Still Life Love

01: Food still life by Travis Rathbone Studio | 02: Autumn Sky Hall quote by Jennifer E. Snyder | 03: YSL still life by Nicolas Menu | 04: Issey Miyake still life - photo by Iris Velghe, art direction by Nicolas Emeraude | 05: Bau - art series by Takashi Suzuki | 06: Cactus hairbrush work by Murat Suyur

Laura Tulaite | Art Direction

Mr Cup | Fabien Barral

MIU MIU | the Yellow show

I have a thing with yellow so my eye was immediately caught by the communication project around the last fashion show of Miu Miu in Paris

Moodboard | 8/15

01: Photo by Melanie Rodriguez for Papier Mache magazine | 02: No1 Dance Studio by Michael McCabe | 03: Pink Poof - pink, smoke | 04: Photo by Robert Triscoli 

Luvirie | Packaging

Hannah Lemholt | Works

Love, love, love the work of Hannah Lemholt, Swedish photographer and love warrior (with Sara N. Bergman, Yvonne Arentoft and Per Sandhal). See more on her blog here.
01 + 02 + 03:  Love Warriors photo art calendar | 04 + 05: LookBook Moonchild.

brand unit | Network for branding design and content

brand unit is a creative agency based in Vienna

Sander Bullynck | Graphic Design

Sander Bullynck is a Belgian graphic designer and type-addict.

Grand Budapest Hotel | Links List

Have you seen Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel? I finally did and I was enchanted as millions of people before me. I'm also charmed by all the visuals projects realized around this movie, if you don't know them yet, take the time to visit at least the Akademie Zubrowka or to listen to Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack.

Here is the list:
Official links:
http://www.akademiezubrowka.com/  (wait, wait and wait...something will happen)
http://zubrowkafilmcommission.tumblr.com/
http://www.grandbudapesthotel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/budapesthotel

Book:
The story is freely inspired by Stefan Zweig’s memoir “The World of Yesterday,” an autobiography that he wrote in exile in the early forties, soon before his suicide. More on The New Yorker.

Soundtrack:
Alexandre Desplat composed the soundtrack. More on ABKCO Records. Listen to it on Spotify.

Courtesan au Chocolat:
Learn to make your own Mendl’s Courtesan au Chocolat from here.

Parfum:
L'Air de Panache has been really bottled by Nose (limited edition).

Mendl’s packaging:
Free printables - pdf - Mendl's cards and boxes from Make my Lemonade.

Bialetti - the Italian Moka

In Italy, when we say la Bialetti we're probably talking about the most known moka pot designed in 1933 by Luigi De Ponti and produced by Bialetti company.

Studio You Me / 2: The Drifters Table - Identity Design

Behind Studio You Me there are two creative women (and friend):  Kestie Lane and Hana Hakim. Their works portfolio extend beyond interior projects (we saw Brighton Residence yesterday) to graphic, event, urban, furniture and product design.

So this time, I want to highlight the brand identity that the studio designed for The Drifter Table.

I find it so elegant and cool, isn't it? 

"The Drifter Table is a bevy of three like-minded hardworking chefs who are taking the pop up restaurant movement in Melbourne by storm.

Studio You Me wanted create a brand that was dynamic and edgy but also have a sense of establishment to mark it’s longevity and to set them well apart from the norm.

The brand is designed using an elegant stone backdrop and a cool custom crafted font, the iconic compass design gives the brand its strength and a reference to pioneering new culinary territories.

Like the three collaborators, the brand has a cheeky side reflecting the personalities of the chefs, with quirky anecdotes and phrases on the matchbooks and menus to get the dinner conversation started."

Life is too short to design anything less than extraordinary.

Pastiglie Leone - Absinthium

The Pastiglie Leone is  one of the oldest manufacturers in Italy, specializing in pastilles and candies from 1857, when Luigi Leone founded a small artisanal factory in the northern Italian town of Alba. After becoming famous for their quality (the Pastiglie Leone were the favorite of the Count Cavour), the production moved to Turin.
The Pastiglie Leone are still made using pure plant extracts, essential oils and natural coloring to produce an intensely flavored candy with a chalky texture. Coming in more than thirty flavors, such as anise, arquebuse, fernet, violet, they are packed  in small cardboard boxes wrapped in pastel colored paper that matches the color of the flavour and is printed with art deco graphics. I'm talking about the pocket sizes but there are also beautiful colored tins.
It's a lot of time that I was thinking of writing a post about the Pastiglie Leone - as one of my preferred Italian products - and when I saw the absinthe flavour packaging I thought the time was arrived!

The absinthe - assenzio in Italian - called also Green Fairy, reminds me the Poètes maudits and Paris and intrigued me immediately. It also inspired me this styling. I hope you like it!

 

Vegan Yard branding by David Arias

David Arias is an independent graphic design professional based in Vancouver, Canada. I love the branding, packaging and print work he did for Vegan Yarn.
Check other beautiful works in his portfolio here.

"Vegan Yarn -  like the name suggests - is a specialty yarn made from a variety of natural plant fibres such as: bamboo, soy and cotton. Heidi, the owner and founder of Vegan Yarn, hand-dyes the yarn with love in small batches, often creating limited yarn collections. Her colour dyeing technique is unique in that her inspiration for colours often derives from Japanese anime films. Vegan Yarn needed a way to present the product so that customers could pick up the yarn and really feel it without having unnecessary labels around to cover it. The design also needed to suggest natural and earth-friendly. Hang tags were created to easily appreciate the yarn without any obstructions. Items were printed on recycled paper. "

Marie-Hélène de Taillac's places

New York Appartment (AD june 2013)

New York Appartment - Bathroom

Paris Appartment (from NYTimes)

Paris Appartment (from NYTimes)

Le Gout and/or the style of Marie-Hélène de Taillac is immediately recognizable in every space - store or house - she live in, from Paris, to Tokyo, to New York.
After starting her career in fashion and working in London for 14 years, Marie-Hélène decided to return to her first love: gemstones and color. Rediscovering Indian traditional methods dating back to the maharajahs, she begun her collections working with some of the finest artisans in India.
Have a look at her website here (don't miss the MHT Care Book - I love the idea and the graphic design!)

Paris Store in rue de Tournon

Paris Store

Marie-Hélène de Taillac by Jean Philippe Delhomme

Marie-Hélène de Taillac's Website Graphic Design

Pandarosa: Vanilla Café in Berlin

Pandarosa, or the PANDAS for friends, are the brainchild behind artist / designer team, Ariel A. and Andrea B.
As a studio they specialise in the installation of large scale mural works, but also apply their skills across a wide range of applications including illustration, branding, design, illustrative interiors & decorative patterns, while at once conducting their own exhibiting art practice, locally and abroad.
This diverse approach allows them to apply their imaginative creations across a range of outcomes such as adorning the walls of Hotel Fox in Copenhagen, illustrating the pages of publications like Frame, developing the branding for Chorus label.

Their work for Vanilla, the cosy coffee shop in East Berlin,  included art direction, branding & identity, signage & interior design.

"Our aim for Vanilla was to create a slight 'retro' atmosphere by utilising a soft colour palate which could be implemented across all promotional material as well as within the retail space. Such approach required a flexible identity solution, which could be applied across multiple facets, yet refrain from simply being 'repetitive' in nature.
We successfully conceived this by developing a series of patterns motifs based on the interviewing of individual letters found within the typographic solution created.
These were then applied across all branding aspects including signage, custom feature wallpaper, stationary, packaging & interior."

More : www.pandarosa.com.au

Moodboard 33: L'heure du thé

01 : Royal box collection | 02 : DIY idea for a table lamp | 03 : Dessert Stand by Fresh Pastry Stand on Etsy | 04 : Hand painted ceramic cups by Hoppala on Etsy.

Løv Organic | Identity Design

I discovered Løv Organic on Pinterest and I fell in love with the brand identity of the company. Now I'm looking forward to find and taste the teas! 

'In Scandinavian countries 'løv' means 'leaf'. Løv Organic was inspired by this part of the world where a modern lifestyle goes hand-in-hand with respecting the environment. Løv Organic has also taken on a minimalist design, heavily inspired by Scandinavian culture. Bright colours are used alongside a styled bird-symbolizing nature and the need to protect it.

All the Løv Organic products are eco-friendly: packaging is reduced and cardboard is preferred. When using plastic is absolutely necessary, PET, less harmful for the environment than PVC, is chosen.

The metal tins are recyclable because they are made from steel and without plastic. As they are re-usable and because they can be refilled in stores offering Løv Organic loose tea, they encourage the customer to adopt an environmentally friendly attitude.

The cotton muslin tea bags are unbleached and free of staples or glue, and allow the tea leaves to unfurl and release all of their aromas. All of our cardboard packing have the FSC label (Forest Stewardship Council) meaning that the cardboard originates from responsibly managed forests.'

ps: if someone of you knows who designed the brand identity, please tell me!

Small Sake | Klas Fahlén

Illustrator Klas Fahlén's - Agent Bauer - graphic work for Hong Kong based Sake brand 'Small Sake' . So nice!

Clipper Teas packaging by Big Fish agency

Clipper is a British tea company started in 1984 by Mike and Lorraine Brehme with just two chests of Assam tea from a single tea estate. Teas of such quality weren’t widely available at that time and proved to be a huge success. The company was an ethical business from the start. “It was always about how you want to make a living,” explains Mike. “I was in tea already, and I realised there was child labour involved and I thought, ‘That’s no way to make a living.’”
Over the years, the company has introduced organic tea, coffee,  chocolate, white tea, Rooibos and the Japanese-style sencha.

I've recently discovered this brand when, admiring the Clipper Teas' boxes in a nearby shop, I found out that it's not only very good quality but also ethical.  And naturally, I bought it (It has also a very good price, 3,00 euro each box with twenty bags). The re-design of the Clipper Tea range of packaging - by UK agency Big Fish - has picked up a coveted Pentaward!