Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Food and Drink, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Alcohol Packaging, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Canadian Design, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Glasfurd & Walker, Designed in Vancouver, Distillery Logos and Packaging, Foil Blocking, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Illustration, Packaging Company, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, Sans-serif Typography, Silver Block Foil, Surface Texture, The Best Packaging of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, Type Foundry: Letters From Sweden, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Vodka Packaging | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Park is a bar, restaurant and distillery located in the Canadian resort town of Banff, within the Banff National Park, and the province of Alberta. It is a region of diverse natural beauty, with mountains, prairies, forests and desert badlands that attract walkers, campers and skiers.
Park Restaurant is a celebration of Banff’s alpine history and lifestyle. This runs throughout its interior, campfire-inspired menu and a brand identity by Vancouver based graphic design studio Glasfurd & Walker which plays with the visual vernacular of mountain trails, camping equipment and walking clothes through type, colour and texture. Check out the project and BP&O’s review here.
Glasfurd & Walker continue to work with Park, designing packaging for its distillery business, and its range of vodkas, using the opportunity to build out brand identity with the introduction of illustration by Cristian Fowlie, the perceived value of a silver foil, choice of structure and further material texture.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Interior Design, Logo Reviews | Tags: Architecture Logos, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Catalogue Design, Colour in Use: Pastels, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Atipo, Fonts in Use: Noe, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Interior Design, Letterhead Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Pastel Colours, Printed by Minke, Sans-serif Typography, Serif Logotypes, Silver Block Foil, Spanish Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Spanish graphic design company Atipo recently worked with Madrid based architecture and interior design studio Mamen Diego to create a new brand identity treatment that would extend across and unite a variety of print and digital assets. These included business cards, stationery, brochure and website.
Although there is not much information about the philosophies or positioning of Mamen Diego—their new website is yet to launch and Atipo’s documentation is short on words—the one image online and the two images in the brochure suggest that the studio plays with tradition and modernity, favours ornament and exposed architectural materials, and utilises both geometric and organic detail.
This is conveyed through Mamen Diego’s new brand identity using typographical idiosyncrasy, block foil print finish, an uncoated and tactile material choice, colour contrast, bold form, finer detail and more directly through photography.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Logo Reviews, Retail | Tags: Bag Design, Box Tape Design, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Colour in Use: Green, Corporate Identity Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Studio fnt, Envelope Design, Fashion Store, Fonts In Use: Geometric Sans-serif, From Asia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Korean Design, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Metallic Spot Colours, Sans-serif Typography, Sign Design, Silver Block Foil, Silver Ink, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards | Opinion by Richard Baird.
The Hyundai is a well-known, well-thought-of and well-established South Korean department store that this year will celebrate its 44th anniversary. To coincide with this, The Hyundai launched a new brand identity system developed by Seoul graphic design company Studio fnt. This builds on the logotype and colour palette created by New York’s Base Design earlier in 2015, and introduces a Korean logotype, patterns, geometric sans-serif typography, monolinear iconography and foil print finishes across business cards, price tags, stationery, packaging, store cards and print communication. The project also included signage and wayfinding.
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