JAY-Z - BROOKLYN NETS IDENTITY

The title is serious. Jay-Z apparently designed this. If so I have to give props to the guy.

I posted a while back about Gaspard, one of Justice making a poster for a gig. It seems musicians are delving into the world of design. This is the reverse of what i'm doing. Has to work somewhere along the line.

NICOLE MEYER - 10,000 LAKES

  

I saw this a few months ago, added it to my (virtually redundant) cargocollective feed and forgot about it. Saw it pop up on ffffound and instantly thought, "Christ, it's got big," Nicole Meyer has been redesigning and creating signs for lakes all around America simply stating "Lake logos have a tendency to be, well, fairly ugly."

They're all amazing and she's been doing one a day for... well, quite a while now.

www.branding10000lakes.com

cargocollective.com/nicolemeyer

WOLFF OLINS - CURRENT REBRAND

So this may just redeem Wilff Olins from his catostrophic Olympic logo (which is actually starting to look good to me, maybe I should stop staring at it and all it's pretty colours). This rebrard really looks nice. They've gone for a tall, thin font which is slightly last year but it still looks great. Olins has also gone for a moving logo which,as it's for a television channel, motion shouldn't be a problem. The poster that have been posted and the logo alternatives all still work really well and 9 times out of 10, completely legible... but hey. If it aint legible, that's good design. Sit there, work it out, read it, recognise it. It works.

current.com

Starbucks Rebrand 2011

Oh holy shit. They're ruining everything.... get over it. This brand identity is a really good, clean and modern turn for 2011 which I hope is a trend setter unlike some other things... I posted late in 2010 about the work of ANTREPO and how his self initiated work of simplifying well known brands was pretty much the best piece of work I had seen that year. Well looks like it could take off. I really want to see more brands that simplify their logos. Not just well established brands but maybe new comers too just having nice, simple, clean logos.

Also... who knows? (Small LOL here)

ANTREPO // A2591

Seriously. This year has been sick for design but right at the end of the month when I'm struggling to find the stand out design of 2010. This comes along and leaves my jaw on the floor. It's so simple and probably so easy also but it just looks so damn sick. There's a few more of these on the website linked below. I really wish that brands had the balls to make their new products design-savvy and make them nice for a change instead of throwing all sorts of effects and graphics on their products. Pointless. Apparently in Australia they're actually going ahead with a nice clean re brand of them cigarette brands. If I see any pics I'll keep you posted. I like that because like a friend of mine said about fag packets, "You don't have pictures of liver failure and jaundice on beer bottles do you?"

www.a2591.com/2010/12/minimalist-effect-in-maximalist-market.html