Skall Studio is a Copenhagen-based clothing brand, founded in 2014 by the sisters Julie and Marie Skall. The new, current identity was created by Barkas. The logo appears to be custom drawn and is paired with HAL Timezone by HAL Typefaces and F37 Blanka by F37 Foundry, which are also used on social media.

From the Instagram post by Barkas:

Skall creates pieces with great attention to detail — and to the greater whole. The more you look, the more you see the craft and intention they put into every thread. To bring this perspective to life, we created a universe that rewards the curious mind. Playful details are woven throughout, and we’re excited to share a glimpse of what’s taking shape.

Barkas has designed the identity for Amundsen Sports’ latest campaign, “Hero’s Hide”, which reinvents the merino baselayer for a new generation of adventurers. The campaign celebrates Amundsen Sports’ philosophy of merging traditional craftsmanship with modern innovation—an approach reflected in both their products and visual language.

For “Hero’s Hide”, the unique Dual-Surface SkipStitch Knit technology creates an ultra-light base with a distinctive openwork pattern, combining warmth and breathability. This design pays homage to the refined Norwegian mountain lifestyle, reimagined for those who embrace adventure year-round.

The campaign’s visual identity is set in Store Norske Leif Mono, Store Norske Magi Mono, and Store Norske Magi from Skriftkompani. These typefaces introduce a utilitarian, contemporary edge, echoing the technical sophistication and rugged quality of Amundsen’s garments. The pairing of these helps solidify a brand narrative that is both rooted in tradition and built for the future.

Common Goal is a charitable movement that encourages players, managers, and other industry professionals to pledge 1% of their earnings toward grants in its community network. They collaborated with the Scandinavian creative agency Barkas to design a new narrative and visual identity.

Raw by Out of the Dark is used as key typeface throughout, supported by Ladna from Tüpokompanii.

On The Brand Identity, Amelie Borman from Barkas declares:

We envisioned a font that broke away from the traditional ‘sporty’ or technical aesthetic, something that felt bold yet approachable, […] It’s opinionated and bold, yet its handmade details give it a sense of humanity and accessibility, which felt spot-on for Common Goal.

Amelie Bormann has designed the titles and posters for Peter Salling’s short film Sælhud (“Seal skin”), a graduation project produced by 18 Frames and Adomeit Film. The script is written by Morten Schmidt, and the movie is produced by Zara Bækkelund Kristensen.

The movie titles are set in the Middle cut of Store Norske Nora, from Skriftkompani. The fonts used for the credits appear to be Libre Baskerville by Pablo Impallari
and Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Instrument Sans, also by Fuenzalida.

Visual identity and website for FLOR, a youth movement that promotes nature and biodiversity. The objective? To build a platform for Danmarks Naturfredningsforening (Danish Society for Nature Conservation) that supports local initiatives and youth communities fighting the biodiversity crisis in the middle of which we find ourselves.

From planting trees and scattering seeds, to spearheading national campaigns, FLOR connects youth with the environment, ultimately paving the way towards a flourishing and biodiverse future.

Moonfare is a digital platform pionering private equity by enabling the world’s most engaged investors to access expert knowledge and bite-sized investments – all digitally and without the tedious paperwork usually required.

For the logo the Copenhagen and Stockholm based studio Barkas created a customized version of Waldenburg with ink traps in the junctions of the lowercase a and r as well as a custom swashed version of Waldenburg’s uppercase M.

Waldenburg Buch and Waldenburg Fett are accompanied by Signifier of Klim. See more images in the case study.

The National Film School of Denmark is a state school located in Copenhagen. It has eight programs: documentary director, fiction director, animation director, producer, scriptwriter, cinematographer, sound editor, film editor, game developer. Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier are among the famous graduates.

Independent creative company Barkas (Denmark/Sweden) created the new visual identity for the school. The typeface used is Reply by Kasper Pyndt, a Danish graphic designer and founder of Approximate Type.

The identity is a colourful new direction, symbolising this diverse new era. It embraces flexibility with a bilingual modular system, providing endless compositions within one frame.

In the article for The Brand Identity, founder and creative director Mike Wittrup explains:

To accommodate this, the typographic direction was intentionally straightforward, for the sake of legibility and versatility. To keep things simple and easy to work with we use one typography and one weight.

Senior Designer Marie Dissing adds:

His minimalistic yet subtly detailed sans serif was the perfect choice to balance out the expressive colours, different styles of photography and edgy motion, and add a timeless modern feel to the identity.

Read the full article on The Brand Identity.

From The Brand Identity:

Continuing their yearly development of Copenhagen Dox’s identity, Copenhagen and Stockholm-based branding studio Barkas have turned to the documentary festival’s own interplay between society, science and art for inspiration. Considering how these combined elements could conceptually and aesthetically translate into CPH:DOX’s digital and physical brand. Turning to Danish graphic designer and 3D artist Caroline Vang, the decisive result is a perspective-defying combination of stark type and realistic, fluid three-dimensional textures. Sculptural in its execution, the organic 3D shapes react to the photography of Anne Krogh below it, creating a striking layered vision that embodies the energy and movement of the festival’s primarily cinematic offerings.

Providing a palpable contrast, Barkas introduced newglyph’s Baikal as the 2022 festival’s typeface: the monochromatic, stoic and stark application of which provides a new layer to the identity’s alternative reality, as well as confidence and grounding to the conceptual, ethereal nature of its composition.

The graphic identity for adult soft drink Bitterschön created by Barkas is a successful example of the ever popular neo-nostalgia trend in graphic design.

Queens by Kilotype functions as the main typeface and logomark. The quirky charm of the Compressed Light style is emphasised by spacing it even tighter and interspersing it with some letters set in italic.

The idea of nostalgia for a bittersweet, non-alcoholic drink made from natural ingredients fits like a glove. Apart from the retro imagery and colours, Barkas achieved the very distinct look through the variety of typefaces they used:

Next to Queens we can see Editorial New, available from Pangram Pangram Foundry and two sans-serif designs, Neue Montreal, also from Pangram Pangram, and Lars, released by Bold Decisions.

A set of animated graphics frames the project most smoothly and appealingly.

Read more about it on The Brand Identity.