CATEGORY

Basic Identity Applications

LEVEL

Professional

RANK

Best of Category

DESIGN CREDITS

Creative Director

Tom Crabtree

Designers

Tom Crabtree
Joshua Swanbeck
Eileen Lee

Exhibit Booth Designer

Jan Habraken


TAGS

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LINKS

manualcreative.com
sliceproducts.com

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CLIENT

A California-based brand that works with world-renowned designers — like Karim Rashid, Yves Behar, and Michael Graves — to create innovative cutting tools for the home and office. Most products use ceramic cutting technology and are a celebration of vibrant color, bold design, and extraordinary function.


BRIEF

Redesign the graphic identity for Slice that would appear primarily in product packaging. Their existing logo was deemed a little flat, and the packaging too unsophisticated, so we were tasked with making the branding simpler and more elegant, while still retaining a level of boldness and playfulness.


APPROACH

We approached the design of the logo and packaging in parallel, realizing there was an opportunity to forge a perfect unity between the logo and the graphic identity as expressed in the packaging. By simply cutting away at the word Slice at an angle, not only did it make the wordmark more dynamic but it allowed us to exploit the angled cut across numerous packaging executions — weaving a little branding into every physical form. We changed the type from the original Helvetica, which was a little generic, to Akkurat. The slight curl on the ‘l’ added a little personality and softness to an otherwise angular logotype.

With the goals being to create a more flexible system that could easily be applied to multiple packaging forms, yet still consistently deliver the brand message regardless of product and point of purchase materials, Manual achieved these via a formula that combined a revised logo, a sophisticated use of white space, and a highly iconic angled visual component that has allowed us to easily create packaging for all our products that tied into our overall message. We’ve been very happy with the response from consumers and retail buyers alike. — TJ Scimone, founder and CEO of Slice

Judge’s Comments
This is a very simple, direct, and beautifully executed identity and program and carried through on packaging, print, in the store environment and products. It doesn’t get much better than this. A very well thought out brand strategy. — Steff Geissbuhler

Simple and effective, while being creative. — Claudine Félix-Janneau

This is beautifully relentless. — Jennifer Kinon

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