Mi&Mall is a new online shopping destination and resource that brings together and supports small to medium designer brands for people interested in fashion, trends and exclusive collections. Based around a simple logo-type, ampersand detail, a pale colour palate and a tactile print and material choice, their visual identity, created by Spanish multidisciplinary design studio Atipo, mixes high fashion cues and craft aesthetics to deliver style and exclusivity with a sense of handmade quality and individuality.
There is a lovely triality of ideas captured within Atipo’s logo-type solution that neatly manages to fuse the traditional, classic and contemporary through the high fashion sensibilities of wide, uppercase, geometric, broad mono-spaced and humanist letterforms (executed with the modernistic and perhaps technological undertones of a single consistent line weight), the threaded flourish of the ampersand and the traditional values of craft and quality delivered through a simple underline detail. Combined, these cues work well to capture the handcrafted, small scale, individuality and exclusive nature of the garments and labels, a high quality service and the boutique personality of the site. The height and serifs of the accompanying typeface deliver an interesting contrast to the width of the logo-type, adding to brand personality with a sense of regional, Spanish heritage but retaining the uppercase confidence. Craft and detail are emphasised through an interesting pale but warm colour palette, an uncoated, tactical substrate choice and the classic letterpress print treatment of the collateral while the restrained vertical layouts and high quality finish mirror those of the high fashion industry. Check out the Atipo website for more project images.
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Richard BairdRichard is a British freelance designer and writer who specialises in the development of logos, branding and packaging. He has written for Brand New and Design Week, is an editor for The Dieline, has featured in Computer Arts magazine and also runs the resource Design Survival. |
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