Old Spike Coffee by Commission Studio, United Kingdom
Posted: Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Logo Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Bag Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, British Design, Coffee Logos and Packaging Design, Coffee Shop Branding, Creative Packaging, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Commission Studio, Designed in London, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logos, Luxury Logos and Packaging Design, Packaging Shortlist 2017, Sculpted Emboss, Structural Package Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Best New Logo Designs of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, The Very Best Packaging of 2017, Tote Bag Design, Typography, Unbleached Materials Comments Off on Old Spike Coffee by Commission Studio, United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird
Old Spike is a coffee roastery, subscription service and wholesaler, cafe and social enterprise working with the homeless, located in South East London. It is situated on the site of a former workhouse, a place where the poor would break rocks over metal spikes for food and lodgings, and where the roaster gets its name. With a desire to separate the roastery’s commercial and social activities Commission Studio worked to develop a retail and subscription packaging design that avoided the conventions of the market, and worked together a sense of the artisanal and wholesome and the eye-catching and luxury.
Pepe Raventós Natural Wines by Mucho, Spain
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Bastard Negre, Xarel·lo and Ancestral are a small batch natural wine collection created, with minimal intervention, by Spanish vintner Pepe Raventós. Although Pepe is in charge of a vineyard that has been in his family’s hands for over 22 generations, and maintains the philosophies of his father and grandfather, this small collection was produced in the garage of his house, with the intention of crafting the highest quality wine from unrepeatable terroir.
Natural wines Bastard Negre and Ancestral, and sparkling wine Xarel·lo, are unfiltered and made without additives or sulphites, and have been produced from vines that around 50 years old. The land in which these have been grown are located at different heights and geographical positions, and made up of a variety soil compositions. This is expressed, alongside a process of minimal intervention, in packaging design, created by Mucho, through the layering of paper, the use of colour and form, and material texture and composition.