Barco Verde Hostel is a cozy hostel on Isla Holbox in Mexico. With comfortable rooms just next to the beach, it offers high-quality service, calm and elegance. The positioning and branding are inspired by slow lifestyle, island vibes and the friendliness of the everyday beach sunset meetings that both locals and travelers enjoy together.

The visual identity design by Celia Grandhomme Agency uses Voyage for the main logo, and Oil Can for alternate versions. Espresso is used for text details.

The design comes with goodies and ephemera, some of them adorned with additional typefaces: the post cards re-use found type from vintage postcards; the business cards feature Metropolis 1920 and Montecatini.

One Design worked closely with restaurateurs Keene and Megan Addington to develop a new seafood restaurant concept in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, bringing the spirit of the Maine Coast to the city they call home.

From the brand story to the name, identity, visual expression, and messaging—with Two Lights we created the foundation of a fresh and exciting concept that serves as a respite from the heavy culinary fare Chicago is famous for.

In collaboration with Northworks Architects, we created a seamless translation from graphic expression to the physical space itself.

The dramatic contrast within Oil Can was perfect choice for the core Two Lights wordmark—which celebrates the typographic vernacular of Portland, Maine (a major source of inspiration for the restaurant concept, and the summer how of the Addingtons). However Oil Can on its own—as a display face—was not versatile enough to be used across the various touchpoints of the restaurant, from menus to environmental graphics. Fontsmith’s Sienna—similar in spirit—was our beautiful workhorse counterpart. Atlas Grotesk—classic, no-nonsense and functional—became our choice for the detailed copy. And Atlas Typewritwer became the go-to for the “Seafood & Oysters” byline, bringing a bit of contemporary contrast to the logo lockup itself.

Identity and website for Manila-based Artifact, the freelance design practice of Liam Andrew Cura:

Artifact Studio is an independent freelance design practice. The brand draws heavy inspiration from archaeology, history, and early 20th century graphic design. We wanted to present the brand as a bureau of design and an archive of curiosities long lost.

Around the time we started developing Artifact as a brand, we were also exploring an illustration style we could incorporate into the brand to give the old typographic direction some bright contrast. We found this strange mix of graphic illustration and design that was also inspired by medieval art, occult symbols, and American traditional tattoo art.

The bright red studio identity has three logo variations. The main logo is based on Berton Hasebe’s Portrait Bold (Commercial Type), which is also used for bigger text on the website. The secondary logo and most smaller text are set in GT Pressura Mono (Grilli Type). A third logo uses Oil Can. A complementary typeface used on the website is LL Circular.

Logo variations using all three typefaces used for the identity, plus a loosely spaced Oil Can.

The Dissolve is a compilation of mostly indie film reviews. Their website uses Harriet Text and Tablet Gothic.