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Teller by Werklig

The social and cultural activity of sharing stories has been, and continues to be, an essential part of human experience. Storytelling contributes to the cohesion of, and sometimes control over, individuals and groups, preserving and passing on knowledge, and instilling moral values. Many of us live by the values...
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Church by Porto Rocha

Naming your company ‘Church’ is, it’s probably fair to say, a bit of an edgy move. Some might even go as far as to suggest it to be sacrilegious.  But here, in the case of this proverbial temple of film post production, Church seems to really fit – and...
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To My Ships by Formafantasma

There’s something almost monk-like about the branding for To My Ships, a new personal care brand founded by Daniel Bense. As former Head of Commercial at Aesop and Managing Director at Sunspel, Bense is clearly a man who understands that today, luxury isn’t about bling, gold ornamentation, and gauche,...
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Something a Wittl different

Hi! It’s Rich here, you’ll have to forgive me, this is a rare one-off message to the studio owners (and soon-to-launch studios) that follow BP&O. I wanted to introduce you to something that I’ve been working on over the last year, something that I think you might find useful....
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Yum Bun by How&How

Arguably London’s street food scene has become less a ‘scene’, more a network of long queues sprawling their way across the capital faster than you can say ‘SEVEN pounds! For some strawberries!’ From Borough to Barbican’s Whitecross Street, Spitalfields to Southbank, Camden to Covent Garden; the menus are global,...
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Siuru by Bond

Estonia’s Siuru plays with important questions, subverting and, at the same time, fulfilling expectations. Is it an art museum? A library? A cinema? Or a cultural institution? For a Bond (Veikkausliiga, Saaristo, Cable Factory) the design studio in charge of developing a brand identity for Siuru, this raised the concern,...
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Ding by Wildish & Co.

When I left the UK and landed in the Czech Republic – my home between 2010 and 2018 – I found a notable difference in advertising and branding between the two countries. Specifically, I saw an abundance of brand mascots. Now, of course, mascots were also used in the...
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Agua de Madre by Chris Chapman

It seems you can’t move for well-designed, wellness-adjacent alcohol-free drinks brands right now. In the past couple of months alone we’ve covered a nightlife inspired Yerba Maté that went hard on Big Drink NRG and Rolus, a new botanically enhanced entry into the (apparently) burgeoning ‘braincare beverage’ category. Making...
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Uniqode by Koto

If we wanted to be poetic about it, we could describe QR codes as the inhabitants of the pixel-thin gap between our physical and digital realities; the conduit between IRL and URL. Once a novelty, perennially often a bit of a pain in the arse, they really came into...
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Veikkausliiga by Bond

How do you bring the fans, teams, and stadiums of the northernmost league together under a shared identity that captures the energy and passion that defines it? For Bond, the answer was in plain sight… the scarf – strewn across the terraces, held high, no matter the team or...
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