This week Cloud 9 has journeyed to an occasionally overlooked corner of Oz, Adelaide. And thank god we did because we have a new design crush, hello Parallex, I think you might be ‘the one’! As a designer myself it is creative ideas that drive me so when I stumbled across the work of Parallax I knew I’d unearthed a gem. Beautifully executed, intelligent yet relevant ideas based design. Now that’s what I’m talking about! […]
Having picked up an UnderConsideration Brand New Award only last year, Foreign Policy do some incredible work. With branding at their core, where most draw the line and leave it at that with a simple Mark and stationery set, FP take a concept and literally leg it; only looking back to see the line as dot on the horizon, yonder. Their work has been published in all sorts of titles, both in print and online […]
Based right here in Auckland, Cloud 9 is floating closer to home this week, in fact pretty much straight past my window as the agency in question is right up my street in more ways than one. One Design are an elusive bunch, gliding quietly under the radar. Unable to unearth their awesomeness through the web portal, I dug a little deeper and discovered they had a fair few tasty packaging projects to their name […]
Stunning print design from New York’s Li, Inc. whose clients in the fashion, art and beauty realm include Barneys, Guggenheim, Louis Vuitton, Vogue China, Chanel, Tasaki, Swiss Institute, H&M and Design Museum amongst others.
CODO are an agency that take their research and brand development very ‘hands on’. Engaging their clients and building excitement around the design process has lead to some lovely results, in particular their use of letterpress. Tw. @cododesign
This week on Cloud9 we’re in Sydney but with a little outside influence. The multi-talented Toko is the handy work of Dutch designers Eva and Michael who, in 2008, turned sunny side up with a permanent shift to Sydney. Fear not though, the rich European influence is still felt with a wonderfully playful and unexpected approach to design. Tw. @tokodesign
Excelling in a primarily fashion based sphere, Waston & Co., describe themselves as a one stop creative shop “designing brands from the ground up, helping companies present themselves better.” It’s an understated philosophy that, combined with subtleties through type, form, imagery and splashes of colour, conspires to devise the sophisticated and the sublime. Tw. Waston_and_Co
Alt Group really are going great guns down here in New Zealand making them perfect candidates for Cloud9. The awards cabinet is bulging after a handful of new wins at this year’s Best Awards and that’s to say nothing of recent accolades for designer Clem Devine (ADC Young Gun 2011) and Creative Director Dean Poole (recently invited to join the AGI). Yet they remain modest in their achievements with very little self promotion. We think […]