Etnohaus is where art takes place. People meet, make music, exchange opinions.
A creative center for projects and spaces in Rio. They invited us to enter the house, so that we could arrange the things that were going on there.

Our role was convey the whole essence of Etnohaus in design. We made a logo that says a lot about how they see each other: through a circle, in a place with no hierarchy. Where everything and everyone unites through music, respecting the personality of each other. Where everyone is welcome.

From there on, we selected colors that could express these fine personalities, a typographic selection that communicated everything they were talking about, and putting it all together in a system that would be easy to replicate on the communication platforms they use.

The first issue of W, a thematic employment guide with advice, interviews and investigations for the young generation, is nothing but a typographic feast. With soft colors and playful setting, it creates a safe space in this age of political turmoil. Ogg & Eksell Display pull most of the headlines, usually supported by Trio Grotesk. Aria Text is used for longform together with Fugue Mono in quotes and secondary elements. Lastly we have a few instances of Pitch, giving some articles extra flair.

Editorial design and Art direction by Violaine & Jérémy. Cover by Elodie Lascar. Illustrations by Elodie Lascar, Zoe Lab and Sophie Lecuyer.

“L’ADN is a quaterly magazine that reports on trends, communications and anticipations.” Or at least so we are told by Parisian designers Violaine & Jérémy, whose treatment of L'ADN features a distinctly contemporary blues. The angular mix of Euclid Flex and Stanley constrast beautifully with the continental goof that is the Kayo-weight of Gill Sans.

Constructed from Gridnik – a product of early electric typewriters and based on ‘logic, rationality and a strict adherence to a grid with a humanist dimension’ – the logotype’s uppercase sans-serif letterforms, 45-degree corners, monoline weight, structure and geometry, as well as its compounded nature, all point towards a straightforward and confident technological efficiency and neatly reference the designers that make up the studio. The characters are well spaced, balanced by a central A and executed with a single black ink print treatment that provides a distinctive contrast to the more expressive and tactile sensibilities of the stationery.

Sebazzo is the London based interactive studio of digital design duo Sebastien Hefel and Michael Azzopardi. The studio creates applications, websites and generative installations for a variety of brands and specialises in ‘innovative e-learning environments’. Design agency Bunch recently created a visual identity and stationery solution for Sebazzo that conveys digital design as a craft and the duality of the partnership through name and type, colour, material choice and process.

Richard Baird, BP&O

Campaign for the Austrian Design Award 2016. The major constraint was that the campaign design should be reminiscent of graphic designer Joseph Binder. We decided to take abstract forms out of some of Binder’s poster designs and create a contemporary and modern composition. The visual noise, an element often found in posters of the 1930s, is taken to the extreme.

Visual identity, poster and program for Le Colombier, a cultural space in Magnanville.
The identity features photographs taken around the place, capturing moments of life and fragments of landscapes.

Design: Lucas Sharp

We are very proud to release Respira, a contemporary blackletter, as all of the proceeds will be donated to the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The NRDC is a non-profit organization that fights for environmental preservation and policy change to help save the planet and everything living on it. To promote its release we worked with two guest designers on a 'Respira' poster series about climate change. Keep an eye out for the limited print release of our poster series.

— Sharp Type

Graphic visualization of NASA's regional climate-change report.
Design: Justin Sloane.

Design: Erik Carter

Design: Lucas Sharp

Design: Lucas Sharp

Brand identity project for a cinema school in Cartagena, Spain close to the Mediterranean sea. Read more about this project on Behance and on rubioydelamo.com.

In this special issue of Stadtaspekte magazine Jakob Kornelli masterfully explores the four different optical sizes of Robert Slimbach’s masterpiece Minion. The composition alternates between huge headlines and page-stuffing long form, arranged on a stage of color and photography, grabbing every opportunity to show off this modern classic.