editorial design — VISUALOUNGE

Thandi Phoenix Branding by James Fitzgerald

James Fitzgerald's identity for singer Thandi Phoenix turns her name into a circular mark carried onto a record sleeve.

Transformer, an Auckland studio founded in 2002 by Nigel and Anita Smith, designed the book Buckley's Heroes.

Sascha Bente's identity for Sonja Kreuzburg: a teal-to-peach gradient, a serif, and her initials worked into a pair of scissors.

Stuart Tolley’s MIN surveys the return of simplicity to graphic design, from its pale blue cover to the work inside.

Akatre built Lancôme's 'Énergie de Vie' press kit around their own typeface Marie Louise — a box, a book, and no safe choices.

Yi-Hsuan Li used illustration to make Su Beng's 'First Class of Taiwan History' a book people would actually pick up.

Aloof's book for Gloria Cortina refuses the design monograph as brand exercise — circling the work rather than illustrating it.

Bruch - Idee & Form's Armstark identity folds the planning-and-design tagline into a mark of two panels and a hidden letter A.

Hey Studio's identity for Arrels, a Barcelona footwear brand, splits each box into colour blocks with a rough edge between them.

F61, the St Petersburg print studio, built the identity for Mental Activity on minimalism and analogue printing rather than a logo.

Bruch's identity splits into Idee and Form: a grey ground, a red rule and a dot, with the name set quietly in a serif.

Blok sets Nota Bene in heavy black caps on yellow, grey and pink menus, and angles the name across a white brush mark on cream.