design & stuff

Neleman’s Chocolade are a family of chocolate bars for the Dutch Company Neleman designed by Sweety & Co, an award winning Brazilian design studio.With the idea of bringing a playful childhood spirit together with illustrations with 50’s references they’ve created a family of chocolate bars that look fun and inviting. Playful lines and textures complement the nostalgia of […]

Santa Monica Yacht Club is a bar focused seafood restaurant centred on handcrafted cocktails and small plates created by award-winning chef Andrew Kirschner.  The branding was created by Farm Design, a studio based in Pasadena – California. This included the identity, website, environmental graphics, menus and the brand voice. The architecture for the restaurant was created by […]

Better Burger is a restaurant in Auckland, with the sole mission of making the best burgers in New Zealand. They have a simple menu doing one thing well – “Proudly selling the best burgers in Auckland and New Zealand”. The branding was done by a small design firm from Aukland called 485 Design. 485 Design: […]

St. Laurent Gin is a handcrafted gin whose essence is 1 part mystery and 1 part discovery. A Canadian gin with a label primarily in French, the design pulls inspiration from author Jules Verne along with visual cues from antique encyclopaedias. This is yet another beautiful bit of packaging design from Chad Michael Studio, Dallas – if you’re not familiar with any of […]

Two books. One a novel, one photographic. The Lifecycle: A Thousand Dawns. Chronicling the epic story of a four year, 40,000km worldcycle adventure. This really does sound like an adventure worthy of this beautiful design, the cover and typography fit perfectly to the story that is being told, and the photographs have been laid out in a way […]

Arrels, which means “roots” in English, is a Barcelona based footwear brand making shoes for the urban market. Hey, a design studio based in Barcelona  were tasked with creating their new identity. Hey wanted to find the right balance between their urban look and their rural roots and have created a branding that lands perfectly between […]

Delve is a film and production company based in Bend, Oregon working with tech juggernauts like Facebook, Instagram and more. Moniker, a San Francisco-based design and branding studio, worked with the film company to create a cohesive identity system that represented their focus on depth and character in storytelling. Moniker have created a beautifully simplistic […]

Park is a restaurant, bar and distillery in Banff, Canada. Inspired by the outdoors and the love of the National Park itself, it is a restaurant that celebrates Banff’s alpine history and lifestyle providing “campfire-inspired cooking”. It’s a place both locals and visitors can experience something true and genuine to Banff, both in design and in the food […]

Who doesn’t like a bit of handcrafted beer, and recently there seem to be more and more popping up every day. Daniele Simonelli began brewing beer years ago, which has now led to the production of Big Belly Band beer. He’s created a beautifully professional look which manages to retain the hand crafted feel, with […]

Amie is a small, small town specialty bakery. In their words: “the only thing we enjoy more than baking for our neighbour is spending time with them. We also put a lot of care into what we feed our customers. At Amie we make everything from scratch and in small batches. We use local ingredients from […]