Arper 2018 by Clase bcn – Info Branding

Opinion by Richard Baird

Arper is an Italian furniture company producing chairs, tables and furnishings for community, work and home spaces. They seek an elegant resolution of function, form and finish which is founded on a total design philosophy that covers design, production and long-term impact. Arper commissioned Spanish studio Clase bcn to develop and design a new on and offline graphic identity for all their 2018 communications and promotional materials. These included catalogues, notebooks, press packs and tote bags, and were complemented by distinctive art direction and newsprint. These draw on and add to the essential forms and colours of Arper's Salone del Mobile stand designed by MAIO Architects.

Graphic identity and signage by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

The opportunity and confidence to reconfigure graphic identity, to be able to remain very much rooted in the present through reinvention, to continue to surprise and delight, is strategically a useful tool. Brand philosophy serves as the foundational component, expressed in new ways, materially and graphically each year across print, environment and digital contexts. This year, a carnival of solid colour and simple form sit alongside unusual art direction, texture-focused monochromatic newsprint and photography and words within space.

Meta–Clase bcn's concept draws on two critical components intrinsic to the Arper brand; essential forms and a sensitivity to colour. This is materialised throughout Arper's collections as simple but strong silhouettes and as solid colours in fabric, moulding and coatings Many of Arper's pieces, individually; in form and colour, have a strong graphic potential, this was built on by MAIO Architects for the Salone del Mobile stand, and furthered by Clase bcn's graphic language of geometric shape and colour blocking in print. This is an expression and distillation of a philosophy, an articulation of the power of the individual object, collective arrangement and implied dialogue, rather than directly referencing the forms and texture of their furniture.

There is a graphic immediacy and simplicity to the work that creates compelling individual printed objects and collectively, a variety and opportunity for expression in the differing proportionalities and volumes of printed surfaces. Although there is clearly a non-verbal language at play here, there is also a simple aesthetic pleasure to be derived from a multi-coloured mix of shapes.

Graphic identity, catalogues, notebooks and press packs by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Macro–Texture, art and craft is layered in through compelling art direction, tied to the abstraction of print through colour, and in the contrasting monochromatic approach to newsprint. In the absence of colour, Newsprint serves to draws the eye to finer material texture and intersections yet connects back to the colour blocking in the proportionality and arrangement of image and text. Where you might see these details resolved into a singular gesture, replicated across all touch points, here there is a sensitivity to the different modes of communication. They are linked by either colour or form, but find variety and sophistication in the differencing contexts.

Graphic identity and print by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Graphic identity and print by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Graphic identity and catalogue by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Graphic identity and notebook by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Graphic identity, catalogues, notebooks, press packs, tote bags and newsprint by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Micro–Text finds a useful balance of commonality and difference; a commonality in geometry and a difference in weighting. It is an essential and observable continuity throughout, in print, online and within space, offering a finer counterpoint to solid blocks of colour and the heavier lowercase Arper wordmark.

Design: Clase bcn. Photography: Gerhardt Kellermann. Opinion: Richard Baird. Fonts: Futura.

Art direction by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Art direction by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Art direction by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

Art direction by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arper

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Graphic identity and newsprint by Clase bcn for Italian furniture company Arber

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