[MDA2011]

2011 Melbourne Design Awards

Key Dates

 
Image Credit : Buro North

Project Overview

'The Reserve' is a boutique, luxury residential address in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern. We were approached by the Silver Property Group to conceive the branding, marketing, web, adverts and signage for the development.

Project Commissioner

Silver Property Group

Project Creator

Büro North

Team

Soren Luckins, Shane Loorham

Project Brief

Through collaboration with the client and Jackson Clements Burrows, Buro North created a special and unique story for the address on Elizabeth street. We developed a specific brand and graphic language that engaged with an older target audience. The language adopted aligned with the built form and architecture - each informing the other.

Project Innovation / Need

The design concentrates on strong use of pattern, typography and imagery to emphasis the offer unique to Reserve and to stamp a solid place for the development in a flooded marketplace. The brochure would be used as a sales tool and it was most important needed to reflect the values of the building and its location.

Design Challenge

To instil the feeling of luxury, a high end print specification was developed. Communicating the richness and quality of the product in a brochure demanded an alluring and illustrious finish. We sought to achieve this through the use of several stocks, deep blind emboss cover, cotton-feel cover stock, colour tones and through the profile of the graphic language and renderings. Rather than hide the floorplans we chose to celebrate them through the use of a lightweight, coloured stock, printed with an additional Pantone colour. A custom made envelope was also designed specifically to house the material.

Sustainability

Considerations included the use of locally sourced, FSC stocks and utilising local craftsman to produce the deep blind embossed front cover.




This award recognises traditional or digital visual representation of ideas and messages. Consideration given to clarity of communication and the matching information style to audience.
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