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Vibrantly colored University Housing, Gandía / Guallart Architects.
Bryan Fisher’s packaging for Imperial, a line of men’s toiletries.
“The inspiration for the packaging was pure utility ephemera. We asked ourselves, if the military issued grooming products what would they look like? Or if you could buy men’s grooming products at a hardware store what would they look like? We wanted contemporary, masculine yet timeliness.”
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simple, clean cover.
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Georgian headmaster transforms old airplane into a kindergarten
“The airplane has been transformed and features educational equipment, games and toys but the cockpit is still the same with over 1500 buttons that the kids love to play with while imitating real pilots ready for takeoff. The headmaster, Gari Chapidze, wanted to create a kindergarten where children can come and enjoy while learning too. The private play school that is set up in impoverished Georgian industrial city charges parents about $90 a month, which is more than double what is charged by state-run institutions, but give children an experience not many could get.”
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‘the common phobias of creatives’ poster
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A group of Estonian architects have built a trampoline walkway through a Russian forest.
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Stunning Brand Design
Porto, Portugal-based Royal Studio was hired to design the brand identity for McCooper Studios, a photography studio with a special touch in Sci-fi and a background in cinema. The designers of the Royal Studio combined a typical style of the 20s and 30s with a mad-man steampunk sci-fi era mood.
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GoHiking
Industry Setting
With the rise of a burgeoning middle class in Taiwan, interest in sportswear has grown rapidly over the past decade. The outdoor sports apparel market has become a highly competitive space as suppliers have proliferated, most of which lack well-defined brands or clear strategies. GoHiking is a local distribution channel that offers various foreign brands of outdoor sports apparel within this space.
Challenge
GoHiking was perceived as an outdated, old-fashioned sports apparel channel store. It suffered from poor, unattractive store design and a brand identity that people in the 20-30 age range found unappealing. With nothing to distinguish it from other local companies and a corporate acquisition bringing about a change in direction, the brand needed urgent modernization and a complete strategic makeover that would better align it with the tastes of a younger audience.
Strategy
Beginning with research that revealed fresh customer insights, we found that a gap in the market presented an opportunity for a striking and distinctive visual identity that broke ranks with the rest of the market. If original colors were combined with new materials and an approach that had never before been attempted in this space, a breakthrough could be made that captured the attention of the market. This would lead to the strategic repositioning of the brand, giving it associations of modernity, dynamism and aspirations for a better life that resonate with a 20-30 year-old audience.
Result
The new identity included color, store design, packaging, and bag design, and transformed GoHiking into a stylish, contemporary and chic brand. The choice of yellow, when used in combination with wood, created an in-store design that was unprecedented in the local market, achieving high levels of acceptance amongst a wider proportion of consumers and creating significant differentiation from competitors.More on: ddg.com.tw
