Favourite Design 2020
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Favourite Design 2020

The objective of Favourite Design is to promote quality design and increase the visibility of designers worldwide. The Annual Book displays all design projects that have been selected throughout the year. It includes the best creations of the year. The Annual Book is a true reflection of the International design trends.

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Design Elements. A Visual Communication Manual
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Design Elements. A Visual Communication Manual

The World Bar by MAKEBARDO has been published in this amazing book! A new and updated 3rd Edition of Rockport's best-selling Design Elements, a visually rich and accessible handbook that presents the fundamentals of design in lists, tips, brief text, and examples.

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Inspo Finds Collection II
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Inspo Finds Collection II

Happy to be featured in Inspo Finds II. They are back with their second limited edition collection! Inspo Finds Collection II continues to showcase some of the best global talent and creativity, taken from their digital platforms and now through to print.

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The Design Conference
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The Design Conference

To MAKEBARDO, the best ideas have a clear message supported by a strong concept and a clean visual execution. In the creative process, they research, analyse, discuss and experiment.

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Design Assembly. Posters Exhibition
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Design Assembly. Posters Exhibition

MAKEBARDO has participated with an A0 poster for Design Assembly poster exhibition in Christchurch. Our quote on the poster: 'we do what we love to do because these things make us be'.

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Modern Heraldry: Volume 2
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Modern Heraldry: Volume 2

Happy to be featured in Modern Heraldry 2. The second volume of Modern Heraldry contains a vast resource of trademarks, based on heraldic symbology, from all over the world.

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Take 10. With Bren Imboden & Luis Viale
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Take 10. With Bren Imboden & Luis Viale

Today Bren and Luis of MAKEBARDO challenged themselves to respond to each question only with geometric shapes and a restricted palette of 5 colours. “We took the DA questionary as an internal exercise to keep playing and experimenting during these uncertain times.”

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Asia-Pacific Design No. 15
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Asia-Pacific Design No. 15

APD is the most authoritative professional design yearbook in Asia-Pacific region and MAKEBARDO has been selected for the No. 15 edition as one of the most outstanding representatives of New Zealand.

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Color Sells
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Color Sells

Take a look at our new project published on this amazing book. The red and yellow McDonald's, the Tiffany Blue, the blue and yellow IKEA, the Coca Cola Red, etc., a number of world famous brands have successfully developed their own color system for their brand identity, including packaging and storefront, making a strong impression on consumers.

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Fully Visualized: Branding Stories
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Fully Visualized: Branding Stories

A good visual identity makes a significant impact on the brand, making it memorable and evoking our imagination. A strong visual identity catches our eyes instantly and conveys a brand’s message right on the spot.

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Queenstown Airport wayfinding
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Queenstown Airport wayfinding

Local design agency, MAKEBARDO, has been named finalist in the Environmental Graphics Category of the New Zealand Best Design Awards, for its work on the Queenstown Airport wayfinding signage system.

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Minimalist Packaging: Enhancing Creative Concepts
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Minimalist Packaging: Enhancing Creative Concepts

New book with MAKEBARDO. Minimalism is not all about simplicity. However, simplicity is at the heart of minimalism. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's well-known aphorism 'Less is more' clearly illuminated the essential theory of simplicity, of minimalism, and in the last fifty years of the minimalism movement, the definition of simplicity has shifted to a different time and space, and it now widely influences all design-related industries, including packaging.

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AIGA— Eye on design
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AIGA— Eye on design

Is it a beer? Is it a juice? From the looks of these handsome cans, it might be a little bit of both. New Zealand design studio makebardo created a series of colorful cans for the Nashville-based brewer of high gravity kombucha, Walker Brothers. Animation by Eden Weingart

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