Space NK Men

"Space.NK.Men is a sub-brand of Space.NK, a leading luxury beauty retailer offering high quality products from a broad range of innovative international brands. Bibliothèque were responsible for providing an identity and packaging concept for a new Space.NK.Men store in Soho, London.

The design solution is intentionally minimal. Graph paper provides a technical visual language, suggesting a functional and practical grooming product appropriate to male consumers. The graph paper grid is applied across all touch points – from packaging and stationery to bags and
in-store displays. The incremental nature of the concept was ideal for presentation purposes, allowing staff to accurately position and caption products."

Agency: Bibliothèque
Country: UK

EDAwards 2010 Packaging Design Winners

The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization celebrating the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe. A joint effort by 14 communication design magazines from across Europe.

Here are the 2010  Packaging Design Winners:

Bendita Gloria 2010

2010 is the name of a wine to share with friends and celebrate the beginning of the new year. This product has been elaborated using organic farming methods without herbicides, pesticides or aggressive chemical filtrations. It's a limited numbered edition of 2010 bottles.

The label is a poster that wraps the bottle with the help of a rubber band without using adhesives. Once the wine is finished the bottle can be returned and the label has also a second life as a poster with this message about 2010: "Got the feeling it's gonna be a good year". Cheers!

Award: Gold
Country: Spain
Agency: Bendita Gloria


Økologisk steinbakt mel

Organic flour made from ancient grain types.

In the concept development process, the importance of making an environmentally friendly, functional, flexible and efficient packaging was highlighted. Also, the identity should challenge the existing visual language in the flour category. The result is simple and unique, with fresh colours on the labels as the only differentiator between the 6 variants. Premium flour ground with love.

Økologisk steinmalt mel = Organic stone-ground flour.

Vi lager ekte mel av gamle original kornsorter. Dette bevarer næringsstoffene og den gode smaken. = We produce real flour from ancient traditional grain types. This preserves the nutrients and the great taste.

Award: Gold
Country: Norway
Agency: Strømme Throndsen Design


Elyjah: Planet, Planet.

The Songs on Elyjah's debut album is both playful and atmospheric, it leaves a lasting impression. To ensure that that message was conveyed to the customer, we fired pellets at all two thousand covers. They circle like planets around a fixed point. Returning to a time in which men had morals in their hearts and cloth handkerchiefs in their trouser pockets, we put the band in Herr von Eden suits and then printed the large-format photos by hand. Typographically, we continued this theme with two typefaces from that time period: Memphis, from Emil Rudolph Weiß (1929) and the Wieynck Gotisch from Heinrich Wieynck (1926) were put into use on an old Heidelberg printing machine.

Award: Gold
Country: Germany
Agency: Zwölf

More award winners after the jump!

Laura Secord

Agency: Red Rhino
Country: Canada

Votrys Gift boxes and winerack

"A series of boxes that contain one, two and three wine bottles each. Each box can accept two different sizes/forms of bottles of the same capacity. The three sizes are either combined together or separately and by stacking them a wine-rack is formed. Even a big wine-rack could be produced in this way. The shape of the box was chosen because it is sympathetic to the shape of the bottle and it also looks like a grape from one side when stack. The box has a handle and can be carried like a bag without the need for additional packaging. The use of Oak plywood as the main material was chosen because it makes references to the Oak barrels the wine matures in. The client logo appears on the box and on a label on the handle which also explains the concept and the way to reuse the box."

Agency: Athanasios Babalis
Country: Greece

Frutta

"Frutta is an exquisite blend of sweet liqueur wines infused with 100% natural fruit juices and extracts."

Agency: Versuspublicidad
Art Director: José Iriarte
Country: Spain

Obamitas

Agency: Neosbrand
Country: Spain

Merula

"70 kilometers outside the city of Barcelona is Alt Penedes, a region long renowned for its Catalan wines. In the village of Torrelles de Foix is a plot of grape-growing land known as Terrer de Sapera. From this land comes the new wine on the block, a merlot called Merula. The name Merula translates to blackbird in Latin—mirlo, also the source of the name of the merlot grape, whose deep wines are said to resemble the color of blackbird feathers.

We designed the label, capsule, and a six-bottle case for Merula. As it’s a new winery producing a grape not typical in Alt Penedes, we opted for a non-traditional approach. Building on the name Merula, we worked with illustrator Miguel Ordoñez to create friendly blackbird."

Agency: Base
Country: USA

La Maison Fontaine

"Early in 2009, Design Friendship were approached by Metropolitan Spirits and Pretty Green to help create a new spirit brand.

Twelve months on and we'd like to introduce La Maison Fontaine - an ultra premium artisan absinthe. Handcrafted amongst the beautiful Jura Mountains in Pontarlier France - a place renowned for its absinthe history. Distilled in the oldest absinthe stills in the world, using the finest ingredients and locally grown natural herbs, including Pontarlier Grande Absinthe.

The challenge was to create a brand identity that reflected the strong traditions of absinthe and the Pontarlier region, whilst positioning the aesthetic towards a more luxurious and contemporary style."

Agency: Design Friendship
Country:UK