Mal de Mar is a San Pedro, MX based business and on-line journal where art, design, architecture, photography and travel combine. The journal’s new identity, developed by ‘supermodernist’ design agency Face, captures and binds the timeless pursuit of knowledge and experience through travel and culture with that of the modern technological world with a contemporary fusion of light, symmetrical and consistent line...
“Etxe is a small, innovative industrial design studio based in Mexico City. Their philosophy is to design to the very essence of a product. There is no room for extraneous elements; they believe that the beauty and artfulness of a product lies in its purest functionality. The identity itself is thus a distillation of their unique approach.” – Blok...
SMETS is a luxury department store located in the heart of Brussels (with two more locations across Luxembourg) with over 3.500 square metres of fashion, design, art, food and beauty. Following last December’s BP&O review of the SMETS identity, independent design agency Coast has recently published some further images outlining how this new visual identity has been executed across a wider variety of collaterals and touch-points....
The Slanted Door is a family run, contemporary Vietnamese restaurant that fuses traditional recipes with locally sourced ingredients. Opened in 1995 and located on San Francisco’s Valencia Street The Slanted Door recently underwent a rebrand managed by design and visual communication studio Manual....
Cure is a Californian based handcrafted body care company that formulates products to alleviate daily stresses and donates 20% of all purchases to global charities. The company’s branding and packaging was managed by multidisciplinary design studio Dowling Duncan, now Mucho, and based around a simple logo-type solution and a clean, bright typographical labeling system....
Monsoon is a women and children’s clothing retailer based in the UK which began trading in 1972 and delivered a pre-tax profit of £32.96 million in 2010. They also own the retailer Accessorize and have a combined 425 stores in the UK and over 1000 worldwide. In December 2010 they started rolling out a logo and visual identity system across their stores...