idntty | sabadì chocolate – happycentro

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Chocolate created for the day when we slow down and are able to reflect on what is really important.

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“Sabadì is a brand that mainly focuses, since its birth, to eatables that have a magic inside.

 The first product that came out of this brand is a “cioccolato di Modica”, a typical sicilian way of making chocolate, in this case made by extraordinary cocoa selected in Ecuador, in six combinations with strong personality.

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 The raw materials used come from fair trade producers and Slow Food presidia with respect for small indigenous communities, the environment and biodiversity.

We started by studying and designing the logo and entire brand identity, that had to match owner’s mood about business and life in general.

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Sabadì (sounds like Saturday in Italian) is ‘… perhaps the day that does not exist… the day when we slow down, we reflect on what is really important…’ We then developed its first chocolate collection designing 6 characters, 6 packages and a crowner.”

Designed by Happycentro

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agncy | we reccomend

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WE RECOMMENDis a multi-disciplinary design agency focusing on developing visual identity and profile creating design: help companies, organizations and products to attract attention …and be remembered

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here some project info

More than groceries - As the name states this fashion retailer runs a varied selection of goods. Ranging from classic high-end fashion brands to up and coming streetwear labels. To communicate this we designed the visual identity in a combination of the simple and colourful look of a supermarket price tag and a classic typography.

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Client: Supermarket / Industry: Fashion retail / Project: Visual identity / Year: 2008

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grfk envrnmnt | typejockeys - philippine welser: "house speaks color"

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Philippine Welser is a mod­ern hous­ing com­plex in Austria with a friendly, lively vibe. To help real­ize that atmos­phere, Typejockeys con­tributed an orig­i­nal type­face, as well as var­i­ous bold, geo­met­ric graph­ics that adorn the archi­tec­ture.

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agncy | shotopop studio: digitalizing reality

Here my latest agency discovery: shotopop studio.

Based in London, shotopop is specilized in tactile and digital illustration, design for print and interactive media, execution and direction of motion graphics and everything before, in-between and after…

Check also shotopop blog, they obviously post amazing stuff

mtion&phtgrphy | extracts of local distance

Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.

Digital scans of analogue architectural photography form tiny pieces of a large resulting puzzle. The original pictures are being analysed and categorised according to their vanishing-points and shapes. Based on this analysis, slices are being extracted from the source image. These slices retain the information of their position corresponding to their original vanishing-point and thus form a large pool of pieces, ready to be applied to new perspectives and shapes.

Using the extracted image segments, it is now possible to form collages of originally different pictures with a new common perspective. In order to compose a collage, a perspective-grid is defined and a lining of matching image segments is being applied. The segments are not altered to match the frame but fitting ones are chosen from the sheer mass of possible pieces. By defining additional keywords which describe the content of the original photographs, the selection of segments used for the final composition can be influenced. Thus a contextual layer is added through the semantic linking with the source material.

The recompositions mix and match the views and perspectives of both the architect and the photographer with a third, newly chosen frame. The resulting fine-art prints are entirely unique each time.

localdistance.org

dsgn | dancing squares - nendo

Japanese designers Nendo present new work at Art Stage gallery in Singapore this month.  

Called Dancing Squares, the show will include a bookshelf, lamp, stool and table, each made up of distorted or tumbling squares.

One part of the bookshelf is frozen in its cascade of tumbling planes, creating variety in the way books can be stacked.

The stool’s twist endows it with visual play.

read more and take care of your eyes

dsgn | coke - mystic / jerome olivet

stdio | when typography is style - akatre

Akatre was founded by Valentin Abad, Julien Dhivert and Sebastien Riveron.

The three of them met as students during their art studies in 2002.  After working together as a team for school projects and numerous assignments they quickly understood that they had to work together.  The idea of Akatre was already working up in their heads. Since their graduation, they experienced working in studios and companies, such as Philippe Apeloig, Integral Ruedi Baur, Pyramyd Editions, Michel Bouvet and Aer ‘studio.

About a year later of freelance work and internships, they had the “entrepreneurship bug” and didn’t want to work for a name, in the style or the way of thinking of somebody else.
 Hence they created “Akatre Atelier”.

Meanwhile they got residency in “Mains d’Œuvres” as resident graphic designers and responsible for its visual identity.

Akatre Atelier keeps trying to find new applications and doesn’t want to stay immobile. If you take a look into their projects you will notice a very experimental style, trying to surpass the boundaries for every project, hoping that they will be able to keep it this way for many years to come. While taking every project to another level. 

“good design for us is a design which answers to the problematic of a brief with an extra conceptual vision”.

How Akatre imagines the future?  Full of creative work and projects! They would like to have free hands for an entire magazine, artistic direction, layout, photos, books, music video clips, art direction for fashion pictures, scenography of an exhibition and much more.

“Inspiration is everywhere; outside, in the subway, dance shows, architecture, photography, artistic movements, exhibitions, cinema, and life…”

awrd | knuthenlund - envision:design

“Knuthenlund Estate in Lolland has operated an organic farm since 2007, striving to offer high quality organic foods and at the same time taking care of the unique nature, that is characteristic for the Danish island of Lolland. In the Easter of 2009, Knuthenlund opened a whole new dairy farm in one of the former barns on the estate. The dairy farm is based on milk from the estate’s own organic milking sheep and goats. The fresh milk is handled very carefully to preserve its taste and structure.

Knuthenlund puts pride in affecting the environment as little as possible. This approach is also important in the packaging design process. This is why Knuthenlund Sheep’s Brie is sold in boxes made of sustainable poplar wood. And the brie is wrapped in paper made by potato starch.  Knuthenlund’s Sheep’s and Goat’s Milk is sold in reusable glass bottles.

knuthenlund packging wan the circle award 2010.

In the printing process, it has been important to limit the use of printing colour. Knuthenlund also offers gift boxes made by unprocessed wood. The inspiration came from the old fashioned hay boxes. The box are isolated with the estate’s own hay and are therefore in line with Knuthenlund’s ambition to run a farm that both shows consideration for product quality and the environment.”

Designed by envision:design, a Copenhagen based design agency, specializing in food packaging solutions.

  
 

awrd | patrick jean & one more production - energy for your brain

One More Production is a  French group based in Paris. They’ve got a nice collection of their other works on their official site, which are certainly worth checking out as well; I particularly like La Gaite Lyrique and their trailer for La Horde.

So please, do check out Pixels below. I guarantee you will not be disappointed!

agncy | head gear animation

A fresh exapmle of semplicity and clear ideas. What  client needs for being satisfied. Good job Head gear.

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Head Gear was founded in 1997 by creative partners Steve Angel and Julian Grey. Conceived as a small animation shop that provided clever alternatives to purely traditional animation or computer graphics. It has since evolved into a dynamic studio offering everything from stop-motion, 2D, cel and claymation to mixed media and live action.

Head Gear has created work for a range of commercial and broadcast clients that include Coke, Nestle, Kraft, Ikea, Kellogg’s, MTV, Nickelodeon, Discovery and the Sundance Channel. It has produced national campaigns (Pop Tarts, Pizza Hut, Excel), total network packages (Sundance Channel, Astral Media, PBS Kids) as well as short films (Nickelodeon) and PSAs (safe sex).

agncy | oldies for good design: cyan

the graphic design studio »cyan« was established in 1992 by daniela haufe and detlef fiedler in berlin. it specialises in visual identities for cultural and public institutions (advertising campaigns, posters, books, magazines, websites etc.) and visual presentation strategies for exhibitions and performances (exhibition design, set design, multimedia works, picture editing). cyan’s designs have received numerous awards and have been published in specialist journals and books worldwide.

agncy | Glossy studio

pckgng | Mayday agency