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Fondazione Alinari is a brand identity created for Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia, a public body founded in Florence for the conservation, management and promotion of the Alinari photographic collections. The identity is built around the lowercase letter A, an abstraction of a camera lens, which also works as a frame for images from the historical archive. Sculptural lettering and a black and white palette recall light and shadow. The system is applied to print materials, tickets, catalogues, merchandising and a website.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Brand Design and hole visual identity for "Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia", the new body founded in Florence by the Tuscany Region for the conservation, management and promotion of the Alinari photographic collections. Its birth marks a new beginning in the long history of the archive (from 1852).
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Business cards, Folders, Envelopes, Notes, Posters, Entrance tickets, Catalogue, Badge, sanitizing gel, merchandising (such as: mugs, T-shirts, pins, shoppers). Than web site redesign and brand presentation Video
- Tags
- brand design, merchandising, print materials, visual identity
- Production Technology
- Brand design and visual identity and language.
- Design Challenge
- The main purpose of the foundation is to promote a widespread culture of photography, starting with the Alinari collections, while preserving their authentic historical and cultural value, their physical integrity, and guaranteeing the best conditions for increased awareness of and access to them. So the design had to reflect the long history behind and at the same time to stand out from the previous brand.
- Project Duration
- The project started in October 2020 in Florence (Italy) and it is still going on.
- Operation Flow
- It's a brand identity project to identificate a new public subject.
- Research
- The previous brand was a private subject. The new one is a public institution held by Tuscany Region which recognised the exceptional cultural value of the Alinari holdings and resolved to purchase them and began an operation of cultural policy and investment, which has saved this archive, one unique in the world for its size and value, from dispersal and dismemberment, while also guaranteeing its future use and accessibility.
- Inspiration
- The term photography comes from a Greek compound word, light and handwriting, literally "writing with light". Brand features are: Sculptural lettering, Black and white (light and shadow), Accent on "Alinari" word, Focus on the letter A (lowercase, as abstraction of the camera lens). The A is photo container to represent the huge and historical Alinari archive.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Giuditta Valentina Gentile, 2020-2021.
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