Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Art and Design, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews | Tags: Binding, Brand Book, Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Business Card Design, Catalogue Design, Colour in Use: Blue, Coloured Paper, Comb Binding, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Design Reviews: Editorial Design, Designed by Clase bcn, Designed in Barcelona, Edge Painted Detail, Editorial Design, Fonts in Use: Noe, From Europe, Furniture Design Logos, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Homeware, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logos, Material Thinking, Print Finishing, Serif Logotypes, Spanish Design, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Business Cards of 2015, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, The Very Best of 2017, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, White Ink | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Enea is a contemporary furniture manufacturer, located in Spain’s Basque Country, collaborating with respected designers such as Josep Lluscá, Gabriel Teixidó and the trio Lievore Alhterr Molina. Enea has a distinctive catalogue of versatile, comfortable and durable products, developed for both the private and commercial markets, with unique character in their play with form, colour and texture.
With a desire to differentiate itself from its competitors, and with the intentions of avoiding industry clichés, Enea worked with Barcelona-based graphic design studio Clase bcn to create a new visual identity that would articulate, through image and type, colour and materiality, the company’s Basque origin and unique products in a distinctive and contemporary fashion and, using a striking spartan style, reference industrial manufacturing.
The project extended to business cards, brand guidelines, product brochures and company catalogue, and was launched alongside Enea’s latest range which coincided with the Milan Furniture Fair.
This post, an update to the original from 2015, features all new project images, a more extensive look at art direction, stationery and both product and company brochures, photographed as part of Clase bcn’s new website.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Logo Reviews, Theatre | Tags: Animated Logos, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Blog, Branding News, British Design, Brochure Design, Business Card Design, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Spy, Designed in London, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Design Trends: Dynamic Logos, Logo Design Trends: Flexible Logos, Logo Opinion, Sans-serif Logotypes, Stationery Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, Theatre Logos, Tote Bag Design, Type Foundry: Commercial Type, Type Foundry: Klim Type Foundry, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Talawa, Jamaican patois for “small but feisty”, is an all black theatre company that looked to address the lack of opportunities for minorities and their marginalisation at the time of its founding in 1986. Since then it has established itself as one of the most successful theatres of its type in the United Kingdom.
“Our work is informed by the wealth and diversity of the Black British experience, and through that we create outstanding work by cultivating the best in emerging and established Black artists. We invest in talent, develop audiences and inspire dialogue with and within communities across the UK and internationally. By doing so we enrich the cultural life of all.” – Talawa
Talawa has a diverse portfolio of productions, from Shakespeare to African classics, Oscar Wilde to new Black British, and from Nobel-prize winning playwrights to musicals. Some of these have gone on to win awards, tour internationally, and have provided many of its staff and performers with the skills necessary to go on to develop successful careers in radio, film and television.
London based Graphic design studio Spy worked with the theatre to develop a new brand identity and visual language that would help convey the theatre’s powerful spirit. This went on to include an animated logo, stationery, business cards, posters and website.
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Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Cafes, Bars and Restaurants, Logo Reviews | Tags: Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding & Interior Design, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Snask, Designed in Stockholm, Fonts In Use: Geometric Sans-serif, From Scandinavia, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Logo Designs, Logo Opinion, Logotypes, Neon Sign Design, Restaurant & Cafe Menu Designs, Restaurant Logos, Sans-serif Typography, Sign Design, Stencil Cut Logotypes, Swedish Design, The Best Brand Identities of 2015, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2015, The Best Logo Designs of 2015, The Very Best of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Bord 13 is a restaurant, located on Malmö’s Engelbrektsgatan, with a menu that steers clear of the overfished, the modified and unnatural. It is a collaboration between chefs Robert Jacobson and Besnik Gashi, a former Souschef and a Head Sommelier from world-renowned Noma, and features a brand identity and interior design by Scandinavian studio Snask. This extended to material, lighting and furniture choices, and included menu and coaster design, branded chef whites and signage.
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