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Collaborating with Rilla

We have been working quite intensely over the last 12 months with one of our favorite illustrators Rilla Alexander on a cracking wayfinding and signage project.

Rilla is one of several creatives that make up the Rinzen group, and has garnered a lot of attention lately since releasing her own website, which you should have a look through here - www.byrilla.com

We thought we’d post photos of some recent Rilla work, below is the Pictopia exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and following that the Hotel Fox which again features some fantastic character illustrations…

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SA Identity

The talented Andreas Schimkus came to Buro North for assistance in positioning his new business venture. ‘Shoe Architecture’ represents not only his skills in shoe design and conceptualization, but also his rounded services in realizing the vision of other footwear designers and delivering organic supply chain solutions and quality assurance.

The identity is bold and confident, but with a friendly edge and a conceptual twist that communicates his skills to his broad client base, from high end fashion designers to mass consumer brands. His stationary comprises a black and white laminated and stamped card with his bespoke word mark and roundel. The roundel made up of the interlocking souls of 2 dress shoes reads as an S or A’s and is best seen in animation on his holding page … www.shoearchitecture.com

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What type are you?

Industry heavy weights, and all time favorites of mine - Pentagram just put out this nice little type exploration; What type are you?… (Thanks Jason for the tip) A witty look at the relationship between personality and typeface selection. I am apparently Courier, a democratic, rational, modern and understated typeface… Not as exciting as Id hoped for, but maybe it picked up on the control freak thing… Anyway have a crack here - http://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/

Wrap

The first post for 2010 must close out 2009… Our end of year XMas wrap-up took us to Jess’ farm (thanks Jess) on the coast for some hard earned relaxation. Dress up was alter-ego’s and we had everything from girl guides, grandmas and hippies to lecturers, racing drivers and tarts.

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