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This is the stationary design for N. Daniels, a rep and photo producer in Vienna, designed by Bureau Rabensteiner. It’s simple, cool and thermo sensitive. The black color of the varnish fades at body temperature – as soon as you hold it in your hands you literally produce an image by yourself. It’s a dynamic and living design – the business cards are little polaroids with a constantly changing surface.
The High Line is an identity created for the elevated railway-turned-park in Manhattan by New York based Pentagram. It is a minimalistic identity with a clever logo which is also used as a design element.
Who needs ice cream scoops on a cone when you can have ice cream shavings in a cup…with eyes?! Eyescream is a new ice cream bar that’s opened up in Barcelona, Spain. The branding is awesome and fun and makes me want to take some back in time to when I was a kid so I could feel like I was eating a monster. The cheesecake flavour particularly excites me.
Via: m Barcelona
The Great Catering Company is a market leader in private and corporate catering. Their branding had to be innovative, contemporary and desirable. These bold and colourful illustrations are the key visual device unique to the brand and complement their brand philosophy “serving amazing anywhere”. The colours are made of food pigments- this lovely branding was done by this company
Savvy Studio, based in Spain, recently designed the corporate identity for a new bar in town, Gomez.
“Gomez is a bar that meets a basic need in the nightlife of a city, a place where you can hear good music and drink well. The creative concept behind this exhibition is simple: mix the classic stage of a common pub with graphic elements and modern plastics, a sort of reconciliation between the traditional and the avant-garde.”
Via: Form Forty Five
Netherlands based design duo, RAW COLOR, created this amazing, playful corporate identity system for food design studio, Keukenconfessies. They are known to use colour beautifully and it is evident in this project.
Neil Stevens is a one-man studio, creative illustrator, image-maker and graphic artist based in St Albans and London. The work he create includes illustration, prints, posters, image-making and design across all areas of music, sport, technology, art, finance, nature and the environment. You can also follow him on Behance an Twitter.
This first project is posters designed for the 2012 Tour de France. There have been three categories of prints available, Tour Greats, Tour Scenic and Tour Type prints.
This second set of posters is based on a set of old airline baggage tags. Steven says he was amazed at the variety in designs produced since the 1950s. There was something about the now iconic, easily reconisable three letter abbreviations of the city destinations, and the small surrounding details that he thought would look great blown up and on a wall. They often avoided logos, had no advertising, and were purely just the information you needed.
“Most energy drinks make you look like you’ve been kissing your cousin under the bleachers at the Parramatta Speedway. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that). They scream premium but relentlessly hum Bön Jovi songs under their breath. Our packaging philosophy is simple — make something that people want to show their friends”.
New Zealand based branding and packaging company, Marx Design, recently created this promotional gift box for StrangeLove, a new energy drink that is being introduced to the Australian market. This hamper includes one bottle of StrangeLove ginger beer energy drink, one steel bottle opener with a little rat silhouette and a heart cut into it, metal straws, cocktail straw, promotional cards that explain the product, and a deck of beautifully illustrated playing cards by Randy Mora.
Via: Design Work Life
This is an awesome campaign in Germany that was created to help raise funds for the youth in Rwanda and South Africa. This foosball table was themed around the many difficulties you find in the common areas where people play soccer. Details include bumpy clay, players using crutches, a tree in the middle of the field and a fountain hole in which the ball could suddenly disappear. The game consists of a bet of € 2 between the players. Through an integrated facebook application, every game can be digitally transferred into social media and spread virally. Once you log in with your Facebook profile, the game has a built-in camera is transmitted as live stream on Facebook.
“We see our beers as relationships that are meant to be: By bringing together Mr. Beer with Mrs. Rose, Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. Mint and Mrs. Honey we create beautifully balanced and reliably honest couples.”
Designers, Marta Arráez, Franziska Böttcher, Myriam Carratalá and Irene Palacio, from the Polytechnic University of Valencia recently made a project that celebrates the potencial beer has to bring people together. They’re married some exciting flavours with the beer that is all part of a little love story between Mr Beer and four lovely ladies. The packaging is beautiful and illustrations excite me. I’m not the biggest fan of beer but I’d definitely want these pretty bottles in my fridge.
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