Kokoro & Moi
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- Tyler
Ex-Syrup Helsinki crew have a new studio on the go.
- neue75_bold0
brilliant work!
- d_rek0
Love it, anyone have any idea what font their using for copy? It looks great onscreen.
- Jaline0
ti...
- just kidding! hahaha ha hahahaha ah heeha haahaJaline
- *waits for banJaline
- tits or gtfo?neue75_bold
- yes! that's exactly it!
*comes back out from behind wallJaline - * gets the fuck out...neue75_bold
- [from the cupboard]neue75_bold
- well....this is awkward...Jaline
- I know, I've got no place to put it...neue75_bold
- Maybe I should take that as a compliment.Jaline
- (I was going to say "timeline", as I and other members have posted this link before)Jaline
- Concrete0
They best clients evar!
- Nairn0
I can see why a lot of their stuff would be a graphic designer's wet dream - but, frankly, beyond a couple of the identities, I really dislike most of it.
It's cold, artsy and pretentious - perhaps I'm vastly underestimating Joe Public, but I can't see it being that commercially relevant.
But, I guess, that's not the point, is it?
Best of luck to them though - they'll certainly please their in-crowd.
- PromotionalUseOnly0
beautiful stuff
- Anders0
Commercially relevant?!
- imo, obviously.
Nairn - What I mean is "I think it'd turn a lot of normal, design- ignorant people off" is all.
That probably includes me.Nairn - I disagree. Their clients are obviously aware of what they're buying.Anders
- For sure, but such clients (for the most part) aim at a particular arty band of consumer. No bad thing.Nairn
- Just, for the most part, not my cup of tea, is all. Even the 'Valio' work, which I love and think is quite commercial, is artyNairn
- out there in terms of what an average consumer would expect to see on their shelf. It's good to challenge - but it's a fine lineNairn
- (FFS 4 LINE NOTES!)
..fine line to tread, which I think a lot of their work oversteps.Nairn
- imo, obviously.
- moamoa0
I love
- kld0
I guess my 180x1050 monitor at work just isn't big enough? sheesh!
- ********0
Fuck viewing that site on a laptop or something small, nice funky collection of work though.
- kld0
guess they took the flash code with them when they left syrup
- Cabein0
nice work although the site design reminds me of the old Blue Source site
- MrOneHundred0
meh.
I hate to be cynical, but 2 or 5 fewer colours per design would make this better. Just because they’re in the Pantone book doesn’t mean you have to use them all.
- bogue0
have to agree with KLD on that one... I'm am utterly surprised that Syrup was cool with them using the same pixel font and same exact navigational structure.
- svenreed0
it all looks the same to meee
- ********0
Needs more color, and make the logo bigger.
- calculator0
MASSIVE TIMELINE
Syrup Helsinki to Become Kokoro & Moi
Design agency Syrup Helsinki is changing its name.
The new name, Kokoro & Moi, will be in use as of 4 January 2008.
There are two acquisitions behind the name change: Syrup Helsinki's parent company, the New York-based Syrup LLC, has been acquired by the international digital agency network LBI International AB, and Syrup Helsinki founders Teemu Suviala and Antti Hinkula have acquired the whole share capital of Syrup Oy.
"We had two options: either transfer to work for a big international chain and relocate to Amsterdam or New York or establish an agency that collaborates closely with this chain but remains wholly independent.
We chose the independent path," says Teemu Suviala.
"This new ownership arrangement allows us to operate more flexibly in our markets in the United States, Europe and Japan.
It also ensures that our design competence remains at the disposal of all our clients."
The design agency Kokoro & Moi specialises in brand, corporate and product identities, creative direction, art direction, graphic design and consultancy.
Their innovative expertise covers both traditional and digital channels.
- calculator0
Their work is ahead of its time, so no, it's not commercially relevant now, but maybe in 10 years it will be.
- If graphic design looks like this 10 years from now, we're fucked.non