Sunday, 11 October 2015

Study task 1 - Getting to know people

Ah ha studios started in 2010 by Carlin Cantante and Catarina Carreiras. the both started out as friends from university and it started out as an experiment and wasn't taken very serious (could be considered the reason of rather success)They pride themselves in providing a very personal service and tangible working closely with their clients to create a large variety of independent projects. Their style of work uses basic shapes, a limited colour pallet to create very simplistic designs that are also very abstract. They get inspiration from different places and putting their own abstract twist to them, heverly influenced by the travelling they did together.

Hey studios was founded by veronica fuerta in 2007 and is based in Barcelona. it started out as a shop selling tshirts with her designs on and has now expanded into a business that does brand identity and illustrations. Their designs are very geometric in style and colour is a huge influence in their work. hey studio is now a company of fie people that work one on one doing consultations for companies they are going to work with. In the past they have worked with apple, mr porter, cbs, vodafone and oxfam.


Sagmeister & Walsh is a company of four people, sagmeister himself, Jessica Walsh and two other designers. They are based in New York and it was originally just sagmeister himself. They specialise in brand identity, environmental design, animation, advertisements and also web design. Their work is known for the bright playful colours heavenly influenced by the 6o's and 70's pop art.

Hey Days studios is a Norwegian design agency based in Oslo. The company consists of 6 people that collaborate with other freelances. They create design solutions for big and small companies, designing their website, rebranding and creating them an identity. In their work they like to 'challenge the established truth' and create minimalist designs that are simple and creative with their material.

LUST

Lust is a graphic design studio that started in 1996 and is based in the Netherlands. They create book designs, and abstract pieces of design using a traditional print based media. They have a sub studio thats called LUSTlab, which the lust lab website says: "LUSTlab researches, generates hypotheses and makes unstable media stable again. According to LUSTlab, the future of digital media lies in the design of its use. Humanizing the unhuman, bringing the internet down to earth and finding the missing link between the digital and the physical. The outcomes vary from (strategic) visions to new communication tools, man-machine installations and physical products using digital content."




Studio Dumbar is an agency that started up in 1977, it is a dutch company that is the third most awarded design outfit after apple. They have studios in South Korea and China. They focus on creating branding and process management going about it in a abstract manner that is geometric in style and like to create controversial design that sometimes isn't legible.

BUILD


Build is a London based studio that started up in 2001 consisting of four designers and has recently moved to Yorkshire in 2015. The studio is internationally recognised for its work on branding and brand identity. One example of their most recent work is the rebrand of made.com. Their work is very type oriented using simple san serif fonts and a limited colour palette, their work is very flat and contemporary as they try to keep it very modern. 


Elmwood studio started up in 1997 and is based in leeds, but now has studios in London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Melbourne. They Specialise in Branding and Packaging. they are described as "the worlds most effective brand design consultancy." The company has designed its own design tools to work with, and has also get its own bran of tea and beer. The company pride themselves in not having a style only designing exactly what the client has asked for.


Bleed is a multidisciplinary design company that has offices in Oslo and Vienna. They create identities , art direction and company culture, creating 2d and 3d design. Their design style is simplistic and uses selective colour and geometric space.

FACE

Face studio was founded in 2006 in Mexico by two people, and now they employ ten designers. Their work is super modernist design and branding of products, and is inspired by the local culture. All their work is based on making sure the customers needs are attended to by trying to be honest when branding, they have questions that they give clients called ‘your homework’ so that they the information they need to create exactly what the client wants.




Dessein was founded in 1987 in Perth by Geoff Bickford and Tracy Kenworthy and they now have studios and also employ a diverse range of designers that are Italian, Korean as well as Australian. They specialise in branding, packaging and web design, creating work that is modern, clean and colourful. Quote that they like to say is  “solve it, brand it, print it, stream it, make it.” It is important for the company to know their clients values so that they can tailor they designs around this.











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