Five & Dime is a restaurant & cafe in Singapore with some really amazing new branding courtesy of Bravo Company. The design comes from a coin, the tender of choice in old five & dime stores across the US.
Since the restaurant is inspired by the old five and dime shops of the past, the team at Bravo decided to create a small line of inexpensive ephemera to be sold at the counter.
Usually when I shop for wine, I stay safe and pick the wines I know, but this eye-catching branding for Urban Wineworks, by Dallas, Texas based Foundry Collective, would definitely pull me into buying. The bright, bold type & pattern of this label strays from the typical “french looking” copy labels or yet worse, funny animal labels and includes additional information, like pairings, that most people are clueless about.
Now if only I didn’t live in Pennsylvania, a state with draconian state-store laws.
I’m really loving this clean, simple and utterly beautiful identity and website, designed by Budapest based Zoltan Balogh, for the Hungary based agricultural company Nadex.
London based design agency Unreal created this amazing brand and all of its associated collateral for their local supermarket, The People’s Supermarket, a member owned and managed nonprofit co-op started in 2010 by noted chef Arthur Potts-Dawson.
The brand is strong and vibrant, using yellow as its main color setting it apart from the boring visuals of the larger chain markets. The brand features a sub-brand, The People’s Kitchen, a place in the store where people can purchase low-cost high quality prepared foods.
La Vittoria is an amazing gala event to raise money money for the Breast Cancer Foundation of Quebec and LG2 Boutique’s branding and event collateral for this years even is nothing short of spectacular. The black, white & gold colors paired with the clean typography makes for a package that feels elegant, a little American art-deco with classic cabarets styles mixed in.
Charleston-based designer Jay Fletcher’s beautiful branding & collateral for home furnishings store Celedon features elegant type, color, and pattern usage and really brings the store’s high-end feeling to its printed matter.
The enamelware by Falcon Enamelware is an integral part of American design history, although you may have never known who made it. The iconic blue-rimmed white bowls, dishes, and other kitchen goods are etched into most Americans memories of childhood. The company has been making enamelware since 1920 and is finally releasing new products this year designed in collaboration with Kiwi & Pom.
To go along with the release, Falcon Enamelware hired NYC based design firm Morse Studio to completely rebrand the company and its products. The amazing product photography is done by the talented Sam Stonewell with food styling by Kate Mccullough.
I just found this great branding & collateral project for Henry Harless, a real estate broker in central Texas by the amazingly talented designers at Arts & Recreation. The old time look of the package gives me a positive feeling about this guy and leads one to believe he is a stand up dude with values and an approachable demeanor all before you even meet him. The colorway, use of old photos, and the bold, clear design make this project a success.
Fuseproject has created a beautiful product sphere for The Nature Conservancy Talamanca Cacao that includes branding, packaging, and the development of a custom grinder/stirring stick used to brew the cocoa. The Bribri women of Talamanca, Costa Rica use sustainable farming practices, growing all of their prized cacao in the natural eco-system. Unlike traditional monoculture farming, the cacao plants grow in their native habitats, surrounded by immense biodiversity.
Their main product is 100% cacao (no suger added) that is hand formed in hard pucks. Fuseproject has designed a custom grinder/stirring stick that is used to grind the puck for brewing. The grinder features a micro-blade grinder attached to a wooden handle that has a built-in hook for hanging it on the lip of the mug. The packaging is all created from the burlap bags the beans are dried in.
Beautiful identity program by designer Adam Hill for Mad Brew Productions, a live music events company that was looking to expand their offerings into photography, music videos and interiors. Hill: “The aesthetic of a traveling Victorian salesman and the concept of one entity ‘wearing many hats’ was used to neatly package the three brands together.”
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