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Inside the eight-month rebuild of Casa Ribeira
How an insurer, a São Paulo studio and a calligrapher arrived at a wordmark you can sign.
Latest analysis and reviews
Why airlines are trading pattern for a single line
Liveries are getting simpler. The reasons are paint, distance and the phone screen, in that order.
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Colour-only trademarks need an evidence file. Here is what goes in it
The Sora Mobile ruling shows the record a brand team has to keep from the first day a colour is used.
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Hana Snacks' one-ink pack is a quiet win for print budgets
Twenty-two products, one red, uncoated board. The shelf has never looked louder.
00Opinion
One writer's argument, signed.
Interviews
People who make brands, in their own words.
Start with the archive, says Halden's new creative chief
Mira Castell on her first 90 days, and why she reads old brand books before new briefs.
Every brief here starts with fintech, says Hollow and Co's founder
Wanjiru Kamau on opening in Kigali and designing for people who bank on their phones.
Features
Three scripts, one grid: the Pasar Baru wayfinding system
Rimba Studio on setting Indonesian, Javanese and English side by side without a winner.
00Inside the eight-month rebuild of Casa Ribeira
How an insurer, a São Paulo studio and a calligrapher arrived at a wordmark you can sign.
00Start with the archive, says Halden's new creative chief
Mira Castell on her first 90 days, and why she reads old brand books before new briefs.
00Why airlines are trading pattern for a single line
Liveries are getting simpler. The reasons are paint, distance and the phone screen, in that order.
00Start with the archive, says Halden's new creative chief
Mira Castell on her first 90 days, and why she reads old brand books before new briefs.
00
Brand guidelines should be written for the night shift
The people who apply a brand at 2am need a page, a rule and an example. Most guides give them forty pages of mood.
00Inside the eight-month rebuild of Casa Ribeira
How an insurer, a São Paulo studio and a calligrapher arrived at a wordmark you can sign.
00Hana Snacks' one-ink pack is a quiet win for print budgets
Twenty-two products, one red, uncoated board. The shelf has never looked louder.
00Colour-only trademarks need an evidence file. Here is what goes in it
The Sora Mobile ruling shows the record a brand team has to keep from the first day a colour is used.
00Three scripts, one grid: the Pasar Baru wayfinding system
Rimba Studio on setting Indonesian, Javanese and English side by side without a winner.
00
The best brand systems are boring on purpose
Consistency is a feature you design. Excitement belongs to the campaign, and the system should leave room for it.
00Every brief here starts with fintech, says Hollow and Co's founder
Wanjiru Kamau on opening in Kigali and designing for people who bank on their phones.
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