Campsite is a New York based design blog and studio run by visual designer Max Ritt.
Today seems to have coincidentally ended up being a food themed day on campsite. First tacos and now a social movement raising the awareness of international Peace Day by bringing people together over food. In addition to being an entirely admirable cause Recipeace has powerful identity attached to it designed by Casey Martin and Kyle Poff at Leo Burnett Department of Design
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Tacos have to be one of the most universally loved and enjoyed finger foods. In San Pedro, Mexico this hip young restaurant Taqueria Canalla recently opened their doors. With an identity and interior designed by Manifesto Futura your hunger for aesthetics can be satiated at the same time as that grumble in your belly. The color palette is notably subdued, but it is punctuated with some delicate punches of color in very specific spots.
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Sweet’son is a packaging concept designed by student Simon Laliberté in his package design class. The concept is to package cocoa powder and powdered sugar on opposing sides of the same container. This way making them both easily accessible for decorating or sprinkling on cookies, cakes, and cappuccinos.
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San Francisco has long been known for its health conscious and grower oriented food culture and Living Greens fits right into that ethos. They say their business grew out of a passion for healthy living which is a little cliche, but I have to give them props since they create a pretty smashing lineup of juices. Recently as they began to reach a wider market and audience they approached Noise 13 to do a rebranding that would be more approachable. In addition to a full identity and collateral system N13 launched a new website for them, which makes it easier to make product updates and streamlines purchasing and order tracking. If you are going to live healthy you need to make sure your business is healthy too, and this brand update was exactly what Living Greens needed.
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The local food movement has been growing rapidly, but it can sometimes still be difficult to figure out what to buy an where to buy it. Farmstand is an iPhone app whose purpose is to connect you to with great local food, help you find out where to purchase it, and in turn help the movement itself. Farmstand was made right here in New York City, Brooklyn specifically by Josh Stewart, John Ford, and Glenn Sidney.
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In honor of my second week cleansing, which I took a little break from over the weekend I thought I would post something perfectly related. Construct London designed the simple minimalist branding, packaging and web design work for Radiance Cleanse. Radiance was founded in 2009 and and was one of the UK’s first high quality, nutritional and organic juice cleanse makers.
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Usually nifty little accessories like this bug me. Kipik though is so cute I have been won over. The cute hedgehog holder of toothpicks is available online from the MoMA Store.
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This has to be one of the coolest coffee shops I have ever seen. Part coffee shop ,part farm, and festival hub this popup at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival was designed by Hassell. The Coffee Farm consists of 120 plants and is constructed of recycled palettes, shipping containers and is interspersed with great info graphics enlightening visitors about coffee growth and production.
As far as infographics go this one doesn’t display data in a revolutionary new way or even break down an either wise confusing subject matter. It does however combine two of my greatest interests. Good design and cooking or at least the utensils for cookery. “The Cartography of Kitchenware” by the wonderful folks over at Popchart Lab. The poster shows all or most of the kitchen implements you will realistically ever need and how they are all related to one another.
As everything has started to “go green” or be packaged as sustainable today designing anything unique or fresh in that vein can be difficult. Swedish American Chamber of Commerce recently commissioned a great modern facelift for their annual summit in New York. Stockholm, Malmö, and New York-based creative agency Amore was in charge of the rebranding and design for all the printed materials.
For Beer Friday this week I thought it would be apt to give a shout out to what will definitely be my new favorite watering hole. Wednesday night Bell & Anchor opened to an enthusiastic group of close friends and family as the newest culinary foray by Mark Firth. Mark is best known in the food world as co-founder and partner at Diner, Marlow and Sons, and the other successful off shoots.
Together with his wife Bettina Schwartz, and chef Stephen Browning, Firth’s new Berkshire haunt will be offering a seasonal menu of hearty homestyle food. Distinctly farm to table, the focus is as much on the farmers and producers as it is on the guys in the kitchen. Great Barrington and the Berkshires have been incomplete without the rustic refinement of a place like this. The interior is finished in a variety of different woods and a mix match of farmhouse tables and chairs, deco stools, and vintage light fixtures that are everything but coordinated. The wood panelling in many of the rooms is from a cherry tree off the property of Mark’s farm in Monterey, MA. The warm tone circulates through the restaurant beaming off of the flushed smiles of people enjoying food, drink, and community.
If you are in the Berkshires this fall or winter make sure to stop in to Bell & Anchor located at 178 Main Street in Great Barrington.
Saucers have always been a slightly annoying dish to me, but this set designed by Mina Perhonen has changed my opinion. Together the cup and saucer create a whimsical little bird to hold your piping hot beverages. They are available for sale over on White Rabbit Japan.
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Christine Wisnieski created this amazing packaging design for Tavern Vinegar Co., Chef Jonathan Sawyer’s new line of artisanal vinegars. The bold type and classic lettering help to build a nice design vernacular around the product name, which adds a lot to it’s overall positioning. Even the flask shape, reminiscent of bourbon and whiskey bottles helps to give some added power to the name.
Brooklyn Larder in Park Slope is one of my favorite provisions shops in New York City. They carry a great variety of meats, cheeses, beer and other quality grocery items. I recently came across this series of posters they made which highlight each of their different categories of products. Since this is Beer Friday I am featuring their Beer Poster, but check out all the other great posters for sale on their website.
Andrée Rouette created this awesome concept in a packaging design class. The design consists of aluminum canisters laminated with slightly different shades of maple to and printed with a large letter to specify the sugar purity of the syrup.
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Oak Long Bar is a bar and restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. The establishment features a beautiful, ornate and bold rebranding designed by Jeshurun Webb formerly of Korn Design in collaboration with illustrator Brianna Nichols. The resulting palette created for the rebranding of OLB beautiful and delicate with a hand done craft like feel with out being kitschy or cute.
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Savvy Studio based in Monterey, Mexico has started a self initiated project of creating permanent and sustainable products. Project No. 1 was a collaboration with master Jorge Llanderal called Casa Bosques Chocolates. Unlike the normal side projects that designers make Savvy’s series has the potential of making a huge impact both on how we view and buy products, but also on how we view what a graphic designer actually does. The artisanal chocolate is made by Llanderal in small batches and includes seasonally selected spices and flavoring ingredients. Some of the ones already made have been Pimienta Rosa and Flor de Sal.
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So for the last few years my friend Ilana has been telling me about how her brother, a former law student moved out to SF and was working on opening a pizza truck. Every time she brought it up I was like oh yeah yeah cool, just thinking great all we need is another mediocre food truck in the world. It just so happens Ilana’s brother is Jon Darsky and his pizza truck is Del Popolo one of the most interesting new culinary additions to the Bay Area food scene in the past year. Jon earned his pizzaiolo chops and title at Flour + Water another SF Italian restaurant specializing in pasta and Neapolitan style pies. Not only does the design and fabrication of Jon’s truck set him apart, but the style of pizza he creates(Neapolitan) is the most specific and surprisingly enough regulated type of pie in existence. The 5,000-pound wood-burning oven can get up to almost 1000 degrees fahrenheit and cook a pizza in almost a minute at such high temps. Next time I am in the area Del Popolo is going to be a required stop.
Smith Hanes restaurant interiors always have a way of elevating both the dinning experience and taking the style of cuisine and extended it out into the space. The new restaurant The Optimist recently opened in Atlanta by Ford Fry is a great example of this. Optimist is the third limb in Fry’s growing Atlanta chef-owned restaurant empire and with an interior like this it is most definitely not a weak link. Hanes worked with graphic designer Alvin Diec on creating the visual elements to accompany the space including signage and menus. All photographs were shot by Andrew Thomas Lee.
Thankfully Lost & Found Films captured this historic New York institution before they shuttered in May. Prime Burger was a fixture in Manhattan for 74 years, with employees who had worked there for more than five decades. The simple perfection of their burgers
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