Posted: | Author: Richard Baird | Filed under: Food and Drink, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Alcohol Packaging, Back of Pack Design, Beer Packaging, Best Packaging Designs, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Colour in Use: Gold, Craft Beer Logos, Craft Beer Packaging, Craft Brewery Logos, Craft Brewery Packaging, Creative Packaging, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Robot Food, Designed in Leeds, Emboss Detail, Foil Blocking, Fonts in Use: Duke Fill, Fonts in Use: Niveau Grotesk, From Europe, From the United Kingdom, Gold Foil, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Graphic Design Trends: Monolinear Illustration, Illustration, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Metallic Spot Colours, Microbrewery, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Sans-serif Logotypes, Silver Ink, Spot Colours, The Best Packaging of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Vocation is a UK microbrewery, established and run by John Hickling, with a range of craft beers described as having distinctive and punchy flavour profiles. Communicating the brewery’s unique personality and the crafted quality of its range rested in the hands of UK based graphic design studio Robot Food.
Drawing on the beer’s tropical, fruity, floral and hoppy characteristics, the brewery’s fearless, daring and renegade attitude, and the art of beer craft, the studio created a brand identity and label design that juxtaposes bold and robust typography alongside fine, fluid and hand drawn illustration.
To celebrate the holiday season, Robot Food and Vocation Brewery continue to collaborate, this time with a festive release in the run up to Christmas. Naughty & Nice is a single batch chocolate stout, dreamt up by the studio, created by the brewers at Vocation, and limited to 1323 bottles. It draws on the naming conventions, aesthetic qualities and design process of Vocation’s core range, and the shared challenger attitude that unites studio and brewer, but with a couple of seasonal twists.
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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: Food and Drink, Logo Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: American Design, Best Packaging Designs, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Business Card Design, Chocolate Packaging, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Moniker, Designed in California, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Graphic Design Trends: Monolinear Illustration, Illustration, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Design Inspiration, Logo Design Resource, Monolinear Typography, New Logo, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Paper and Card Packaging, Spot Colours, The Best Business Cards of 2015, The Best Packaging of 2015, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards | Opinion by Richard Baird.
Mita is an artisanal bean to bar chocolate business grinding and moulding on a single site in Bogata, and sourcing its beans from across Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Mita worked with San francisco based graphic design studio Moniker to create a visual identity and package design system that would easily scale as new products are introduced.
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