Paperwork

Luxury New York hotel The Carlyle‘s stationary.

From The Coveteur feat. Dita Von Teese 

Rosemunde Copenhagen

Last summer we were approached by popular Danish fashion label Rosemunde. They wanted us to redesign their website & online boutique and visual identity (- with one exception, the logo was only allowed to be tightened and simplified). We are always thrilled to meet new assignments that demands and challenges us to to re-think and re-invent existing brands. So we embarked on this and selected some talented photographers to capture the feminine and soft universe of the label. Paired with a crisp range of typography and a douce palette of colours their new brand universe is now launching and from what we hear is being received really well and gaining a lot of well-earned attention.

So about half a year ago we hired photographer Casper Sejersen to work with our idea for a set of flower still lives to pair up with the forthcoming campaign images. The merge between the pure femininity of the rose and the strong light and dark background gave the depth and edge to the images that we were looking for.

Next up we shot the campaign in a warm, blossoming and evoking summer garden with talented photographer Olivia Frølich and stylist Kathrine Agger (incidentally her dad’s farm in the countryside provided the pittoresque surroundings) … here is a little selection of the images (see the whole campaign here)

If you’re feeling enticed to see what else has happened in the Rosemunde universe, go and have a look at their new website, which is filled with news, images, films and of course and array of great shopping possibilities ….. visit here.

Details

Loving these envelopes lined with flowers.

Via designinspiration.net 

 

A N V E envelope

We like this little envelope cardholder in soft goatskin. Comes in many different colors. Buy it here.

 

 

For writing …

Brass ballpoint pen by Minimalux (£75)

Flowers (or something related)

Bouquet composed by British installation artist and designer Faye Toogood for COS magazine. Incidentally her mother was a florist. We like it.

Jasper Morrison

Next time we’re in London, we’re definitely going to pay Jasper Morrison’s (secret) gallery/high-class hardware shop a visit. Apparently it has been hiding behind a black gate with no signs and directions at Kingsland Rd. since 2008. Found you!

All images via shopikon.com

Not to forget …

… these beautiful Stella McCartney perfume bottles. So perfect in every way possible!

Images via TheDieline.com

Waffles

Funny waffle idea for a food packaging book! Designed by the talented people at viction:ary.

All images and full story via The Dieline.

Ditch the Pitch?

A quite interesting debate topic from Creative Review. Written by Patrick Burgoyne:

On Saturday I chaired a Q&A session with Stefan Sagmeister at the Cheltenham Design Festival. During our discussion, he revealed that his studio never pitches for work. ‘That’s all very well for a big name like Stefan Sagmeister’, you might think, ‘what about the rest of us?’ But Sagmeister revealed that refusing to pitch for work is becoming more and more common in the US. And there are sound reasons for doing so.

Sagmeister’s argument, and one that is shared by many, is that the pitch process is bad for designers, clients and the work. The work that usually ends up winning, he says, is not necessarily the best solution for the client but the best response to the brief in the pitch. Such briefs typically ask work to respond to a list of criteria: an identity must be ‘dynamic’, say, or reference ‘diversity’. So the respondents engage in a box-ticking exercise to address these criteria and the winner is the one that does it best.

Read the whole article here.