Saint Octave – Cheese and Charcuterie
“Saint Octave is a cheese and charcuterie delicatessen in Brussels. Octave, the owner, is a lover of cheese and decided to open up his own shop so he could bring good food to the every…
Hayne Script
If there’s a trend in typography that won’t go away, it’s Script fonts. That’s mostly a good thing in my opinion because a decent, flexible fully feature script can be a thing of beauty. It…
Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival
So hot, it’s cool! I can sometimes be guilty of featuring brands with a certain style that checks some of my boxes, especially when there’s nothing “big” on my radar from some huge multinational. So…
European Southern Observatory Identity
Finding an appropriate solution which is concentrated on the unique aspects of the entity your branding is usually the holy grail of identity design. The branding for a bank should ideally assure it’s customers that…
The Marmalade Pantry Branding
A tasty bit of branding for a Tuesday post Bank Holiday. The Marmalade Pantry is a small chain of 3 outlets in Singapore. Alongside the opening of a new bistro in the Oasia Hostel, Bravo has…
Camila Font – A Didone Style Font
Heading once again down the inspiration route this week with the Camila font by Latinotype. We’ve had a few fashion brands recently pumping out the stylish but safe san-serif centred fonts (Daisy Grace and Sally Beauty). Camila…
CAPE Neurodiversity Branding
An interesting identity with a unique goal by magneticNorth, who have been working with the BBC to develop the identity for a new project named CAPE (Creative a Positive Environment) which is a new diversity…
Daisy Grace Holographic Branding
I enjoy super stripped back designs like this one for Swedish fashion brand Daisy Grace by Twenty Five Art House. It has some similarities to the Sally Beauty branding, both featuring strong serif typefaces front and centre….
University of Suffolk Logo and Branding
The University of Suffolk is an educational institution located in the English county of Suffolk which was, prior to August 2016, formerly known as University Campus Suffolk(UCS). UCS was granted Taught Degree Awarding Powers by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in November…
European Championships Branding
Hot on the heels of the Olympic Games is the release of the branding for the 2018 European Championships by Design Werk (originally seen at the launch in February, but published live on the DesignWerk site…
1930’s Branding at Tredegar House
Some excellent vintage branding on show at a visit to the excellent Tredegar House near Newport, Wales. We’re fully paid up National Trust members. For those outside of the UK, the National Trust is a middle-class…
Script Font – Steak
An inspiration angle this week rather than a directly used font of a design we’ve looked at over the past 7 days. I covered the conflict between Tasty Burger and Tasty Made. Both had a…
Sally Beauty
Judicious use of black and white photography combined with blocks of red and bold strokes of a “lipstick” mark device makes for a punchy design by Anagrama for Sally Beauty. The inside of the envelope in red…
Royal Sutton Coldfield Logo Design
Regular readers (both of them) will know by now I’m a sucker for a story about small provincial town logos. On one hand, I think it’s great that local councillors put value in design, on the…
Beef over Burger Brand
What could be better than a Tasty Burger? How about a “Tasty Made” burger from a new restaurant chain owned by American firm Chipotle? Looking to get a processed cheese slice of the luxury burger…
ADI Awards – Geometry and Typographic Car Crashes
Here’s a bright and bold identity for the biannual product design focussed ADI Awards. With 3 categories, product design, student work and a more abstract cultural work the awards have been given since 1961 and…
Neue Haas Grotesk
This week, keeping things tied in by featuring fonts from logos we’ve looked at during the week, it’s the excellent Neue Hass Grotesk, as seen on the branding for the 9th Berlin Biennale . It’s a…
Southwark Council’s £7,000 logo redraw
I regularly argue that councils and municipals need to invest in branding. I wrote an article explaining a few reasons “Why that new municipal council logo isn’t a waste of taxpayer money” and I stand by the…
Caffè Pagani
This is a really rather lush identity from Russian firm Eskimo. All chocolaty and earthy and woody. The logo is well executed despite its simplicity. The real ‘oooh’ comes from the depth and richness provided…
Why the Beijing 2022 Olympic Logo might be Awful
To create an Olympic logo is surely a designers dream job? One to be approached with both excitement and maybe a dash of fear! As a piece of design, it’ll be seen by hundreds of…
9th Berlin Biennale
As you’d expect from an international arts festival, the introduction is packed with plenty of indescipherable copy. Stick with it though as fortunately, the branding is really strong: “Is Donald Trump going to be president? Is wheat…
The Doves Type
The tale of Doves type is one of passion and obsession from two men; Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, a 20th-century bookbinder and Robert Green, a 21st-century designer. Cobden-Sanderson was striving to produce the perfect book, perfect in every way….
Letterheads fit for a King
When you’re a King (one assumes) you don’t simply print your letterheads from your office inkjet. When accepting invitations to visit from other global monarchs such as our very own Queen (aka Elizabeth the Second,…
Tesis branding and packaging
Some excellent branding for Mexican tea brand tesis by Anagrama. The logo elements themselves are understated, with a lowercase name above the “tea culture” tagline. I think they’re set in Caslon Semi Bold and Regular respectively. There’s…