo-type and packaging design—that would appeal to a market currently...

Cuckoo Muesli by B&B Studio

Cuckoo is a ‘modern’ wheat-free bircher muesli range that blends oats, yoghurt and fruit. Individual flavours include ‘Choco Sour Cherry with a smooth layer of Madagascan Vanilla’, Mango & Coconut with a tropical twist of Lime and Ginger’ and ‘Elderflower & Cranberry with a Blueberry & Blackcurrant compote’. London-based design agency B&B Studio, inspired by Swiss graphic posters, developed a new...

Norwegian Academy of Music by Neue

Located in the Majorstuen district of Oslo The Norwegian Academy of Music is Norway’s largest music academy. It offers both undergraduate and post-graduate courses, has educated some of Norway’s most prolific musicians, and, according to Wikipedia, ‘attempts to lay the foundation for research within the various fields of music’. Based around the concept of an ‘endless visual pulse’, design agency Neue developed a new generative...

December’s Top 5 Projects 2013

This month’s highlights have included new packaging work from Believe In, Graphical House, Port Clarendon and Peter Gregson, brand identity projects by RoAndCo and For Brands, as well as a new visual identity and interior design solution by Savvy for Mexican seafood restaurant La Peñita De Jaltemba. However, five projects really stood out for me which have made it into BP&O’s...

Beatific by Mousegraphics

Beatific is a new skincare range from Greek private medical service provider Hygeia Group “for women who are aware of the benefits of cosmeceuticals and can appreciate the results of thorough clinical research and high end care”. Created by Mousegraphics, the brand identity and packaging for Beatific takes the medical precision, exclusive care and expertise established by the Hygeia Group and a contemporary clinical experience...

Hardhaus by Heydays

Hardhaus is a Norwegian specialist mountain sports retailer located in the alpine municipality of Sykkylven. Based around the concept of ‘technical durability’, Heydays developed a new brand identity solution for Hardhaus—which included a logo, stationery and website—that juxtaposes the utility of a heavy uppercase and stencil cut sans-serif—bold and ‘oversized’ in its execution in print—and the robust and hardy aesthetic of chipboard imagery, with...

Håndværk by Savvy

Håndværk is a New York based clothing brand that mixes craftmanship, minimal elegance, premium materials and innovative fabrics to produce high quality everyday essentials for both men and women. Designed by Savvy, Håndværk’s new brand identity—which includes a logo, swing tags and packaging solution with a blind emboss detail—conveys the brand’s elegant and elemental nature with what Savvy describe as clean lines and...

Mellbye by Heydays

Mellbye is a Norwegian architecture firm founded in 1954 with a “mindset anchored in modernism”. Design studio Heydays created a new brand identity for the firm based around a geometric M symbol built from the initials of their two main services, architecture and interiors. Executed as a combination of blind deboss and die cut detail across a earthy and urban...