Monachus Distillery by Bedow
Posted: Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Colour in Use: White, Coloured Paper, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bedow, Distillery Logos and Packaging, Fonts In Use: Geometric Sans-serif, Gin Branding, Gin Packaging, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Material Thinking, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Packaging Opinion, Structural Package Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2020, The Best Packaging of 2020, The Very Best of 2020, Type Foundry: Colophon, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog Comments Off on Monachus Distillery by BedowText by Richard Baird.
Atop of Croatia’s Istria peninsula, just where the land slips into the Adriatic sea sits the tiny small-batch gin distillery of Monachus. Stone shores, botanical covered hillsides, the smell of pine and scattered pin cones characterises the landscape. Drawing on this, the natural history of Istria and the name Monachus, borrowed from Monachus Monachus an endangered Mediterranean monk seal, Swedish design studio Bedow created a visual identity and labelling for the distillery.
Tangent GC Organic Detergents by Carl Nas Associates
Posted: Filed under: Home and Garden, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Best Packaging Designs, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding Blog, Cosmetic Packaging, Creative Packaging, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Carl Nas Associates, Designed in Stockholm, Fonts in Use: Akkurat, From Europe, From Scandinavia, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Material Thinking, Minimal Design, Minimal Logos, Minimal Package Design, Organic Packaging, Packaging Company, Packaging Design, Packaging Design Blog, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging News, Skincare, Tangent GC, The Best Packaging of 2020, The Very Best of 2020, Type Foundry: Lineto, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards Comments Off on Tangent GC Organic Detergents by Carl Nas AssociatesWords by Richard Baird
Tangent GC began as a Scandinavian organic garment and shoe care company developing products that intended to increase the life of clothing and footwear, and entered the organic skincare market in 2016. The longevity of skin being an understandable extension of that original intention.
The company’s graphic identity, a typographical system designed by Essen International under the creative direction of Carl Nas, established an informational immediacy through the absence of superfluous stylistic detail and colour, whilst effectively dividing content and drawing out a distinction in the arrangement, orientation and typesetting of Akkurat Mono.
As Tangent GC ventured into the organic personal skincare market the company worked with London-based Carl Nas Associates to build out the visual language initially laid down by Carl Nas while Creative Director at Essen International. This new phase saw the studio applying this graphic system to skincare packaging, a soap range, and organic hand cream, which were supported by campaigns that featured swirling fabrics and illustration by celebrated airbrush artist Syd Brak.
Carl Nas Associates continue to work with Tangent GC into 2020, this time transforming their range of organic detergents, broadening the graphic language of type and its arrangement into a form and material language through bespoke structural design. The detergents come in two sizes, 500 ml and 1000 ml, and cover everything from the everyday washing liquids to specialty products such as those for cashmere and those formulated to be hypoallergenic.
Northstar Film Alliance by Bond
Posted: Filed under: Film | Tags: Brand Book, Brand Guidelines, Brand Identity, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding, Branding Agency, Branding Blog, Branding News, Branding Reviews, Brochure Design, Brochure Design 2020, Colour in Use: Fluorescent, Coloured Paper, Condensed Logotypes, Condensed Typography, Corporate Identity Design, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Inspiration, Design News, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by Bond, Film Production Logos, Fluorescent Ink, Fluorescent Paper, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logotypes, Material Thinking, New Logo, Poster Design, Sans-serif Typography, tape bind, The Best Brand Identities of 2020, The Best Design for Print 2020, The Very Best of 2019, The Very Best of 2020, The Very Best of BP&O, Typography, Uncoated Papers & Cards, Visual Identity Design Blog, Wordmark Design Comments Off on Northstar Film Alliance by BondOpinion by Richard Baird
North Star Film Alliance (NSFA) is a joint venture between Estonia, Latvia and Finland. The Alliance intends to develop and promote themselves as one filmmaking region to international film and TV productions. It is a competitive marketplace, with other countries provide low tax rates and incentives to film big-budget spectacles on their stages using local crews. Together, the three countries offer a diverse and unspoilt nature, architectural diversity, political stability, cost effective production and infrastructure, as well as international travel hubs and the best drone pilots for arial footage. Design studio Bond recognised that the challenge lay, not only in developing an immediate and striking visual identity, but to establish a framework, codified in a new brand guidelines document, that could support and collectively raise the profiles of multiple cross-border partners in the Alliance.
