CCRZ is a Swiss multidiciplinary design consultancy with a great collection of work.
RTL Nieuws Redesign
RTL Nieuws is The Netherlands’ leading commercial news network, and it recently received a redesign by Mark Porter Associates, Smörgåsbord studio, and John Beckers, with on-air visuals by Universal Everything.
The redesign touches every aspect of the organization, from their digital platforms to the audio soundtrack. Overall, it’s really well done. The branding is very minimal and uses bold typography, iconography and colors to tell the story. The typeface used in the redesign is a customer version of Grafik by Commerical Type. The simple aesthetic really shines on live broadcasts where you don’t get distracted with a ton of visual info. The focus remains on the presenters and the information being communicated.
The excellent case study video above does a great job of showing off the new identity.
271 Year Old Color Guide
This blew my mind.
“Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau” is an 800-page color guide, written in 1692 by an artist known as A. Boogert. The book describes and shows in detail how to use and mix colors. I can’t even begin to imagine how long this took to make, and the fact that the colors are still so vibrant is astonishing. This is a work of art, and I would bet that most of what is in this book is still relevant today.
It’s also great to see that Boogert was also educated in grid systems. Have a look at how those swatches are organized.
A hi-res gallery of the entire book is available here
Solo
A lot of great work from Barcelona based studio, Solo. My favorite is the identity designed for Poko.
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