While we speak the same language, the cultural differences between us here in the UK and our pals in the US can feel vast. There’s pavement vs sidewalk, fringe vs bangs, ‘flavour’ vs ‘fla...
https://bpando.org/2024/04/16/cookie-branding-retail-crumbl-turner-duckworth/
Koto’s new work is undoubtedly gorgeous – after all, what’s not to love about a suite of very cute dinosaurs? Especially when they’re rendered in a charming faux naif sort of style, and t...
Dutch studio FCKLCK’s all-caps, blood-red website is full of declarations of belligerent provocations such as ‘OUR FAVOURITE CLIENTS ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE EVEN BIGGER BALLS THAN WE DO’. Tal...
https://bpando.org/2024/03/26/cancer-skincare-brand-packaging-design-moksi-fcklck-studio/
I’m reluctant to bring up the pandemic again, four years later. But I can’t help think back to that period when seeing images related to gatherings, which are employed to great effect in Onmi...
https://bpando.org/2024/03/19/cured-meat-branding-packaging-purloms-a-la-mesa-onmi-design/
It must be something of a dream project when an agency gets commissioned to work on those big-name cultural clients – museums, art galleries, orchestras, theatre companies, et al. You’d expec...
https://bpando.org/2024/02/22/new-york-botanical-garden-branding-2024-wolff-olins/
Estepona is a Spanish resort town on the Costa del Sol. It surveys the azure waves of the Mediterranean from the apex of a bight that traces a gentle South-Westerly arc from Marbella to Gibraltar...
https://bpando.org/2024/02/16/sushi-restaurant-branding-spain-club-cocktails-knahia-requena-office/
We’ve all, at some point in life, encountered a few “But Actuallys”: the kind of people who always know a little bit more than you, constantly correct you, diligently fact check in social s...
https://bpando.org/2024/02/13/french-wine-in-a-box-branding-packaging-design-ami-ami-wedge/
There are many kinds of rebrand. There are rebrands that tread lightly, reverently refining and polishing what is already there, like archaeologists delicately exhuming sunken lucre so that it ca...
https://bpando.org/2024/02/08/branding-be-equitable-by-for-the-people/
Sometimes a project comes along that doesn’t just make you think about how nice its typography is, or ponder if millennial pink is making a comeback (or indeed,, if it ever went away), or why s...
https://bpando.org/2024/02/06/tech-food-hospitality-branding-mr-yum-re-design/
It’s been years since millennials were first accused of buying too many avocado toasts and expensive coffees. The stereotype of young people loving handmade, refined and artisanal products hold...
https://bpando.org/2024/02/01/ice-cream-branding-packaging-design-finland-pirkkalan-werklig/
We’re undeniably in an age of pet care 2.0: the post-fur-baby era, where people are finally beginning to see their animals’ needs and wants as independent to their own (i.e. dried pigs ears o...
https://bpando.org/2024/01/25/pet-products-branding-omlet-ragged-edge/
The once laudable claim to have started a thriving business with ‘a small loan’ from a doting family member may have been muddied beyond recognition by the truth-stretching of serial tax-offe...
https://bpando.org/2024/01/23/london-luxury-watch-retailer-branding-kettle-kids-two-times-elliott/