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Joseph Joseph

Bottles sitting on the wall.

A sample of bottles collected over the summer for various briefs/research looking at a variety of label designs, beer styles, bottle shapes and print processes involved to produce the beer bottles. A selection of bottles work well as a series from the same breweries, but with largely the designs are old fashioned and over eccentric in style. Bright colours and badly laid out text. 

There are however a few gems in the selection, such as the sample below demonstrating more contemporary designs.

really nice use of stock and two colour printing process for a porter from Odell Brewing company. The hand drawn type adds a nice quality, and draws attention to detail to the label, instead of just brewing the beer. Majority of beers brewed in this country, the label/beer tab feels like an after thought. This beer is from Colorado, USA.

A really nice use of foil on the label to draw attention to the user. All the 'Brew Dog' beers feature the same typeface and layout to the labels, but the higher percentage/more expensive beers are reflected in the design, a change of colour or spot varnish, depending on the beer.

One of my favourite bottles of recent times. Informative, purely typographic, select range of colours, contemporary feel, Appropriate print of label (coated stock), British produced and from a small brewery. Consideration from production through to delivery. Its bloody delicious too.

Info-graphics! I was surprised to find this little gem on the back on one of the bottles, suggesting tasting notes, what to expect, and a little bit of information about how the beer is produced. The label itself isn't very nice, but this portion of information is inspiring. Does the information need to be placed directly onto the bottle? or can the information accompany the beer?

I love dust

Originally taken by this piece because of the use of a laser-cutter, the variations in typefaces and decorative feel work really well. i would really like to use the lasercutter, its just finding a relevance for it.

Exploring the portfolio further, I came across this series of advertisements for the Highways Agency using a combination of handmade type and found objects to attract attention. 

Again I really like the variations of type applied together, especially the road signs 'updates' 

Handmade Typefaces. Arranged + Found.

Vladmir Koncar

Robert Bolesta

Kimberly Reynolds

Camille Lebourges

MEStudio

Daryl Tanghe

The selection shown here are of arranged and found handmade typefaces, arranging found objects to create letterforms. Especially Vladmir Koncar, the typefaces created are replications of existing typefaces but with different materials, instead of creating an entire typeface from found objects, so giving the design some direction to work to from the start.

Blueprint 3

Not 100% why this is here, possible technique for producing type/textures? Strong inspiration, and a great album.

Channel 4 idents