Giant Owl Productions designed by Alphabetical
Posted: Filed under: Logo Reviews, Television and Radio | Tags: Animated Logos, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Business Card Design, Coloured Paper, Design For Print, Designed by Alphabetical, Emboss Detail, Embossed Business Cards, Glow In The Dark Brand Identities, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Trends: Dynamic Logos, Logo News, Logo Opinion, New Logo, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2014, The Best Business Cards of 2014, The Best Logo Designs of 2014, Visual Identity Design Blog Comments Off on Giant Owl Productions designed by AlphabeticalGiant Owl is a London-based independent production company that creates television programmes, commercials and short films for clients such as Channel 4 and Rimmel London.
Design agency Alphabetical recently developed a new brand identity solution for Giant Owl—which included an animated logo, flat colour palette, glow-in-the-dark paper and bold illustrative detail—that leverages a simple observation to balance an expected technicality with a playful personality, whilst matching the company’s work and providing distinction in an increasingly overcrowded market.
Giles Duley designed by Shaz Madani
Posted: Filed under: Logo Reviews, Photography | Tags: Black Block Foil, Blind Emboss, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Design, Branding, Branding Blog, British Design, Emboss Detail, Embossed Business Cards, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Logo News, Logos for Photographers, Minimal Design, New Logo, Sans-serif Logotypes, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2014, The Best Business Cards of 2014, The Best Logo Designs of 2014, Unbleached Materials, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog Comments Off on Giles Duley designed by Shaz MadaniGiles Duley is a British documentary photographer and photojournalist with ten years of editorial experience within the fashion and music industries and who now works internationally with many NGOs to document those fighting adversity. He is known for capturing humanitarian issues, the consequences of conflict and the human spirit with dignity, creating through his photographs an “intimacy and empathy” for lives that differ from ours only in circumstance.
His brand identity, a combination of a familiar but well executed sans-serif logotype, the subtlety of a blind emboss and deboss print finish, and an uncoated, unbleached, mixed fibre set of boards created by London based Shaz Madani, neatly avoids appearing flashy or individually expressive, and instead has a modesty and truth to materials that feels appropriate for the themes of Giles’ work. It is a small project with few assets but with a sensitivity and restraint not often seen so well handled.