WallpaperSTORE* by A Practice For Everyday Life, UK
Posted: September 22, 2016 Filed under: Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews, Retail | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Box Packaging, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, British Design, Coloured Paper, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed in London, Die Cut Design Detail, From Europe, Geometric Pattern, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Homeware, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Packaging Company, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Packaging Opinion, Paper and Card Packaging, Patterns, Silkscreen Printed, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Packaging of 2015, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Block Foil Comments Off on WallpaperSTORE* by A Practice For Everyday Life, UKOpinion by Richard Baird.
WallpaperSTORE* is the online store of UK architecture, interior, fashion, art and contemporary design magazine Wallpaper*. It features and ships worldwide a broad but tightly curated catalogue of tabletop, lighting, desktop, stationery, grooming, technology and travel objects. Many of these objects, while individually distinctive, share a sense of contrast; in form and finish, materiality and colour, but also in their contemporary crafted quality.
WallpaperSTORE* worked with London-based graphic design studio A Practice For Everyday Life on a broad range of packaging. This included gift and shipping boxes, tissue paper and box tape, gift bags and stickers, document sleeves and information cards. These needed to be suitable for holding everything from letter openers to large-scale pieces of furniture.
Drawing their inspiration from the Wallpaper* asterisk and brand colour palette, and leveraging the material language of standard packaging, the studio created a system of geometric patterns, kraft cardboard boxes and coloured sleeves that together are robust, visually appealing and add value. Although WallpaperSTORE* launched in summer of 2015 A Practice For Everyday Life documented their packaging work and recently added it to their website.
Meg’s Tailoring by Studio South, New Zealand
Posted: August 8, 2016 Filed under: Fashion, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Material & Print Specs | Tags: Art Direction, Bag Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio South, Designed in Auckland, Fedrigoni Papers & Boards, From New Zealand, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimalist Brand Identities, Modernist Brand Identities, Responsive Websites, Silkscreen Printed, T-shirt Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2016, The Best Business Cards of 2016, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2016, The Very Best of 2016, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, UV Varnish, Website Design, Window Decals Comments Off on Meg’s Tailoring by Studio South, New ZealandOpinion by Richard Baird.
Meg’s is a tailoring service, established by Megan Kenny, that began as a single store on Garfield Street in 1995. Meg’s now has two locations in Auckland, New Zealand, provides a broad range of services; from hems to full garment design, and works on large projects with high-end designers and labels such as Hugo Boss, Prada and Gucci, and on smaller jobs from High Street drop-ins.
Megan Kenny has worked in Sydney and London, has decades of experience in dressmaking, fashion and interior design, and has built a team of tailors, seamstresses, designers and machinists, many of whom she has trained herself. Megan and her team are passionate and respectful and pride themselves on their attention to detail and customer care.
With the intention of better communicating the team’s ongoing ambition to deliver quality work and exceptional service, Megan worked with Auckland-based Studio South to evolve Meg’s brand identity and re-introduce it to the market in a fresh and contemporary way. This was achieved through universal motif and colour palette, the materiality of uncoated papers and glossy finishes, and a modern restraint. Alongside digital presence and art direction, Studio South also provided Meg’s Tailoring with a variety of printed assets, these included branded t-shirts and carrier bags, signage, decals and business cards.
Second Hand Orchestra by Bedow, Sweden
Posted: October 22, 2015 Filed under: Logo Reviews, Music, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bedow, Designed in Stockholm, From Europe, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Hand Drawn Typography, Illustration, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Opinion, Logos, Logotypes, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Record Label and Shop Logos, Record Sleeve Design, Silkscreen Printed, Swedish Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, The Best Packaging of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Second Hand Orchestra by Bedow, SwedenOpinion by Richard Baird.
Second Hand Orchestra is a collection of tracks recorded for a documentary that was unfortunately and abruptly cancelled. Rather than let the work fall by the wayside, band leader Karl-Jonas Winqvist has released these as a limited edition album of 300 LPs. These feature a visual identity and packaging design of custom typography, individually numbered and block foiled sleeves, and screen printed t-shirts created by Stockholm based graphic design studio Bedow and bound by the concept of repurposing.
