Now and again people write about our work, or ask us to discuss the design and branding industry. The following are a selection of articles and opinions were we express our thoughts and ideas on how to build brands that will endure and strengthen your businesses.
10.18.2024
Perniclas Bedow is invited to present his talk, "Writing as a Tool for Design," at Scanpack in Gothenburg on October 24th. "Good design always has a strong narrative. If you rely solely on style, decision-making becomes irrational, and the longevity of the design becomes limited,’ says Bedow.
08.26.2024
Brand New reviews our new packaging design for Coop: "Overall, this is a fantastic design system that isn’t just repetitive and formulaic but adaptable and expandable to feel more authentic and appropriate within the particular tropes of each category, be it sriracha or cotton swabs or a thousand other things in between."
05.01.2024
Five diplomas, two silvers, but no gold. Until now! Last week we won our first gold ever in the Golden Egg awards, category Packaging Design. We’re extra happy that it was the sustainable design project A Lovely Atmosphere by GBGT Box that was awarded.
06.27.2023
Swee Kombucha has been awarded the finest prize there is in food and beverage design: the Grand Prix in the 2023 FAB Awards. Apart from that Swee Kombucha also received a prestigious Gold Award in the category Packaging Design. FAB Awards is an annual award show in London, recognising outstanding creative work from over sixty countries.
20.04.2022
Perniclas Bedow is invited to have a talk in Amsterdam on June 15th, 2022. The event First Round is hosted by Under Consideration and feature six local speakers and six international speakers from around Europe. All presentations will be in English and tickets can be bought on the link below.
08.04.2022
British creative resource It’s Nice That features our packaging design for Georgian kombucha brewery Swee Kombucha. Read about the project and how the defrag process of Windows 95 was an inspirational source to the final outcome.
03.01.2022
The best branding work for 2021 has been selected by American branding resource Brand New. Our project for Jaktar is listed in three categories: Best Wordmark, Best Colour and Best Photography.
16.11.2021
The prestigious Polar Music Prize was assigned a new visual identity pinned under the concept of Celebrating Music, Uniting Cultures. The logotype was redesigned, the colours and typography was updated and a visual element was designed. All to ensure improved legibility on all devices. Read more about the work in the review by Under Consideration, Brand New.
15.11.2021
Thinking & Making is a series of talks hosted by design studio Bedow. The first design talk was recorded October 29th, 2021. Kanon Foundry talks about variable type. You’ll find out what C3PO and Swiss train clocks have in common with the Bedow typefaces and how you create randomness by OpenType coding.
06.09.2021
By embracing the Italian origin of pasta as well as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, a new packaging design was created for Coop’s pasta line. Magazine Cap&Design, interviews Anders Bollman about the design and the core of a modular grid system with Fibonacci’s harmonious proportions
01.06.2021
In episode 27 of Brand New’s podcast Follow Up, Armin Vit interviews Creative Director Perniclas Bedow and Jaktar founder Igor Melnikov about the process of developing a completely new brand from scratch. The project spanned over two years and the conversation covers the naming process, the logotype and the brand identity as a whole.
19.05.2021
The packaging design for gin distillery Monachus was awarded a merit in the ADC Awards. The contribution revolves around labels that take one of five shapes: the Bora wind, the waves, the salt in sea and air, a pebble from the shore, and a pine cone from the hills.
30.03.2021
The creative work of the Jaktar identity is reviewed by Under Consideration, Brand New: “I really like this, not just as a visually satisfying feast but also for the identity’s ability to perfectly reflect the persona of the boat which is a combination of luxury, ruggedness, and functionality”, writes design critic Armin Vit.
08.06.2017
For ages we’ve been waiting for an in-depth conversation on our profession: graphic design and branding. But good things never came for those who waited, so we decided to start something ourselves. In the podcast Grafisk Design, Perniclas Bedow interviews some of the most prominent Swedish designers of today.
24.08.2015
British design magazine Icon asked us to redesign something that we thought could be improved. With a planet increasingly filled with waste and where forests disappears at an ever faster pace, we thought we could redesign something that at least does not contribute to this deterioration. Read how a redesign of Jan Tschischold’s classic Penguin Composition Rules could save over 200,000 trees a year.
28.03.2014
Washington Post’s reporter Max Ehrenfreund reached out to write about our world map in his section Know More. Trivia: the map was designed in 2008 for Erik Penser Bank and contains around 3,000 coins from all continents. The coins were bought on Ebay over a period of one month. Two years after the project all coins were stolen during a burglary in our studio.
17.12.2012
Wallpaper magazine’s December issue features our collaboration with Danish brewery Mikkeller. The project elaborates with temperature where Mikkel Borg Bjergsø interprets the four seasons through beer styles and Bedow interprets the seasons through design where heat sensitive ink changes the label motif.