Summer Design Cases
Designers behind the work
Designers and creative leads credited on Summer projects in press coverage.
Designers and creative leads credited on Summer projects in press coverage.
The Brand Identity’s article, written by Poppy Thaxter, highlights eight distinctive brand identities created for music and performance festivals around the world. The roundup showcases how studios like Moscow Mule, Never Now, and Studio Oker capture the energy and atmosphere of live events through bold typography, color, and design systems.
Moscow-based studio Moscow Mule created a vibrant and typographically precise identity for the End of Summer Festival, a planned event celebrating music, food, and local creators. The design features geometric shapes, bold colors, and a custom wordmark inspired by retro soda can lettering, paired with CoFo Sans from Contrast Foundry. The result is a cheerful and timeless visual system that captures the warmth and energy of summer.
The Brand Identity interviews OlssønBarbieri co-founder Erika Barbieri about the studio’s philosophy of creating meaningful, sustainable design projects. She discusses their approach to packaging innovation through projects like CF18 Chocolatier, which uses mouldable paper instead of plastic, and highlights the role of illustration and collaboration in their work. The conversation also touches on the studio’s growth, values, and creative culture in Oslo.
BP&O’s Studio Showcase highlights the work of Canadian design studio Blok, founded in 1998. The article presents a curated gallery of projects reviewed by BP&O, emphasizing Blok’s conceptual and material-driven approach to branding and editorial design. It praises the studio’s clarity, immediacy, and ability to translate brand truths into striking visual expressions.
BP&O features Blok’s rebrand for Toronto’s Summerhill Market, a family-run grocery store. The new identity uses pastel colours, typographic restraint, and a systematic labelling approach to convey modernity and warmth while maintaining the store’s established reputation for quality. The design balances craft and clarity, reflecting both legacy and contemporary sensibilities.
