Hands On: Migrant Journal by Offshore Studio
Posted: September 26, 2018 Filed under: Architecture and The Built Environment, Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Hands On | Tags: Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Custom Typefaces & Logotypes, Custom Typography, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Inhouse, Editorial Design, From New Zealand, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Magazine Design, Magazine Spreads, The Best Custom Logotypes, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best of 2018, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Hands On: Migrant Journal by Offshore StudioOpinion by Richard Baird.
Migrant Journal is a six-part exploration of migration in all its forms. Indeed, it covers the very current and pressing political and socio-cultural implications of the migration of people fleeing from persecution, seeking better economic opportunities or under pressure from shifting environmental conditions, yet it also touches upon the more abstract movement of objects and ideas around the globe. Migrant Journal, in its breadth but continuity of theme, intends to reclaim the word migration, to make a break from the prejudices and clichés of migrants and migration.
This is a hands-on review, BP&O holds and has read issues 1,3 and 4, but unfortunately is missing Issue 2. Migrant Journal began as a Kickstarter project, is edited by Justinien Tribillon, Michaela Büsse and Dámaso Randulfe, co-edited and designed by Isabel Seiffert and Christoph Miler of Offshore Studio.
Tatau by Inhouse
Posted: September 21, 2018 Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews | Tags: Book & Magazine Cover Design, Book & Magazine Design, Custom Typefaces & Logotypes, Custom Typography, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Inhouse, Editorial Design, From New Zealand, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Magazine Design, Magazine Spreads, The Best Custom Logotypes, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Very Best of 2018, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Tatau by InhouseOpinion by Richard Baird.
Tatau chronicles the rich cultural history of Sāmoan tattooing, from its beginnings 3,000 years ago to the practices of today. Tatau takes the form of a 320 page hardback book (255 x 200mm) illustrated with historical photographs from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first-century, diagrams, film stills and images of posters and related artefacts. These were brought together by Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot, and set alongside texts that explore how Sāmoan tattooing has been shaped and reshaped over an extended period by regional and international forces, with graphic and editorial design by New Zealand-based studio Inhouse. The book features a distinctive debossed cover, custom typeface and a reversible half jack with examples of contemporary male and female tatau by photographer Greg Semu.
Helsinki by Werklig
Posted: April 19, 2018 Filed under: Leisure and Tourism, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Packaging of 2018, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Business Card Design, Colour Language, Custom Typefaces & Logotypes, Custom Typography, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Werklig, Finnish Design, Form Language, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Place Branding, Sans-serif Typography, The Best Business Cards of 2018, The Best Custom Logotypes, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2018, The Best Logo Designs of 2018, The Very Best Brand Identities of 2018, The Very Best of 2018, Typography, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Helsinki by WerkligOpinion by Richard Baird
In August 2017 Scandinavian design studio Werklig was commissioned to develop the graphic identity for the Finnish city of Helsinki, a capital with an urban region of roughly 1.4 million inhabitants and 751,000 jobs. The challenge was to resolve a disparate and fragmented visual system that represented a broad range of public services, departments and development projects that were helping and informing a diverse group of people. These included locals, national and international visitors, those looking to make their home in Helsinki or seeking asylum. Although each entity had its own logo, these were often tenuously linked by the city’s coat of arms. This served as the beginnings of a new and integrated identity program.
