I love all of Amy Rodchester‘s work, but as someone who loves a toe-tappin’ tune, I can’t resist her poster series for the Newcastle Festival of Dance. I love the colours. I love how the slightly 3D shapes make you feel as if you’re peering through a crack in the wall into an old-fashioned dance lesson, piano player and all.
Anna Kovecses is an extremely talented designer from Cyprus, and she’s given me bundles of inspiration this week. I’m particularly in love with her rather nostalgic poster series, but it was this experimental identity for American Airlines that first caught my eye. How sexily simple is that colour palette and interface? If only it were that easy to book flights!
Via Nicework Ramble.
Continuing on a bit of a London theme after yesterday’s Olympic post, here’s Canteen, a restaurant located near Covent Garden with glossy interiors designed by Very Good & Proper. Those chocolate-coloured tiles are actually salvaged from the London Underground! I love the light fittings and the ketchup / mustard colour theme, but it’s those coat hangers that have really won me over.
Via wolf eyebrows.
Beautiful design for Kansas-based company Studio Skate Supply. The aesthetic was influenced by the designer’s grandfather, who would spend his free time at auctions. He would fix broken bits up and make them new. Lovely memories and a really striking approach – I love that even the wheels are branded!
If you live in Australia, you might have come across the beautifully designed packets of seeds from The Little Veggie Patch around the place. Frank Aloi is the man behind the wonderfully old-fashioned designs, and clicking through his site I discovered he’s a very talented guy, especially when it comes to food packaging.
Now these are business cards so good I want to eat them up. Those colours! That pattern! The letterpress! Kate Thomas is one talented lady, I’m a big fan of her beautiful patterns – but these are something else entirely. There are only 800 in existence, and so perfectly handcrafted – that beautiful edge painting right there? Done with Crayola markers. Amazing.
This week I’ve loved looking back through the logos from American and Canadian railroad companies. (This tipped me off.) Most of the design is simple, bold, black and white. Timeless.
It seems like the design community at the moment is trying to hark back to this style of design. Handmade, a little dirty, with a unique handling of typography.
A really strong, sleek branding job by here design. I think what won me over was the custom paperclips. They are very cool.
Via designworklife.
A couple of other projects I admired.
But it’s really no surprise that I’m so won over by these brand identities. Caz Hildebrand is the creative director at here design, and she created & designed possibly the sexiest pasta book ever. Check out The Geometry of Pasta if you haven’t already.
Hipster Branding is a hilarious project by German Dave Spengeler. What would everyday logos look like if hipsters had branded them? I laughed out loud.
Via I Like It What Is It, from swissmiss.
Michael Longton is a graphic designer based in Melbourne. I particularly like his branding for bicycle repair shop Re-Cycles. He tends towards simplicity over something brash and complicated, so naturally his body of work really appeals to me.
He also takes some pretty beautiful photographs; take a look at his Tumblr.
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