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Illustration4 min readGold leaf and folklore: Dannie Niu's illustrations turn women into mythsAtlanta illustrator Dannie Niu builds richly patterned, art-nouveau-inflected portraits for tarot labels, scarves and editorial covers, working almost entirely in gold, black and one saturated accent color.
Photography4 min readBetween places: Jacob Howard photographs the buildings deserts leave behindNew Zealand photographer Jacob Howard travels through Morocco, Egypt and Jordan isolating single structures in empty landscapes, turning unfinished houses, painted cubes and abandoned mansions into studies of what sits between one place and the next.
Art3 min readHandle with care: Marica Fasoli paints children who live inside cardboard boxesItalian painter Marica Fasoli builds hyperrealist portraits of children on shaped canvases that physically project off the wall as torn, taped cardboard boxes, turning painting into a three-dimensional object.
Architecture4 min readROCA: a terracotta retreat woven into the cliffs of ValenciaMakhno Studio renovated an unfinished concrete structure in Valencia into ROCA, a residence where terracotta volumes step between the cliffs and a screen of rotating wood louvers controls sun, ventilation and privacy.
Branding3 min readPantheon: a modular brand system built from interlocking blocksAgency Numinous built an identity for Pantheon, an EdTech company, around a logomark of isometric blocks that lock together, carried through a muted palette across stationery, packaging, signage and screens.
Packaging design3 min readFresh Black: 15 years of a coffee brand told through four gradient jarsDesigner Marta Lo turned Fresh Black's 15th anniversary into a packaging system where each jar's label carries part of a line graph, and the four graphs connect into one timeline when the jars sit side by side.
Packaging design3 min readNorthern Red: a king crab packaging concept pressed into reliefDesigner Constantin Bolimond built a full packaging system around one Red King Crab, embossing its shell and legs directly into rust-red paper instead of printing a picture of it.
Branding2 min readL'Orso: a restaurant identity built around a bear in a stone ovenColombian studio MANONEGRA &Co. built an Italian restaurant identity around a bear silhouette set inside a stone oven, carried across menus, packaging, uniforms and signage.
Branding2 min readMoodly: The Woork turns a CBD wellness brand into four geometric moodsMadrid studio The Woork built the CBD and nootropics brand Moodly around four geometric moods, then carried the system from packaging to billboards, transit shelters and an app.
Typography2 min readGridType Vol. 1: ten type designers turn one grid tool into ten different alphabetsSlanted Publishers built GridType, a tool for drawing letterforms on adjustable grids and stencils, then handed it to ten designers. The result is a 96-page book of ten typefaces that share one construction method and look nothing alike.
Packaging design2 min readSour Puss: Studio Unbound packages a candy that shows you the sourness instead of the flavorStudio Unbound built a watermelon sour candy tin around the aftershock instead of the flavor: a three-eyed cat mid-meltdown, jagged hand-lettering, and cat-eye-shaped candies inside. Here's how the concept holds together.
Branding3 min readSound Room: Public Eye turns a Calgary listening bar into a hi-fi time capsuleCalgary studio Public Eye built Sound Room's identity around the golden age of hi-fi: a chunky wordmark, a waveform mark and a blue, cream and brown palette that runs from the neon sign to the matchbooks. Here's how the system holds together across a listening bar.