Superlimao 品牌形象识别 by Ruis Vargas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 平面、插画与视觉传达设计 Competition Category.

铜平面· 2020

Superlimao 品牌形象识别

by Ruis Vargas

Client: Laika

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About Superlimao 品牌形象识别

Superlimao 是为一家巴西建筑事务所打造的品牌形象识别系统。标志的设计灵感源自怪诞体(grotesque)字体,呈现出冷静沉稳的调性,与一系列色彩缤纷的插画和图案形成鲜明对比。该形象识别系统包含名片、封缄信封的贴纸、机构介绍手册以及海报。海报采用75克胶版纸印刷,张贴于墙面与围挡之上,用以标示事务所总部与施工工地。整套视觉语言可依据信息内容与应用场景的不同,在沉稳克制与生动张扬之间自如切换。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Superlimao 品牌形象识别是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Superlimao 品牌形象识别将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Superlimao 品牌形象识别出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: To represent the aspects of the Superlimao brand, the design of the new logo was inspired by grotesque typography to contrast, by sobriety, with a series of colorful and surreal illustrations and patterns, developed for the language project, enhancing the diversity of visual discourse. Despite the sobriety, the use of the logo allows the deconstruction of its meaning in the interaction with the images, reaffirming the posture of constant reflection on architectural practice.
Dimensions & Packaging: Poster sheet format 420 mm x 620 mm on offset paper 75 g. Printed in 4X0 CMYK colors. Business card format 90 x 50 mm printed on 300 g offset paper, in 4 x 0 CMYK colors, pasted to reach a weight of 600 g. Envelope sticker matte couche 4X0 CMYK colors.
Tags: Brand, poster, logotype, illustration, visual identity, Laika Design
Production Technology: The identity project consists of business cards, printed in 600 g weight, stickers for closing envelopes, institutional presentation and posters. The latter, printed on 75 g offset paper to be glued to walls and sidings, signaling both the entry of the Superlimao headquarters and its works in progress.
Design Challenge: The challenge was to develop a brand and visual language that, besides fulfilling its functional aspects of communication, also represented the Superlimao way of creating and building. In this way, a irreverence and seriousness in the way of making architecture exists, a way that unites apparently antagonistic attitudes. Thus, the language project allows the brand to modulate its behavior, being both sober and expressive, always in function of suitability to the speech and communication context.
Research: The Laika method is based on the synergy between linguistic and pictorial skills. Every project begins with the construction of its meaning, an affirmation, and the need to design small graphic narratives.
Thus, the brand and its visual identity elements, made by Laika, allow the creation of diverse visual narratives, which contemplate the daily needs of communication and realization of the culture of the Superlimao brand.
Inspiration: Superlimao is a Brazilian architecture firm. In a plural way, it creates projects based on premises of contemporary architecture, such as respect for the environment, economical and durable productive solutions and furniture. The essence and the creative posture Superlimao, combined with respect for the canons of architecture, was the creative starting point for the development of the universe of representation images and the logo of the new brand.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2019 and finished in June 2019 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Operation Flow: The new brand and its visual identity elements respond to the Superlimao need to renew corporate communication. However, it manages to go further by occupying urban space. On walls and sidings of constructions, the posters function as a manifest, spreading messages and Superlimao's way of understanding architecture and urbanism, and, in addition to identifying the presence of office work by the metropolis, it works as a break from the dominant gray in the landscape of the city of Sao Paulo.
Patents: Laika Design
Team Members: Ruis Vargas, Creative Director, Agnes Svilenov, Designer
Image Credits: Laika Design